module 10 of 12
Every team rediscovers the same painful bugs. This module is a field-tested triage manual for the mechanical, build, and pneumatics failures that eat practice time and lose matches: drivetrains that veer, gearboxes that grenade, pneumatics that won't fire, fasteners that vibrate loose, and closed-loop mechanisms that oscillate. Each lesson gives you the symptom, the most likely root causes ranked, a concrete diagnostic workflow, and the fix, grounded in real CTRE/REV/WPILib behavior and community-documented failure modes. Learn to debug like a veteran: change one variable at a time, read the actual data, and confirm the fix before moving on.
Common Mistakes & Troubleshooting is module 10 of 12 in the Mechanical, Build & Pneumatics guide. It picks up where Worked Examples & Mini-Projects left off and hands over to Advanced Techniques & Case Studies. Its 5 lessons are about 128 minutes of the guide's ~21 hours.
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This is the Mechanical, Build & Pneumatics one: 5 lessons, about 128 minutes. The modules below share the name over completely different material.
| no. | module | lessons |
|---|---|---|
| pre | Engineering Foundations: Forces, Torque, and Machines | 4 |
| 01 | Drivetrains: Moving the Robot | 4 |
| 02 | Power Transmission and Gear Ratios | 4 |
| 03 | Structure, Materials, and Fasteners | 3 |
| 04 | Mechanisms, Fabrication, and Assembly | 3 |
| 05 | Pneumatics Fundamentals: How Air Becomes Motion | 3 |
| 06 | The Components: Controllers, Compressor, Valves, and Cylinders | 4 |
| 07 | Building, Wiring, and Programming a Pneumatic System | 4 |
| 08 | Safety, Rules, and Testing | 3 |
| 09 | Worked Examples & Mini-Projects | 5 |
| 10 | Common Mistakes & Troubleshootingyou are here | 5 |
| 11 | Advanced Techniques & Case Studies | 5 |