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MAKE SURE you have a way of correcting for errors. The game board can be even worse than the floor of your dorm in terms of screwing up a robot that is trying to drive straight via pure dead reckoning.
Take whatever amount of time you think you need to debug something and multiply it by 3.
Solder connections can be made much stronger by a liberal application of hot glue.
Sometimes it's not you, it's JoyOS.
Never get angry at your teammates. Didn't happen to us but there were yelling matches next door to my dorm room. (they were doing 6.370, but it's the same idea.)
Not recharging your batteries will make the HappyBoard very, very sad. It may start yelling nonsensical things like "rvo lock :(" when the batteries are low.