"Quotes" that were said during build season [Archive] - Page 13

LightWaves1636

12-04-2011, 10:41

Our animation mentor is a mechanical engineer so he doubles up helping out with the robot.
Kind of a good example of the difference between how a mechanical engineer thinks and how a programmer thinks.

Animation Mentor: Darn it, I think I tied the sting on the wrong side of the window motor. Ah well, I can always untie and retie it when we figure out which direction the motor is rotating.

Programming Mentor: (points at the AM) No we don't! We can CHANGE it in the code!

Animation Mentor: well...(points back at PM) I don't care! I'm animation!

Kyoshirin

14-04-2011, 20:49

(I'm sorry about this long lead-up to the actual content. A thorough understanding of what you are about to hear is necessary for it to actually make sense)
About half of the people on our robotics team is an avid member of our schools table tennis club.
Today one of these multi-club members (MCM) was setting up a table, whose net-holder-bot was stripped at and around the length of the threads required to apply any force to the table.
Our club meets in the cafeteria. One of the other MCMs notices him walking toward the broken net-holder, holding three wrapped straws and two plastic knives.
MCM 1 looks MCM 2 in the eyes and says with a straight face:
"It's OK. I've got tools."

Kusha

14-04-2011, 21:19

"Our robot is now can-bus free"

jeleser

14-04-2011, 22:15

Not really during build season, but last week in class (our robotics team is run as a class for an elective credit), I was half asleep with a headache, and while organizing the tool chest:
R: *pulls out small box of random drill bits* This definitely needs to be organized.
Me: Yeah, just a bit.
R: Ha, I see what you did there...
Me: What? Oh, wait...

kendra21093

16-04-2011, 17:31

everyone: ‎"which one?" Alex, Alex, Andrew, Andrew, Andrew and Andrew
We have so many people w/ the same last name. Last year we resulted in calling all the matt's M1-M5 etc...

‎"LOOK! IT'S A PROGRAMMER!!" -M5
Everyone else: WHOA!
Programmers never show up except for max who is a senior.

"Okay, come to me if you need any... crap." -Patrick
He was intergrator xD

‎"do we have robot insurance?" - Andrew
This goes with the OUR ROBOT CAN FLY

‎"Patrick, You're in charge of ordering shits." - M5
Matt meant to say shirts...and he said shits

J93Wagner

16-04-2011, 18:20

Something I just remembered. Someone stuck a sticker on our robot saying: "Do not use as a flotation device."

And by the way, I DON'T know why it was stuck on there.

The Zevling

01-05-2011, 23:33

"Scoring a tube after deploying a minibot is the Gracious Professional equivalent to flipping the bird."

demosthenes2k8

02-05-2011, 20:55

"Congratulations to our FIRST team coming back from the championships in St. Louis." (We all applaud) "Remember, if you're not FIRST, you're last!" - Our pilot on the second plane back home.

Waiter: "Can I get your empty glasses?"
Me and several other people reach for our safety glasses in our pockets...

Barngirl425

03-05-2011, 21:13

Juliet: "I love him but he is being so awkward and everything"
Katelyn: "And that is how babies are brought into this world"

Announcer: If you have lost anything or found anything please report it to the pit admin
Me: My sanity?
Announcer: al except the following items mind, sanity and dignity
Audrey: its like he knows you
Me: me does

Programmer: Honestly my dignity is public property

Teacher: No getting hit by cars. Getting dead is a red card
Me: I dont see anything in the rules about it
Teacher: No getting dead! Getting dead is a permanent red card!

2495!
2495!
2495!
Plus shipping and handling

"nick is a female Hitler"

Mr. G: "What Mrs. G doesnt know is that my dancing is a male mating ritual"

Our safty captain spelled safety wrong so he is no longer safety captain he is safty captain and that lead to many quotes
"Safty captain save us!"
Safty FIRST!

Nate: "Im trying to stop it but it has a mind of its own! Its sensitive it has emotions too, love and rage!"
CJ: "That is two more emotions then nate has"
Ben: "nate has two emotions, sadness and hunger"

"Elegant? We are not going to put it in an evenging gown"

"Ahhh the mini bot is evil!"
"Napoleonic Complex"

Programmer: "Wait I understand the programming now!"

Mr. G "When people ask us how we build the robot we answer we pimp out our girls.
CJ: "Hormones and Duct tape"

Bjenks548

03-05-2011, 22:06

Our safty captain spelled safety wrong so he is no longer safety captain he is safty captain and that lead to many quotes
"Safty captain save us!"
Safty FIRST!

Due to a printing error, we no longer have a safety captain either... We have CAPTAIN SAFETY!

Dumper FTW 435

12-05-2011, 13:01

Rookie: Maybe we should paint our robot next year?
Veteran: No. It would just wash off during the water game.

:)

Kimmeh

12-05-2011, 13:17

Student: "If it's possible maybe we could..."
Chad: "Everything is possible. Just depends on how much it costs and how much physics you have to apply..."

FRC4ME

02-06-2011, 19:49

"Something worked...I think."

Borobo

02-06-2011, 23:29

not from our team, but at denver regionals, I was looking at someone's robot (don't remember whose) and one of the kids in the pit sat up crosslegged and said to his teammates "look guys I'm a scissor lift"

FRC4ME

03-06-2011, 13:04

Mentor: "Now we need to make an if statement."
Programmer: "What do the curly brackets do?"
Mentor: "They define the beginning and end of the ifness."

Bethie42

03-06-2011, 23:05

Juliet: "I love him but he is being so awkward and everything"
Our safty captain spelled safety wrong so he is no longer safety captain he is safty captain and that lead to many quotes
"Safty captain save us!"
Safty FIRST!

!! You too! This is awesome....last year I wound up going to Championships with another team as their videographer, so I sort of now have two teams' worth of history and jokes. On my first day with the team I was informed that I must now call safety glasses 'safty glasses': apparently someone misspelled 'safety' on a box of safety glasses and it stuck. I'm attempting to introduce the concept to my own team.... :D

demosthenes2k8

03-06-2011, 23:46

From several mentors, to all of us seniors: "You're alumni now! Assign it to a student!" (We had our end-of-year awards ceremony on Tuesday...)

Several members (and alumni, I guess :| ) : "WE MADE IT TO EINSTEIN!" (We were unrolling one of the carpets to set up for MAYHEM in Merrimack tomorrow, and it was covered in confetti and came directly from St. Louis.)

Me, to a teammate: "You're an enabler." (His Zune is controlling the speakers during setup, and he has an entire Queen playlist.)

torihoelscher

04-06-2011, 01:07

"Lets do the fork in the garbage disposal"

and

"The nice sweet smell of burning motors"

torihoelscher

04-06-2011, 01:14

sigh, so many times from our mechanical sub-team:

"that's what she said"

Thats everyday at my high school. The engineering+robotics kids are the worst and it is HILARIOUS. lol

"That is not going to fit" (when talking about a screwdriver with a screw) then they reply "thats what she said"

So........everyday! lol

lemiant

04-06-2011, 01:20

!! You too! This is awesome....last year I wound up going to Championships with another team as their videographer, so I sort of now have two teams' worth of history and jokes. On my first day with the team I was informed that I must now call safety glasses 'safty glasses': apparently someone misspelled 'safety' on a box of safety glasses and it stuck. I'm attempting to introduce the concept to my own team.... :D

Us too, Some accidentally made a safty FIRST button 6 years ago and it stuck.

Nomadic Mentor

04-06-2011, 06:12

Me talking with another mentor
"The regional isn't complete until someone ask for some strippers at pit admin"
"It worked on the first try with nothing imploding.....we obviously made a mistake somewhere"

FRC4ME

04-06-2011, 17:10

Thats everyday at my high school. The engineering+robotics kids are the worst and it is HILARIOUS. lol

"That is not going to fit" (when talking about a screwdriver with a screw) then they reply "thats what she said"

So........everyday! lol

Me: <explains to a group of programmers what we're doing next>
Student 1: "So, what are we doing?"
Student 2: "We're coming with Josh."
Me, very frustrated: "No, it's not time to come yet!"
Female student: "That's what she said?"

I was unable to recover any semblance of authority for the remainder of the day.

dag0620

04-06-2011, 17:39

Several members (and alumni, I guess D:): "WE MADE IT TO EINSTEIN!" (We were unrolling one of the carpets to set up for MAYHEM in Merrimack tomorrow, and it was covered in confetti and came directly from St. Louis.)

)

I gotta say that is pretty darn cool from the pictures I've seen of it.

demosthenes2k8

01-08-2011, 20:25

I'm raising this thread back from the dead in hopes that it will provide entertainment during the "off"season.

Also, a certain friend of mine who will remain totally anonymous (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/member.php?u=24443) said this about the college we're entering: "Do you think that there are enough FIRSTers at RIT to get a movement for brown and orange alliances instead of red and blue ones?"

~Cory~

01-08-2011, 22:00

I just said:

"No worries, this thread will never die"

MishraArtificer

02-08-2011, 00:37

I just said:

"No worries, this thread will never die"Here's a good one...

I've been following this thread from the beginning...and I can't believe it's still around.

I think the cockroach has finally met it's match.

Audrey Chu

05-08-2011, 13:46

Has any team ever rejected in the history of FRC?

I am told that once, many years ago, our sleep deprived team representative actually said "Team 1160 rejects!" followed by the head mentor yelling "RESPECTFULLY DECLINES" from the viewing area by the playing field.

216Robochick288

09-08-2011, 19:10

This week we have a RoboDawG camp going, and we were working with a simple claw, but we were at a loss as to how to power it. My coach walked over after seeing us argue for a good 20 minutes and said, "So what are your ideas?"

We listed them off and He said, "You know, since you guys are now seniors, we haven't had any experience with belt drives. We have done nothing with them since before your freshman year. Seeings as it is summer and you don't have any time constraints...." and he walked away.

My friend turned to me and said with a bit of annoyance in her voice "Gosh, I hate when they do that."

"Do what?"

"Challenge you indirectly. It makes you want to figure it out just to prove them wrong..."

"So... We are working on a belt drive?"

demosthenes2k8

09-08-2011, 20:50

"You're still here?" - one mentor after seeing me show up at a summer training
EDIT He was teasing, of course!

"Notice that the SOFTWARE guy made some of the nicest welds." - I forget who, but it was funny to see.

nikdude

10-08-2011, 03:49

Gosh do I have a long list of them.
A mixture of both the teams I have participated in. There was a lot of stupid remarks made to keep the mood happy and joy full, some things were plain out stupid but that's why we loved eachother :D

"No Nik, using the hack saw won't solve our issues."
"No Nik hitting it with a hammer doesn't solve our issues."
"No Nik, we can't make it self destruct if we lose."

Mentor: Clean up time!
Nik: See ya!'
Everyone: GET BACK HERE!

"It's not tightening! How do I fix it!...."
"Turn it the other way.."

"We can put solar panels on our robot to make it a green robot."
-_- "We are in doors...."

*Fellow student bugs another working student during the end of our build season, last night, with questions that are unbearable.*
*The working student looks at the other sighing*
"Look I need a metric crescent wrench..."
*The student looks for 30 minutes to find that said wrench, working student, wins*

"Nooo, that's not a good idea to put one motor on the drive train..."

"If we cut holes in the bag n' tag bag, where the wheels are, is that allowed? we need to test it" -_-

"Chainnnnnnz" (inside joke)

"You were cut! Wipe the blood on the robot, you'll bless it and give it good luck!"

"It moves!!...nevermind."

Me: I need to know how a lift works.
Fellow member: With motors and chains.
Me: well thanks for that, that almost answered 1/16th of my question.

"Let Nik and Tj use their truck to take the robot to competition."
Everyone: NOOOO!
*Happened anyways*

*Walking through homedepot*
Mentor: We need wire caps
*Nik picks up a sledge hammer*
Mentor: No Nik..

B: I need my welding mask!
*G comes over and covers B's eyes*
B: Perfect

Nik: In theory this shoul-
Fellow Student: To you everything's a theory.
Nik: Mhmmmm

FRC4ME

11-08-2011, 13:57

"Why is the UPS beeping?"
"I don't know; it must be busted."
"Hope we don't have a power outage."

<later>

"Now it's beeping much louder and more frequently."
"That thing probably hasn't worked in years."
"I'll order a new one."

<ten seconds later, computer shuts down>

"Hey look, the UPS wasn't plugged in."
"Aww...it was trying as hard as it could to warn us, and we just assumed it was broken and didn't listen, when in reality it was just faithfully doing its job."

:(

purpleandplasma

15-08-2011, 13:47

mentor to head programmer after we made a third of the build room the "programming empire" full on computers:

"now if that robot doesnt work for just ONE match at competition, this thing is gone. I dont care why it doesnt work, but you should be able to make it work."

later to us build kids

"make sure the robot doesnt work on match one of practice day..."

:yikes:

purpleandplasma

15-08-2011, 13:54

Thats everyday at my high school. The engineering+robotics kids are the worst and it is HILARIOUS. lol

"That is not going to fit" (when talking about a screwdriver with a screw) then they reply "thats what she said"

So........everyday! lol

there is no way to be on the build team and not crack those jokes! when you don't, you know you are either a) behind b)so tired you shouldnt be oporating the machinary or c) someone annoying said it....

anyways, even me, a girl, cracks them ;) it makes the build day... more... interesting

RayTurner1126

16-08-2011, 18:42

"the robot will be ready for driver practice within the hour"

"we're close" (said by software...)

plnyyanks

17-09-2011, 12:38

Building stuff is not important. Controls is the essence of robotics

Quote of my life...

LovablePsycho

06-10-2011, 15:46

Yes, our team did it last year. Fortunately, we were in the top 8.

LovablePsycho

06-10-2011, 15:48

Has any team ever rejected in the history of FRC?
Yes, our team did it last year. Fortunately, we were in the top 8, so we still got into the end rounds.

Robert Voorhis

15-10-2011, 00:56

Things that happen on a daily basis in robotics :D
"Its the programmers fault nuf said"

"Its supposed to be that way"

" if we add up all my mistakes and compare them to yours ill find that you will be silent with the criticism."
E
verybody other then me:"Robert Put your shoes on!"

" all you need is some sand paper a drill and a metal pole and you got your self a wicked hand warmer"

Mr. Blake: "Lemme tell you when i was your age"

"Lets see what happens when I...Ahhhh"

J93Wagner

11-11-2011, 23:17

The last post was made on 10/14... Resurrection time!

Related to the 11/11/11 shenanigans today.

"10/10/10 should have been binary day, but no one ever celebrated it."
"I wonder what that is in base ten. Oh god. 101010 in binary converted to base 10 is 42."

Mind = Blown.

MagiChau

11-11-2011, 23:30

J93Wagner

11-11-2011, 23:37

I swore 42 day was celebrated last year by many people.

Certainly not by anyone on our team.

PAR_WIG1350

12-11-2011, 00:35

I swore 42 day was celebrated last year by many people.

Today is 63 day :O

Yes, they did to a degree; that was the day Ubuntu 10.10.10 was released, and it was chosen for that reason.

Astechz_Nick

13-11-2011, 11:22

Mentor: " You will not be spending Family Day with your family"
Me: "You'll be spending it with your robotic's family"
* Family Day is a holiday in Ontario that lands on the last day of build season

Andrew Lawrence

13-11-2011, 12:23

New student 1: "So what would we do if we are blocked in this position"?

New student 2: "I don't know....I think we may have a weakness people can use against us"!

Me: "Or, you know, we could just drive backwards".

New student 1: "WAIT! We can do that!?"

New student 2: "We must tell the world about this!"

Funniest day if my life.

sithmonkey13

13-11-2011, 19:23

FRC4ME

14-11-2011, 22:11

During our closet cleaning day:
Me: "When you finish vacuuming the floor, can you go out an vacuum off my chassis?... Wait, that sounded dirty, but could you do it anyway?"
Other team member: "Make sure that makes it to Chief Delphi"

If "vacuum off my chassis" is a double entendre then I give up on teenage communication. :p

"Oh crumb. I forgot my doohickey bugger."
"That's not necessarily necessary."
"I understand their point. I mean, I'm not going to use their point, but I understand it."
-339 programming mentor

J93Wagner

14-11-2011, 22:54

Neil deGrasse Tyson did an AMA (ask me anything) on Reddit recently. There was quite a bit of gold in there.

Q: "What is your favorite short science fact you like to tell people to really make them think?"

A: "That our bodies atoms are traceable to supernova stars that scattered their chemical enrichment across the cosmos, spawning the birth of star systems that contain planets, at least one of them containing life."

Q: "What never fails to blow your mind in physics?"

A: "1) The fact that an electron has no known size -- it's smaller than the smallest measurement we have ever made of anything.

2) That Quarks come only in pairs: If you try to separate two of them, the energy you sink into the system to accomplish this feat is exactly the energy to spontaneously create two more quarks - one to partner with each of those you pulled apart.

3) That the space-time structure inside a rotating black hole does not preclude the existence of an entire other universe.

MindBlown x 3"

Q: "If you could add one course to a student's curriculum, what would it be?"

A: "Course title every university should offer: "How to tell when someone else is full of !@#$.""

Q: "Can we inspire more kids to pursue space-related science and research? If so, how?"

A: "Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. The beat the curiosity out of the kids. They out-number kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults."

Q: "What do you think it will take for the US to seriously reinvest in the space program?"

A: "A foreign threat. That seems to be the only thing around that motivates bickering political parties to act in harmony."

The original post on Reddit (I highly suggest you take a look): http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mateq/i_am_neil_degrasse_tyson_ama/

EDIT: It looks like this thread isn't so dead anymore! :D

linuxboy

15-11-2011, 09:36

"I thought that was a capacitor, not an LED"... The "LED" proceeds to smoke and fall off.

nssheepster

15-11-2011, 10:03

There's a guy on my team, and the summer before the season started, he got hit by a car. A month or so after he healed, he got hit again. When we went to Cleaveland, he was fine, but every time we'd cross the street, whoever was in trouble was told, "Go stand next to the car magnet." That was his new nickname, the car magnet.

nssheepster

15-11-2011, 10:08

"Ninja skills? I don't have ninja skills, I got mad fu skills!"
"Fu skills? What the heck are those?"
"I don't know, but it beats the heck out of your "skittles"."

Postneccesity explanation: Fu skills -> Fu -> Kung Fu -> Ninja skills.
Yeah, it was a bad joke. Sadder still is we really sad it. Nerds to the end.

Ankit S.

14-12-2011, 21:42

"I CAD, therefore I am."

For those of you who are taking/have taken AP European History, this may sound familiar :D

Andrew Lawrence

14-12-2011, 22:07

At freshman robotics meet #1:

Me: Alright everyone, now that you've watched the game video (2011), draw out ideas of what robots you think would be the best.

*Freshman get into groups and draw around 20 ideas*

Me: (Looking over the papers) Huh. I see. Does anyone know what's wrong with every single one of these pictures?

Freshman: What?
Me: There's no drivetrain. None of these have wheels

Best part!

One excited freshman: WHAT?! You never said the robots had to move! :yikes:

mdiradoorian

17-12-2011, 17:37

"But it worked in Inventor!" :(

bardd

18-12-2011, 04:00

"The robot is too heavy!!! We can't pass inspection!!!"
"Don't worry guys, we'll fix it in software"

TACG

18-12-2011, 16:32

Well, this year my team is gonna bring back "psych!"

MechEng83

21-12-2011, 23:08

Me: "... True stress is actually something called a tensor."
Former Student: "True stress is actually what you go through during build season."

Radical Pi

21-12-2011, 23:48

In the meeting discussing how to deal with our robot being overweight

Me: "It's okay guys, I've got about 30 #s in the code that I can strip out"

Andrew Lawrence

30-12-2011, 15:14

Me at the doctors office, having a physical

Doctor (who used to be in FRC): Ok Andrew, let's make this quick. Everything looks good, but now by procedure I have to ask you: Are you doing any drugs?

Me: Well, I've been on Chief Delphi a lot lately...

Doctor: I'm sorry son. There is no cure. :)

Nick LaPosta

08-01-2012, 00:03

After kickoff this year some of our team went to lunch at a diner. Most of it was uneventful... until one of our graduate mentors ordered.

Backstory: He is muslim and was curious to know what the deal was about bacon. This will forever me called...

"THE BACON EXPERIENCE"

Waitress - What would you like?
Mentor - Delix Breakfast please.(Comes with 3 pancakes, eggs a choice of meat and toast)

Waitress - How would you like your eggs?
Mentor - BACON!
...um scrambled?

Waitress - What kind of meat?
Mentor - BACON!

Waitress - What kind of toast?
Mentor - Umm... toasty toast?
Student - Just get him white.
Mentor - WHEAT!

"END OF THE BACON EXPERIENCE"

gyroscopeRaptor

08-01-2012, 00:07

"I hang out with nerds." - A new student whose friends made her join. She loves it!

And my personal catchphase, "Challenge Accepted."

G33K

08-01-2012, 01:27

Whenever there's a problem or question, we usually offer one of two solutions:
A. Science
B. Magnets
:D

dag0620

09-01-2012, 14:38

‎" We need to define exactly what bada** means " - Mr. VanFleet during our strategy meeting. :yikes:

jkato

09-01-2012, 16:46

"What on earth are you doing?"
"Looking up pokemon stats on bulb--"
"No! No! We're not doing that anymore!!"
"awww...."

There's one on every team.

BlueNova

09-01-2012, 17:00

Read my signature

Zuelu562

09-01-2012, 20:39

While a quote, it is also a great set of last words in FRC.

"Well we're going to start working. Should take us 2 hours."

Started working on our Kitbot Chassis. Took about 5 because we didn't realize that the wheels in the kit were smaller than last year! :ahh:

R3P0

12-01-2012, 12:00

Just for fun the last thing I said before I went to bed last night. "time to go dream me a robot"!

kws4000

12-01-2012, 17:51

"It's useful when you know exactly where the (motor spec) PDF is, but knowing exactly where the 'PtB' is is more useful."

Dunno where PtB comes from? Same place where minibears roam free.

onecoolc

12-01-2012, 18:35

"...then the Nazi's bombed them with counterfeit money..."
"Weren't we talking about a ball launcher system?"

krudeboy51

12-01-2012, 19:25

"The machine took it""

"Apparently Itouch battery's are soft"

"I wonder what will happen when I put a magnet next to a computer?"

"WHAT WAS THAT SOUND?!?!?!?!?"

Tetraman

12-01-2012, 19:32

"In the next 5 years, the GDC will intermingle this 2012 game with the mechanics of 2009's game and it shall be called Space Jam."

Cody Michl 2811

14-01-2012, 14:50

Alright, so another team member and I are doing a CAD drawing, and I notice that every time that we say a pronoun, it's "we" rather than "I."

Me: "You know, I might be saying "we" now, but as soon as something goes wrong, it turns into "you."

Brianna

14-01-2012, 15:25

other student: "...I don't agree with it."
me: "You're not even on chairman's!"
other student: "I'm the subteam lead."

"Let's weld the wheels to the frame."

"...I took an arrow to the knee..." - Skyrim reference used daily

PayneTrain

14-01-2012, 23:29

"Without sensors, the robot has no clue of its place in the universe."
"So you're saying the robot could have an existential crisis?"

Jimmyk

14-01-2012, 23:39

"And then magic happens"
What one of the mentors when we where designing the mechanism that moves balls from intake to shooter.

J93Wagner

14-01-2012, 23:40

This actually happened awhile earlier while talking about something in Civil Engineering and Architecture

Mr. Schuff said, "Uh... 42"

I reply, "Hey it's the ultimate answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything!" while holding up my leather bound copy of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

He replies, "I think we have just reached Nerdvana."

axel_grease

15-01-2012, 04:49

"That would work if the laws of physics didn't apply."

eedoga

15-01-2012, 08:00

We got to the point yesterday when someone said:

"We could just show up with last years robot and then start yelling at each other about who was supposed to invent the time machine."

Wayne Doenges

15-01-2012, 08:34

Heard from a student while hooking up a motor. "Is it bad if it sparks?"

Tetraman

15-01-2012, 08:46

"I wonder if anyone actually reads the 'Quotes that were said during build season' thread."

Walter Deitzler

15-01-2012, 09:21

"Don't cover your ears when you're working with power tools."

Kimmeh

15-01-2012, 11:43

"I wonder if anyone actually reads the 'Quotes that were said during build season' thread."

Yes. At least I do. Makes me feel better knowing that other teams are as, uhh, special as mine is.

Me while talking to our lead about a part he wants that is both currently out of our budget and sold out.

Chad: I wonder how to get two of these...
me: The Easter Bunny.
Chad: I was thinking wish upon a falling star. lol
me: ...Does your son have any loose teeth?
We can nab the tooth fairy so we can get in touch with the rest of the magical holiday beings...

Xeneria

15-01-2012, 11:47

"It's not a failure; it's just a reference of what we shouldn't do next time." - Mentor when a ball capture mechanism repels a ball instead of obtaining it.

onecoolc

16-01-2012, 12:47

About a CAD design:
"You don't have any fasteners, how is that held in place?"
"Hope."

mdiradoorian

16-01-2012, 12:54

While building robot:

"But it worked in inventor."

onecoolc

16-01-2012, 13:25

Building a prototype:
"Does anyone have some of that magical Solid Works glue? I could really use some right about now..."

Brandon_L

16-01-2012, 22:59

Our school blocks just about everything on the internet, so I had to take a student to my house to install updates on the classmate. On the way back...

"I wonder if there is a law against driving while installing labview?"

Andrew Lawrence

16-01-2012, 23:04

A freshman talking to our lead mentor. Note that said freshman drove our robot ON our minibot pole during off-season practice.

Freshman: So why do we let everyone drive in the offseason, but only have 2 drivers in the competition season?

Mentor: (jokingly) The school pays us every fall to test the people on the robotics team as to how well they can drive, and then uses that information to decide if they can get a driver's license or not.

Freshman: ....

Duncan Macdonald

17-01-2012, 19:59

Did you hear about Mr. Wood's credit card? It was flagged for fraud due to too many AndyMark orders.

plnyyanks

17-01-2012, 20:03

"I feel like there's an angry porcupine crawling around in my head"

"Just another case of ÜberFlu..."

holygrail

17-01-2012, 20:11

Did you hear about Mr. Wood's credit card? It was flagged for fraud due to too many AndyMark orders.

I don't believe it. I got a call from fraud detection yesterday too. It's a "Mr. Wood" conspiracy.

Best quote of today: "Don't get the robot parts in you." Said by a freshman while speculating about the health effects of eating robot parts.

I LOVE ROBOTS!

17-01-2012, 20:41

The Elevator Elevator... you know, the thing that elevates our elevator to full height.

crimsonjake

17-01-2012, 21:12

"Well we could spend our sponsorship money on hiring a NBA player to just shoot from the ball from across the field..."

ApollosAnarchy

17-01-2012, 21:52

"If I was a ball..."
"Are you high?"

Zuelu562

17-01-2012, 21:54

"Well if it went 10 feet with only 1 belt, 3 belts should make it go 30 feet, right?"

Famous last words.

Seymour is?

20-01-2012, 01:22

"FIRST Robotics is the most glorious thing in the world aside from Mountain Dew."

mathgeek0001

20-01-2012, 03:09

"Get some sleep."

"But it WON'T constrain!"

trees

20-01-2012, 07:27

"WHAT THE HELL?? WHO ATTATCHED A HAMMER TO A MOTOR???"

after our teams attempt to make an auto-hammer like in the simpsons

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2008/11/medium_homer_electric_hammer111308.flv.jpg

The_Pratt1448

20-01-2012, 10:50

"WHERE IS THE NUT BUCKET!?"

dellagd

20-01-2012, 16:15

"Well we could spend our sponsorship money on hiring a NBA player to just shoot from the ball from across the field..."

+1

While trying to use the vision assistant, it threw an error at us, error code "-20001" Having fixed that, we then got something like error code 25. another team member said "Oh good, we have a positive error now" I replied "How could an error be a good thing?" when he said "No, I just mean its a positive error code. Must be better than -20001!"

Also:

"Watcha doin?" Which must always be followed by "Breakin stuff" or the answer is incorrect.

Also:

Question: "How do I install a CIM motor?" Answer: "Yes"

dellagd

20-01-2012, 16:16

"Get some sleep."

"But it WON'T constrain!"

Hey! I've been there before! (and it IS VERY frustrating!)

mayde

20-01-2012, 16:42

Me: "But what does it shoot?"
Everett: "Just about anything you can fit in there."
Brandon: "It should shoot lemons."
Everett: ".... combustible lemons......
.... BRANDON! YOU'RE A GENIUS!"

Alex270

21-01-2012, 21:32

Andrew: "We're going to replace the driver's station."

Stephan: "Oh, so we're going to replace the playmate?"

Needless to say, this is now written on poster paper and hanging in our build site...

FRC4ME

23-01-2012, 13:54

"Arm operator is the boss."
"What about the field coach?"
"Field coach is the uberboss."

From scouting forms:
"Uber tuber." (2007)
"Excellent ballability." (2008)
"Packs quite a punch." (2008, on 619's boxing gloves)

DaBears

23-01-2012, 16:47

This literally JUST HAPPEND
"Wow, the people on this forum are really sad."
-Me
I love you <3

Brandon Zalinsky

24-01-2012, 10:37

"That thing could have blown up in your face!"
"You'd be dead!"

-Students from 1058 after we discovered that the tread was seperating from the wheel by 1/4" on our prototype pitching machine type shooter (it was spinning at 3000 rpm)

I guess that's why we have safety glasses... ::safety::

smileydude560

25-01-2012, 23:45

Said by our CAD mentor when we discovered that our bolt heads on our spockets were .01 inches away from our other wheels:
"As the limit of bolt heads distance to wheels approaches zero, the robot stops working."

moonlight

27-01-2012, 16:05

Yes. At least I do. Makes me feel better knowing that other teams are as, uhh, special as mine is.

Me while talking to our lead about a part he wants that is both currently out of our budget and sold out.

Chad: I wonder how to get two of these...
me: The Easter Bunny.
Chad: I was thinking wish upon a falling star. lol
me: ...Does your son have any loose teeth?
We can nab the tooth fairy so we can get in touch with the rest of the magical holiday beings...

i totally agree ;) it's amazing to me to see how similar teams can be even though they can be totally different at the same time. My mentors taught me that "the impossible only takes a little longer"

KellieP

27-01-2012, 16:25

The best quote was from one of Mrs.Daisy Team 341 Team

We had an explosion today. Don't worry nobody was hurt....well seriously.

mathgeek0001

27-01-2012, 16:26

[on a late night of 3d modeling and camera debugging]
"My brain is a potato."

onecoolc

27-01-2012, 18:37

"Spare parts scare off robot problems. If you have a spare part, you will never have to use it."

- Sal (Coach & Head Mentor)

CW3BBY

27-01-2012, 19:05

Freshman Antonio Quotes

Antonio: Won't Robotics hurt my social life?
Veteran Member: What social life?

Antonio: can we make a ballista?
me: No

Antonio: Can we make a sniper rifle type robot?
me: No

Antonio: Chris come look at the battle hammer I just welded!
Everyone: what?!?

Joey Milia

27-01-2012, 19:09

(speaking of this years gearbox plates)
Tony-"They're tall and narrow, isn't that how you like your women?"

Grey- "First off, I like my women with more curves than that, second, what's the radii on those cheese holes?"

kylelanman

28-01-2012, 09:09

(Student) - "I know labview".
[5 minutes later]
(Student) - "I just like dragging crap around. I don't really know how to wire it together."
[1 minute later]
(Mentor) - "We are over here programming and your crap dragging."

While showing a student how to use LabView for the sake of customizing the driver station dash board.
(Student) - "Wow, This is really visual"

Nicole175

28-01-2012, 09:22

Brandon: "Dance in the rain with me"
Jamie: "Only if you take your shirt off first"

keep in mind that both of these students are male.....
It was funny at the time.

PayneTrain

28-01-2012, 10:41

"What method are you all using to program the robot?"
"Smoke and mirrors. And LEDs."

V_Chip

28-01-2012, 11:06

Head Mentress:
"It looks bigger than last time."

Earl:
(After arguing a design point with heavy resistance from his opposition).
"It's not my fault I'm perfect."

J3250

28-01-2012, 12:45

"There's only one way to find out"
"Eat first, Taste later"

enrique

28-01-2012, 13:27

it's negligible

ThirteenOfTwo

29-01-2012, 01:17

While explaining the dynamics of a drive crew to a rookie driver:

"Think of it like this. You're Luke Skywalker, and the field coach is your targeting computer. Now, you can turn off the targeting computer... but if you do, you had better blow up the Death Star."

Whippet

29-01-2012, 01:57

Me: What does this robot look like to you guys?
Mark: OOH! OBAMA! OBAMA! OBAMA!
Me: Actually, it's a bunch of PVC mounted to our frame to be a support structur for arm.
Mark: He turned white!
(Mark had just gotten back from a five-minute break and only heard the "look like to you guys" part)

And, in case you're wondering, no, his real name is not Mark. ;)

Samk

29-01-2012, 21:44

Whenever we work on the robot after the the electronics are mounted, we always put a sheet on top of them to avoid metal shavings going into them. This sheet didn't help too much when we were working on the arm and i dropped my wrench really close to the jaguar, hence the new favorite phrase of the build team "there go the jaguars" - the programmers really love this one

CalTran

29-01-2012, 21:49

We are getting two robots moving today and nobody is leaving until we do. If your parents start coming at 4:00, I will lock the door. The only way you're getting out of here without my consent is by the SWAT Team.

^Said by our head mentor during a Saturday meeting.

mayde

31-01-2012, 23:25

Me: Guys, it's time to leave. Even Sal (Coach) has left.

E(mentor/alumni): It's okay, he wanted us to say. he even gave us a key.

B(head programmer): Yeah, we have to finish what we're doing. It'll only take us a second.

Me: So is that a real second or a programmer second?

N(senior): Programmer!

D(freshman): So it'll be about three or four hours..

*All people involved are programmers other than me. :deadhorse:

onecoolc

31-01-2012, 23:29

"I don't know what that file was, but I just deleted it."

evoluti1

01-02-2012, 00:18

"This is pretty cool... So did we match up the pitch and pressure angles for these gears or do they just fit by coincidence?"
"I'm guessing coincidence."

Whippet

01-02-2012, 00:20

Freshman: "Hey guys... Did we need that big black motor?"
Me: "Yeah, why?"
Freshman: "It isn't moving anymore."
Mentor: "What did you do?"
Freshman: "Let's just say that you shouldn't ever connect one directly to the battery to see if it works."
All else: *Facepalm*
Freshman: "At least it wasn't the cRIO..."

Dumper FTW 435

01-02-2012, 08:28

"Motors are like a fine wine, They get better over time"
"And like a fine wine, they shouldn't get mixed with water"

fiona.crush1011

02-02-2012, 00:33

*goes to shoot basket and completely misses*
"This is why I build robots!" -Joe

*members of our team attempting to shoot hoops*
Lead Mentor: *laughs* A lot of you should not be playing basketball

thatoneguy23

02-02-2012, 11:41

"Is it a bad thing if our robot smells like waffles and syrup?"

AlexJamesCross

02-02-2012, 13:37

"ohhh look at it spin"-me
"yeah thats not good"Bob the builder(team captin)
"aww so we cant have it spin"
"no"
and
(as krudeboy51 preppared to try driving the robot)
"I fear for my life as well as well as my shins"

ras103

02-02-2012, 18:12

"Because everyone knows mustache size is proportionate to seriousness!"

JaneYoung

02-02-2012, 21:43

"Turns out it wasn't a meteor. We were testing our basketball shooter and I guess it was too powerful." ~ Kevin St Laurent

(Regarding a meteor sighting in our fair city of Austin, Texas, last evening. Kevin's team is nowhere near Austin, Texas.)

mrlg220

02-02-2012, 23:10

We were working on minibot deployment last year when...

"oh, you didn't finish building it yet? I'll come back when you guys are done screwing."

For shielding from utter embarrassment his name shall not be mentioned ;)

ethen155

04-02-2012, 18:58

I used to be on a sports team... until I took a robot to the knee.

Brianna

04-02-2012, 19:11

Me: Hey, Do you watch My Little Pony?
Mentor: Yeah! You might as well ask who doesn't watch it, you would get less people answering that way.

Shop mentor: "He kept wandering around the shop whining about how he wanted a mountain dew so I figured I better bring some and some candy bars to keep him working and not wandering the halls whining."

Reanna

04-02-2012, 19:21

"Where are the strippers? Someone stole the strippers! I need the strippers!"

"I used to be a vegetarian.. Until build season"

genesisprobe

04-02-2012, 19:44

"It is not your work, it's the sub-system's work."

ANNOYING MENTORS!

Program Leader, "you don't wago with a screwdriver and you don't screwdrive with a wago."

"DON'T BLEED ON THE TILE! It's a PAIN to clean up!"

VirusFromMonroe

04-02-2012, 19:46

So we were polishing parts to be anodized, and while polishing the mecanum wheel plates, we had this little conversation.

Me "Hey, we should chrome plate these."
Second mentor(Middle aged) "They actually nickle plate nowadays."
Third mentor(young) "We should get spinners for them."

As the second mentor is walking out of the room:
"I'll get you some pinwheels from the dollar store."

We laughed for five minutes. :D

DoctorWhom93

04-02-2012, 21:09

"I didn't know the role of mentor included Ballast..."

One of our mentors was helping a student use the sheet metal cutter but the student didn't have enough weight to finish the cut and the mentor helped with that. His wife made this comment:D

Sandvich

06-02-2012, 17:28

"It is not your work, it's the sub-system's work."

ANNOYING MENTORS!

Including an "annoying" mentor who happens to be one of the most frequent and experienced members on this forum with 7,000 posts.

Good job.:rolleyes::D

HaleyMortensen

06-02-2012, 20:18

In reality, I'm a diglett.
HJ the Eagleslayer.
I can't believe it! * indian accent*
What are we going to do with all these lemurs and coffee?
In Soviet Russia, dog walk you.
I don't make friends, I make best friends.
Make it pie!
Go Lassie, make sure they're not in wells.
Imagine Hitler playing yahtzee.

HaleyMortensen

06-02-2012, 20:37

Add diglett or "lett" to the end of every word.
I'm gonna beat the shiglett out of you.
I don't give a diglett!
Hold my diglett, girl, hold my diglett.

Andrew Lawrence

06-02-2012, 20:44

New cheerer: "Go 265! Go 265!"

Mentor: "We're 256...."

New cheerer: "Sorry, I'm dyslexic at times..."

This was during an offseason... :|

MechEng83

07-02-2012, 15:14

Freshman: "Why did it break?"
Another Freshman: "Because we don't know what we're doing!"
Veteran Student: "This is why we can't have nice things."

Nirvash

07-02-2012, 15:42

*Mentor comes back after cutting a piece of polycarb for the electronics board*

Me, seeing the large chip in it: How did you manage that?

Mentor: I cut it

Me: How?

Mentor: The table saw

Me:...

The only tablesaw there is, is set up for cutting wood, with a wood blade.

Jakal1391

07-02-2012, 16:52

"I just coughed up my soul."

Bax2996

07-02-2012, 19:48

This one got posted on our website:
“Hey guys! Can I test this program on the…”
*Looks at the pile of wood*
“..oh, I guess not..”

militaryrobot

07-02-2012, 20:32

"Wanna help me clean my shaft":ahh:

onecoolc

07-02-2012, 20:34

Not necessarily funny, but a good quote, I think:

"No magic parts - I don't care if you make it out of toothpicks and Popsicle sticks, but it has to be made out of something. Don't CAD something we can't make."

PayneTrain

07-02-2012, 22:54

"Guys, I think we're overweight."

"Ok..." *removes electronics board* "We're good now."

xhawaii808

07-02-2012, 23:46

"We're not here to have fun.... WE'RE HERE TO ROBOT!"
"your a noob"
"Now that was perfect now make it better"

onecoolc

08-02-2012, 00:31

"We threw the ball!"
"Yeah, and the belt, too."

jyh947

08-02-2012, 00:37

Is the robot too heavy? Remove some code!

vinnie

08-02-2012, 11:18

"It's like a circle, but it's a square..." - freshman in reference to APCS GridWorld

Bax2996

08-02-2012, 19:50

"FIRST spirit? Oh, you mean the force?"

krazyman1013

08-02-2012, 19:54

"Yo where the heck did MJ go?"

"Look in the wall."

"Where's our princess?"

krazyman1013

08-02-2012, 20:02

"Where's the battery?" A rookie said this while looking at the battery cart.

fortinj1354

08-02-2012, 21:55

Student:*Redoing heat shrink on a battery connector. Finishes, sets down heat gun, unplugs.*

Mentor: *Walks up looking for something* "Ah! There it is!" *Reaches walks over and reaches for heat gun while talking* "What were you just working S*#T! *Throws heat gun down, from holding the metal end*

Student: "I think you know"

Wildcats1378

08-02-2012, 22:30

When refering to a threaded rod "can you hand me the spinny on a stick?"

gyroscopeRaptor

08-02-2012, 22:44

"In AD 2012 robot was beginning"

onecoolc

09-02-2012, 19:28

While holding the video camera:
"Oooh! It's smoking!" *presses record*

Bax2996

10-02-2012, 19:59

"are you supposed to be making a spikey point thing that defies physics?"

CalTran

10-02-2012, 21:59

"That's what the laws of physics dictate - however, that is certainly not what our robot dictates." Said when we were demonstrating our 2010 robot, and with a broken kicker, our mentor asking if we can just ram the ball and then the ball "shoots" itself out. Somehow, Newton's third law failed us and the ball just stuck to our frame...

Walter Deitzler

11-02-2012, 12:01

While my friend is cutting down a piece for the front of our robot:

Friend: So why are we doing this again?
Me: The rules say that there can be nothing outside of the frame perimeter at the beginning of the match
Friend: I am just going to imagine that I am cutting into the rules bit by bit...

gyroscopeRaptor

11-02-2012, 17:57

Our robot was just being assembled and we were verifying the colors of the jags with software so we don't grind any gears. The robot breaker was off, and someone asked what color they should be. Someone replied, "they should be yellow/orange", and then the programmer came up and said "if they are any color, they are defying physics."

vhcook

11-02-2012, 18:10

"Ok, this size is... made in China?!" - freshman putting away drill bits

"Who has two thumbs and just used the bandsaw?" <gestures> "This girl!"

TimSchley

11-02-2012, 22:39

Software: What will you do while we have the robot?
Mechanical: We will debug stuff.
Software: How do you do that?
Mechanical: It's like your debugging, except it hurts more.

Samk

11-02-2012, 23:11

As one of the build members holds up a piece of metal with holes drilled in it "look, it's already weight optimized!"

Gray Adams

12-02-2012, 02:02

"And the estimated machining time for this part is...20000 hours."

Garrett.d.w

12-02-2012, 02:35

Nathan (team captain): "So... If we make our robot's base circular, we won't need bumpers, because there are no vertices for the inspectors to measure eight inches from" :D

dellagd

12-02-2012, 08:48

Nathan (team captain): "So... If we make our robot's base circular, we won't need bumpers, because there are no vertices for the inspectors to measure eight inches from" :D

Huh...

Garrett.d.w

12-02-2012, 12:19

Huh...

[R27]
Robots are required to use Bumpers to protect all exterior vertices of the Frame Perimeter. For adequate protection, at least 8 in. of Bumper must be placed on each side of each exterior vertex (see Figure 4‑1, Figure 4‑2, and Figure 4‑3).

By rule 27 (the only rule defining the coverage of bumpers), bumpers are considered legal as long as they measure eight inches from each exterior vertex on your robot. The question is.... what if there are no vertices to measure from? :p

jkato

12-02-2012, 15:31

"Alright, who had 'poison type pokemon' open on this computer?!"
*all heads turn towards the team's poke-nerd.*

Brighid.b

12-02-2012, 15:35

"Eat Now, Taste Later"
"Measure Twice Cut Once"
"Workie Workie!"
"I hate bumpers"
"Get (insert name here) some coffee!"

Brighid.b

12-02-2012, 15:36

"We've been FRC'D!!!"

gyroscopeRaptor

12-02-2012, 16:36

"You know you're in FRC when your dandruff is Lexan"

Karibou

12-02-2012, 19:50

"You know you're in FRC when your dandruff is Lexan"

Or PVC dust...I'll just leave this picture here and say that I really, really enjoyed the shower that I took when I got home from the shop.
http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/645_52527211951_805846951_1392328_2549_n.jpg

Callie_Carbajal

13-02-2012, 00:58

Eunice: "Hey Callie, will you help me take the tower off?
Callie: "Sure thing! Do you want me to suppress it or hide it?"
Eunice: "....I meant in real life."
*Then we both burst out into fits of giggles.*
I had obviously been CADding to long..... Awh Yeah.

V_Chip

13-02-2012, 09:42

DampRobot

13-02-2012, 14:40

This happened last night watching House:

TV: "What do you get when you combine Home Depot and this weekend?"
Me: "A robot!"

LinkFake

13-02-2012, 18:00

"Pretty good game... when people aren't noobing it up!":(
"You do have the force, because it's mass x accelleration."

Nirvash

13-02-2012, 22:38

Was talking to someone a little after testing our shooter

Me:Want to hear something cool?
Him: Sure
Me: The max speed of the shooter was 4480 RPM, but the max that we should be able to get out of the motors by doing maths is 4154RPM
Him: Wow so will we burn them out?
Me: No, we are just breaking physics
Him: We are awsome

DavidB96

14-02-2012, 10:01

no don't... wait!!! don't do that! i'm gonna stab you.

my mentor's favorite words xD

austin1743

14-02-2012, 12:17

It's time for autonomous anonymous.

BossLady1730

14-02-2012, 12:33

"We got not time!"
"Quick like a bunny!"
"I remember when..."
"Who broke the dang CNC?!"
"It's a fact!"
"Where's the hammer!"
"The torch WILL NOT turn off!"
"Soooo shafty!"

MechEng83

14-02-2012, 14:00

Matt: "...and here is our drive system that.."
Judge: "Please allow a student to speak and explain your team's robot."
Matt" "I am a student.. I just have a beard." :o
Judge: "..Oh I'm sorry! Please, carry on."

:p
That awkward moment when the bearded kid on your team is mistaken for a mentor.

I'm standing quietly next to the robot as our team captain explains our design to a judge at CMP.
Student: "...and our design mentor here showed us..." pointing at me
Judge: "You're a mentor?!?"

*That awkward moment when the clean-shaven late-20s mentor is mistaken for a student*

For the Lulz

14-02-2012, 16:25

*taps side of bumper 3 times with tape measure*
"Sounds like 3 1/2 inches."

SteveGPage

15-02-2012, 12:27

Me: We need to lose weight on the bot
Mech: Can't C&C use lighter code?
C&C: I'll be happy to give you all zeros in the code, if that will help
Me: Just use fewer 1's than 0's
Mech: I'll attach a wire that will drag behind the bot as it drives, it can get rid of the extra electrons
Me: Why don't we just attach it to the battery, that way we can pass all our extra electrons to the other alliance's bot, it will make them heavier with all the extra ones.
Electrical: So that's why it stops and starts to let out the magic smoke, it's because it is too heavy!

*mystery solved!*

rhf323

15-02-2012, 13:44

"Is Fuller happy or sad today?"
"Fuller is angry"
"COOPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Fuller is it fabulous yet?"

Walter Deitzler

15-02-2012, 16:10

"The multimeter is not working"
"Maybe its the batteries"
"Okay! I'll check them with the multi...wait..."

karomata

15-02-2012, 16:13

-"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."
-"Thank you Stalin."

AngelBob

15-02-2012, 16:33

Mr. Sarber explained to us two Golden Rules when it comes to robot building:
1. If you have to fit something through a hole and it's not quite working, you can always just make the hole bigger.
2. If all else fails, whack it with a hammer.

Our rookies presented the not-quite complete robot built during the off-season to the veterans...
"Simply gathering the materials for Aragog [the robot] was a grueling and arduous task, involving a trip through the Fiery Chasms of Doom (all 72 of them), and subjecting us to the sight of me wearing a dress. We lost many sorely-missed team members to such mishaps as tripping over a nail. Still, through it all, we persevered and were able to mostly build a robot. It doesn't quite work yet, but it's the thought that counts."

Wondering if we should apply for the Chairman's Award...
"Sounds good, guys, I'll get writing."
...
"Say, does anybody know how our team has creatively spread the message of FIRST through our community?"
"Um, most of the school doesn't even know we exist."
"Shoot. I can write a prize-winning paper - and I have - but not if I don't have anything to write about!"

After break...
"Okay, so we've finished everything except for one-twentieth of the Goldfish Colors."
"Be nice if we could finish all but one-twentieth of the robot. ... And by 'finish,' I mean 'build,' not 'eat.'"
"Of course."
"Yeah, don't eat the robot."

Hinfoiltat

15-02-2012, 19:38

"Soo is it going to move or did we just build a giant paperweight?"

Micah Chetrit

15-02-2012, 21:36

Matt: "...and here is our drive system that.."
Judge: "Please allow a student to speak and explain your team's robot."
Matt" "I am a student.. I just have a beard." :o
Judge: "..Oh I'm sorry! Please, carry on."

:p
That awkward moment when the bearded kid on your team is mistaken for a mentor.

We have one of those, but what was better was one of our girls who is very mature was asked during an interview with a judge "I can't tell if you're a student or an old person"
yea...

kws4000

15-02-2012, 21:50

"Dangle of 45" in reference to setting up the shooter---"Well it's going to be at 45 degrees, and you want to know where to mount it, so the sin of fourtyfive is root 2 over 2, roughly seventy percent, so you want to take the length of the shooter frame, multiply by point seven o seven and that will be the mounting point for one end. Since it is a fourtyfive fourtyfive ninety you can take the same distance down and drill there since the cosin of fourtyfive is also root two over two. Need proof talk to the calculator."

"Franken-ball" after several test shots and an odor of several alcohol-based preservatives. The ball is decorated apporpriately.

"ADOS" I'd tell you what it is but OOOHHHHHH Shiny!

MishraArtificer

16-02-2012, 03:51

smclean1969

16-02-2012, 21:58

"Software will take care of that. It's not an issue."

Why is it always an issue when it's a software deal....it's good to have a talented software team.

bduddy

16-02-2012, 22:28

1. If you have to fit something through a hole and it's not quite working, you can always just make the hole bigger.On my team, you were making the hole "better"!

SteveGPage

16-02-2012, 23:43

"We should call this year's robot 'Shaqbot'"
"Why?"
"Because it's overweight, slow, and can't shoot."
"Let's hope that by the weekend it will be "Kobebot" and ready to win a championship!"

nitneylion452

16-02-2012, 23:52

"Everyone please be quiet! I'm performing liposuction on some aluminum."

Lee Reed

17-02-2012, 02:26

I've always held that a good idea is worth stealing no matter where it comes from.

bhumudar

17-02-2012, 09:28

"Did you know a pencil is a 3/16 allen key?"

Joe G.

17-02-2012, 09:29

HANG ON! This is the moment of truth, where we find out if the gearboxes mount right. Now get me a hammer.

AngelBob

17-02-2012, 11:40

"Hey, guys! I was bored last night, so I grew a beard!"

This build session has gotten off to an interesting start...

AngelBob

17-02-2012, 11:42

1.: those rules are BEAUTIFUL...

2.: Would you please rename your robot form Aragog to Ungoliant? (Bonus points if you know who/what Ungoliant is without resorting to teh Google.)

LedLover-96 tells me Ungoliant is a spider spirit from LotR...

I would have understood Shelob, though.

MishraArtificer

18-02-2012, 00:16

LedLover-96 tells me Ungoliant is a spider spirit from LotR...

I would have understood Shelob, though.Ungoliant is a distant ancestor of Shelob, living during and before the first age of Middlearth. Go read the Silmarillion, folks!

Brandon_L

18-02-2012, 00:43

About taking the robot to a team members house, to have extra build time while were locked out of the school:

"ok were good for both as long as we dont work after like 8 (weve got 2 older neighbors and our robot sounds like a bus)"

Walter Deitzler

18-02-2012, 09:41

Ungoliant is a distant ancestor of Shelob, living during and before the first age of Middlearth. Go read the Silmarillion, folks!

I didn't tell him the whole thing because I thought he might take initiative to read it...oh well, such is life.

MishraArtificer

18-02-2012, 13:20

I didn't tell him the whole thing because I thought he might take initiative to read it...oh well, such is life....which is why I only gave a tiny morsel of the whole story. The tale as a whole is crazy.

Back on topic, "Mountain Dew...STAT!"

Tanman

18-02-2012, 14:27

(Kid steps on computer)
Thats three strikes! TIME OUT CHAIR!
This is why we can't have nice things!

Jacob.B

18-02-2012, 16:05

"No, No, No, No, No, well maybe, Yeah go get a wrench!!!":confused:

JapaneseOtaku

18-02-2012, 16:22

"Yes AND No" (:

USSMISSOURI

18-02-2012, 21:26

"Don't threaten me, I have a power tool."

"The metal is a bully" (Regarding marks on hands)

FRC4ME

18-02-2012, 21:49

Me: "I had a dream about ship date last night."
Head mentor: "I have nightmares about ship date."

"How many volts are in a watt?"
"Well, watts = volts * amps, so there are amp volts in a watt."

BJT

18-02-2012, 21:54

Electrical mentor: OK, the light is blinking and nothing is smoking, my work here is done.

Christopher149

18-02-2012, 22:53

Student: Get to the clickey, get to the clickey part...

Said while wrapping a zip tie around a rod in a tight spot.

Ekcrbe

18-02-2012, 23:16

"Yes AND No" (:

-- Mr. C., Shop Teacher/Manager
Give credit where credit is due.

"No, No, No, No, No, well maybe, Yeah go get a wrench!!!":confused:
I don't remember this, but it sounds like something I would say.

FRC4ME

19-02-2012, 16:52

Me: "How am I supposed to know this is a crossover cable?"
Student: "It's orange."
Me: "But it doesn't say crossover cable. It says patch cable."
Student: "But it's orange."
Me: "So how do we know which cables are crossovers?"
Student: "They're orange."

2403_Andrew

20-02-2012, 15:01

"Okay guys, let's get the router out of the shooter"

-Our Project Manager, trying to convince the Build Team that the shooting mechanism is a bad place for our router.

Sandvich

20-02-2012, 17:40

"OK, I didn't know that when I turned the motors on, they would move!"

cronoskronus

20-02-2012, 18:10

Sam: I pressed the emergency stop button 5 times and it still didn't work.
Emily: That's because you have to press the button when it turns green.

Henzado

20-02-2012, 18:43

One member said today when trying to explain what had to be taken off.

"There's No Time for Adjectives!!!"

Kazel

20-02-2012, 22:43

Nearing the end of a midnight build...
"I like hippos."

"Ratchet? I hardly know her!"

A: "So I knew this one guy-"
B: "No you didn't."

mdiradoorian

20-02-2012, 22:54

"But, it work fine in the Inventor model, why does it not work in the real world?"

Doc543

21-02-2012, 01:18

We bet our mentor we could program the robot to shoot it in the hoop first try.

It went about 2 feet and way of the the right.

krazyman1013

21-02-2012, 01:41

Mechanical Standby, it the best time of all team mechanics when you have a wood shop, a 5 1/2 foot tall pile of scrap wood, 4 rookies, and one veteran hyped on energy drinks to lead them all!!!

ThirteenOfTwo

21-02-2012, 02:57

Mentor: I'm not sure how helpful looking at old storage mechanisms will be. This game isn't quite like 2006 and 2009, when your intake had to suck a lot of balls.

Students: **snicker**

Mentor: Oh, man, I forgot I'm at a high school! I could have made that joke on purpose!

Programmer3941

21-02-2012, 07:32

Student: "I pinched my finger in the safety glasses!"
Safety Captain: "You should have been wearing gloves!"

neaanopri

21-02-2012, 17:15

"Chris, why are you hitting the robot with a wrench? This isn't Team Fortress 2!"

Andrew Lawrence

21-02-2012, 17:21

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE'S NO MEETING TUESDAY??!!!"

Me, at yesterday's meeting

AngelBob

21-02-2012, 17:24

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE'S NO MEETING TUESDAY??!!!"

Me, at yesterday's meeting

How does that even work??? (And I don't often use multiple punctuation marks.)

Andrew Lawrence

21-02-2012, 17:31

How does that even work??? (And I don't often use multiple punctuation marks.)

We bagged and tagged last night. We're.....done.

plnyyanks

21-02-2012, 17:35

How does that even work???
We bagged and tagged last night. We're.....done.

It is possible to finish early. We at 1124 finished our robot yesterday, and we're just bagging today. It felt really weird being done early - enough for me to write a custom dashboard BEFORE ship (er...bag) day.

Lydia Yeckley

21-02-2012, 18:29

*On the back of our binder*

1. Always be modest and gracious.
2. Always be open minded.
3. Always be happy to ask & answer questions.
4. Never say "graciously accepts" rather; "enthusiastically accepts".
5. Remain calm at all times.
6. Always be willing to learn; you don't know everything.
7. Always be aware of where your robot is.
8. Have fun.
9. We are a TEAM, not a bunch of individuals derpin' around.
10. Make sure EVERYTHING is plugged in.

-Items collected by Jenn Feathers, Mac, and I.

MishraArtificer

21-02-2012, 18:36

We bagged and tagged last night. We're.....done.It is possible to finish early.BLASPHEMY!!! HERETICS, THE LOT OF YOU!!!

fb39ca4

21-02-2012, 18:37

We needed a battery to test a motor, and two people brought two batteries. Instead of plugging in one of the batteries to the test Jaguar, someone inadvertently plugged both of the batteries into each other D: D: D: Luckily, someone else noticed a fraction of a second later, and promptly unplugged the leads before any damage was done. Moral of the story: "One table, one battery."