"Quotes" that were said during build season

[tsa256]

Mentor: "You're just irresistible."
Me: "Of course I am.."
Mentor: "Never let another man tell you that"
Me: "Will do"
Conversation while trying to isolate all electric circuits on our robot, I ended up connected two isolated circuits with both my hands.

"I code my own Friday nights"
General response of the system teams when asked about what they are doing on their Friday nights.

Me: "If it doesn't require duct tape, cable ties, or hot glue; then you didn't build it right"

Me: "Sleep is an accessory not a necessity, just like strippers I can use my teeth"
Once our team was stuck without any wire strippers, so I resorted to using my teeth to strip the insulation.

Student: "Anybody have a hair tie"
Me: "I've got a zip tie"
Student: "Perfect!"

Mechanical Team "So when is the code going to be done"
Programmers "We are working on it"
-Next Day
Programmers "We have boycotted coding until we get unlimited Oreos, cookies in code out"

Student: "We are missing a nut on the robot"
Me "Connor get on the robot"

Student: "I forgot my belt"
Me: "Here is a CAT, join the club"
Network cables work as great belts

Me: "We need pot!"
Student: glares
Me " Lets order by the kilo"
Student: "We build robots, we're not a drug cartel"

[plnyyanks]

continued from above:

"She's drop dead gorgeous!"
said when the 2GO PC arrived

Student (to safety captain): Have you read the safety manual?
Safety Captain: <pauses, looks around> ...No
Needless to say, he was safety captain the rest of the year

"Sometimes, the concept of sleep is irrelevant"
said to a reporter

"When i get married, i'm going to propose with a PWM ring"

"It's a hardware problem."

[Norman J]

"It's a hardware problem."

"It's always a programming problem?"
"Yes."
"What if the robot's on fire?"
"Don't worry, we'll fix it in software."

[Karibou]

Homeland Security guy: 'What's that symbol for...gearhead?"
Me: "Actually, yes, it is..."

[Vermeulen]

Electrical mentor: "How many software engineers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?"
Me: "I don't know, how many?"
Mentor: "None, it's a hardware problem."

[ThaineP]

"%&!#$&!%#$&%#!$ IS THIS THING THREADED BACKWARD?!?!?!?!?!?!??"

-me, after some genius (me) had the bright idea of putting the allen-wrench end of an allen bolt on the inside of the C-channel, with a piece of plywood above it.

Took me twenty minutes to get the thing out, along with three different allen wrenches, two socket wrenches, four pairs of pliers, and a fair amount of yelling at the stupid bolt to GET THE $!&%$#&!% OUT OF THERE!!!!

I think I need to think ahead more :)


Thaine

[plnyyanks]

"It's always a programming problem?"
"Yes."
"What if the robot's on fire?"
"Don't worry, we'll fix it in software."

there everybody goes again... fixing hardware problems in software

[nathanww]

This is what happens at "interdisciplinary team progress review" meetings

Programmer:We're still having some issues with the threading on the camera code
Mechanist:What, the threads got stripped?
Programmer:What? No, it's a multi-threaded program but some of the threads are using too much CPU time
Mechanist:Multi-threaded?

This lead to a ten-minute discussion of uses of the word "thread".

[216Robochick288]

"Breakaway is just Lunacy that sends my brain on Overdrive!its like Triple Play of the mind!"
I was ganna add more but I was pulling this out of the top of my head!

[M.Wong]

"Just eyeball it!"

[bassoondude]

Not technically build season, but at a recruiting event, some kid came up and asked if the robot could "RUN ME OVER!?" to which our mentor responded with a yell, "NO!" and then "well, it could..."

[Peter Johnson]

"Breakaway is just Lunacy that sends my brain on Overdrive!its like Triple Play of the mind!"
I was ganna add more but I was pulling this out of the top of my head!

Mine (from during the competition season):
"Looking forward to the opportunity to breakaway from work and join the lunacy at the LA FIRST competition. Just as long as our team keeps aiming high and triple-playing the competition, maybe we can raise the bar over previous years and go into overdrive in Atlanta!"

Another Mentor's reply to above:
"Might be in double trouble for those diabolical dynamics. Hope your zone zeal does not lead you to rack 'n' roll all over the place, unless you ramp and roll into rug rage."

[xxjgdancexx]

"We must construct additional pylons!"

"Fibon Carbor...I mean Carbon Fiber"

"The Game"

"Spawning Pool!"

"If you think I'm sexy, you should see my robot"

[JoshAdkins]

Programming Mentor Matt - when the autonomous code wasn't quite working
"I have never had one of my inventions come after me before!"

[kwojcik]

"Ok this sounds a little crazy, but think that we can jump the center zone?"
"Are you serious?"
"We can't just rule it out without doing the math"
"Yes, yes we can"
"Okay, when week 6 rolls around and 1114 has a youtube video of them jumping the bumps..."

[xxjgdancexx]

At Clemson, we had an hour to kill so we walked up to the graveyard to explore and we found an abandoned cell phone sitting on a rock. One of my friends picked it up and looked at the pics to see whos it was (it was slightly creepy that all the pics showed only half of the guys face). Anyway, we put it back and then throughout the rest of the weekend:
"OMG is that the guy from that phone we found in the cemetery?"
"He does look like him, but his nose is too small..."
"He could have had surgery"
"Well he could have dyed his hair too, changed his eye color..."
"You are introducing way too many variables into the situation so lets just go ask him for buttons and move on."

[delsaner]

"I have a nice robot for breakfast every other morning. They're rich in iron."

[Garret]

"This thing is held together with zipties and faith"

[Garret]

Weekend before ship in 2009
"what do you mean were 40 pounds over the limit!"

[xxjgdancexx]

Team 1772 was asking for suggestions for alliance partners when they were on the field and so we were yelling out "1758!!!" but they ended up choosing 2751 and then our teams driver yelled out "But we gave you zip-ties!!"
:D

[Thing2_1723]

I was helping a team member with his chemistry homework (cause grades are that important on our team) and this conversation came about

Me: What are you working on?
Kody: Stickyomerty.
Me: You mean stoichiometry?
Kody: Same ?#@%ing thing!

[Wildcat]

"Aluminium is cheaper than a babysitter"

[Wayne Doenges]

"Today is the tomorrow that you worried about yesterday"

[Wayne Doenges]

Here's another:

"Losing is temporary but giving up is permanent"

[onecoolc]

"You broke it, you fail at life, and you just lost the game."

[xxjgdancexx]

"...and you just lost the game."

NOOOOOOOO!!!!! :ahh:

[Dragon Princess]

A favorite one from this year.

"Soooo if I can make these cookies in the microwave in six minuets, or thirty in an oven, how long will it take to cook by heat gun?"

Honestly I never found out, I ended up eating them all before they were fully cooked. They were still delicious, yum.

[Dragon Princess]

"I'm going to make a zip-tie hammock so next regional I can rest in the pit while the robot goes out for practice on the field, that way I can FINALLY get some sleep that was missed during the build season."
-Lead mentor

[Radical Pi]

"I've never figured out why programmers get such a hard time from the rest of the team. If a programmer messes something up, he takes 30 seconds to re-upload and his error is gone. If a mechanical guy messes something up, an expensive piece of metal has just been wasted"

[Bethie42]

Only at robotics....we were setting up the field at an off-season event and a student runs in the door, yells 'I just lost The Game!' and runs back out again....there was a collective groan from everybody in the room.

[pSYeNCe]

"...and you just lost the game."

DANGIT!
I see what you did there.

[onecoolc]

Programmer: "Yeah well, F*** you, Robot! F*** YOU."
Mentor: "Oh, it feels like build season again. Enmar's swearing at the robot."

[apalrd]

there everybody goes again... fixing hardware problems in software

...but we always fix it in software... thats what programmers do...

[Radical Pi]

...but we always fix it in software... thats what programmers do...

Student 1: "Hey, the wire to the motor broke"
Student 2: "Don't worry, the programmers can fix it"

[physicistlouis]

What did the driver station say to the CRio?
...
...
...
...
...
...
Where's your signal.

[timytamy]

Me: There's too much wireless interferance!!!
Other Student: Well you are in a wireless research laboratry...
Me: We are building a faraday cage for off season!!!

[Phoenix Spud]

Me: There's too much wireless interferance!!!
Other Student: Well you are in a wireless research laboratry...
Me: We are building a faraday cage for off season!!!

Next day when we arrive to see if we were just having interference problems...

Me to Timytamy: "Did you bring the cage?"

[plnyyanks]

(after dropping screwdriver on robot)
...it's not like i'm going to throw my robot at the screwdriver! <pause>...

did you bring your air compressor, we have to raise the pressure in here

[plnyyanks]

<looking inside gearbox>
it looks mushy....it's mush
(said completely seriously)

[FlyingD662]

From our safety captain:
"There's nothing more demeaning than writing up your own accident report..."

"Ok, so the number one rule for the build space is: Measure once, cut twice."

On a very LONG and seemingly unproductive Thursday at the Colorado Regional:
"So what are the programmers doing NOW??"
"They're fixing the problem, I believe."
"Oh, so they finally figured it out?"
"Yeah, they were pulling out the battery on the computer and they dropped it, so they put it back in and now everything works fine..."

[IFB662]

From our safety captain:
"There's nothing more demeaning than writing up your own accident report..."

"Ok, so the number one rule for the build space is: Measure once, cut twice."

On a very LONG and seemingly unproductive Thursday at the Colorado Regional:
"So what are the programmers doing NOW??"
"They're fixing the problem, I believe."
"Oh, so they finally figured it out?"
"Yeah, they were pulling out the battery on the computer and they dropped it, so they put it back in and now everything works fine..."

those are good flyinD but my fav from our team was

mentor: you guys should file down those edges on the bot.

weeks later

safety inspector: you guys are going to need to file down those edges before i sign off.

[FlyingD662]

haha! IFB... Then there's always this moment to remember:

Russell (driver): *sigh* this is just not going in!
Me: Its supposed to fit!
Russell: Who measured? Patches?
Me: OH. Ill make a new one...

AND

Russell: This looks like a job for THE TOOL OF PERSUATION!
Me: Ahh, yes, I knew that it would eventually come to this.
Freshman: The what?!?
Me: Russell's tool of persuation.
Freshman: THE WHAT?!?
Russell: The big rubber mallet.

[IFB662]

"this hill didn't seem so big when we were walking to chiles"

"Malinda lets stand over there so we don't kill software"

[Sincrum]

At competition this year, the robot stopped working on the field... Get it back to the pits to find, missing a sprocket, it was on there when we took the robot to the field, but not there now. There was an "um guys where's the sprocket" moment there.

[Dragon Princess]

My favorite from this years team annual Picnic.

Me-"Why do we have to build the grills?"
Sam-"Because we're the Robotics team"
Me-"It's 90 out, these grills are black and I'm starting to burn. I know we're robotics, isn't it more FIRST to order pizza and Mountain dew?"
Rob-"While it would be to see what the sun actually looks like. Stop whining and find out where all these extra parts belong!"

Turns out we can build a Robot in 6 weeks, but we can't follow the directions to make a grill. They held up without duct tape, it was an up from last year!
:p

[Barngirl425]

NJ Announcer

-now starts the 2 minutes of driver controlled chaos
-Parallel Universe blocking the shot not really wise cause they are on the same alliance but interesting strategy
-102 trying to take out our ref that I would advise against
-102 hit the bullseye unfortunatly the goal is underneath it

[Phoenix Spud]

While cleaning up our mech lab to pass OHS standards, one of the students was in charge of putting everything onto our shelves...

Student: "Now, if we just mark every shelf "misc" it will be organised!"

[548swimmer]

--Hey guys, is the robot ready?
--Nope, it's still broken. Unless we fixed it.
--Alright. Wait, what?

[Madman503]

our coach was a soccer player and was trying to show off when we were cleaning up the field and just about to leave.

Mr. Hepler:"ok, i'm gonna try to slightly curve it through the tower and into the goal". He kicks the ball it flies strait up and shatters a flood light.
Me:"well i guess were not leaving just yet".

after 3 hours of talking later...

Me:"ok, well we should be going. Mr. hepler can you help me take these lights to my car?"
Mr. Hepler:"sure"...hits the door and drops yet another flood light...
Me: *sighs* ill get the broom...

[Mrs.Drake343]

This may have been said...not reading all the posts!

This was said this week at Lego camp by one of our robotic's students:

"Too many engineers spoil the robot!"

[FRC4ME]

During a Skype chat between me and two of the programmers:

Programmer 1: Here are the parts we got...resistors <tosses bag>...capacitors <tosses bag>...perf board <tosses bag>...<silence>...

Me: When you tossed that perf board did it happen to land on your mute button?

Programmers: <smiles followed by laughter as the audio returns>...whoops :p

[Karibou]

While watching fireworks:
Me: "I kind of want to yell "OINK OINK" before one of these goes boom"
Alex: "Oink oink"
Firework: BOOMMMMMM *shower of orange and green sparks*

...and then my normal friends gave us the most confused looks you have ever seen.

[XOFallenAngelOX]

"we be homie leaning like WHOA!!!!!!"

we were planning on having a hanging bot and whenever it hung it did it on it's side. so one of the mentors just said it and it stuck. unfortunately for us we took off the item for it to hang but the joke never went away

[demosthenes2k8]

Mech: "I don't wanna spill oil on the robot."
Me: "BP?"

Chairmans team member to my dad: "Are you a girl scout?"

[Karibou]

Programmer: "the code is NEVER "wrong", its just not "exactly whats desired". Even then it comes with "extra free functions""

[buildmaster5000]

Me: <some request involving difficult programming solution>
Programmer: "But thats hard, I'm not sure I can do that..."
Me: "You have six weeks to figure it out, and we aren't doing swerve so you could do this stuff...I have faith in you, and if you want I could try and help you!"
Programmer: "you need to build the robot, and ill make it move and stuff"

the classic software v. hardware debate...

[Radical Pi]

Me (Programmer): I'll write the auto-aim when you make a ball possessor that actually works (My response to anyone complaining that some other team has an auto-aim)

"The robot's doing exactly what I told it to do...I just left a bit open to interpretation"

[klee17]

Software. Mentor to student. Code writing can get a little heated:

"I'll static your face!!"

[bellarbots]

"______ drilled a hole in the table!"

[apalrd]

"The red alliance has three of the best robots IN ALL OF FIRST, but THE BLUE ALLIANCE HAS TWO TRAMPOLINES!!!!! THE BLUE ALLIANCE HAS TWO TRAMPOLINES!!!!!!"~Karthik @ IRI 2010

[kenavt]

"The red alliance has three of the best robots IN ALL OF FIRST, but THE BLUE ALLIANCE HAS TWO TRAMPOLINES!!!!! THE BLUE ALLIANCE HAS TWO TRAMPOLINES!!!!!!"~Karthik @ IRI 2010

If we're going into Karthik @ IRI quotes, then here's one I heard today that I liked when he was pleading to the FMS while a Ke$ha song was playing:

"Green light, your love is my drug!"

[demosthenes2k8]

This was a real chat taken from Steam just now: (I'm demosthenes, another programmer is Bot190)

2:29 PM - Bot190 {166}: So, i have an idea for using the ultasonic sensor
2:29 PM - [8Db] Demosthenes {166}: oh boy
2:29 PM - Bot190 {166}: hehe
2:29 PM - Bot190 {166}: And encoders
2:30 PM - Bot190 {166}: Basically, the robot moves forward, and takes a reading with ultrasonic facing left, then it turns so its facing right, takes a reading
2:30 PM - Bot190 {166}: move forward, repeat
2:30 PM - Bot190 {166}: Logging all the info to a txt file
2:30 PM - Bot190 {166}: Then have a program that takes this data and makes a vmf
2:30 PM - Bot190 {166}: Which is a map file for the source engine
2:30 PM - [8Db] Demosthenes {166}: oh god

[Karibou]

In the hotel room at IRI, we were discussing reasons to not open the door to let our roommate back in.

"You're not supposed to talk to strangers!"
"But what if he has candy!?"
"YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO TALK TO STRANGERS!"
"But what if it's Dave Lavery?"
"Why in the world would you let him in!?"
"KARA WHAT IF IT'S A ROBOT???"
...or something like that.

"We have five robots and one vacuum on the field..."

There was a mentor sitting in the stands behind us when I was sitting with 2337 during the mentor matches at IRI, and he liked my "gearrings."
Mentor: "Those are really neat! I guess that makes you kind of a gear head!"
2337 mentor: "Actually, she's on the Gearheads. The team, the Gearheads."

(looking at one of the alliances on the field, with 1902 and 1114 on it)
"Oink oink...Canada?"

"I hate how cold aluminum gets when it gets cold, and how hot aluminum gets when it gets hot"

[Bethie42]

My best friend hears ALL about FIRST...including all the inside jokes [non-functional duct-tape and all]...he wants SO bad to be on an FRC team but lives on the other side of the country, way out in the hills....anyways. I was talking with him about FIRST, and how awesome the sense of community is, and he says, 'Like one big geeky duct-tape covered family!'
...there should be a Facebook group for FIRST Robotics Wanna-be's.

[HaleyMortensen]

Saints win the superbowl!- victory saying
Wov!- another victory saying created during a game of scrabble

[FRC4ME]

"Watch out guys: these soldering irons are hot, so when I carry them they will still be hot, unless they cool down."

[demosthenes2k8]

Both said during a Team Council meeting:

(Two students start fake-fighting)
Mentor: "If you're going to fight, at least sell tickets and turn it into a fundraising event."

(Same two students are playing with wrenches, and I take them and put them on the table. They start to reach for something else, and then there's a "THWACK" as I hit their hands with an empty water bottle I was holding)
"Someone get that bottle away from him."

[demosthenes2k8]

Since I can't edit my last post...

We're setting up for Beta day, and several of us are coming out of the main robotics room. So Mr P. closes the door, turns off the lights, and all of a sudden we hear "I love you too, guys". Turns out we had almost locked my co-lead (Bot190) into the room. He doesn't seem happy about it.

[FRC4ME]

Programmer: "Alright, I connected the cRIO to power."
Me: "Uh...why did you connect ground to the 'NC' terminal?"
Programmer: "NC means Natural Common, right?"
Me: "Good guess, but it actually stands for No Connection. Try again."

[Brianna]

[as we were singing at the back of the bus] "What happened to the cat that died back there?"

[found a cockroach in on of the guys hotel room in Atl] "Yeah......this is the cockroach room."

Student: "Can we watch a movie?"
Mentor: "Only if its G-rated. Did anyone bring Bambi?"

[FRC4ME]

Student: "I found the chain takey-offey tool Now where's the chain takey-offey part?"

Same student: "Cool, I have a butt tool holder!"
<after dropping a strong magnet into his back pocket and hanging tools from it>

[carolynn4848]

Russell: This looks like a job for THE TOOL OF PERSUATION!
Me: Ahh, yes, I knew that it would eventually come to this.
Freshman: The what?!?
Me: Russell's tool of persuation.
Freshman: THE WHAT?!?
Russell: The big rubber mallet.

My team calls that encouragement.

[quinxorin]

Russell: This looks like a job for THE TOOL OF PERSUATION!
Me: Ahh, yes, I knew that it would eventually come to this.
Freshman: The what?!?
Me: Russell's tool of persuation.
Freshman: THE WHAT?!?
Russell: The big rubber mallet.My team calls that encouragement.
We call that the Safety Stick - a one inch square bar of solid steel.

[apalrd]

(We have a section of the whiteboard in the shop for quotes)

"I am bored because I know everything" ~Anonomous student, while we were teaching the freshmen about basics.


"Palardy I am sick of you making mistakes...

(about 5 seconds pass)

Oops I made a mistake..."~Kitty

[FRC4ME]

My team calls that encouragement.

339 calls it Gentle Persuasion.

We call that the Safety Stick - a one inch square bar of solid steel.

619 has one of those; it's called the Printer Troubleshooting Stick.

[Phoenix Spud]

(Taken WAY out of context...)

"...and they die every 5 seconds!"

[Andrew Schreiber]

(Taken WAY out of context...)

"...and they die every 5 seconds!"

Are we talking about the control system here?

You kids with your fancy wireless code downloads and LabVIEW. Back in my day we used to have to use 15-pin connectors... both ways...and in pbasic.

[sithmonkey13]

One of our mentors, as mentioned back in 2008 or 2009, is famous for his IBC's or Inappropriate Bill Comments. He named our winch system the hooker, leading to several funny quotes.

Exasperated Student after the winch jam's again: "Screw the hooker! Wait not like that!"

One time the mentor put two halves of a coconut on the bot as the school principal walked in. After hearing about 2 sentences, he left, leaving us wondering about the future of the team. (Fortunately, there were no repercussions.)

And the all hilarious St. Louis Regional. With several mishaps and mistakes (liking shattering a screwdriver by using to bend our frame back into place, and finding out our IR sensor for if a ball was in the proper spot for firing prevented going over the bumps) we had the funniest lunch break ever.

The parking garage has low ceilings and the teacher that was driving the school van said, "Shoot, I don't think the van is going to make it out. It's too tall." To which a senior replied, " That's what she said." After five minutes of everybody laughing (including the girls) we finally left, making it out with no problem. At the restaurant, one of the girls was ordering with the teacher, because she had forgot her wallet. The teacher walked up to the counter and said, " Hi, we're together. Wait! not like that. I mean we're ordering together." The other team members who were ordering screwed up (like I had to recount how much money I was supposed to give since I was laughing so hard.) And after several more funny comments, on the way back into the parking garage, we hit one of the tubes that is designed to tell you if you're going to hit the ceiling. (It is weirdly placed, inside right before the ramp up to the next level, and if you hit it, there is no way out. And for some reason, the van only hits it going in, and hits nothing else.) We all started laughing again. And when trying to park, since I was riding shotgun (unique for a freshman), I was to get out and say how much farther back he had to back up. I said he had a little bit father (meaning about two feet), and he backed up 1 inch. Everyone got, and realized that he still had 2 feet to go. After so laughing, we headed back inside to inform the rest of the team how hilarious the hour was, and on to problems with the robot.

Sigh, if only theory was real.

[Karibou]

Are we talking about the control system here?


I thought he was talking about programmers ;)

[EricH]

I thought he was talking about programmers ;)
That's only if a) they don't have their caffeine and/or b) if they are keeping the drivers away from practice by making "just one more change, it'll only take a second" and/or c) if their code manages to make the robot self-destruct without a driver at the controls.

The rest of the time, it's probably the controller or the programming computer.

[BrendanB]

That's only if a) they don't have their caffeine and/or b) if they are keeping the drivers away from practice by making "just one more change, it'll only take a second" and/or c) if their code manages to make the robot self-destruct without a driver at the controls.

The rest of the time, it's probably the controller or the programming computer.

That is my favorite quote! :rolleyes:

[Phoenix Spud]

Are we talking about the control system here?

You kids with your fancy wireless code downloads and LabVIEW. Back in my day we used to have to use 15-pin connectors... both ways...and in pbasic.

Nope, safety animation meeting! (which makes it even funnier...)

[Bethie42]

Said by me, whilst complaining about the fact that 1/3 of our team is in drama, the school play is this week, and they subsequently can't help with fundraising for the ominously-approaching payment deadline [my friend promptly exclaimed 'Quote!!']

'Why do people gotta have a life outside of robotics?'

[J93Wagner]

'Why do people gotta have a life outside of robotics?'

That is a very good question...

For a another quote, I can't remember who made it (no one on our team actually made it, just referenced it), but it goes like this: "Nobody leaps a twenty foot chasm in two ten foot leaps."

You could also say that that quote describes the mindset of our team this year. No excessive dawdling, just get stuff done on all fronts.

[demosthenes2k8]

"Found it!" (About the harder way that must exist to do everything)

From a Science Olympiad coach to me and another SO member who do FRC: "We have a competition on January 28th. I know you're not going to get any work done between the 8th and the 28th, so you might want to start early."

"We don't care about Christmas, we like Kickoff better."
"Can we each bring a Kickoff present for each other?"

[apalrd]

"I can't find [part]! I've been looking for it for like 10 minutes now"
"It's literally two feet from where you started, you just didn't see it because it's clear [polycarbonate]"


Matt [driver] on programming:
"Palardy does something, and Jim says 'More gain', and Palardy does something, and says 'Less gain'."
"Then Palardy flashes the robot and it works"
(He clearly dosen't understand all that goes into programming)


Me: "One of the balls is deflated. We need to tell the refs. What should we do?"
Caroline(Mom): "What would Jim do?"
Me: "He would go yelling at the head ref until they did something"
Mom: "OK lets not do that. What would Tim do?"
Me: "He would calmly go and talk to the refs until the situation was resolved"

[demosthenes2k8]

Me: "Umm...that's a Trackball. They're rather heavy. I hope you don't want to throw that at me."
*THUD*
(Said in my gym class when my classmates found a Trackball in the...gym closet?)

[216Robochick288]

'Why do people gotta have a life outside of robotics?'

I posted this as my status on Facebook and had about 10 RoboDawGs answer within 10 seconds, "Whats a life?":ahh:

[pSYeNCe]

I've read so many quotes from or about "Palardy" on here, I really want to meet this guy! He sounds awesome! (Well, everyone on an FRC team is awesome by default, but... you know what i mean.)

[J93Wagner]

This definitely wasn't said by someone on a FIRST team but I think it sorta sums up the attitude of most FIRSTer's concerning FIRST.

"There is nothing cooler than being proud of the things you love." - Sean "Day[9]" Plott

[Gir_450]

Our team captain last year had blond moments and whenever he made a screw up he would always say

"Don't judge me, I'm blond!" :rolleyes:

[onecoolc]

"If any team is missing their robot, it is at the scoring desk in the arena. I repeat: if you are missing your robot, it is at the scoring desk in the arena!"

I was pit announcer for an FLL tournament. XD Seeing that these robots were measured in inches rather than feet it's far less impressive, but the announcement was still eyebrow-raising.

[chemipanda]

Programmer: the robot isn't working again.
(mentor walks in)
Mentor: Well I can tell you this much it is not a hardware issue its your code.
Programmer: No its hardware because my code its right
(mentor looks at screen)
Mentor: There is no code in the robot.
Programmer: oh...

That happened many times this past year.

[sithmonkey13]

As one senior had written an essay for scholarship, he had one of the teachers who help the team read over it to make some corrections. Almost immediately after walking away, the teacher goes: "I found a mistake. You say 'My life in FIRST" and you really mean 'My life is FIRST.'"

[cbeavers6790]

My favorite is from two years ago for lunacy. we used potentiometers to keep our crab drive from moving too far and we kept on smoking them....so we constantly smoked the POT at robotics and our electronics mentor kept on mentioning that he had a good dealer near our competitions

[nathanww]

When visiting my old team:

*student is writing sponsorship funds on the board*
Mentor:Wait, what do all those numbers mean?
*Anthony walks in*
Mentor:Anthony, can you tell what these numbers are?
Anthony:Money?
Mentor:How do you know it's money?
Anthony:Because that's all we talk about


"Do you want me to run you over with the robot?"
"Yes, because that would mean the robot's working"

[Radical Pi]

While trying to debug the robot over telephone:

Me: Ok what's the big orange light doing
Other person: It's blinking
Me: what kind of blinking? How fast is it? Are the on and off times the same?
Other person: It's kinda fast but also kinda slow
Me: I need a better description than that
Other person: well it's doing this on off on off on off on off

...

Me: Alright now click on the "Diagnostics" tab on the classmate
Other person: Is that one of the switches?
Me: No, it's on the screen. Click on it with the mouse
Other person: Alright I'm there
Me: Now which of the dots are red and which of the dots are green?
Other person: All of them are green, but some are brighter green than others
Me: *sigh* Not the I/O tab. The Diagnostics tab.

Needless to say the robot didn't get fixed

(in case anyone's wondering the problem was my forgetting to reset the wireless bridge after an offseason competition. I didn't feel like trying to go through all of that with this person)

[Bethie42]

'We're back to square one! and while we're at it, let's redesign square one.'

[demosthenes2k8]

bot190: "I can't find the Calibrated Router Resetting Tool"
me: "Just make a new one!"
bot190: "But that's a waste of paper clips!"
(Yes, it's a straightened paper clip with a label on it)

[libinator]

This was said just a matter of minutes ago...we are working on a prototype chassis to figure out the drive train and electrical components since we are a rookie team.


Talking about adding weight to the chassis to make it more realistic and robust...
Mentor: we will have to have a small child on it...maybe a couple...
Student: I'LL MAKE ONE REAL QUICK!

[216Robochick288]

[coaches talking to students about something or annother]
random student, very loudly: "Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen????"
different student: "He was number one!!!!"
One of the coaches: "Thank you spongebob" -.-"

[= D LOL]

"All the small things you do right always make the biggest difference". :)

[216Robochick288]

Me: "Nothing like coffee, a Monster, and a few no bake cookies to start your morning off!"
Teammate Izzy: "Whats all the caffine for?"
Me:"I need to be awake for robots chasing me!"

I'm nutritious for being easy to colour track, I wear bright green and maroon almost 100% of the time...

[Radical Pi]

I'm nutritious for being easy to colour track, I wear bright green and maroon almost 100% of the time...

We had someone like that last year, always wore green. In 2009 we got some construction paper and covered half of him in the pinkish color used on the targets. Best target practice ever

[Vermeulen]

"We really try to enforce a sense of community." Me, in our Chairman's video.

[cjackson]

When building our pre-season scrap bot:
"Can't we just cut it?"
Can't we just break it?"

Mentor: "Careful, if you wire this backwards it's about as loud as a gunshot"
student: *looks at the board* "Can we try that?"

[acrease77]

our captain named our robot Megan Fox, so our mentor started telling all of his associates that he had Megan Fox strapped in the back of his truck.

[Norman J]

This definitely wasn't said by someone on a FIRST team but I think it sorta sums up the attitude of most FIRSTer's concerning FIRST.

"There is nothing cooler than being proud of the things you love." - Sean "Day[9]" Plott

Day9 is awesome.

[216Robochick288]

I'm nutritious for being easy to colour track.....

Oops, spelling fail, I ment notorious...

Anyhow, next quotes!

"It doesnt care what you sign in as! you could type in 'PicklesMcPiclely_Pants' with the correct password and it will sign in."
"Why does it have the username then?"
"Maybe it makes a log of who signs in so people can laugh at it later. [pretending to read the log]
PicklesMcPiclely_Pants..... Karl... Abby.. Dragons.. Troll under the bridge... Your mum... Chuck Norris.. Rick Astly... wait! who signed in as Rick Astly!"

[later]
"Does the answer 'FIRST' mean anything to you?"

[Bethie42]

Our programming sub-team, while learning C++, misheard 'code' as 'toad', which lead to this bit of wit:

Toad.Release(epicness)

Not sure what we're going to do about making that line up with the WPI lib specs for the parameter.... ;)

[Bethie42]

While brainstorming how to pick up a cylinder and place it on end:

'I think at all costs we should avoid building a robotic human hand.'

[demosthenes2k8]

"So I think that what we've decided is...we want to score tubes."

[Bethie42]

Question! Was it Dean or Dave who said, while talking about the game during the kickoff broadcast, 'Now the diabolical plan here....' and then, I think, went on to talk about partnering with FLL and so on.
I am almost positive it was Dean but we must attribute CORRECTLY...hehe...


[edit] And Dave's story about the rookie team that packed their robot in FedEx boxes! Epic! Was that FRC Team 166 or 116? :o Demosthenes, do you know?]

[demosthenes2k8]

I want to say it was Dave.

[NorviewsVeteran]

A: "Okay, we have a strategy. Can we build the robot now?"
B: "No, not yet."
A: "AWwww..."

[EricH]

And Dave's story about the rookie team that packed their robot in FedEx boxes! Epic! Was that FRC Team 166 or 116? :o Demosthenes, do you know?]
It was 116, Epsilon Delta, from Herndon, VA. Dave's posted that story on here; link is http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpost.php?p=301354&postcount=57 There's more detail in that post, including some of how they did. I think time cramped Dave's story-telling style today. He still mentors them, AFAIK.

[demosthenes2k8]

Haha, yeah, it was 116. That would have been funny if it WAS my team though, because it's honestly something that I think a few of my teammates would do...

[apalrd]

More quotes for the thread:

(while discussing the minibot)
"I wonder if we could just shoot a gun at the target, and say that the bullet is our minibot?"
"Then we would tell the inspectors 'We melted down the TETRIX pieces and cast them into a bullet'"

[Frenchie461]

these are from vex (our school has the freshies to vex before they can do FIRST robotics), so i don't know if they count, but.

"Okay guys, time for a nut check"
"Hey Fred, while you were gone the programmer named the bot after you"
"Is the magic smoke still in the bot?"
"Duck tape is like the force, it has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together."
me-"what could possibly go wrong...." the bot randomly quit working right after that.
Albert :holds up a hammer: "THIS IS NOT A DRILL"

[Zuelu562]

We were doing introductions to new members. My friend said:

"Hi I'm Turd Furgusson."

Then one of the mentors said:

"I'm calling you that all season."

[demosthenes2k8]

"We're voting now. Are you awake?"
"Get more sleep Nick."

(A team member's 8th grade sister knows the rules better than most team members) "You better join the team next year."

(Talking through AIM with a member of another team, going through what we're up to) "I just realized. You're in a regional with us. We're playing against you. But we're also playing with you, so it's all good."

"So it'd be awesome to have the driver press a button and it automatically scores. So we need a camera and light sensor"
"Did Matt tell you to say that?"
Maybe... (no I didn't. They won't believe me anyways)

[secondsun22]

what are some good banner making companies????

[Karibou]

"Please, please, please? Pretty please? I'll get you Mountain Dew..."

[Vermeulen]

"I really think that hanging the minibot will be important this year."
"Wrong game, but I think scoring balls will be more important."
"You mean tubes?"

[Steve-Man]

"Alright, we'll need someone tall to be the human player this year."-Mentor
"Hey, I got this guys."-Rookie
"Sorry, rookies don't usually end up on the drive team."-Mentor
"Well, that's fine too. Dunno if I'd be good at it anyway."-Rookie
"Aw come on man, you could make it. Don't sell yourself...

Short."-Me, initiating what would be conversation consisting mostly of horrible puns for the rest of the day.

[Bsteckler]

During KOP inventory:

"It doesn't matter how many are in the bag, we're not going to use them."

[Superllama12]

Person A: "Can we reuse the mech wheels?"
Person B: "No, as we are not allowed by the rules. Also, one robot was dropped, and the other one went across the parking lot, over the curb, up a hill, through dirt, and into the woods to grandmother's house."
Person A: "...That may pose an issue."

Love reading y'alls responses :D

[PayneTrain]

"Ok, after seeing the game animation, what kind of problems can you see us needing to tackle?"-Student Build Leader

"We have to power the robot."-Rookie

Everyone stares at him. Build Lead grabs new battery.

"I give you the brick of life!"-Build Lead

[JohnHorton]

Discussing the 12-5v DC-DC converter at 25w, we wanted to make an anti-radar gun. This story was put forth.

Well, back in the day, my dad was working for an FCC radar(?) testing facility outside of Boston, and they had a powerful emitter. So, before driving home every day, they'd sweep for Kband signals, and if they found them, send out a nice big juicy ping. Blowing out every radar gun in Boston.

Sounds like something an engineer would do.

[Graciebot]

Me, while giving a safety run-down:

"Oh, and make sure not to lick the electrical wires."

[arob9119]

During Woodie Flowers speech at the 2011 Kickoff

"Thingism...is that a thing??? lol" -me

[rytcd]

"It's Dope." :D

[Stephen of REX]

"Can we mount the gearboxes already? The kit chassis is not your personal go cart!"

[TGA Reaper]

"Ah it's a prototype..."
Friday of competition

[Dumper FTW 435]

My dad is one of the mentors of my team, and after he saved us one season from having a broken robot (we call him engineering jesus), everyone started taking everything he said seriously. My dad's a real joker, so he had some fun with them. Near the end of the season, when we had to lose weight, he recommended drilling holes in the motor. They thought he was serious. They spent 30 minutes talking about it before he told them that he was joking

[nighterfighter]

"Well, we all know that when electrons are heated, they move faster. Since computers transfer data with electrons, we should put our computers in the microwave to heat them up! It will make Windriver compile faster!"- Me

Seriously, WR is SSOOOO slow on the school laptop we have. It literally took 30 minutes to compile all the code one time. -_-

[Bethie42]

Programming mentor, after we get the robot driving [albeit backwards]:

'Actually programming stuff is much more fun than just sitting here pondering: "Hmm....WindRiver.....did we install all the updates? ...Hmm.."'

[Radical Pi]

When telling the driver training people that I needed to re-image the classmate and I'd need to keep it for at least two days:

"Me: So I've put together a temporary replacement system. Unfortunately, the camera doesn't work. Because of that, I had to disable the dashboard. Also, this laptop only has one working USB port, so we can't use the I/O board. I'm not really sure if it can handle joysticks either.
Other Person: Well can it drive the robot?
Me: Probably. Oh wait, I fried the ethernet system a week ago"

[FRC4ME]

Alum: "Really guys? I was on the team for five years, and the sixth one is when you get organized?"
Mentor: "I think you're missing the cause-effect relationship."

Student: "Who sent Kyle over to the build room? He just walked in asking for a thingamajig."

Student: "This hole in the wall is going to give me lung cancer."

On the whiteboard for the season: "Programming is 1% talent and 99% not getting distracted by the Internet."

[mariak37]

Me (teaching a new programmer): "So then you have to make a case structure inside of that..."
New Programmer: "It's a case structure inside a case structure inside a case structure! Like Inception, but with Programming! (pause) The plot thickens..."

[Barngirl425]

Me Yesterday not one of my best quotes
"What we really need to make sure we do is make our robot move."

[Bethie42]

'Did the robot just twitch? It sounded like a sneeze...'


talking about the traditional friction between the programming and mechanical subteams:
Programmer: Mechanical usually has the upper hand...
Mechanical: Yeah, because they lift stuff all day...

[basicxman]

"You should've bought more hex keys!"

"I bought three! There's only three people working."

"You see your logic is flawed. You have three people building with Tetrix, that means you need twelve hex keys not three."
- Jason Patel after repeatedly losing hex keys for the minibot.

[Pirkey]

"Ew RJ, your elbow tastes gross

[XaulZan11]

"Ew RJ, your elbow tastes gross

Some days I'm glad I can't attend buildseason meetings...

[bam-bam]

I space out all too often, so I usually get...

"Welcome to the world, ***."
(censored name for privacy)

[Gdkoopa]

This is not a lifesaving device.

[Brandon_L]

Mentor: So I've got 3 copies of the manual here, I need some volunteers to put them in binders. Here's the sections:
The Arena,
The Robot,
And The Game.
The Binders ar-

Students (together): I lost.

This is not a lifesaving device.
Said waaaayyy too much on our team haha

[Sandvich]

"When in doubt, throw yourself."

[Phoenix Spud]

Mech Lead: "I don't have a brain *points to can* I'm on Diet Coke!"

[Phoenix Spud]

Five minutes later...

Mech Leader: "I don't use my feelings either, they get me in trouble!"

[NoQuestions]

I was trying to explain the scoring/seeding/coopertition point system to an English friend of mine. He enjoys sarcasm and complicating things.

'So, that's Sinx where x is <30 points to you, but Tan40 to the other team?'

[Phoenix Spud]

Mech leader "engineering isn't supposed to be fun!"

Mentor: "another Chief Delphi quote from you today!"

[Superllama12]

K.I.S.S.=Keep it stylin', son

Contrary to popular belief, the fire extinguisher is not in Narnia. It is actually in Middle Earth.

[plnyyanks]

Cutting this way greatly reduces the changes of you losing a finger

said while telling another team member to use the band saw with thumbs tucked in

[RoBoCrAzY155]

"Why isn't the robot moving?
Oh, the wheels don't touch the floor... that might be a problem..."

[Gir_450]

Team Captain: "You need to clean up the E-Board....it looks like a rat's nest."
Me: "I thought that's what i was supposed to make it look like." :eek:

[npinage]

One of the mentors giving the rules binder to one of my team members: I present to you the bible. There will be a test of Friday.

[Andrew Remmers]

*whistles crazy frog tune*

Kris turns around and says " unlike most teenagers I don't have selective hearing"

[Chris is me]

"That is one sexy chassis." - Mr. H

[demosthenes2k8]

"THIS PART'S GOING TO FALL THROUGH THE ROBOT"
"Wait, why?"
"YOU MEASURED INSIDE-TO-INSIDE!"
...

Me: "If I told you I got a twizzler every time something went wrong, what would you say?"
Mentor: "We don't have enough twizzlers."

Me: "What if we put the Infinite Improbability Drive on the robot?"
Bot190: "Dude. We used that last year. We were really bad at probability."

[Sam390250]

"Your cat is both dead and alive!"

Somehow a discussion on mounting LEDs lead to Schrodinger's Cat....

[h1n1is4pigs]

welcome to FIRST check your sanity at the door.

said while trying to figure out why one of our center wheels wasnt touching the ground

[apalrd]

"Friends don't let friends drive mecanum"


"We really should bolt some Banebots motors on this [prototype] but that'll take too long, so let's just use the drills and attach them with random metal clamped and duck taped."
"It's the A-Team way - The wrong way but faster"
(it failed)

[IFB662]

"if poop tasted like this i would be eating a lot more of it."

"I'm the safety captin not the cleaning maid"

Matt:"you need some sleep...and a man"
Melinda:"I'M DOING JUST FINE!!!!!"

[mandrews281]

Lead Programming Student: "I put together a schedule of the things we need to do."
Lead Programming Mentor: "Are we behind yet?"

[MagiChau]

A student team member, "He threw my penguin away!"

Feel free to interpret it as you will.

[Us3rNam3]

Senior helping freshman learn about lathes

"Wait....What did you do? How? That looks cool lol"

[Hansen302]

"All the inconvenience of Portability with out the portability"

[FRC4ME]

I once brought an old 8" floppy into the lab.

Student: "Whoa...it's some sort of storage medium...some sort of disk...and it flops around...it's a...it's a...floppy disk!"
<older mentors laugh>

[Hansen302]

Student: what is a dogpull gear?

Mentor: its like a clutch accept with a clutch you ease in and out but a dogpull your all in or all out.

Student: Ook...umm... so yea.

[Hansen302]

Bigger isn't always better. Bigger Mopar is always better.

[MagiChau]

"Oh, wow the code wasn't even in the project."
Me on NetBeans debugging code, wondering why it wasn't working when it turns out if your .java isn't in the project it doesn't change any code in the project.

[Karibou]

While talking about CAD deadlines:

"...barring any unforseen issues, like everyine dropping dead from the plague or sucking up too much lube or something"

[Thing2_1723]

"We have achieved R.A.W.R."
"Excellent super superb auchgezeichnet awesome fantastic pie."

[Zerony31]

We call our head 'H' because his name is Hurlburt.

Me: "Oh great and glorious 'H'! Where is this magical item called a 'flashlight'?"

[RoseJ]

One of our mentors to one of the other students: "It looks like you lost an electron today!"
(When an electron is lost/gained the charge becomes positive/negative.)

Mentor: "What are you guys doing?"
Student 1: "We're building robots!"
Student 2 to Student 1: "It looks like you're eating cookies."

[Bethie42]

"Duct tape's not allowed! Fetch the zip-ties!"

"We don't have any push-pins....oh I'll just use old [team] buttons."

[FRC4ME]

When discussing whether or not to use CAN: "based on one bug report I don't think we should can the whole operation...err...let me rephrase that."

[BJC]

A: "In everything you do there's a right way, a wrong way, and the A-Team way which is the wrong way but faster."
B: "Actually, the A-Team way works pretty well for prototyping.."
A: "Touche!"

"My kingdom for the doodlebob!"

"That is a terrible idea.. let's do it!"

A: "I think we should be able to hang tubes on the bottom pegs."
B: "I think if you're hanging tubes on the bottom you're doin it wrong."

[BigBenSlade]

"Don't look at me.. It's mechanical issues, never programming"

[Brandon_L]

"That's what she said"

[Radical Pi]

New programming student: "How long does it usually take for the computer to shut down?"
Me: "Too long" *holds power button for 10 seconds*

[Zerony31]

'H': Shhh... He's sleeping. Get me the yardstick.

[demosthenes2k8]

"Wait, how has our code been WORKING for the last couple of years?"

B: "OK, found a laptop."
A: "Whose is that?"
B: "The team's."
A: "Wait, what? When was that donated?"
C: "About two days ago."

"Pull like a dentist...push like a pregnant lady." (About mercurial)

"You have to do a capital $, because if you do a lowercase one it won't work."

[Zerony31]

Sean: -looks at my screen on Chiefdelphi and sees one of my quotes- Hey, who is Zerony31? Is she cute?
Me: That's me.
Sean: Oh.

[Zerony31]

-I was smoking pretzels like a cigar and I realized my mouse was missing-
Me: Where’s my mouse?!
Kyle: I dunno, maybe you smoked it.

We’re all ADUNHD (Attention Deficit Unless Near ‘H’ Disorder)
And they say that I’m ADOLCP (Attention Deficit Oh Look Command Prompt!)

[geek4life]

Daniel: “IT’S ALIIIIIIIIIVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!”
Ashley: “I really am a nice person, just not to you.”
Conversation: Ashley: “James! Stop smoking pretzels like a cigar!”
James: “But it’s fun! Wait… Where’d my mouse go!?”
Kyle: “Maybe you smoked it?”
Mr. Rick: “Okay, somebody get me a pretzel and a lighter, I need a smoke.”
Daniel: “James is ADOLCP… Attention deficits OHH Look, Command Prompt!

[plnyyanks]

"Awwwwwwww. They talk to each other"

regarding two other teammates

[basicxman]

I once brought an old 8" floppy into the lab.

Student: "Whoa...it's some sort of storage medium...some sort of disk...and it flops around...it's a...it's a...floppy disk!"
<older mentors laugh>

<holds up 5.5" floppy disk>
"You know what these are good for?"
<throws up floppy in air>
<gets stuck in ceiling>

It's still up there.

[Bsteckler]

"And now, it's time to learn the three rules of robotics: One, be safe. Two, have fun. Three, don't touch the mentors' food! :ahh: ".

"You're from New York, you can't complain about how cold it is!"

[BJT]

While discussing a way too heavy minibot one of our mentors said, This thing needs to be wheels, motors, a battery and a force field to hold it together.

[A Tech]

-fromt the other room- *SMASH!*
Our mentor:Is the robot okay?
member in room: yeah, thanks for worrying about me...

"Pizza, its whats for dinner... ... and lunch... .. .. and breakfast."

-me- *slams head onto desk*
rookie member: programming stumping you?
me: no its that time of day to slam your head around.
rookie member: oh. *slams his head onto he desk just as hard*

[Macdaddy549]

Don't let reality get in the way.

[hcps-maxwelltd]

"And now, it's time to learn the three rules of robotics: One, be safe. Two, have fun. Three, don't touch the mentors' food! :ahh: ".

"You're from New York, you can't complain about how cold it is!"

and four don't sit in Mr. Rick's Chair

[ras103]

When College mentors call freshman "minions!" :)

[sithmonkey13]

"It worked fine until I ran it into the wall."

[2bkrul]

*girls walk by and see me with the laptop and controls*
*robot moves*
girl 1: "omg who's driving the robot?!"
girl 2: "its moving by itself!"
Me: *laughing hysterically in the hallway while driving*
*robot crashes*

[fyrefrost]

"Everyone knows that if you put too much code on the left side you'll drive in circles!"

[Frenchie461]

Andre the Giant "we need to measure the coefficient of spininess"

[Ben_R_R]

Gems from the programming team:

A: "Are you planning on including monkeys tonight?"
B: "You don't plan for monkeys, they just happen."

----

B: "Are you claiming you know more than my web browser?!"

----

C: "As we know the only thing that can counteract monkeys are Velociraptors."

[Miriam]

"They've become one!"

[2bkrul]

Me about PSoC....

"Omg its a bubble level....and its a accelerometer....OMG WHEN YOU WAVE IT, IT CAN DISPLAY A MESSAGE!!!"

[demosthenes2k8]

Mentor A: "This printer's annoying. Its verbose mode is enabled by default!"
Mentor B: "So is yours!"

A: "When I was a freshman, you told me you were my daddy.
C (to Mentor B): "Do I look old enough to be a daddy?"
Mentor B: "Umm...WHAT?"

[Zerony31]

Me at lunch: "I throw my sandwich in the air sometimes, singing a-yo. Where's the mayo?"

[DFZXA]

Me talking to one of the builders, "The mecanum wheels are backwards you have to take every single one off now. You mad bro?"

[Stephen of REX]

The other night the programmers were trying to get the line following code to work. They had the robot up on blocks and were watching how the wheels reacted.

"Stephen why isn't it working?"
"The robot won't go because it is up on blocks, you need to let the wheels touch the ground for it to go anywhere."

(Cool part was they then loaded fresh code, put it on the floor, and it worked!)

[elysiadrake]

Invented last year...
I worked on the animation team with someone who had a very limited sense of humor- I could never get the guy to laugh.
Yet one day, as I was playing in 3ds max, I leaned back in my seat and screamed, "PARTICLE SYSTEMS!"
He laughed for at least half a minute. Mission accomplished.

[gyroscopeRaptor]

Our school has a large tiger statue at the entrance to the main building

JB: "Could we melt down the statue for parts? Nah, weighs more than 120..."

[Leeebowitz]

"Barnacle-faced barnacle."
Said by a team member designing the arm.

"Oh yeah, I remember now. They took apart our motor setup to make a raygun." *facepalm*

[Bethie42]

'We hate cables and pulleys: just like we always did....except more now....'
-Mentor, on being asked how the gripper-elevator is coming along

[Radical Pi]

While talking about designs for the Driver Station:

Me: "Well if we run out of I/O pins I could reprogram it to use 2 I/O boards
Person 1: "What would we do with that many inputs?"
Person 2: "Well we could have an array of buttons that make the robot drive to certain places on the field"
Person 3: "And we could use lighted buttons to show where we are!"
Person 1: "And then, we could turn it into a Pac-Man game at the end of the match!"

The brainstorming session just went downhill from there

[Us3rNam3]

Some electrical and programming quotes

"is it smoking? Better question is it supposed to smoke?:confused: "
"Hmmm why isn't it working the code worked last time...oh yeah we need to turn it on for it to do something...:rolleyes:"
"That was supposed to be forward...my bad:o"

[BJC]

"How many babies are you having over this!" - asked to a mentor after showing a completed part (it was pretty awesome). Babies is now a unit of awesomeness..

"Hey no showering in the bot cave!" -after making above part we were covered in plastic dust to the point that it looked like we had stood outside in a snowstorm for 15 minutes. Then someone got the bright idea to use the air hose to clean off. - ohhh that was fun.

Mentor A: Wow, that is Magnatoodlerific!
Student: What's that mean?
*Mentor B walks up*
Montor A: For example, he is a Magnatoodlerific mentor.
Montor B: I don't know what that means.. but I'm going to flex when you say it!

[Astarties]

This was said today, and it kind of worried me...
"Good news everyone, I got it out of my eye!"

[ttakashima]

So this is one of the conversations I had with my student.

her: Where is the robot Travis? Is it still at Mr. _____ class?
Me: What did you just say?!
her: Where is the robot?!?! I don't see it here!
Me: Why don't you look down and see what you're holding on to.
her: Oh crap! Forgot it was this! It looks like a table!

So apparently our robot looks like a table :( - Back to the drawing board!

[Sandvich]

..."autonomous period for fifteen minutes--"

"That's what she said!"

[2471ANNA]

" Hey where's my safety glasses " (PITS of Oregon Regionals, in front of safety judges)

[geek4life]

Quote of the day for progamming: "DEATH TO THE WATCHDOG!!!!"

[demosthenes2k8]

"This code shouldn't have been working!"
"I've been hearing that WAY too much recently."

"We just spent two hours on a problem that fixed itself?"

Several programmers, including me, started singing "Don't Unplug Me" by ALL CAPS today. It was fun, but not a quote. Just crazy.

[2471ANNA]

ITS WORKING OMG ITS WORKING
*snap*
oh... never mind


Henry: Hey Kelsey, hold my nuts :D

[xoxophyllis]

"Where's the scooter?" - Everyone who wants to ride the razor scooter but doesn't know who has it. (X
"Who's taking notes of the builders?" - Our team captain.
"Everyone, let's go eat!" - Whoever comes to the classroom and tells us to go eat dinner or lunch.
"Qwop." - The people who played the "qwop" game on http://foddy.net/ (X

[Thing2_1723]

"My physics is shiny!"

"Come look at the allen wrench drawer! It's all pretty!"

"We dented the robot..."
(It drove backwards in autonomous at 75% speed about five feet into a steel beam...) :o

[Karibou]

"You have to admit, the minibot flying off the pole was pretty friggin' cool. Really, too hip for words"

"Daddy needs an axle, children!"

[TutiFrutti112]

Everyone: Where is the pole? It was here a minute ago!

Me: *notices pole resting on table*

Everyone: *searches frantically*

Mentor: *picks up pole by table* Found it.

Students: I thought it was part of the table!

Me: I noticed it, but I thought it was too obvious so I didn't think it was the one you were looking for.

The room we were working in has a door that only opens from the inside, so when anyone wants to enter, someone has to open the door for him or her. When B and I (I being me, not the letter I) were heading back after a snack, the following scenario occurred.

B: The door is closing! Run!

Me: *takes running step, trips over own feet, nearly falls down steps*

B: I will never tell you to run again.

[Tetraman]

"Well if the mini-bot self-corrects and rides up without skipping a beat, why are we adding this slow deployment mechanism? Let's just chuck the dang thing!" -Me, to the rest of the mini-bot design team.

[Dawg2T4]

Alright, I have got a few good 'quotes'
Number 1:
Team Leader: "Why isn't there a J22 on the sidecar?"
Me: "Maybe that's why it isn't working right"
Mentor: "No crap thats why it's not working right, where the HELL is the J22?!"

Number 2:
"I see what you did there"

Number 3:
Kid A: "Stop fondling the manipulator!"
Kid B: "Yeah, we don't fondle your Jaguars!"

[fortinj1354]

"I think we may need more than 16 KB of free space on the netbook..."
"Hey! If we delete the temporary internet files, we get another 256 bytes!"

[Sandvich]

"Stay here, you're fun to ignore."

[kgzak]

"I'm not allowed to leave, eat, or sleep for 6 weeks" -mentor while talking on the phone with someone.

[nitneylion452]

"We have to biggen this hole."

[GilaMonsterAlex]

"It's not a good build day, unless there's some property damage."

-After unexpectedly running into the wall while test driving the robot.

[Bjenks548]

"I think Tim fell into the band saw..."

[J.Warsoff]

Me- "Guys, zipties can't solve everything."
Dan- "Yes they can."
Me- "Ok, how would they solve world hunger?"
Dan- "Feed them to poor people."
Jeff- "Or make ziptie and duct tape sandwiches."
Me- "......."

[Tony.Wu]

Mech Lead: I don't really care what you say or do right now. I'm just in the zone..

Software Student: I just fix all the problems you make right?
Software Lead: Yep..

:D

[rsegrest]

We have two this season, both by the same programmer...

During an interview for the local news the reporter asked him his name (Cody) and then asked him to spell it...his response (paired with deer-in-the-headlight eyes)
"C...o...d...e...y...wait...no e" - (we now call him Coday)
When the reporter said, "So tell me what it's like to build a robot" he said
"It's building a robot in six weeks...it's complicated" -- duh

Then this morning...a massive storm is rolling through our town and power is down in many places. He walks in the door and tells me that he used his night vision goggles to find his clothes...my response
"You didn't have a flashlight?"
His response (and I probably really should have expected it...)
"Who needs a flashlight when you have nightvision goggles?"

:D

[Andrew Schreiber]

When College mentors call freshman "minions!" :)
By freshmen do you mean in high school or in college? The looks on the college freshmen's faces are great.

"You have to admit, the minibot flying off the pole was pretty friggin' cool. Really, too hip for words"


Was it "dope"? (Gah, I couldn't resist... I will go to my corner of shame)

Me at a student: [Student] are those plates done yet?
Student: No, I'm measuring them so I cut them right and you don't yell at me for doing them wrong... again.
Me: Really? It looks like you are measuring them with your mouth.

(He was standing around talking for the last 20 minutes)

[Trent B]

Mentor: When you google 1.75" steel pole all that comes up are stripper poles.

[lucybugg101]

"We can tap that." Said by one of the mentors, talking about a steel plate thing (I'm not build, I don't know what it was called)

[Wildcat]

-Why is this wheel in the wheelbox?
-Its a wheel, thats where they go...

Mentor: When you google 1.75" steel pole all that comes up are stripper poles.

i tired that...its true...

[Dragon Princess]

"With all the days off because of snow storms it doesn't feel like build season" said by me last night when I was leaving at 8.
I think my teams lost at least a week so far from Early Dismissals and Snow days. The bad part is, theirs another Blizzard heading towards us now.
"Tomorrows game plan? We're going to sneak into school to finish the drive train."
Words never expected to be said by a group of high school students

[belgianwaffozz]

While I was rushing to fill out the registration for this website ...

*slams fist on table*

WHAT'S DEAN KAMEN'S FIRST NAME?!?!?!?!?
....
Wait ................

[demosthenes2k8]

"Yes, I DO think. Quite often, actually."
"Is that why you always have headaches?"

"If you're useful and you know it clap your hands!"
*silence*
"Awww..."

[Bill_B]

While I was rushing to fill out the registration for this website ...

*slams fist on table*

WHAT'S DEAN KAMEN'S FIRST NAME?!?!?!?!?
....
Wait ................

Let's see. There's the Dean of Students, the Dean of Admissions, The Dean of Engineering, and the Dean of Kamen? Sometimes known as the Denim Dean.

[toddlb]

"We will get done what we get done when we get it done," A mentor to me when I asked if they can get the control system done by the end of the day.

And do not forget the inappropriate, "I need a nut.":D

[PayneTrain]

"Hey, I found some really old safety credits while looking for battery clips."-Me
"Wow, you know what would be cool? If they worked like prize tickets."-A Senior
"Yeah. 50 gets you a Chinese finger trap, 100 gets you a Snickers Bar, 1000 gets you a Dean Kamen plush doll, and 5,000 gets you second place in safety at regionals."-Build Lead

[belgianwaffozz]

Let's see. There's the Dean of Students, the Dean of Admissions, The Dean of Engineering, and the Dean of Kamen? Sometimes known as the Denim Dean.

And my mentor just .. stared at me u___u

[Zholl]

Mentor: When you google 1.75" steel pole all that comes up are stripper poles.

i tired that...its true...

Just wanted to point out that while this is pretty much true, the first result on the second page is this thread. Go figure :p

[Grim Tuesday]

To me: "Should we make that a tapped hole"

Me: "Yeah, we should tap that"

*funny look from person passing by*

[Spirator]

Animation Mentor (while taking a photo): You can run, but you can't stop 25 frames per second!