Rookie Mistakes

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Please share images of your rookie mistakes. I will post some of this on Instagram if I have your consent. If u want it to be posted on Instagram, just type C

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C Using lock collars as spacers .

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Thinking that a friction heavy DR4B would work even though we did not use any bearings

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Letting the tray hit u in the face while working on it

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That happened to my builder. Also, cantilevering the axles on my team’s drivetrain during TP

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trying to put 20 rubber bands on a 1m mobile goal mechanism at one time.
It worked
The Cost: A huge sort of deep cut in my hand from an uncut standoff.

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Building a scissor lift with no experience or research, and also not knowing the difference between aluminum and steel parts, and not knowing that I had to use flat bearings. Also thinking a single vex 393 motor without any external gearing could power the heavy, janky, unbearable lift. Luckily that robot only lasted one competition, where my team immediately did research and ended up building a robot that won excellence at states.

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A simple but often overlooked one: Not understanding the difference between gears and cogs/sprockets, and attempting to use them for the others purpose (usually it is using sprockets as gears, rather than vice versa). Please don’t do this.

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the problem is im not the builder yet it still manages to pop me upside head everyday

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Not using any sort of bearing during our first robotics competition and the shafts for our drive snap in half from the friction of driving, disabling our robot.

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Trying to make our Cap arm in TP double as a catapult by rubber banding it to snap up. Unfortunately i used normie gears and holed out the middle

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Yea just don’t ever build scissor lifts lol did the same thing in Skyrise. Used axles for every joint.

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Please use bearing blocks on your robot.

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not wearing safety glasses before you cut. if that u lets hope someone stops u before u start

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Spray painting the TP flags vigorously inside (as if they din’t care if we get knocked out unconscious from the pain fumes)

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C

  • Leaning over a starstruck strip gear catapult that has been loaded with 25 rubber bands that are stretched about 17", and leaving the controller on while the catapult is 2 teeth away from the stripped part of the gear. spoiler alert: I almost lost an eye
  • Also: trying to dremel something at a weird angle and cutting 1" into your hand instead of the metal and not realizing it until wayyy too late **spoiler alert: I have a crazy big scar and a really stupid story to go with it"
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Turning Point Mistakes: Act 1 of VRC, 7th Grade
Building an all steel dr4b
Rebuilding robot in last 1/4 of the year
Even THINKING of building an H-drive
Redoing a notebook with already 50 pages in it
Sucking at other new notebook
A lot of other stuff that I don’t remember

Tower Takeover Mistakes: Act 2 of VRC, Rookies No Longer
Writing down the idea of an H-drive (we did NOT build one)
Kid in club chucked cube at other kid in club’s head
Building sketchy 22 cube towers to the ceiling and almost breaking stuff
Putting trombone slide oil on tile to make robot drift.

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“Huh, this screw driver isnt fully tightening this screw. Maybe if I just, keep turning harder it will tighten eventually”

Strips the screwdriver to oblivion

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ah yes, the good ol mcDonald’s tray Fwd drift

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