RobotWars101

Hey guys

After reading about Haz' mishap with his spinner, just wondering if anyone else has had any near misses whilst building or operating robots; I've put a 2mm drill bit almost completely through my finger, had plenty of metal splinters, sliced fingers from blades, few soldering iron burns, and had my fingers bitten by Stewie's flipper during activation.

So what about you guys ?

super glues all my fingers together twice
a couple of soldering iron burns
getting hand stuck in ee 3.5 flipper at every event
hitting my finger with a hammer and got a huge bruise
tv stand fell on my leg and got a bruise the size of my fist (this happened 4 days ago)
sitting on an upright sprocket
deck chair collapse
hit in the crotch with a bungee cord (with the metal bit on the end!)

Electric shock and then walking up and down the stairs twice to check I was alive

The very first time I spun up a brushless motor, I sliced my thumb pretty badly on the blade which I really should have been put on after I'd got the motor working. Apart from this I'd like to think of myself as careful (touch wood).

Apart from the usual cuts and scrapes, the only thing that sticks in my mind was when I managed to burn my hair on my soldering iron. I think I mainly remember it because of the incredibly bad smell it made!

I have at some stage done all the usual things- cuts, scrapes, bruises etc..

I think the worst ones for me have been dropping Maelstrom on my foot and getting hit by Shockwave's flipper (i'm just glad that it was a low pressure one and not Aftershock or Whirlwind as the result would have been a lot nastier).

I managed to grind into my fingernail when building Jigsaw IV which is the worst injury I've really suffered as a direct result of robots. Burning hair, bruises, scrapes, knife cuts, et cetera have all happened though, I consider it an occupational hazard really.

burns, cuts, tip of my thumb cut off, dropped front of metanioa on foot, dropped murphy's law on my feet
having metanioa upsidedown to work on it and the flipper falling open on my face

my WORST one though was a few weeks ago, i had murphy's law on my toolbox so that the wheels were off the floor and i was just checking to see if it worked, it did, then(becuse the frame is only a couple of kg's) when i changed the directoin of the motors it shifted backwards so that the wheels were in full reverse touching the desk and the whole thing catapulted itself off the desk and ito my crotch.
that.
bloody.
hurt.

(note: one of the reasons why i got into robots was becuse of the massive scar on my arm, i couldn't do sport anymore, so i took up robot building )

I regularly have cuts all over my hands, was quite bad putting the cnc machine together.

The worst thing i have done is drilled through my finger nail and all. The worst bit was having to force my finger down and off the drill bit. I won't be doing that again!

I've launched blades across the room at both my brother and Marco before, but without injury. Besides the odd minor cut, I can't think of any real injury I've had as a direct result of being a roboteer, unless you count the bruises and rope-burn I got from Total Wipeout