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Daniel
Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 30 Aug 2005
Posts: 2729
Location: Gold Coast
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Originally posted by andrew:
hmm, watching the final for heavyweights, not impressed by brazil team. Amazing machines but they need to sort their conduct.
I was thinking the same thing while watching the second day (before falling asleep while the arena was empty). While powering down the guy half put in the weapon lock and then went to switch it off, couldn't find the power switch because it was burried too deep in the robot, mean while someone outside the arena picked up the radio and hit the weapon switch. The weapon lock flew up and almost hit him in the head, although not very hard and it did seem like lightweight plastic.
The european guys went crazy in the chat section about it and how removable links instead of switches would have prevented it all but the Brazillians team broke 4 logical rules that didn't matter if it was a switch or a link.
1) the radio was turned on and I remember at RoboGames the arena marshals where big on turning them off when the door are open.
2) someone was playing with the radio while someone else was touching the robot.
3) the weapon lock clearly didn't work
4) the switch was on the base of the robot and the access hole on the top so the allen key couldn't find it and he had his head over the robot trying to get them aligned. Except I saw 90% of teams fail that, including american teams, and they all had trouble finding the switches. Put the switch on the top. UK guys don't put their links on the bottom of the robot and that was the only difference.
That really annoyed me but I wanted someone else to mention something first. Maybe something else happened the 3rd day.
*edit* after watching it again no one was touching the radio when the weapon turned on, but the radio was on. My mistake. But does pose other questions.
Last edited by Daniel on Wed May 07, 2014 1:04 pm; edited 1 time in total
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