You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...

[KevinC]

When you can't tell the difference between yourself and the robot

[Michelle692]

You are helping your friend create character sketches for her creative writing class, and you have the most fun plotting the characters' futures because all you do is find ways to get them involved in FIRST

[Mr.G]

when you go to toys r us to find new design ideas.

[freaky_dork88]

you insist that you take your senior pictures with the letterman that you got from being in robotics most specifically FIRST

[hipsterjr]

When you keep a tub of K'nex for "prototyping" design ideas and have won arguments with a k'nex model.


yea 2000th post

[Andrew Schreiber]

I prefer legos... Also, when you are geeked about getting the 2000th post in a thread.

[Denman]

Probably been mentioned but

When you see threads like this ...

[EricH]

Originally Posted by hipsterjr

When you keep a tub of K'nex for "prototyping" design ideas and have won arguments with a k'nex model.

When a picture of a K'nex model of part of the field makes it into your design book submission, then into the book. (2007) Yes, we do prototype that way sometimes.

Bonus points for doing the same sort of thing with VEX parts.

[dragonrulr288]

When...
Anything with a team number you know gets circled with an arrow pointing to the name scribbled along the side... My physics teacher [also a coach for the team] sees ALOT of this!

[Chris is me]

When you and your friends, after throwing a bunch of playpen balls around your room, design a Vex robot to try and accumulate them so you don't have to clean it up.

[BrendanB]

Chris, that is just lazy.

When your friends just start conversations with how is robotics cuz they know it will just come around to that in most conversations.

When just about all of your gmail statuses relate to robotics.

[Karibou]

Originally Posted by dragonrulr288

When...
Anything with a team number you know gets circled with an arrow pointing to the name scribbled along the side... My physics teacher [also a coach for the team] sees ALOT of this!

I do that with all of my band music...which means that most numbers are circled (my stand partner has just given up on asking what a "Robowranglers" or a "Wildstang" are)

[KarenH]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

Chris, that is just lazy.

No, it's not lazy--it's using technology, which can be defined as getting processes and machines to do our work for us. Historically:

--Man discovered fire, and used it to cook his food so he wouldn't have to expend so much energy chewing.

--Man invented matches, so he didn't have to expend so much energy starting the fire.

--Man invented the butane lighter so he didn't have to burn his fingers lighting the fire.

And now--

--Man invented the robotic vacuum cleaner so woman would not have to exert effort on the sweaty, dusty job of vacuuming. Instead, she can relax while making scientific observations of the family pets as they react to the new "creature" making all that noise and chasing them around the house.

The effort expended by woman getting man to BUY--not merely admire the engineering of--the robotic vacuum cleaner shall not be discussed here.


Disclaimer: This post does not prove that I'm overdosed either on FIRST, or on technology.

[BrendanB]

Just you wait until all those robots rise up and take over the world!

Until then, i'll keep making robots.

Oh and Chris, you're in college so i guess that you have a right to be lazy as your mom isn't there to tell you to clean your room. LOL

EDIT: at karen, when you had to expend effort to get the vacuum, did the male say that it was useless when you could just vacuum the floor and that it was lazyness, or that it was a dumb idea.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

EDIT: at karen, when you had to expend effort to get the vacuum, did the male say that it was useless when you could just vacuum the floor and that it was lazyness, or that it was a dumb idea.

The males were too busy looking at the engineering of the robot. Houston 2003: team 330, having arrived kind of early for the Championship, goes to a local mall for a while. The mentors/parents and students split up to explore, and after a while, the parents group stops in front of a store that has a robotic vacuum cleaner. The battery needs changing, and the robot is kind of flipped over during this process. The engineers were apparently commenting on the robot's design, functionality, etc. The wives were trying to figure out how to get their husbands to get one, or so I hear from one of them.