Important things to remember about hardware...

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Here's a list of somethings about hardware that are kind of important to you, the programmer, if you plan on keeping your arm/leg/head from being dismembered by a member of the hardware crew...

1. Put the robot on blocks. Robots are hard to stop when they are big, heavy, and fast.
2. For gearboxes with multiple motors, ALWAYS unplug one motor from working. Do this physically! Doing it programmatically opens opportunities for error as programming does not always work as we expected it to. Doing it physically ensures us that this one motor CAN NOT move. If you do not do this, you could end up with a lot of shredded gears, burnt up motors, and some very bad sounds coming from the robot.