"Quotes" that were said during build season

[jwallace15]

M: I milled it to exactly 4 inches. You can hit me if it's off.
(A measures it with calipers, and proceeds to hit M)
M: Ow! (rubs shoulder) What was that for???
A: You're 7 thousandths of an inch off!
M: (snatches the piece) Fine. I'm gonna go rubber-wheel it for 7 seconds.

(as we are about to assemble our chassis)
Lead mentor: Are you kidding me???
M, A, and I: What's wrong??
Lead mentor: This is the wrong piece! We made the wrong piece!!!
A: Uh, isn't that the piece you're looking for? (points to the chassis piece right next to where the one the lead mentor picked up was)
Lead mentor: Shut up! Can't you hear I'm blind?

[saikiranra]

"Don't worry, we can fix it in programming"

"We will be done by week five and will have a week of practice!"

[mcarobotics]

Me running around the build room looking for my wire strippers:
"I NEED A STRIPPER!"

[Justin Shelley]

Different Sub Teams:
Programming sub team: "I've been finished for weeks!!!!"
Build sub team: "Can't you put that jag somewhere else?!?!!?"
Electronics sub team: "Can't you put that shooter two inches higher?!?!!?"

it's never your sub teams fault lol :)

[CobolWhisperer]

- Gaaahhhh! I've cut this piece three times now, and it's *still* too short!

- It's not broken... but we can fix that.

- I'm sorry; in *this* shop, we obey the laws of physics.

[Jbobrab]

"Don't worry, we can fix it in programming"

"We will be done by week five and will have a week of practice!"

I needed to check to see if you were on my team because of that quote...

[Christopher149]

me: Where's the stripper?
N: She has a name...

[dhe95]

"Gravity points up"

while building a gravity based device for climbing, we sorta forgot which direction gravity goes

[Twins Inc.]

"It should hold..."

[Nate Bloom]

"Always remember to dot your q's."

"How much does aluminum weigh per pound?"

"Who's Maya?" (autodesk)

[jacob9706]

Mentor: What's the differnce between these two robots?
Student: One works and one doesn't

Student: Is it bad that the robot is randomly rebooting????? (in a really worried voice)
Other Student: I just turned it on......

[dictionaria13]

Student: "Life is like a box of robots... chocolate robots."

Lead Mentor: "Walk AROUND the table! We're here to solve problems, not get stuck in them!"

[Nate Bloom]

"I think the drill ran out of torque."

"If your robot arm doesn't retract after 4 hours, please contact your mechanical engineer."

[Brandon_L]

While listening to this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq_bITDr_90) while assembling/riveting

Programmer: "Pop rivets? More like Progressive Rock rivets."

[zzzag]

One of our officers making a calendar for us: "What's a reasonable estimate for us to be done with our robot?"
Me: "After competition."
Mentor: "How about the end of week 4? Can we do that?"
Build Captain: "No. But put it anyway."
Calendar Girl: "Well, when will everything be done?"
Me: "Who knows?"
CG: "When will building be done?"
Build Captain: "When we get our parts and put them together."
CG: "And when will the wiring be done?"
Me: "Once we know where to mount everything - after building is done."
CG: "And when will programming be done?"
Programmer: "It is until build and electric add more. When will the calendar be done?"
CG: "Today." -adds "Finish Calendar" to calendar for that day-

Build Captain: -comparing our Modulox rail to the schematic online- "Why can't we do it like that? That one looks nice."
Me: "Replace 'nice' with 'outside the realm of our abilities'."

Mentor: "First one to finish the robot gets this packet of sugar!"

[techkid86]

most recent...

Me: Hey, I need that tiny VEX motor controller. do you know where it is?
Electrical: No idea
Me: ... ... ... Will you play hot or cold with me?

-on the way to compition at 4 in the morning-
Programmer: Hey! how far is it from the key to the basket?
Scout: Why?
Programmer: Autonomus

Mechanical: we just have to use a 2x6.
Programmer: I know what that is! its like a 2x4 but bigger.

[Bix]

Veteran Friend: "Type faster!!!"
Me: *types "Faster" "There we go, I typed faster."
Veteran Friend: -.-

[Kenyow]

Mentor: This was a good day. We wired the robot, drove it like heck, rammed it into a wall and fixed it with a giant wrench.


Mentor: How is that held in place?
CAD Lead: Go to the hardware store and buy a bag of constraints and put the constraints on the robot.

[Jhultink]

I taped tape onto tape with tape. And it had a purpose.

Over my dead body

[Calvin Hartley]

I taped tape onto tape with tape. And it had a purpose.

Over my dead body

Danny can do nothing!! mwhahahahahaha!!


"Yeah... it's week 5......." ( <--- Would need an explanation I don't feel like typing.)

[holygrail]

Student: is that red sharpie on your hand?

Me: Hmmm. Let's see. That's a cut, that's a cut, that's a cut...nope. no red sharpie.

[Jordanak]

G:I Just realized something.
J: What is it?
G: Every day of the week has day at the end of it.
J: Wow, That's some conspiracy stuff right there, you should go tell your findings to everyone else.
G: Hey guys...

[Trevor4004]

When working on vision processing in LabVIEW
Me:"Why won't this wire connect!?!?!?!?!?"
Other Programmer:"Oh I see your problem. Your source is a 1-D array containing a cluster of 3 elements and your sink is a 1-D array containing a cluster of 3 elements."
Me: -__-

"I don't know why it works, but it works."

Our programming team's motto: "PWM, Probably Works... Maybe"

[Jordanak]

G: You know better chiiiico
J: Please stop saying that you guys.
N: But chiiiico, you know better.

J: Ahhh, Mr. E, I might have drilled into my hand
later while waiting for ride to hospital
J: Don't i look like the coolest, good thing my girlfriend was there or i would be balling my eyes out.

Mr. E: Did you hear about the fire at the circus.
G:What?
Mr. E: It was intense.
A: I don't get it
G: In TEENTTSS.
A: OHHHH


J: So, can our robot actually be made out of metal this year instead of just spray painting all the wood gold.

[Annemarie433]

"I view the robot as my baby.... Last year, I wanted to dis-own my baby."


I'm wondering what some of the more interesting "quotes" or phrases said this year. It doesn't matter who said them, a student, a teacher, or a mentor. One of mine this year was "Ball chunk colorer person". That was said when someone asked why i was coloring a ball with a sharpie.

[moogboy]

While listening to this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq_bITDr_90) while assembling/riveting

Programmer: "Pop rivets? More like Progressive Rock rivets."

A build day without Prog is like having a scratched copy of Close to the Edge. So much potential...wasted.

[spydan]

"School is just a break from robotics."
-Team 708

[jyaple]

There should be a FRC Harlem shake.

[roboX]

"Uh, Mr. B, we just drove the robot off the table."


......a new programer was fixing the codes and accidently drove the robot straight off the worktable. Thank goodness we put a cage around the electrical!

[jacob9706]

Mentor 1: Pointing the light at the target makes a big difference.
Mentor 2: Yeah, so does pointing forwards or backwards.
Students break out in laughter.

[zzzag]

"Are we staying late on Tuesday?"
Mentor laughed for a good 30 seconds

Mentor: "Stop touching each other."
Team member: "Actually, we're not touching. We're sharing electrons."
Mentor: "Then stop sharing electrons."

-later on-

"Now whenever somebody walks into you accidentally, you're going to think to yourself, 'that guy just stole some of my electrons.'"

"I don't want to share electrons with you. I might get an ETD."

[WizenedEE]

"You hot-glued... to a zip tie?"

During our practice bag n' tag/robot reveal presentation:
"We decided to keep the jaguars away from the computers because, as one of our mentors put it, we should keep the rock band out of the library."

[masoug]

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1236054&postcount=5

[G33K]

*freshman picks up an aluminum bar painstakingly wrapped in rope*
freshman: "what is this..?"
mentor: "I'm not sure, I think Shimpei made it."
freshman: "but what does it do....?"
mentor: "nothing.."
senior: "yeah, it's that time of build season."

[MooreteP]

"We have plenty of time to panic"
C. Koenig ~Lead Mentor

[akosin]

We have two brothers on our team.

Brother 1 trips over Ethernet cable ripping the tang out of my laptop
Brother 2 then grabs laptop and walks off with it with cable duct taped in.

"What does your family have against my laptop?!!!"

[jwallace15]

Me: Can we move the robot to the woodshop to wire it? The tables are lower, and the lighting is better.
Lead Build Mentor (as he watches the build groups carrying the robot into the woodshop): No! Absolutely not! Whoever moves the robot off the assembly table will be shot! (I believed him too)

E: Hey! I can't hold this on my own!
C: It's a piece of paper!

[JesseK]

"I like my PIDS aggressive!"

[Hiro733]

Coach W: "Hey! No hugging."

Mentor K: "I broke gravity once."

Head Captain: " 3...2...1... Coms. Coms. Coms. Coms...."

Mentor K: "Maybe you shouldn't swing around the big metal thing until your ready to use it."

Mentor K: "I had front-row seats to the Big-Bang!"

[Audrey Chu]

Mentor on electrical panel: "You need to be on tht $@#$@#$@#$@# like a mother on her baby. People don't like it when babies die, and yours just died twice in the last twenty minutes!"

Later that evening (four days before bag)...

Same (male) mentor: "We need to find an underappreciated woman to rewire this robot, because apparently men cannot wire with any kind of attention to detail or sense of aesthetic appeal."

[TheLiterateOne]

"We should use fans"

This became a running gag throughout the entire season.

[HaleyMortensen]

One of our lead builders spoke through an awkwardly shaped PVC pipe and sounded like Bane from Batman. " I was born of the pyramid. Molded by it."

[CrazyMohawk]

one of my favorites is "sleep is for after build session" -me

[Xavier_Emeralds]

Rookie Member: "Man, this bandsaw blade goes on FOREVER."

[bhsrobotics1671]

*Something breaks*

"This is why we can't have nice things"

[caoenqi]

One hour before we had to bag and tag:
"Well, looks like the prototype finally works."
Scariest thing I had heard all season.

[protoserge]

"This is going to be awesome" with a surprise appearance by tim-tim.

An outtake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY5u1M3X4R4&feature=youtube_gdata

[Grim Tuesday]

A few hours before bag; that time when you just don't care about it being right anymore.

"If it fits, it ships"

[kiasam111]

"So when are we adding that photon cannon?"

[Wayne Doenges]

The students were ribbing another student about having a girl friend and I said that unless the girl was in the KOP, it wasn't allowed :D

[math311]

While telling freshmen how bag and tag works:
"Me: If that bag gets messed with, we could get dq'd. So if any of you touch it, I promise, I will beat you.
Freshmen: terrified looks
Head Mentor: (cracking up un the back if the room) the robot has a special bubble. Stay out of it. "

During the late hours of a build night:
"I like turtles"

[Andrew Y.]

"Bro, are you even a riveter?"

[Lewis Nerone]

There are probably hundreds from 4269's build season, but I have some of my personal favorites here:


"This is NOT the Pinewood Derby!"
"Is that a robot? Niiice!"
"Just use some duct tape..."
"Oops!"
"Blame it on the freshman!"
"Mesure once, cut twice!"
"If you screw up, you can always use a board stretcher!"
"Where does the flux capacitor go?"


More to follow!

[KrazyCarl92]

Programmer: "Why isn't the robot turning on?"
Mentor: "Well did you plug the battery in?"
Programmer: "Well there you go, that's why I'm not on pit crew. Just give me
a bunch of 1's and 0's and I'll figure it out."
Me: "Uhhh it's either plugged in or it isn't."

[fb39ca4]

Programmer: "Why isn't the robot turning on?"
Mentor: "Well did you plug the battery in?"
Programmer: "Well there you go, that's why I'm not on pit crew. Just give me
a bunch of 1's and 0's and I'll figure it out."
Me: "Uhhh it's either plugged in or it isn't."

It could be plugged in backwards.

[Normtheman]

"Well we just double stuffed" put 2 discs in the prime position.

[Mr V]

Here is our annual blog post of quotes from the Ultimate Ascent build season. http://tahomarobotics.org/2013/02/20/build-season-2013-the-final-chapter/

[eruiz22]

"Don't worry, it's just a prototype."

Hey how do we make a new post?

[Zuelu562]

"We broke it. Then we fixed it. Then we broke it again."

[rlowe61]

::ouch:: While cutting buckets for the disk magazine....
" I Hate Buckets"
"I'm going to kick the Bucket"
But I think we finally have one with all the cuts in the right place :)

[kristinweiss]

"What's a WAGO?"
"Ouch! The robot bit me!"

[jwallace15]

(after watching 118's reveal video for 2013): That poor helicopter!!!

[dag71]

Mentor: "Why are you guys using a blowtorch?"
Person: "To cut rope."
Mentor: "Oh, okay."

[CrazyRussian96]

Me to a CAD/Mechanical mentor: "Hey look, I successfully constrained the chain to the sprocket!"

[Celia]

B: "NOBODY BREATHE!!!"

This was said a week or so ago when we were painting our launcher. An electrical freshmen was fanning it with lexan to aid the drying process (voluntarily, I promise) when we were discussing the humidity caused by breathing in the build room and how it was effecting the paint on the launcher. Needless to say, we got some weird looks when that got shouted.

[Trez]

"What's a WAGO?"
"Ouch! The robot bit me!"

I think WAGO is another word for evil!

[kam7119]

K " How can we get this to stay?"
M "Weld it."
K "It is wood and rubber."
M "Weld it."
working on a prototype shooter

[Crawler]

"Im giving you 5 grand! Practice some 'grateful professionalism'!"
Followed by everyone trying to correct me -_-

[Zuelu562]

"We should put depleted uranium on the BOM and see if the inspector catches it"

"The robot is 3 pounds overweight" - Engineer. "Guess I've got some code to delete..." - Programmer. Oldie but goodie.

"THE CLAWWWWWWWW" *Grappling hook instantly brought back memories of Toy Story, now we have the aliens from the claw game all over our workshop -_-*

[Zerony31]

-one of the programmers while holding a hammer right next to a broken computer- "TIME TO VOID THE WARRANTY"

-one of the programmers (Sam) trying to fix something-
Me: "Saaaaaam the Builder, CAN WE FIX IT"
Sam: "Shut up, everyone abandoned me."
Me: "Saaaaam the Builder, YES WE CAN"

-One of the builders watching videos of other teams' robots-
Builder: "Look at them, they have underglow! Why did we waste time making a working shooter and lifter when we could have UNDERGLOW."

[S.P.A.M.er]

My rookie and I are like sisters, so when somebody messes with her she says this in reference to me.
"Don't make me sick my lesbian on you!"
Or
"Don't make me call my lesbian over here"

[thursam]

Student 1: "You did that problem wrong."
Student 2: "I did it perfectly fine."
Student 1: "You just disproved friction..."

Student: "I got it. I think."

Mentor: "If all else fails, we can just hit stuff."

[dictionaria13]

Yay! Post #3574 on this thread!!!

So, I came back to the shop after having to miss a lot due to circumstances beyond my control (homework. Sigh), and saw on the whiteboard devoted to the programmers, someone had written "programmers = cool whip (fluffy)". I asked around and nobody knew who had written it or what it meant... [insert Twilight Zone theme music here] :yikes:

[BigmouthCreator]

Jokingly written while editing our scouting sheet:

Is the robot offensive, defensive, or defective?

[Dukenator76]

If the Robot is to heavy take some 0 and 1's out.

We also had a Freshman that calling everyone a Phys-co hose beast.

[Anteprefix]

Mentor: You guys programmed a really good autonomous, 1671 even commented about it on Chief Delphi, on the CVR thread.
J: Is it really that good? It's just a bunch of while loops!
A: Accept your praise!

[wasayanwer97]

Student: "When in doubt, dead blow."

Student: "We haven't caused any trouble!"
Mentor: "I quote 'WE NEED TO GET ALL OF THE METAL SHAVINGS OUT OF THE ELECTRONICS BOARD BEFORE THE ELECTRICAL TEAM COMES BACK!!!!!'"
Student: *Silence*

Freshman: "Why is Wasay so emotionless and scary?"
Mechanical Lead: "Because his parents were killed by a clown, and then he became Batman."
Me, having just heard: "Then I realized I didn't have Morgan Freeman to build me cool stuff, so I joined a FIRST team."

Student: 'I figured out the game after the water challenge, the AIR challenge! This is how it's going to be introduced: "Air challenge is played on a 27 by 54 foot ETERNAL ABYSS"'

My personal favorite-
New member: "Ummm.. I cut this piece too short... We don't happen to have like a channel stretcher, do we?"

[ablatner]

Mr. Shannon, Mr. Shannon! The wheels are round!

[afclsn]

... or I'll cut your arm off with a band saw.

[mman1506]

Explicit alert

Usually said from one of the head members to a rookie
"How tight should it be?"
"Pu**y tight"

[Snapshot]

Not as much a quote as it is a funny situation.
Student 1 and Student 2 decided that they wanted to investigate what happened to a wireless bridge that we had burned out because we accidentally reversed the polarity of a router.

1: "You know what? I really wanna see what happened to that burnt out router."
2: "Alright, let's open it up."

So, they open it up and decide to plug it in and see if anything visual happens. Of course nothing happens at all, so student 2 suggests they grab an IR temperature reader.

2: "So, the baseline is anywhere from 70-80 degrees."

student 1 turns on the power to the router and they both start reading out temperatures.

2:"Not the cpu and that chip, so let's start checking the capacitors."
1:"Well, those are at about 90. See of the CPU changed at all."
2:"Nope, they didn't change much."

at this time, student two passes the temperature reader over a large capacitor, and the reader reads out 130 degrees. Student 1 bursts out laughing.

1:"Well, I think we found the problem!"

TL;DR Students start laughing their heads off when trying to diagnose a router when a capacitor reads out 130 degrees. Also, don't kill routers. It's a bad idea

[faust1706]

the most commonly used quote "go home, you're drunk."

[RoeeVulcan]

"Please explain to me what is the problem with connecting the camera on to the robot with double sided duck tape!"

[faust1706]

"I'm not programming, I'm writing a paper. My teacher requires very strange syntax."

[alex.lew]

Our website actually has a page dedicated to quotes from the past few years:
http://www.team1912.com/quotes.html

[lgphoneeric]

Don't worry about the errors, ill fix them later.

[thedude019]

well this was at a competition but a judge was talking to a girl and asked her what programing language we used she had no idea and replied with "English" and just walked away :) it was pretty funny

[bbuncher12]

"I think the best strategy this year would be to paint somebody silver, put a safety light on his head, and hope he doesn't have to play defense."

"Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to put the duck away, as it is very detrimental to our work ethic."

"Is it necessary to continually blast 'Sexy And I Know It' on repeat throughout every meeting?"

"Gentlemen, I am very proud to say that, for the first time in Team 540 history, our robot is not obese. This means we will not have to cheese the electrical board."

[Xavbro]

Student 1: "Pass me the Dikes"
Student 2: "Dikes is such a derogatory term. We should call them 'Lesbians'."

From that day forth, they were called "Lesbians" by everyone on the team.

[lgphoneeric]

Student 1: Did you save?
Student 2: No, why?
(Computer shuts down)
Student 2: What, NOOOOO. 2 Hours of work for nothing!!!
Student 1: 6:01, Computers always shut down. HAHAHAHA.


(District 11 has an automatic shutdown time set for 6:01 every day. No notification, no cancel button. REAL smart.):mad:

[safiq10]

member 1: Pass me the vice grips
Member 2: No from this day on were going to call them dikes
Member 1:that's stupid we already have a tool called that
2 hours later
Entire team:pass me the "DIKES"
member 1:their called VICE GRIPS!!!!

[afclsn]

"Don't bleed on the robot!"

Said by the adult team leader after a teamate cut his hand.

Is it bad that my team said this daily?

[kristinweiss]

The boys on my team like to make lube jokes a lot...
"Safety FIRST! Use non-toxic plant based lube!"
"Don't touch me with that string! Do know how much lube I put on that thing?"

[BL0X3R]

(after teaching one of the electrical guys the basics of how to program in labview (he really wanted to learn))...

Me - "Ok, do you think you can make a program to add two things together?"
Student X - "Sure, it seems simple enough"
Me - "Well you do that, and I'll make sure I didn't miss anything important from the rest of the programmers"
*Walks away for 5 seconds*
Student X - "Umm... labview isn't responding."
Me - "Let me see that."
*Looks at laptop screen*
Me - "...You crashed labview. I gave you the simplest task EVER and you crashed labview. You were never meant to be a programmer. Go back to electrical."

[Celia]

I plan on printing this quote by Douglas Adams (tHGttG: Mostly Harmless) and posting it in our pits at next weekend's competition:

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."

[AngusFailed]

I plan on printing this quote by Douglas Adams (tHGttG: Mostly Harmless) and posting it in our pits at next weekend's competition:

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."

or it can be fixed by using stanley...

[Celia]

or it can be fixed by using stanley...

For all non-240 members out there, Stanley is our dead blow hammer :yikes:

[bristyn_96]

This past weekend my team had our first competition of the season and the pit crew was in the pits and we were talking about a bunch of things we could do to our robot...here were a few ideas that got thrown around...
-confetti cannon, during the matches we shoot confetti and drive around in circles (but said confetti goes poof in thin air so as not to break the rule of leaving things on the ground that fall off the robot)::rtm::

-a flag that comes out of our robot at the beginning of each match with #notlast on it (#notlast has been a thing circulating through the team):p

-putting sparkles on our feeder lexan (which actually happened)

Another thing our team did was on the Thursday for pit setup someone from another team was wondering where Jefferson High School was (the city where it was not the team) and my team members and I all raised our hands...woops

[AngusFailed]

This past weekend my team had our first competition of the season and the pit crew was in the pits and we were talking about a bunch of things we could do to our robot...here were a few ideas that got thrown around...
-confetti cannon, during the matches we shoot confetti and drive around in circles (but said confetti goes poof in thin air so as not to break the rule of leaving things on the ground that fall off the robot)::rtm::

-a flag that comes out of our robot at the beginning of each match with #notlast on it (#notlast has been a thing circulating through the team):p

-putting sparkles on our feeder lexan (which actually happened)

Another thing our team did was on the Thursday for pit setup someone from another team was wondering where Jefferson High School was (the city where it was not the team) and my team members and I all raised our hands...woops

we should right on the lexan with sharpie #notlast

[Bill_B]

member 1: Pass me the vice grips
Member 2: No from this day on were going to call them dikes
Member 1:that's stupid we already have a tool called that
2 hours later
Entire team:pass me the "DIKES"
member 1:their called VICE GRIPS!!!!

Vise grips

Vice grips are off-screen workers making porno movies. Maybe sometimes with dykes. :yikes: ;)

[rkbot]

OOOOO!!! A piece of Robot.

[Kyle A]

on the bus ride back to the hotel at Queen City Regional, with CIA 291,
The wheels on the robot go round and round, round and round, round and round. The wheels on the robot go round and round, all through the game.
The Frisbees on the robot go SWISHHHHH, SWISHHHH, SWISHHHHH,SWISHHHHH, SWISHHHH, SWISHHHHH,SWISHHHHH, SWISHHHH, SWISHHHHH, The Frisbees on the robot go SWISHHHHH, SWISHHHH, all through the game!

[cadandcookies]

For all non-240 members out there, Stanley is our dead blow hammer :yikes:

We call ours "Persuasion." We sometimes "persuade" things a little bit more than necessary.

[jwallace15]

OOOOO!!! A piece of Robot.

Reminds me of when a parent and I were watching as Volunteers were vacuuming the field after day 1 of the Troy Regional.

Parent: Oh, yep. The end of the day is here. Look, they're vacuuming up robot parts.

[Zuelu562]

Other Mentor: "Why isn't it going nearly as far as we want it to?" *everyone scratches their head*
Me: *smacks head* "DUH....WE FORGOT ABOUT INERTIA."

Rebound Rumble quote.

[rhinobot]

A member of our team keeps important hardware bits in his mouth.
Member: "Riley keep this keyway safe"
*Pops in mouth*
(hour later) Member: "Your still chewing on that? I dont need it yet hold onto it"
2 hours later we needed the part that Riley had kept safe, hes still chewing on it
He has kept many pieces of hardware safe in this manner and at one of our competitions we took apart our shooter for maintenance. We found a nut lodged in the shooter and blamed it for the problems we had with it.
My joke was: "It musta fallen out of Riley's mouth during build"
*That was not not the case, but it was extremely funny*

[rkbot]

A member of our team keeps important hardware bits in his mouth.
Member: "Riley keep this keyway safe"
*Pops in mouth*
(hour later) Member: "Your still chewing on that? I dont need it yet hold onto it"
2 hours later we needed the part that Riley had kept safe, hes still chewing on it
He has kept many pieces of hardware safe in this manner and at one of our competitions we took apart our shooter for maintenance. We found a nut lodged in the shooter and blamed it for the problems we had with it.
My joke was: "It musta fallen out of Riley's mouth during build"
*That was not not the case, but it was extremely funny*

Didnt lose a thing unless i swallowed it! :rolleyes:

And you know its bad when your on cheif Delphi on your lunch break :D

[Kimmeh]

Another mentor and I discussing changes we want to make at MCS:

"I need a pyramid and goals and a robot to confirm it but it works in my head"

[Tow]

"If something can't be fiixed with DUCT TAPE, it means you haven't used enough DUCT TAPE"

[mcarobotics]

One day we renamed our hammer "The Hammer of Thor". Many awesome conversations took place:
"I need to hammer this nail."
"Do you require assistance, small human?"
"....yeah...I need the hammer. "
"Did you mean THE HAMMER OF THOR?!?!"
"....uh...sure...."
"THE HAMMER OF THOR SHALL CRUSH THAT NAIL! *smashsmashsmash*

[gixxy]

"There are NO Saw Blades on the robot!" (Said at competition to inspector. Everything we bought was put on the BOM by accident, not just things on the robot, including our new saw blades...)

"That's MY Squid Hat!"

"Why won't the Pi work?" (we used a Raspberry Pi on the Robot)
"Because you haven't threatened to eat it yet!"

"Sort of like a dementor princess?" (looong story)

"So my threaded code is working fine. Its just a bit too stringy"

"Can't we just extract the caffeine from the soda?"

"Well we released the magic smoke on that sensor..."

"How does it shoot so accurately?"
"Sugar rush from that Pi its eating!"

"Hmmm Fried Jaguar, crispy just how I like it."

"Laying out this control board is a game of 4-Dimensional Tetris!" (We had to add a vertical board to fit everything, then where things mounted kept changing over time, so the board size/shape had to keep changing.)

"Well I think it was shorting out. It was so hot, I wanted to make a smore over the wire!"

"Hmm, I love the smell of Flux in the Afternoon"

A "Hey pass me the flux."
B "why?"
A "So I can coat this Capacitor"
C "Ok Doc Brown"

"Joe and I are in Sonic Screwdrivers Autonomous!"

"After Build Season I will teach you all the programmers to Hack, for now lets just get this robot auto-aiming!"

[Jacob Bendicksen]

"It's like strip poker, only with robots."

[tkell274]

We call ours "Persuasion." We sometimes "persuade" things a little bit more than necessary.

We like to call ours "el persuador" or my favorite "the fine precision tool"

[ImanolD]

"Look at me! I'm Iron Man"

[sarahg2543]

Not during build season, but...we have a short girl in our team named Kristen, and we use her height as a standard measurement for length. At kickoff, when we were measuring the pyramid, I told her to go inside of it to get the measurements. Out of curiosity, I asked for her to stand next to the levels of the pyramid, and the top of her head barely touched the 2nd level! Because of that, whenever somebody asked for the measurement of the 2nd level, we told them "It's exactly 1 Kristen!" Of course, we got weird looks...
We continue to keep on using the Kristen measurement:
"How tall do you think that is?" "I would say about 2 and a half Kristens" :D

[bEdhEd]

"Who's doing bumpers this year?"

[Woolly]

"The success of a team 1806 robot is directly proportional to the speed of the rapid fire mechanism."

[math311]

I must first give context: I joined team 2077 when it was still the best kept secret in school, and have seen massive team growth over the years. My first two years, we had almost no money left after build and comp. This year, I had the pleasure of finding out we have a good deal of money left after comp and build, and running around shouting:
"GUESS WHAT!!! WE AREN'T BROKE!!!!!!"

[Zuelu562]

Executive Director of B&G Club my team is out of (who is involved, but not actively working on robot) walked into the workroom the Tuesday before competition while I am doing some last minute packing. Our bagged robot is sitting on the cart, with enough slack on the bag to nearly double bag the robot! She goes "Where's the robot?"

I reply "You wouldn't believe it, but there's a robot under all that plastic."

[fb39ca4]

Can't remember the exat words so I'm paraphrasing here, but a person on my team said the Skunkworks (1983) skunk was sexy.

[Bonekiller407]

At Bedford last week Angus(aka angusfailed) said, while putting together our shelfs, which are made of 4 posts and 4 shelves, made the genius remark 'put the corners on first' we still haven't let let him forget it. Also the week before our mentor, lordship bacon (don't ask why it just is), said 'well this just proves you don't need to make a working robot to win!' This is because our robot wasn't exactly done at the end of the 6 weeks but we still won so #notlast!!! :cool:

[AngusFailed]

At Bedford last week Angus(aka angusfailed) said, while putting together our shelfs, which are made of 4 posts and 4 shelves, made the genius remark 'put the corners on first' we still haven't let let him forget it. Also the week before our mentor, lordship bacon (don't ask why it just is), said 'well this just proves you don't need to make a working robot to win!' This is because our robot wasn't exactly done at the end of the 6 weeks but we still won so #notlast!!! :cool:

I was trying to to say opposite diagonals!

[Programmer3941]

Our WFFA mentor: "Dendrite is spelled with an 'I'!?!?!? I've been lied to my whole life!!!!!"
Yes, it's as random as it sounds. :)

And, after winning Engineering Inspiration today at Chesapeake, me to our hyperventilating drive coach: "That Industrial Safety Award winner will have to use their CPR knowledge on YOU!" Happy day!

[Bonekiller407]

I was trying to to say opposite diagonals!

You're still a failure of a sentient being.

[ekovacs]

"Think like an arm. An arm follows it's drive chassis."

[jwallace15]

"It looks like a zombie PWM!"

Team Leader: It may be a good idea to build another arm.
Team Captain (while holding up a picture of Dikembe Mutombo): No no no! Not today!

[kelseysea]

My team has a list of all of our memorable quotes somewhere, but my favorites were when we 'advertised' our buttons while giving them away at the Wisconsin Regional.

"It's the thing you always wanted to Christmas but your parents never got you.
Guaranteed to not allow you to breathe in space.
May or may not grant immortality.
Cures you of diseases you didn't know you had.
Pays the taxes you didn't know you had to pay.
Fends of werewolves.
Deflects invisible bullets.
Fills that hole in your heart.
Guaranteed to stick to your shirt when applied properly."

[Johnnybukkel]

"We've created A.I. Uh-oh..."


During a demo a few days ago we were showing off our robot (we're not going to St. Louis so we unbagged it), and it broke. When we disabled it, the compressor was still running somehow.

[Zuelu562]

"Our offseason project this year is Skynet right?"

"How many degrees are we off?"
"By my calculations...yes."

"You know what, it would help if the tray pivot was a little higher than the bottom of the goal...."

(When I was on team 562) "IZZY! WHY DO THE BUMPERS SAY 295!!!!"
"Oh my god I'm so sorry!!"
"Just kidding, it's upside down." (Our numbers were very blocky, so 2 and 5 were very similar, and obviously, the 6 upside down looks like a 9)

[kwotremb]

our big one from this year as talking about how to move our arm up and down

"I Think Gravity is Pretty Reliable"

[Bonekiller407]

One of the parents of a team member walk in '________ your mom's/dad's here!!!"

This was then repeated by everyone in the room untill we got bored or they other person said something.

[Zuelu562]

"Well, it would be hard to make it bigger and heavier."
*Shouts from the other room* "CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!"

[Celia]

Not quite the build season anymore, but I just had to post this. For post-season, we are attaching hooks to our bot (named Kitten, mind you). So one member decides to call the robot a hooker. Eternity says this to our mentor:

"Our hooker is ramming the pyramid!"

Now the robot cart is the Pimpmobile, and the joke just keeps going.

[safiq10]

I used this quote at our banquet.
“Dreams are just visions of the future. But dreams will only stay dreams if you don’t put the effort into making them reality. Only then can you say you're living the dream.”- Safiq/ MC-SQUID

[safiq10]

I used this quote at our banquet.
“Dreams are just visions of the future. But dreams will only stay dreams if you don’t put the effort into making them reality. Only then can you say you're living the dream.”- Safiq/ MC-SQUID

[RoeeVulcan]

"So... what does publicity actually do?". "Put glitters on stuff and beg for a pink robot"

[GBM2013]

So I'm a freshman (or rather...used to be now :ahh: ) and I was the only one who wired the chassis this year...mind you before I joined FIRST I'd never even attempted to wire something. So anyway...after I had finished wiring the chassis everyone else was at dinner so I walk into the conference room sit down and stare at one of my mentors until this convo occured:

Amanda (mentor): What?
Me: I hate you
A: Why?
Me: I just finished wiring the chassis.
A: Congrats! You didn't blow up anything did you..?
Olivia (freshman programmer on our team): I was surprised she didn't walk in here on fire or with a missing limb.
Me: I blew up the cRIO (jokingly...but they didn't know that :cool: )
A: WHAT?! MEGAN WHAT THE **** I TOLD YOU NOT TO PLUG ANYTHING INTOT HE cRIO TILL I GOT BACK.
Me: (smiles and looks up at her) I know. I didn't. I just felt like getting back at you for giving me a heart attack when you made me wire the entire chassis by myself. #loveya
Olivia: And this is why we don't trust her with programming...

Also:

"Walk up in the pit like what up I got a big bot."

"Megan get me the tiny screw drivers."
"They're called voodoodoo killers"
"What??"
"You know...voodoo dolls? People stab them with little needles? That's what they look like...and I kinda...well...yeah I mispronounced voodoo so it came out voodoodoo killers instead..."

"Jocelyn where the hell did you put the Bang Bang??" (our rubber ended hammar)

"I like big bots and I can't deny. Those other teams just can't deny. When my bot walks in with an ity bity frame--Kayla help I don't know the rest of it."

So this year I was assigned to do the bumpers (cruel little hell raisers that they are...I love em :eek: ) Anyway, I finished them in 3 days so everyone on the team decided that I was the Goddess of Bumpers.

"Hey yo Goddess get over here we can't find the bumper pins."
"Her name's Megan jack#!@"
"No her names Sharpie Junior!"
(I give them the pins and as I'm walking back to the kitchen I hear)
"Okay guys look, everyone knows her names Ginger Bumper Master 2.0 DUH" (GBM for short)

[MishraArtificer]

"Walk up in the pit like what up I got a big bot."You realize, of course, that you have to finish the lyrics to that parody now.

Just sayin'.

[BL0X3R]

when Discussing robot design at the beginning of build season...

"What if we made the robot taller than it is flat?"

*facepalm*

[themccannman]

You realize, of course, that you have to finish the lyrics to that parody now.

Just sayin'.

610 already did
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is6g3ct-DVQ

[robowrestler]

judge: "what is the spiderman sticker on the robot for?"

student: "spiderman makes our robot function we dont even use a battery just spiderman"

[GBM2013]

Oh my team finished it, I just don't have the lyrics with me xD I don't know if we were planning on making a video or not...

[C. De Vries]

My favorite moment of the season was when one of ours programmers was having a difficult time with a 2-D drawing and I said:
"Hang on, I'll draw it for you in SolidWorks."
"Pft. You can't draw a line in SolidWorks!"

I quite literally fell off of my chair and rolled around on the floor for few minutes in a fit of laughter. Eventually I stood up and said:
"Of course you can. How do think I've been working on the robot?"
"Well, maybe you can, but I have no idea what's going on there."

[dubiousSwain]

Not quite the build season anymore, but I just had to post this. For post-season, we are attaching hooks to our bot (named Kitten, mind you). So one member decides to call the robot a hooker. Eternity says this to our mentor:

"Our hooker is ramming the pyramid!"

Now the robot cart is the Pimpmobile, and the joke just keeps going.
speaking of pimpmobiles...
we had a piece of plexiglass(lexan) which a student had drawn fake abs onto. Our team is big on recycling, so we used it for a prototype conveyor. thus it was, and now the final version is, dubbed the pimpveyorbelt.
Cut to later in build season. we are fixing up our gurney to carry this years drive system, and we attach some LEDs to our cart. they are declared "underlights" and are described as "incredibly swaggy". We then decided that our cart was called the pimpmobile.

[dubiousSwain]

"Get me some hose clamps! I NEED TO CLAMP THE HOS.
(insert pimpveyor joke here)"
every time we used hose clamps...

[BurkeHalderman]

My all time favorite...

"SCREW IT! Defensive robot!"

Said by our entire team after every issue. :yikes:

[LMD3130]

Concerned Captain: "You're going to start a fire"
Team member: "Don't worry, it wont start a fire, only a small fire"

[Caleb Sykes]

"according to the new rules update, human players can only throw the colored discs."
Human player: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

[Kernaghan]

Student: "Did you just eyeball all of those motor mounts?"
Mentor: "Maybe."
Student: "Why do they fit perfectly?"

[Celia]

Me: "What does the new autonomous do?"
Anonymous Programmer: "It.. moves and stuff and sh!t."

[jwallace15]

(taking out rivets at MARC: E pulls out a drill and starts to drill, but it's the wrong size)

E: I need the right size drill bit!

(grabs hammer and proceeds to hammer the rivet out)

[robonerd]

"It's not your fault, it's his. He was driving."
"Yeah, he broke the part."
"Which part?"
(Points)
"Oh, shoot. Did I make that?"
"So it's your fault?"
"Nah, still his. He broke it. It was completely structurally sound."

[Jay Burnett]

J: ow!

D: What happened?

J: I cut myself, I'll go grab the first aid kit....

(Forty Seconds later)

J: Ow!

D: What happened now?

J: I cut myself on the First Aid Kit::ouch:: ;)

And that's how I got kicked out of the pits friday at Peachtree.

[Caleb Sykes]

After going undefeated in quals on Friday, we were talking about other good teams at our regional. One of our drive team members has a stroke of inspiration and says:
"Guys, we haven't played against any of the undefeated teams"

[GBM2013]

Telling your mentor she should become the Doctor's companion because she's a ginger.

Telling your male mentors they should wear tiaras to the next competition.

Insisting you should play Psy's music but no one will let you.

[E Dawg]

Programmer: "When will the drive train be ready to test?"
Shop kid: "Tomorrow."

*one week later*

Programmer: "When will the drive train be ready to test?"
Shop kid: "Tomorrow!"

[jwallace15]

(while waiting for IRI finals match 2's scores to come up)

A: Look at Karthik; He's so nervous he's chewing his tablet. Someone go ask if it tastes yummy.

C: I wonder if it's an Apple.

[akosin]

During our first year, 2012, Woodie Flowers kissed our robot.

Someone yelled: "No one touch Sandy(our robot), Woodie Flowers just kissed it!"

[Qbot2640]

This year in the Off Season "Re-build"
Mentor's wife in a text message from the hardware store:
"How long do you need the screws?"
Mentor's reply:
"For a few months, at least...what, are they renting them now?

[yash101]

Programmer: "When will the drive train be ready to test?"
Shop kid: "Tomorrow."

*one week later*

Programmer: "When will the drive train be ready to test?"
Shop kid: "Tomorrow!"

Dat Feeling :(
Just like :deadhorse: until it gets the work done! :D:D:D

[J.Warsoff]

Electrical subteam: "Blame the programmers."

[E Dawg]

Electrical subteam: "Blame the programmers."

Programming subteam: "Blame electronics."

Funny how that works.

[Micah Chetrit]

Programming subteam: "Blame electronics."

Funny how that works.

or have both teams blame mechanical and complain about the delays.

[EricH]

or have both teams blame mechanical and complain about the delays.

Mechanical says it's not our problem, ONE of you get it fixed YESTERDAY so we can install the next new feature. (And we don't care who fixes it.)



Or, the classic sequence when the robot isn't working:

"It's not a mechanical problem, we built it! Programming problem!"
"It's not a code problem, we programmed it! Electrical problem!"
"It's not an electrical problem, we wired it! Mechanical problem!"

[Ginto8]

or have both teams blame mechanical and complain about the delays.

"SOFTWARE!!!"
-Everyone on my team, from the mechanical guys to the software department.

Especially when it isn't a software problem.

It became especially ironic this year because we pressured the other departments to finish so much that we had some serious code tested and running on the robot by the end of week 4, and spent most of the last week doing software calibration and driver training.

[yash101]

Solution: Programmers should check electrical, Electrical should check mechanical and mechanical should check Programmers.

That's real problem solving :P

[EricH]

Solution: Programmers should check electrical, Electrical should check mechanical and mechanical should check Programmers.

That's real problem solving :P

You're assuming that mechanical can code. I might be able to understand it if programming commented enough--or to save my life--but not well enough to check it. Try mechanical checking electrical, electrical checking programming, and programming checking mechanical.

[yash101]

It doesn't mean that they can code. I can read over 20 different programming languages and understand what is going on. That doesn't mean that I know that language fluently. Also, Java is taught to most students in our school so there is at least one person in each team that can code, or at least read java.
:p :D :p :cool: ::ouch::

[E Dawg]

You're assuming that mechanical can code. I might be able to understand it if programming commented enough--or to save my life--but not well enough to check it. Try mechanical checking electrical, electrical checking programming, and programming checking mechanical.

Assuming that your programmers can understand mechanical. When I get called in to check mechanical I peer wisely at a random part of the robot and say, "I don't see anything wrong with it."

[BBray_T1296]

"Guys :ahh: , I am too busy to read a 3,700 post long thread about mid-season quotes. I may have to miss the 2014 season going through these!"

-Me

[yash101]

Go ahead!

[Ajennings8896]

"You cannot see me, I am a camera". - Said by a new member who was at the time taking photos for the team.

[pmangels17]

Oh, so that's what that button does.

[Invictus3593]

"Why would we need a snow-blower motor and 3 pounds of hard banana candy?"

[Qbot2640]

"Why would we need a snow-blower motor and 3 pounds of hard banana candy?"

There was no banana candy in our KOP...or was that a FIRST Choice item that sold out before I got logged on?

[wildaburk3160]

One of our classic ones, and irritating being a programmer myself is
"Always waiting on the programmers"
Another one is
"It's irrelevant."
"Sleep is for the weak."
"We should really put some beds in here."

[wildaburk3160]

Originally Posted by E Dawg
Programming subteam: "Blame electronics."

Funny how that works.
Funny thing about our team is that the programming and electrical teams are one and the same. So usually its: Mechanical guy:"Blame it on the programmers." or "Of course you're just waiting on code to deploy."

[Invictus3593]

There was no banana candy in our KOP...or was that a FIRST Choice item that sold out before I got logged on?

HAHA it was an item we got seperately. This (http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/271055608324?lpid=82)is the stuff

[Pratik Kunapuli]

*Loud bang in the back of shop*
Mentor: What was that?
Student: I was testing code for the drive system
Mentor: What did you learn?
Student: If I press the trigger the robot flies backwards at full speed

[Oblarg]

This one requires a bit of context:

At the beginning of one of our meetings, we noticed that some of the shelves on the wall of our "programming cave" (they span the whole room and are directly above the computers) were in less-than-prime condition. In fact, they were pretty much collapsing, so we removed everything from them and put a large "OUT OF ORDER" sign up, which one would hope would discourage people from putting things on the shelf...

Fast-forward to the end of the meeting. We're cleaning up, and the programmers need to put away some of the large stools in the room, which usually go on the shelves. Of course, they completely ignore the sign, and a minute or two later we here a massive crash and run into the room to behold a scene of wanton destruction. Well, not really, but one computer was very nearly crushed by a falling stool and the whole shelf assembly had pretty much ripped itself out of its wall mounting.

At which point someone pipes up:

"It's okay, they're programmers; they're not good with hardware!"

[E Dawg]

Me: "Enabling teleop now!"

The robot moves forward at full throttle and takes the leg off of a table.

Ben: "You should probably fix that."

[MichelB]

"Twist it, tape it, pray. YOLO!" when I asked how to connect to wires without soldering.

[Christopher149]

Apparently the stripper is named Margie now.


At least, I think that's the name the students used recently.

[EMHS2773]

*Testing the launcher*
-Mentor: Go up to full speed.
-Me: Full Speed?
-Mentor: Yes, let's see how far it can go.
-Me: ....okay...




Then I had to explain to my dad the sizable dent in the garage door at the end of his shop 100 yards down field. ::ouch::

[Briansmithtown]

"Guys, we have to build a robot!"

[RohitD]

Two of our newer designers were in charge of designing our battery charging station. When they assembled it—

"Oh, wow, it works!"

[brandon.cottrell]

"That's a speed controller. It controls speed. That's a power distribution board. It distributes power. That's a digital sidecar. It uh...sidecars in a digital manner." -Me trying to figure out electronics my rookie year.

[theCADguy]

Solution: Programmers should check electrical, Electrical should check mechanical and mechanical should check Programmers.

That's real problem solving :P

That's what management is for!:)

[kmcclary]

Welcome to the 2014 Build Season! Oh boy... It sure didn't take long this year for the comments to start flying... (Luckily, I work with several teams. To protect the guilty, I'm not saying at which one this happened. :-)

Scene: Kickoff Saturday 2014, back at the ranch that very afternoon.
The entire team was doing their traditional "group aloud reading of the new FIRST Game Manual", to review the game rules together...

We get to Rule G34, and all progress stops for about 10 minutes...

FIRST wrote:
"Rule G34 - COACHES may not touch BALLS.
Inadvertent or inconsequential contact will not be penalized.
Violation: FOUL"

The room suddenly goes silent. Internally I thought: "Oh crap... What were the manual writers thinking, phrasing it that way to high school students? Are we ever going to sneak past this one?"

... Not a chance, with this group...

Sure enough. It started with a few stifled snickers... Tension builds.
Suddenly, the entire team explodes with riotous laughter.

... "Yea, that's VERY foul all right..."
... "Of course you're not supposed to do that. Everybody knows that!"
Etc.

Finally, after everyone got a shot at the rule, I thought we were home free.
No such luck. They then all turned and stared directly toward their on-field coach... Oh oh... Round 2...

After a pregnant pause, the comments started flying again...
... "Hey Coach... We told you not to scratch yourself so much!"
... "He's so famous, FIRST even wrote in a rule against it this year!"
Etc...

Once THAT died down, Round 3 happened... A student then turned and asked the mentors:
... "Hey {mentors}... When handling your balls, what constitutes 'inconsequential contact' ?"
This started an entire sub-discussion among the students on "ball handling and underwear straightening etiquette" in and around school, the field, and elsewhere.

Chaos reigned for several more minutes.

One of the new female students near me looked around, totally bewildered at the pandemonium in the room. She then realized the gender of most of the commenters. With an "eye roll" expression on her face, she turned to another young female student on the team, sighed, and summed it up nicely:

... "Of course... There are waaay too many guys on this team..."

And that is when *I* lost it...

The only sensible thing the mentors could do was to keep quiet and wait it out. Eventually it died down. Decorum was restored, and we could continue with the manual reading session.

But from then on, things went more slowly. Every mention of "balls" was accompanied with at least a few stifled snickers, and sotto voce comments. Example: When talking about "retrieving your ball from the pedestal when lit", you can imagine the "loudly whispered" comments ("Ooooo...That sounds painful", "What a relief", "Hey, if you tried to light mine up, I'd retrieve them too..."..., etc.)

Needless to say, we finally ran out of time and gave up.
We had to ask everyone to read the rest of the rules at home.


Didn't any other team notice this one? What happened when your team encountered Rule G34?

- Keith

[Celia]

"It's like cardboard, but plastic!" (corrugated plastic)

Everyone in the room had a healthy laugh at this one. It's become quite the joke.

[isaacnance2014]

When ANYTHING goes wrong
"Cute"

[tStano]

Last year at championships, we had just 'fixed' autonomous. We were using bang-bang control on our shooter. The operator(and lead student programmer) ran back to the pit to get the programming laptop frantically yelling; "its bangbanging but not indexing" and the lead programming mentor knew exactly what he meant.

[Jarren Harkema]

"At least it's doing something"

[Darth Drew]

…
FIRST wrote:
"Rule G34 - COACHES may not touch BALLS.
Inadvertent or inconsequential contact will not be penalized.
Violation: FOUL"

…

Didn't any other team notice this one? What happened when your team encountered Rule G34?

- Keith
Wow, this gave me a good laugh, can't believe I didn't notice it, I can only imagine what would've happened if my team had read the rules together.::rtm:: :yikes:

[MechEng83]

Didn't any other team notice this one? What happened when your team encountered Rule G34?


Not the rule, but in discussion about inflating the game piece. I suggested to one of our sub-team captains when they couldn't find the nozzle adapter to inflate it that he get a group of freshmen to blow up the ball, and when one was out of breath, the next could take over. Ever the hygienic worrier, his response: "I don't know, that's a lot of mouths on the same ball." Some of the other student leaders snickered. Then he realized what he'd said and turned the same shade of red as the game piece.

[kmcclary]

{in reference to team reactions, when encountering Rule G34}

Not the rule, but in discussion about inflating the game piece. I suggested to one of our sub-team captains when they couldn't find the nozzle adapter to inflate it that he get a group of freshmen to blow up the ball, and when one was out of breath, the next could take over. Ever the hygienic worrier, his response: "I don't know, that's a lot of mouths on the same ball." Some of the other student leaders snickered. Then he realized what he'd said and turned the same shade of red as the game piece.

{Chuckle} good one!

An OT diversion, in response to solving how to blow up the ball, with a standard tire inflation nozzle:

I'm a Scouter (Scout leader). Years ago, I went on a campout with some non-scouting people who like comfort. We arrived at a rustic campsite in the middle of nowhere very late at night, after everything was closed. They had an inflatable QUEEN sized mattress, and NO way to blow it up. That would take all night to inflate it by mouth! (I brought standard Scout gear. It didn't dawn on me that someone might bring something like THAT!)

So... After setting everyone else up, we drove it to the only gas station in the entire area. It was closed, but they still had their air hose outside, and it was active. The friends started to panic. There appeared to be no way to couple them AND trigger the release on the inflation valve. Being far into the woods on a long holiday weekend Friday night, we knew that there was probably no other store open for dozens of miles in any direction to even buy a hand pump.

I simply characterized WHAT we needed as an adapter - Basically, we needed a hollow tube, with a narrowed end. I thought for about a minute.. I then calmly pulled out a cheap click pen from the car's glove compartment, unscrewed the lower section of the pen case, wrapped my hand around the screw end of it and the inflation point to make a crude coupler-seal, and stuck the pen emergent narrowed end hard into the inflation nozzle.

Sure enough. The pen emergent end of the pen case actuated the trigger on the tire valve, and pushing it hard against it caused it to seal somewhat on the valve. My hand worked well enough as a coupler-seal between the pen case and the mattress to inflate the entire mattress to close to full in a couple of minutes.

I calmly reassembled the pen and put it away. We then used breath to top off the mattress, tied the now inflated mattress to the top of the car, and took it back to camp.

Obligatory quote (in spirit of this thread):

When others just stared at my nonchalance at MacGyver-ing a solution with whatever was on hand in under a minute, I just said:

"Hey, I'm an Engineer... This kind of problem doesn't bother us at all..." :)

BTW... In your case, I'd just use an old bot's pneumatics. Disconnect the far end of the 1/4" hose from the primary regulator, stick it into the ball's nozzle, and fire up the robot. If they don't couple tight enough, use a few turns of tape (duct, electric, scotch, masking, etc - whatever is handy) wrapped around the hose to make them mate tightly with a jam fit. Now use the robot's primary regulator to limit pressure and adjust your flow rate. When near full, pop the connection, turn off the robot, and finish with breath. (Just don't put a tape contaminated hose end back into a standard push fitting! Clean it with alcohol first, trim the end off, or just use a scrap of hose for this procedure!)

For my teams - I made a few "robot inflation adapters", using a sports ball nozzle kit, a tire inflation nozzle, some couplers from a hardware store (or FIRST KoP), and some 1/4" push fittings. I keep a variety of them in our pneumatics bins. We can now inflate just about anything (from balls to tires) with any robot that has a pneumatics package on it.
Big Hint - ALWAYS add an air tool quick release male (open tube) fitting to the open end of your robot's vent valve. Ex:
http://www.harborfreight.com/5-piece-brass-industrialmilton-uick-connect-starter-set-68237.html
http://www.harborfreight.com/12-piece-professional-air-tool-accessory-kit-68194.html
This allows you to still vent, yet be able to pre-fill a robot's pneumatics in the shop with (FILTERED) shop air to save time (and batteries), AND quickly tap into a robot's on-board compressor at events to do things like inflate tires and balls without having to break an air line connection on your robot. Just make a few pneumatic "quick connect" (M & F) to 1/4" push fitting adapters, and you're in business. You can use spare robot air line at events, to tie them together.

I hope that helps. (Now back to the funny quotes!)

- Keith

[haugh.allenj]

During our rules presentation: "Just to clarify, the selection of the hot goal is random?"
"Hotness is in fact random. Our dark, shadowy overlords from the Committee have written it in the manual that hotness is random."

[EricH]

Background: Day of Kickoff, I'm scanning something on the computer. Around (but mostly behind) me, some of the students are prototyping [stuff that does stuff we want the robot to do]


*BAM!* (Ball hits door of shop)
Me: "Whatever that was, I think it's going on the robot!"
Student: "Uh... That was my arm."
Various mentors and students: "Get the tinfoil!" (and other comments related to having the student act as the robot)

[DDSLoan96]

Me at the end of day one: "When do you want to start working on the electronicals?" needless to say I was tired.

[Ashley Hartley]

Something came up about using a plunger type of thing to hold the ball, and one of the team members said: "Well, plungers don't stick to crap!"

[Invictus3593]

FIRST wrote:
"Rule G34 - COACHES may not touch BALLS.
Inadvertent or inconsequential contact will not be penalized.
Violation: FOUL"


...

... Not a chance, with this group...



Or with any gruop, by that wording. I don't care how old one is, that's funny

[Jhultink]

"I think powering a robot with a hamster is legal"

[Calvin Hartley]

"I think powering a robot with a hamster is legal"

I told you not to post this! They might use my idea!!

[kmcclary]

"I think powering a robot with a hamster is legal" LOL! An interesting thought!

OOC, Lessee... {reviews rules} Darn... R34 bans them. Too bad. ;)

OTHERWISE, if you want to have some fun with your newbies, argue this with a straight face...:

"Well according to the FIRST Manual..."
...Rule R31 only talks about legal ELECTRICAL energy sources.
So... As long as the hamster:
A) is considered a part of the Robot (no "banned materials list" this season! Hee Hee...),
B) costs less than $400 each, they meet parts cost Rule R11
C) is NOT considered a "team member" (see Rule G9), and
D) ONLY provides MECHANICAL energy (no treadmill generators),
... then you're good! (Ditto with trained dogs or ferrets on treadmills within in your robot to run your shooter, etc... Be creative! ;-)

To cap it off, tell them:
"Just make sure you don't put both male and female hamsters in the same squirrel cage. Team {xxx} did that last year, and they lost power in the middle of the Finals. Very embarrassing!" ;)

If someone smart sees Rule R34, say:
"Oh darn, I guess FIRST finally banned the squirrel cages this year. Too bad, that's an end of an era. You should have seen the cool robots that used them compete..." and walk away...
Just be sure to come tell us the response...Have fun! {snicker}

- Keith

[Calvin Hartley]

LOL! An interesting thought!

OOC, Lessee... {reviews rules} Darn... R34 bans them. Too bad. [snipped]

You bring up good points, which I agree with except for one exception:

I would say that a hamster would fall under part C of R34. I consider a hamster running as 'deformation of ROBOT parts'.

Therefore, it is legal. I did my research carefully! :D

(For reference)
Non-electrical sources of energy used by the ROBOT, (i.e., stored at the start of a MATCH), shall come only from the following sources:
A. compressed air stored in the pneumatic system that is legal per R79 and R80,
B. a change in the altitude of the ROBOT center of gravity, and
C. storage achieved by deformation of ROBOT parts.

[mahnyi]

At Kickoff, the driver pointed out that I would probably get hit by a ball at least once. 3 hours later, the scouting leader bounces the ball off my face.

Explaining scouting to rookies...
"No ninja drawings on the scouting sheets."

"Why is the comp bot named Willow?"
"It looks like the whale in Whale Trail."

In the pit at SVR...
"People, remember to put down the tablecloth, we aren't supposed to have a bin full of food."

[E Dawg]

*After programmers try to unscrew Victors from robot.*

Electrician: Why is there a screw in the Victor?!

[QuackAttack177]

Student: Is this good enough
Passive Aggressive Mentor: I don't know is it?

[QuackAttack177]

"Our team plays to win, I don't know about other teams but that's what we do"

Also as a mentor sees me typing this

"I hate people who post in that thread"

[GearMan98]

"I GET KNOCKED DOWN, AND I GET UP AGAIN, YOU'RE NEVER GONNA KEEP ME DOWN!"- Said after our robot slipped and came crashing down off the top rung of the pyramid during the St. Louis Curie qualifiers.

[Bix]

"Game mech will do it."

[Calvin Hartley]

Overheard from the design room:

"I'm just going to ignore you for a second."

EDIT:
Again, from the design room:
"You guys are like children!"
"We are children!"

[Silver]

"How long should it be?"....."Uh... about 4 fingertips."

[Ashley Hartley]

After sending our safety captain a picture of one of the team members cutting a pool noodle with a hack saw:

"Put the Thomas away, and nobody gets hurt."

[DakotaDyer]

"It's not a selfie if it's a Snapchat"

"We're not terrible people, the people around us are just much, much better."

[Donut]

When we were looking for a large tarp or sheet to test a prototype with:

"We could just use his shirt. A bed sheet is just a shirt without pockets."

[Jacob Bendicksen]

"I don't see very far into his future."

[Oblarg]

"It starts off slow, then goes VWOOOOOOMPH. That's a technical term."

[cadandcookies]

"We love Josh Chen!"

Says the electronics team. Everywhere. They've not only labelled all of their motors and cabinets with it, but they're ordering stickers and are thinking of making t-shirts.

"Yeah, that's about right."

The aforementioned Josh when someone mentioned that the electronics team seemed a lot like a cult.

[Walter Deitzler]

When one student was asking another for an impact driver:

S1: "Could you pass me the thing that does the stuff?"
S2: "You mean the bdddddddddd?"
S1: "Yeah!"

[thursam]

One of my teammates was trying to figure out some calculations for our design. After about twenty minutes (for one problem) this is what he said;

'I'm taking a break from math. The more numbers I find, the less numbers I know.'

[rcosborne11]

"Gravity Test!"

This has been said several times as things are dropped.

[Joseph Franke]

"We should probably move the testing outside so that we don't break a sprinkler head and drown all of the testers."

We were testing the prototypes inside the halls.

[Oblarg]

"We should probably move the testing outside so that we don't break a sprinkler head and drown all of the testers."

We were testing the prototypes inside the halls.

We've done this routinely for years on 449, and have yet to bust a sprinkler. I'm sort of amazed at this, really.

[MechEng83]

"We should probably move the testing outside so that we don't break a sprinkler head and drown all of the testers."

We were testing the prototypes inside the halls.

2011, same day as kickoff, our team captain and engineering captain ripped the circle inner tube on the sprinkler head in the hallway...

[Iaquinto.Joe]

"No good sentence can start with 'just' unless you're talking about the law."

"We need more weight." I mean, how often can you say that?

[EricH]

"We should probably move the testing outside so that we don't break a sprinkler head and drown all of the testers."

We were testing the prototypes inside the halls.
Reminds me of what I heard in college. I wasn't in the affected dorm, but I did hear about it.

Seems someone was playing soccer inside, or some such activity--and knocked one of the sprinkler heads off. At some point after the dorm was evacuated, it was discovered that all the shutoff stuff was locked up, and the Dean of Students had to be called to open it. Then the whole place had to be dried as much as possible.

A couple days later, I was attending a meeting where the previous Dean of Students--who the dorm was named after--was speaking. One of the first things he said was something to the effect of "I heard there was an incident in [dorm] recently. I just hope I don't get the bill because my name's on the building!"

[CheerlessBear]

one of my favorites is when one of our programming mentors came over to the build guys and asked. "Is the ball punchey-thingy punching balls yet?"

[zsm150]

"Alright guys I think we need a rule about not playing with balls"

After we managed to put a hole in our game ball this year from testing trajectory

[Joseph Franke]

2011, same day as kickoff, our team captain and engineering captain ripped the circle inner tube on the sprinkler head in the hallway...

One of our mentors who is a volunteer firefighter as well told us to be careful

Our team has a history of displaying ceiling tiles actually.
We had to remove one to fit the minibot pole during logomotion.
We knocked a few up with the frisbees last year, we even knocked one of those light coverings so hard that it went forwards and got stuck in another grid in the ceiling.
We knocked two out of place prototyping this years shooter.

Good stuff.

[BigJ]

"You can either be purple or super sticky, PICK ONE!" - Getting the mechanical team to pick a color of post-its for our task board

[Zuelu562]

"So we'll try both [mechanism option one] and [mechanism option two]. If neither work..." *gets interrupted as student walks into room* "we're screwed."

[Christopher149]

♬ "In the shop... the mighty shop, the Bimba plays tonight" ♬

Last night, found that blowing in one end of a piston, and changing the length is a decent musical instrument. Crazy kids.

[RoboticWombat]

"If dirt-simple works, you're done. You can improve from there." ~The Dominator; AKA Dom. So true...

Chris- "Get me that thingy!"
Me- "The black slidey thing?"
Heather- "The black slidey thing???"
Chris- "Yes, the black slidey thing."
Me- "That's going on Chief Delphi!"

[2789_B_Garcia]

Whilst reviewing our CAD model assembly file in Inventor:

Stella: "I can't believe you broke my chassis..."

[Caboose]

Noah (Programmer): "Come on ladies, don't you want to join us."

[Rypsnort]

THIS IS ROBOTICS!!!!!!!!!

[Rypsnort]

Jake.....Jake...don't pull on my mouse.(while CADing)

[Bratmon]

Don't open that project on the server, I'm using it here.

Well, just don't save anything.

Later: "I didn't save anything! I only renamed some files!"

[Trey178]

"If you see the magic smoke rise from your robot, chances are it ain't working no more"

A coach reiterated this to us today after we burned our Raspberry Pi. Good news is that the students learned where NOT to put electrical components :o

[Zuelu562]

So as a refresher, don't magnetize the ratchet set....

[Team3266Spencer]

"We should name our robot 'Snap, Crackle, and Pop', since it's going to snap our battery in half, crackle as the acid sets our motors on fire, and pop when our air tanks explode from the heat."

[mmcewen]

Our mentor sadly remarked that "I never get original ideas, I can only steal from people" and another mentor said "Congratulations! You're the next Thomas Edison!"

[Whippet]

From a mentor:

Chief Delphi sounds like some elder Native American tribesman. "I bring rule update from Chief Delphi. Robot no more enter goal. If ball stuck, point counter shake truss until fall off. I be back in one-quarter moon with more rules."

[Christopher149]

"Don't hurt yourself!"

-Me, anytime I hear some loud bang somewhere in the shop. (The exclamation is to express loud volume, but not high pitch. I'm not panicked or anything.)

[Rynocorn]

What are you doing??? Oh wait, I forgot you could do plastic CAD...

[Foster]

There are two ways to do things: right and over.

[Brian C]

"We should name our robot 'Snap, Crackle, and Pop', since it's going to snap our battery in half, crackle as the acid sets our motors on fire, and pop when our air tanks explode from the heat."

I guess in some ways that's better than Pop, Snackle.....Crap!

[Steven Donow]

I don't normally browse this thread, but today I let out this goodie:

"You need to move it ten more angles"

[brenden04]

"Come on guys we've gone fourteen years without a reported accident"

Key word being "reported"