"Quotes" that were said during build season

[Calvin Hartley]

"Who switched the Buisness Room and Bathroom signs around?!"

*Various responses*

"But why....?"

".....it makes sense!"

"Ohh...."

[Pi3th0n]

Student 1: Ah crap, my computer blue screened
*Everyone laughs
Student 2: Wow, the error code is just a bunch of zero's

Mentor 1(from across the room): Did you completely screw in the hard drive that mentor 2 gave you?
Student 1: The screws didn't fit, but I duck taped it really well...
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Literally as I was posting this:

Student 1: ... snap the necks of baby bunnies
Mentor 1: You snap the necks of baby bunnies?!?!?!?!
Student 1: No, that's not what I -
Student 2: It's an accident every time...

[Awaldrep]

"Ghetto"
This phrase is used so much on my team. Whether it be duct tape, a bent screw or bolt, or any wacky engineering it's described as ghetto. I originally had no idea how to use this as an adjective, but I guess I've had to sort of get the hang of it on this team. :P

[bbradf44]

"Ghetto"
This phrase is used so much on my team. Whether it be duct tape, a bent screw or bolt, or any wacky engineering it's described as ghetto. I originally had no idea how to use this as an adjective, but I guess I've had to sort of get the hang of it on this team. :P

Good to know were not the only ones who use it regularly. Many of our components are "ghetto rigged"

[starbound1332]

From Team 564:
When in doubt hit it with a hammer! 🔨

[Whippet]

Good to know were not the only ones who use it regularly. Many of our components are "ghetto rigged"

Our robot last year was nicknamed "Ghettobot" due to the fact that the climbing mechanism relied on the destruction of zip ties every time in order for it to work, so we only had one shot at a 10 point climb.

[kiddoatthedisco]

Alexander: Hey, Andrew, does the camera work?
Andrew: It works harder than you.

[rwkling1]

"I guarantee it"

[Whippet]

"I guarantee it"

"New Oxi-Clean detergent! I guarantee it!"

[DStetzing]

Mentor:"I saved you? I knew it!"

[R3P0]

Everything was perfect, except for those issues...

[Peregrinus]

As a second year team, we're still learning a lot.

"The robot doesn't work"

"Why is it doing that?"

"Where does this go?.....well it fits here!"

"What is this and what does it do?"

"How do I robot?"

"I'm still disappointed it wasn't a water game"

[Pratik Kunapuli]

Student 1: We want the el torro intake but horizontal
Student 2: So torrizontal?

[TheeTimatahee]

"What is your deal, Mr. Giraffe?"
-Tim Kilmer

[LostWolf]

Had a great quote from one of our mentors who was trying to explain field orientation for driving.

"Field orientation is like a homing pidgeon that can fly backwards."

Needless to say, this is going on our team's shirt.

[Aetas]

Members about other members: "I'll ship that."

When tired: "Sit/sleep on the headbutt pillow." (We have a pillow, made from leftover bumper material, that has a head side and a butt side.)

Me, speaking about not having time for reading, not actually being able to read: "I wish I could read."

Everyone: "Where is the duct tape; I can't believe we used ALL the duct tape-again."

[kylelanman]

Electrical Engineer Mentor: While reading the data sheet on an I2C Compass. “Your sidecar isn’t fast enough. It won’t work.”

[a day passes]

Software Engineer Mentor: “We got the compass working. It’s funny we read the data sheet and found out we were using the wrong address. You read the data sheet and concluded it wouldn’t work.”

Electrical Engineer Mentor: "I only said that because I was too tired to read and I knew you would prove me wrong."

[andres_900]

Noah (programmer): "Anyone have pepto-bismol?"

[Aetas]

Thrift Shop reference: I've got the velcro.

Said by a super nice member when cutting the band (unsuccessfully) for our catapult launcher thing: "This is how I use my pent up aggression."

"How many robotics students does it take to screw in a lightbulb?… None because we can't even figure that out."

"Your elbows are ashy… Cinderella."

[RugnarStormBorn]

My new saying when being told to run code.

'I'm waiting on comms!'

[Christopher149]

"I used to have a neatly arranged electrical board, then I took PWM to the sidecar."

"Rigidification"

-Both from a couple days ago.

[Bill_B]

Had a great quote from one of our mentors who was trying to explain field orientation for driving.

"Field orientation is like a homing pidgeon that can fly backwards."

Needless to say, this is going on our team's shirt.
Just so you spell pigeon kerrectly. ;)

[Sylphrena]

"According to my calculations, what we just did was mathematically impossible."

(While using the search on CD, not logged in) "How the heck are we supposed to know Dean Kamen's last name?"

me--"Well, we're improving! It's working now."
mentor--"Well, yeah, if by 'working' you mean 'not working'."

[brandon.cottrell]

"Hopefully our Robot will be finished by our 2nd regional"

[Whilst hiding a a tub of licorice from the PR in the build room]
"We can't trust those animals without our commodities"

Oh and here (http://youtu.be/cOOqp2VVpTU?t=1m36s)'s my favorite personal qoute that luckily was filmed for future generations.

[Chadfrom308]

Non-Programmer: "Where is the PID on the robot?" *all the programmers vaguely point to the robot*

Same non-programmer: "How much does the PID weigh?" Programmers: "Like 5 lbs"

[Zuelu562]

"Really dude? You revolutioned that? Dear lord..."

"Once this part is done CORRECTLY..."

CAD guru berating the absentee designer and his...questionable technique, which, ironically enough, was taught to the designer by the other CAD teacher.

"You go to (Insert Teacher Here) to learn how to use CAD, you come to Rath to learn how to CAD." "I see no inaccuracy in this statement."

[sarah_storer]

[We hammered on a very tightly fitting gear to a CIM shaft...it was pretty solid once it was on there. Afterwards, we realized that our original design was flawed and that we would have to take it off]

Mentor (to build team): "This is gonna have to go"

Builder: "Oh Lord. That took forever to get on there! How are we going to get it off?"

Another Builder: "Prayer, Fasting, and Butter."

Mentor: "That's going on the wall."

[sarah_storer]

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!"

This absolutely made my life.

[MechEng83]

(We have a sponsor with a water jet cutter and another sponsor with a laser cutter)

Student: When can the parts be laser jet?

Mentor: A laser jet is a printer. Although, we might be able to 3D print them. Good idea.

[boynton78366]

"Just because you have a bag of chips doesn't mean you are on a permanent lunch break" spoken eloquently by our team captain

[Oblarg]

"Go eat so you can be useful" was a choice one from a few meetings ago. Blood sugar is important for maintaining productivity, folks!

(After finally finding a hex bearing which would actually fit on one of our gearbox shafts) "It's like winning the lottery, sort of, if the lottery jackpot were about $3 and you were forced to buy tickets to make your robot work."

"As best we could tell, this piece of tubing had a demon in it, which we have exorcised."

"Clearly, we forgot the ritual sacrifice to the NI gods. Quick, fetch a goat!"

[bbradf44]

New team motto "It doesn't work..." Said many times when trying to drive and noticing a jag was fried, then after the second attempt noticing our DSC was DOA, then again for the third time when we ran the code and only 1 wheel decided to spin.. This has not been a very good year for us so far hopefully we can turn it around in the next 2 weeks

[zsm150]

"It cant be my fault, I never even touched the robot!"-Programming lead

[reid.elliott]

"Ehhh...close enough."

"GRAVITY CHECK!" preceded by something clanging to the floor

"Tom, can you go find a shaft stretcher?"

"Chris, drink this." (Chris drinks slightly soapy water)

A:"But this *insert improvement here* could make it better!"
B:"The question is, is it good enough?"


"Joe! What did you do!?"(He didn't actually do anything but is always present when something breaks.)

[Joseph1825]

"Well, it's pretty straight."

[Nirvash]

Team Lead: How'd it get bent?
Me: They hit it with a hammer. (Referring to two people)
Person one: No we didn't!
Person two: Yes... we did.

[Zuelu562]

"When something goes wrong mechanically, we blame Clever."
"When did the word "mechanically" begin meaning "at all"?"

[riverdrake250]

1: Is that lexan?
2: That's cardboard.

[Bewizardment]

During the 2014 season, we have decided (because of a mispronunciation by a student) to refer to the winch mechanism on our robot as a "wench."

It's been decided that we need to use air quotes every time we talk about our wench around a referee.

[boynton78366]

Person 1: "why is this metal hot?"
Person 2: "because we just welded it..."
Person 1: "oh well that explains everything"

[Team3324]

Should I wire that?
-Electrical Team Lead

[Jacob Bendicksen]

"Who said we couldn't do that?"
"Reality."

"It's not dodging the problem if it's a solution."

[NWChen]

"What should we name our crimpers?"

[calvinstence]

"Giving the robot to the electronics team is like watching a child go off to school for the first time" -- a fellow mechanical team member

"The sprocket doesn't fit through the hole!"
"Well, take it off the shaft."
"That's not going to happen- I put a pin through all of it, epoxied it, and put in the set screw."
"...Oh."
"Time for some fine adjustment."

[Peregrinus]

Should I wire that?
-Electrical Team Lead

This is my most used phrase along with, "It's not the electrical, it's the programming"

[Whippet]

This is my most used phrase along with, "It's not the electrical, it's the programming"

On our team, they are one and the same, and we have to deal with the annoying issue of having both the wiring and the code be at fault simultaneously.

[Peregrinus]

On our team, they are one and the same, and we have to deal with the annoying issue of having both the wiring and the code be at fault simultaneously.

Plot Twist: It was the mechanical

[PLOT INTENSIFIES]

[Pretzel]

I was assigned by the head mentor of our team to make an inventory list of all the t-handle allen wrenches so that we could keep track of whether we were missing any. I had an armful of close to 20 of them and, as I passed by the head mentor, I said, "You can' t-handle me!"

It was one of the rare moments in which he was speechless.

[readerboy007]

"I lost the game."
-Programming team members

[MishraArtificer]

Plot Twist: It was the mechanical

[PLOT INTENSIFIES]Dun Dun DUUNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!

(PS: EPIC team name, by the way!)

[afclsn]

Give me 10 minutes and a hacksaw.

[vhcook]

Student: What is this called?

Mentor 1: Perf-board or pegboard.

Mentor 2: I prefer to call it holey sheet.

[Christopher149]

"cylindrical cylinder"

[MishraArtificer]

Give me 10 minutes and a hacksaw."This can't end well..."

[bruteman2240]

"There was too much lube in that, and now there is lube everywhere!" Allison talking about our gearboxes :P

[Animal Control]

"Were are the arms"
"NOW what"
"LORD help me"
:rolleyes:

Team 2345

[starbound1332]

It's not just a game, its our passion!

[Peregrinus]

Do you think this is a game?!

THIS IS MORE THAN A GAME.

[Peregrinus]

"It will work, trust me."

"What could possibly go wrong?" - Famous Last Words

As head of electronics, "I always have zip-ties on me."

"This, this is dangerous."

"The robot isn't working!"
"Did you try turning it off and on?"

"Safety FIRST!!!!"
*everybody simultaneously puts on safety glasses

Whenever one of our mentors leave because he has to attend to his kids:
"Guys I have to go my kids are [insert child events here]."
"What did I tell you about having a family? We are your family!"

[Peregrinus]

I'm having too much fun on here recalling quotes. This is my third consecutive post. At this point, I'm talking to myself...

[Bill_B]

I'm having too much fun on here recalling quotes. This is my third consecutive post. At this point, I'm talking to myself...
It's just a new wrinkle on post traumatic stress syndrome. Good luck drumming up support for a telethon.:D

[Loralyn P]

"Updating a few more things."

This was from our head coach's laptop. He wanted me to update it to Windows 8.1. Long story short, it was way more difficult than it needed to be and I spent a long day waiting for it to tell me to click another thing. After several hours, the loading screens went away and I excitedly ran to the laptop to finish updating, only for that message to pop up. It knew.

It took seven hours to update everything, btw.

[Darth Drew]

"I lost the game."
-Programming team members
Haha, this happens WAY to often on our team.

[nlj007]

Evidently the programmers thought we were being too loud in the lab...

[Ivan_Yuri]

"DARPA called, they want their chemical laser back!"

"Well why don't we use rivets to hold the panels together for a more flush finish?"
*retrieves a prototype piece left over from last year, and flips the two metal pieces right off of the three rivets holding the sheet metal apart*
"Does that answer your question?"

"You know you could just use the driver console, right?"
"... Thank you, Captain Obvious!"
"You're welcome, Sargent Sarcasm!"
".... And now you've been field-demoted to Private Pathetic...."

[Exla357]

*Me explaining electronics to shop junkie Owen*

Me: So when Ethan hits that button all the lights on those fan thingies [indicating Victors and Talons] should stop flashing and stay solid.

*Programmer Ethan hits the button to enable robot*

Owen: Three of them are still flashing

Ethan: That's an electronics problem.

Me: That's a programming problem.


Jokes on them because its ALWAYS a programming problem :D

[OWilliamson]

"If you liked it, then you should've put a level on it!"

[wesleyac]

"Does [X] work yet?"
"Define 'works'"

Said waaaay too often on the programming team.

[Zuelu562]

Me:"Here's a list of tasks we need to accomplish on the programming team, and my deadlines."
*Other Mentor reads this list*
"Autonomous - "When's the competition?""

[Jade Z]

Our work space has a single door where everyone enters and a double door by the machines. During drive tryouts last year, we would take our robot from Rebound Rumble through the machine doors, which took about four people, and then a few other people each to carry a folding table and a giant trash bag of foam basketballs. Naturally, this five- to ten-minute parade two or three times a week disrupted the machine shop a bit.

So, one day, our lead mechanical student covered a portion of the double doors with duct tape and wrote over it: "No drive team EVER!!!!!" And, if I remember correctly, a frowny face.

We couldn't use the single doors, so we ended up taking random machine students and asking them to open the door for us because we had been asked not to use it. It really just made the problem worse, and the same student just stood watching with her arms crossed, trying to figure out what else she could do to get us out.

I am not sure how much this affected it, but the next year, our robot was small enough to fit a little more easily through the single door.

[MichelB]

"We should have our own SI units for our robot. We'll go 10 positions (quadriture encoder) and be 15 volts (ultrasonic sensor) from the wall." -Progammers when trying to figure out sensor output conversion factors.

[E Dawg]

Said by Alex after he read all of my CD posts: "I need to stop Delphi stalking you."

Alex, if you're reading this: :cool:

[FilthyArgonian]

From Team 564:
When in doubt hit it with a hammer! 🔨

Percussive maintenance.

[Fielding S.]

"Trust me, I'm an engineer!"

Programmers: "Am I hardware-ing correctly?"

Builders: "Am I software-ing correctly?"

After something goes wrong: "Did you remember to download more RAM?"

Machinists: "...This part isn't important, is it?"

[Jhultink]

"We should have our own SI units for our robot. We'll go 10 positions (quadriture encoder) and be 15 volts (ultrasonic sensor) from the wall."

Last year we came up with a unit: AU, or Arbitrary Units :)

[Bill_B]

Last year we came up with a unit: AU, or Arbitrary Units :)

AU is golden all right. Astronomical unit or 93mega miles I think.

[Kingland093]

programmer "I finally embedded the self-destruct function in the scouting program!"
captain"wait.... you did what now?"

[Oblarg]

Percussive maintenance.

Our team has formalized this further:

The First Law of Mallets: A mallet is the right tool for every job, unless otherwise specified.

The Second Law of Mallets: Every tool is a mallet, though some are better mallets than others.

[killer_rabbit3]

"Google is your friend " :D

Nonprogrammer: "will f5 fix this?"

Nonprogrammer: "cant we do some type of super code? programmers stare him down."

"What is the robot doing? Stop it STOP IT!!"

Programmer:"Out of the programmer overlord chair!!" nonprogrammer: :(

"I'am not touching that code for another hour!!" :after repeating computer fails

"Stop the dashboard.... wait, WAIT!!

[mmcewen]

While zip-tying a part:
"The sound of success is that of a zip-tie being zipped the right direction".

And while trying to mount a table saw:
Mentor: (while trying to find holes to mount it with) "Whoever designed this is a schmuck."

[Gregor]

During the 2014 season, we have decided (because of a mispronunciation by a student) to refer to the winch mechanism on our robot as a "wench."

It's been decided that we need to use air quotes every time we talk about our wench around a referee.

[Airquotes]MAN! I hate it when the wench causes us problems![Airquotes]

[Landonh12]

Mentors and students: Hey, can we turn this thing on and drive it?
Me: I'm connecting to the D-Link and loading code.
Mentors and students: I thought code moved at the speed of light! What are you doing?!

[kelseysea]

"Give me 20 minutes and a blow torch."
-Our CAD Captain's regular response to most requests.

[Jacob Bendicksen]

"It's a little confusing what you're pitching to me."

"I thought of it at lunch."

[Exla357]

Shop Kid 1: Did you hear that aluminum shavings can give you alzheimer's if inhaled?

Shop Kid 2: No, but I heard somewhere that aluminum shavings can give you alzheimer's if inhaled.

[Jarren Harkema]

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23145611/ScratchAwl.jpg

[xXhunter47Xx]

Tap my churros please.

[Martian86]

Things rarely get put back where they belong around here...

Mentor- "Go find some electrical tape."
*I take about 30 seconds to bring it to him.*
Me- "It was right where it belongs."
Mentor- "We're slipping."

[RobotDoktor]

"Can we 3d print food?"
"Why is food coming off the robot?"
"That's not failure, it's carefully disguised success."
"That got recorded on the time lapse."
"Everyone look busy!"
"I'll get four team shirts, one for every day of Championships! ('cause I'm so confident we'll make it :cool: )"

[Pi3th0n]

Mentor: "Don't get derp on any of my robots!"

Just a little bit later:

Mentor: "Ah crap, I just put derp on the robot..."
Students: "Oh no!"
Mentor: "It's ok, there's only a little bit of derp"

[AlexanderTheOK]

"I fixed the code!"

"how?"

"I deleted it."

[al7994]

"Why don't we just build square wheels?"

[thegeekguy]

mentor: "who left this here?" after pulling out a large piece of aluminum from somewhere it shouldn't have been
me: "The aluminumati!" met with stares of disaproval

[Damiaen_Florian]

"Practice Bot!" (What's yelled any time we mess up a part in manufacturing)


*A few days before nationals in 2013*
Student1: "Our bot doesn't look so good..."
Student2: "Yeah it's currently suffering from a condition known as 'practice-bot Syndrome'"

[MechEng83]

(whilst machining some precision parts on the mill)

S1: Did you machine the part.
S2: Yeah, but the it's not in tolerance.
S1: Well how off is it?
S2: Over nine thousandths.... :rolleyes:

[Johnnybukkel]

"All I'm saying is: Mechanical systems don't break until electrical and software give them the ability to break..."

[Joseph Franke]

We were testing some Ultra sonics and the circuit started smelling bad, so the programmers turned it off and asked some people to come over and

"Does anybody not have a stuffy nose that can smell our circuit?"

[xXhunter47Xx]

"First comes the robot, then food, then safety"

[Kevin Selavko]

'What are you building?'-Kid
"A robot"-Me
'NO YOUR NOT!'

Kid's response to our camera rig of donut boxes

[Kingland093]

When a motor controller wasn't working today, one of the mentors switched the music that was playing to the song "another one bites the dust"

[mman1506]

"If we collect enough dead CIMs we can put them in a pile and call it CIMolia"

[MichelB]

Media Team member: "Who's writing the notes?"
Everyone else: "Not me"
Mentors and media team: groan and sigh

[DJ_AKoostic]

Q:What do human players do?
A:Humane things

Remember Kids, Safety Last-Said our tech teacher with his head in our CNC mill blowing out aluminum shards, while wearing safety glasses, on the top of his head
::ouch::

Q:What does this thingie do? (referring to the digital sidecar)
A:Uhh...Sidecars in a digital manner? (says me, the head of electronics)

[Zuelu562]

"We'll get it done in 30 minutes" - Programmer/Electrical Student
*3 hours later*
"So how about those 30 minutes?" - Mechanical Mentor
"Did I say when the 30 minutes started?" - Student

[om_nom_nom]

"I fixed the code!"

"how?"

"I deleted it."

Sounds similar to something that happened to my team:

*My friend walks into room where mechanical people are working*

"He refactored the WPI Library."

"What does that mean?"

"There's no robot code..."

[DDSLoan96]

Me after the code crashed due to the camera not working correctly "Blaine, the robot crashed can you turn if off and on again?"
Blaine: "I didnt know microsoft wrote the code"

[dag71]

"I done it, then I undone it, but I didn't undone it good"

-4004 Programmer, 33 English ACT

[dag71]

Programmer A: "I don't have anything to do, I've been commenting for two hours."

Programmer B: "Go ask [head mentor], he'll give you something to do."

Programmer A: "But he might put me on the Mechanical Team, and that is a fate worse than death!"

[potatoshane]

"We can't do that.... We aren't 254"

[xXhunter47Xx]

"I euthanized the watchdog"
"I tried to scare the robot so it would work"
"As soon as he came in the robot worked"
"Poopy sidecar? So professional"

[AustinH]

Upon freshmen discovering the heat gun:

"Now we can make quesadillas!"

[xXhunter47Xx]

Context: We're programming in Labview
"Yeah, I can wri- I mean draw that code in a minute"

[Brian C]

Me after the code crashed due to the camera not working correctly "Blaine, the robot crashed can you turn if off and on again?"
Blaine: "I didnt know microsoft wrote the code"

Yup. I can see Blaine saying this.

[Pi3th0n]

Mentor: Student 1, Student 2 is your new minion. Tell him what to do.
Student 2: Did you hear that guys? I got promoted!

[Dr.Bot]

Student: We are getting 0.01 for our battery voltage.
Mentor: "Did you set the jumper to get battery voltage?"
Student: "I am pretty sure this version of the 9201 doesn't need a jumper."

Next Day -

Mentor: "Did you fix the voltage problem?"
Student: "I can't figure it out can you check the documentation and see if I missed something?"

Mentor - after reading the documentation and finding the the un-jumpered jumper pins: "You said there was no jumper and the jumper pins are right there as plain as the nose on your face."

Student: "Well I said I was only 99% sure there was no jumper."

Mentor: "******deleted to preserve gracious professionalism**********"

[Dr.Bot]

Mentor: "What's this solid red light on the power distribution panel mean?"

Student: "I don't know, but everything is working except XXXX so it probably isn't important."


Next Day:

Student: "XXXX still isn't working."

Mentor: "Hmm, maybe you should check that red light again."

Student: No response but red light was out and XXXX was working next time the mentor checked.

[bargy101]

"When you know how to do stuff, there is a lot of stuff to do!"
Mr. Becker, a sophomore member who is going to be a team leader (hopefully) next year

[Canon reeves]

Family- who is your Valentine?
Me- The robot
Family- oh....

[tbarban]

Student: "Where did the *insert very important tool name here* go? I left it right on the table because I was using it."

10 minutes of an entire team search for the missing tool passes.

Mentor: "are you all looking for the *insert very important tool name here*, because I put it back in its proper place so it will be easier to find."

Students: "Easier eh?..."




Student 1: "I'm looking for the shaft collar remover, the smooth machine, the measurer, and the hole spring"

Student 2: "The what and what?"

Student 1: "Does nobody understand me? I need the 3/32 allen key, the file, the tape measure, and the punch."

Student 2: "..."

[Calvin Hartley]

I don't even remember what we were doing when this was said...

"I need someone intelligent."
"Nose goes!"

[Sparkyshires]

Programmer A: "I don't have anything to do, I've been commenting for two hours."

Programmer B: "Go ask [head mentor], he'll give you something to do."

Programmer A: "But he might put me on the Mechanical Team, and that is a fate worse than death!"

Exactly! Act like your doing something important, and no one will ask you any questions :P

[Dr.Bot]

Mentor: "I don't care how the coffee spilled on the robot, clean it up before it gets into the electronics."

Mentor: "Wait you're telling me the coffee spilled out of the shop vac onto the robot? OK, you got me interested. Tell me exactly what happened."

[Calvin Hartley]

Last night, we couldn't find any duct tape. This afternoon:

"Guys!! I found the duct tape!!"
"What?! Somebody's been putting it away!"

The sad part is that we legitimately didn't think to look in the toolbox. While said with chuckles, the above was sincere.

[Cmac3082]

Freshman (holding a cordless drill and bit): How do I put the bit in the drill?
Me: If you have to ask you're not allowed to.
____________
Mentor: Get someone from the drive team
Me: I'm on the drive team
Josh: You are the drive team
____________
Mentor: JB Weld is not very strong anyway

[Short Stuff]

Today as we are drilling final mounting holes for a part:
student: We are just drilling holes on the fly. Nothing new.
Mentor: I would be careful drilling holes in the fly.
*Everybody cracks up laughing
student: on the fly, not in the fly
Mentor: well that changes things quite a bit, doesn't it?

[Mr V]

Here is our annual blog post with quotes from this season. http://tahomarobotics.org/2014/02/18/build-season-2014-the-final-chapter/

[cadandcookies]

Mentor (in all seriousness): "It's like I've been saying all along, we only really need two CIMs on our drive train."

(Groans from everyone else assembled)

[HerbertTreff]

"I hate it when I get I up and it falls right back down"
Talking about our blocking arm

"I love balls in my face"
Said a mentor after a stray ball hot her In the face

[!Alp!]

"Isolate the head then, stroke it"

[bargy101]

"Don't forget to turn the oranges!!"
We are attempting to make oranges solid and hollow, and this is what our mentor has said to me almost every day of the build season

[DanielPlotas]

Good to know were not the only ones who use it regularly. Many of our components are "ghetto rigged"

last year our robot was called Ghetto Bhott

[DanielPlotas]

if you can find it, its not what youre looking for.

[MathMaven]

"Bouncy balls are bouncy."

[Pi3th0n]

Mentor: "We are all just spare robot parts"

[orangemoore]

"I should have put the robot on blocks"

(This was said after trying to test the robot revealing a huge lag issue that caused robot movement to be unpredictable...

Meaning that the robot ran full speed into a wall.
My Bad ;) )

[Adamz_]

My favorite and most abused

"so the robot should basically be done by the end of the night"

[jmartin]

Our lead mentor to the mentor and students making our bumpers,

"Sure, we can have only blue bumpers, as long as there are two sets, and one of them is red."

[Oblarg]

"How exactly does one clean melted butter out of a power strip?"

Man, the last night of build season was crazy...

[hans022]

Well, this year my team is gonna bring back "psych!"
http://watchfree.me/75/w.png

[micro]

" Gut check says perfect".

[rlowe61]

Though this started out as a student joking to another student while cutting material on the band saw, it turned into the season's catch phrase while at the build site and a good number of students were constantly heard saying it.
"Don't Mess Up"

[Rynocorn]

"What plugs into he Digital I/O slots?"

"Certainly not A's, E's, or U's!"

[pmangels17]

See signature below

[pkmn25]

Here's a few of ours:
"Ignore it until it becomes a problem."
"All the faith he had had had had no effect on him."
"If the school is burning down, programmers and robot out first!"
"WHO'S NOT USING LUBE??"
"School first, robotics second."
"IT'S CRUNCH TIME!" *dubstep music intensifies*

[rkbot]

It doesn't fit properly?

"Its only the practice robot"
"Its fine the ducktape will hold it"
" Ill hog it out with an endmill in the drill so it fits"
" jb weld"

[RobotDoktor]

"When you use lithium grease things will go smoothly."

[Oblarg]

This Haiku was written in the midst of some incredibly frustrating programming problems, to much laughter:

The code will not run
CRIO is a toaster
I hate you, NI

Of course, we don't actually hate NI, but I imagine we've all had these sorts of days.

[Robogineer1649]

For the 2014 Season we had to drill a hole to mount a minicim, but we don't have a drill bit large enough in order to face mount a mincim resulting in the following:
"The hole isn't not big enough"-Student 1 "Get the Hammer"-Student 2
Our mentor put this quote on his facebook page.

[Chadfrom308]

Here's a few of ours:
"Ignore it until it becomes a problem."
"All the faith he had had had had no effect on him."
"If the school is burning down, programmers and robot out first!"
"WHO'S NOT USING LUBE??"
"School first, robotics second."
"IT'S CRUNCH TIME!" *dubstep music intensifies*

Im pretty sure robotics is FIRST:rolleyes: ;)

[Zuelu562]

"Please follow the following naming convention for all impact tools:
(Insert primary surface impacted) Compliance Device
For Example, a rubber mallet would be called a Metal Compliance Device"

[Canon reeves]

"Write it down" if it wasn't written down, it didn't happen.

[OWilliamson]

Only girl member on our team after a joke:
"This is why there aren't any other girls on our team."

Other member (guy):
"What's a girl? Is that a new type of pokemon?"

[Higgenbottoms]

Mentor: Have you ever used a vacuum before?
President: Not one that sucks.
*cue cries of "what other vacuums are there?"*

[Cam877]

Student leader- I have something for you to do.
*walks away*
Me: k bye now

[rkbot]

"Fun and practicality first (and second for you grammar hounds) , safety third."

[evanperryg]

(when someone did something wrong) "ARE YOU DAFT"
(whenever something works) "That's money"
(whenever we needed to make something) "Let's just 3d print it"

[kristinweiss]

"Well considering I haven't gotten tetanus yet I'm probably immune"

[MetalJacket]

This was heard by one of our VIPs at the VA regional ...
Student walks up to another team asking for programming help
Mentor from that team - "What language?"
Student - "English"
Mentor - "I'll be right over"

[Reeve L.]

Electrical Lead: "Should I wire that?" Became our 2012 catch phrase...

[nxtmonkeys]

Me: OK, so i'll give the joystick a little nudge foreward and...
(pushes the joystick about 5 degrees foreward, robot then proceeds to ram itself into the wall at high speeds)
Other team member: OK. WHO SCALED UP THE JOYSTICK VALUES?



Visitor: Did that camera on the robot just move?
me: No.
(visitor walks over to a table. camera swivels to follow him.)
Visitor: I swear that it just moved again.
(looks at me with my hand on the joystick. The camera swivels back to where it was before. The visitor looks back at it and yells)
Visitor: HAHA!

[troylu1124]

Mentor: "Hey Troy, can you hand me a washer?"
Me: "Washer? I barely know her!"

[Ken Best]

Our programmer is setting up autonomous as the robot goes zooming across the room, his comment:" that would be a factor of two".

[Jacob Bendicksen]

"MORT in Hawaii... I am only reminded of that lemur thing from Madagascar."

[Amo10]

"I could fit like 10 dead bodies in this" (the bag and tag bag)

[Kevin Selavko]

"We had more 20 point catches than 10 point ones"

The other aliances robots were playing heavy defence on our guys and two times the other alliance caught our ball.

[Grey Mann]

(This was during the design phase of our robot when we had split into small teams to come up with ways to grip the ball, I was on Team Tentacle)

"Two-foot balls, tentacles and top hats. What has this team come to."

This quote was later framed and put up on our wall of victory.

[Oblarg]

(After changing code whilst queued for the umpteenth time): "Who was it that said that you shouldn't have a programmer on your drive crew? Because they're horribly wrong."

[TigerMania]

"Where's the win button?"

[SaxophoneKing]

"When they (...) Crap! It's gonna be dark!"
(reply) "When they crap, It's gonna be dark?"

"SolidWorks says no."

[BBray_T1296]

We decided (jokingly of course) that both customary and SI units are garbage and invented our own measurement system all based on our largest 2" diameter pneumatic cylinder, which we named "Pneumasiah", and each type of unit was all called the same name: a Pneum

These units exchange to:
-1 Pneum (pressure) = 60 PSI (pressure the piston operates at)
-1 Pneum (length) = 24 3/8" (Measured stroke Pneumasiah)
-1 Pneum (time) = Time Pneumasiah takes to extend 1 Pneum(length) at 1 Pneum(pressure), not officially measured yet
-1 Pneum (mass) = Weight of Pneumasiah, not officially measured yet

Funny quote related:

"how fast does our robot accelerate?" "Oh, about 6 Pneums per Pneum squared"

[Sparkyshires]

(After changing code whilst queued for the umpteenth time): "Who was it that said that you shouldn't have a programmer on your drive crew? Because they're horribly wrong."

Our coach actually thinks it's necessary to have a programmer on the drive team :P came especially in handy when we had to reboot the cRIO mid-match.

[dubiousSwain]

We decided (jokingly of course) that both customary and SI units are garbage and invented our own measurement system all based on our largest 2" diameter pneumatic cylinder, which we named "Pneumasiah", and each type of unit was all called the same name: a Pneum

These units exchange to:
-1 Pneum (pressure) = 60 PSI (pressure the piston operates at)
-1 Pneum (length) = 24 3/8" (Measured stroke Pneumasiah)
-1 Pneum (time) = Time Pneumasiah takes to extend 1 Pneum(length) at 1 Pneum(pressure), not officially measured yet
-1 Pneum (mass) = Weight of Pneumasiah, not officially measured yet

Funny quote related:

"how fast does our robot accelerate?" "Oh, about 6 Pneums per Pneum squared"

this is great

[dubiousSwain]

"I fixed the code!"

"how?"

"I deleted it."

One time I was trying to get a library to work, and a bunch of functions were throwing errors, so i deleted them one by one to see how much i could delete before i broke it.

[Tinmint1]

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

We are an all girls team and we were laughing for about twenty minutes and still refer to it on a regular basis. The coach has given up all hope of that rule leaving our brains

[Tinmint1]

"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?

We put 15 extra lbs on our robot.
At the weighing station my team started high fiving each other because the robot was over 100lbs finally the team behind us just shook their heads.

[Whippet]

We put 15 extra lbs on our robot.
At the weighing station my team started high fiving each other because the robot was over 100lbs finally the team behind us just shook their heads.

Our final inspection weight came to about 72 pounds. It weighed so little that we didn't even really need our cart to carry it around, but it was used mostly for safety and convenience.

[John Retkowski]

Quote Maria a junior

Maria: yeah I measured it. It's 1/2 of 3/4

Gain (a senior): *sigh*..... it doesn't work that way Maria....


We ended up putting 1/2 of 3/4 on one of our buttons. And then we threw it in the bucket that we offer people buttons out of at events. And then we forgot about it.

[Mrcope9]

-We got wires coming out the yin-yang!

-This morning I filled the coffee pot with red bull instead of water. I CAN SEE SOUND.

[The Doctor]

Wasn't this thread started in 2006??

[BBray_T1296]

Wasn't this thread started in 2006??




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.

Yes. Problem?

[Ayush Kapur]

"STOP- Its flashing!"- Programming captain

[BethMo]

My favorite from this season's tournaments:
"Your tribbles need to be inside your frame perimeter."

[MishraArtificer]

Quote Maria a junior

Maria: yeah I measured it. It's 1/2 of 3/4

Gain (a senior): *sigh*..... it doesn't work that way Maria....


We ended up putting 1/2 of 3/4 on one of our buttons. And then we threw it in the bucket that we offer people buttons out of at events. And then we forgot about it.1/2 of 3/4...is 3/8.

3/4=6/8.

What?

[The Doctor]

Midway through the competition:

"Time to start programming the robot. Finally."

[adammiller3122]

"I could fit like 10 dead bodies in this" (the bag and tag bag)

The sad thing is that it is probably true!

[Oblarg]

We decided (jokingly of course) that both customary and SI units are garbage and invented our own measurement system all based on our largest 2" diameter pneumatic cylinder, which we named "Pneumasiah", and each type of unit was all called the same name: a Pneum

These units exchange to:
-1 Pneum (pressure) = 60 PSI (pressure the piston operates at)
-1 Pneum (length) = 24 3/8" (Measured stroke Pneumasiah)
-1 Pneum (time) = Time Pneumasiah takes to extend 1 Pneum(length) at 1 Pneum(pressure), not officially measured yet
-1 Pneum (mass) = Weight of Pneumasiah, not officially measured yet

Funny quote related:

"how fast does our robot accelerate?" "Oh, about 6 Pneums per Pneum squared"

I'm pretty sure we have one of those exact cylinders lying around (it's completely useless, of course, but at some point in the past someone figured that if we were going to get a free cylinder we might as well get a big one). We just call it the "BFC." If nothing else, it makes a good demonstration piece for preseason training.

[Shadowfl]

Student in charge of compressor and pneumatics :
"stop pressuring me"
"pshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh pneumatics"
"tanks for the air"

when told to start working on code:
"programmers, Line up "

using calipers : "its approximately this much"
(ok that one was me, don't worry I actually measured after that)

[adammiller3122]

I'm pretty sure we have one of those exact cylinders lying around (it's completely useless, of course, but at some point in the past someone figured that if we were going to get a free cylinder we might as well get a big one). We just call it the "BFC." If nothing else, it makes a good demonstration piece for preseason training.

My team has one of those cylinders. My mentor couldn't think of a need for a cylinder for that year and we had a free one, so we got a HUGE cylinder. When it is fully out, it is taller than our tallest member! :ahh:

[BBray_T1296]

My team has one of those cylinders. My mentor couldn't think of a need for a cylinder for that year and we had a free one, so we got a HUGE cylinder. When it is fully out, it is taller than our tallest member! :ahh:

That is how we got ours! In 2011 we were originally not going to use pneumatics, so as a joke our teacher got the 3 largest cylinders he could with the Bimba voucher. We thought he was crazy and the cylinders would never be used.

As luck would have it, our minibot deployment solution didn't work, so we used the 2nd longest of the 3 on the robot that year to push the minibot out. He wasn't crazy then!

[alexander.h]

The situation : I am just about to test the autonomous code that is guaranteed to do something.

The outcome : The robot, without bumpers, drives right into the wall, turns, and knocks over a shelf.

The reactions :

The engineers and the electrical team : Oh no! I hope nothing's broken!
The programmers (including me) : It worked!

[LittleRed]

When talking about picking up the ball at our Week 1 competition...

Mentor: "While the actuation of our arm may not be the fastest, we can pick up the ball lightning fast with no jiggling or finagling required!"

Since then, our arm has gotten faster, and the jiggling/finagling is still pretty nonexistent :)

[Oblarg]

That is how we got ours! In 2011 we were originally not going to use pneumatics, so as a joke our teacher got the 3 largest cylinders he could with the Bimba voucher. We thought he was crazy and the cylinders would never be used.

Ours dates from 2007, I think. It was briefly used in 2008 on a very large arm design, until it was realized that the amount of air required to actuate the thing was completely ridiculous.

[kellymc]

From this weekend's practice... "Oh that's how it works..."

from the programmer

[Cyan]

Wasn't this thread started in 2006??
Yes, yes it was.

[CTbiker105]

When discussing what to say for alliance selection:

"Team 195 would like to invite team 254 to join our alliance."

"But sir they're not competing at this event."

"...team 195 would like to invite team 254 to join our alliance."

[Christopher149]

Ours dates from 2007, I think. It was briefly used in 2008 on a very large arm design, until it was realized that the amount of air required to actuate the thing was completely ridiculous.

857 got its enormous cylinder for 2011 for the minibot - then we got it and realized it was ridiculous and didn't use it. 2586 borrowed it (or a slightly smaller one of ours) for a 10-point lift in 2013.

[Exla357]

Our team likes to randomly burst into song:

Checking the voltage output from an old PD board:
Electricity Padawan: "What's the voltage read?"
Me: NINE!
*everybody else in the room sings the chorus of Du Hast*

Mech specialist reassembling gearbox car mechanic style underneath the elevated drive train:
Him: "Man, there's a lot of blood in my head. Feels trippy."
Other Mech: "Is this the real life?"
*Entire electrical, programming, and design team sings Bohemian Rhapsody in it's entirety*

[JagCode]

Our programming department has a weird fascination with communism that isn't easily explained. Needless to say, this happened during Build.

Builder 1: "Okay, who is playing the Soviet Anthem?"
Builder 2: "I think it's the programming team."

They both turn around to see us wearing various iconic communist clothing. I was in a full Red Guard outfit, and the rest of us wore things ranging from Ushankas to T-Shirts sporting Hammers and Sickles. We all had our Little Red Books out and we were just glaring at those two.

The Program-letariat Revolution has just begun, friends.

[Whippet]

Our programming department has a weird fascination with communism that isn't easily explained. Needless to say, this happened during Build.

Builder 1: "Okay, who is playing the Soviet Anthem?"
Builder 2: "I think it's the programming team."

They both turn around to see us wearing various iconic communist clothing. I was in a full Red Guard outfit, and the rest of us wore things ranging from Ushankas to T-Shirts sporting Hammers and Sickles. We all had our Little Red Books out and we were just glaring at those two.

The Program-letariat Revolution has just begun, friends.

This seems oddly appropriate since we just finished our unit on Animal Farm in school.

[Zuelu562]

Clever, our only senior on the team this year, was well known during his years on the team for unintentionally screwing things up. Well...

"The window motor can't overcome that torque..." *mentors and builders staring at robot figuring out solution*
*Freshman swoops in grabbing something another team requested*"Blame Clever!"

[lamk]

(
(whenever we needed to make something) "Let's just 3d print it"
That's what we use to say a lot too.
Problem it causes us at least 4 matches cause 3D parts can't handle a 60 pound feet torque catapult. Everything got CNC before we come to St. Louis.
Now the latest quote is " Let's just CNC it"

[Akolbi]

Not exactly a quote, but one of our teammates labeled EVERYTHING, none of it was really useful, but it included one label that I find really amusing

"ball"-the label for our game ball

"it would be orders of magnitude easier"
"What!?"
which then became
"ORDERS...OF MAGNITUDE...EASIER"---this was our coach, It's now written on the whiteboard in his classroom.

My personal favorite:
"our team could be a sitcom"

on CD trying to start a thread, our head programmer:
"alex....what day is it?"
"...I DON'T KNOW!"
also in response to "what's Dean Kamen's last name?"
"how should I know, I don't know the guy!?"

and 4607's classic:
"you CAN, but you SHOULDN'T"

[BBray_T1296]

My senior year (last year) After we had the "AP Test form filling out day" where they sit everybody down (at once omg) and register everyone for the AP tests they will be taking that year. They give you a booklet that contains about 16 barcode stickers with your info on it, to stick to all of your scantrons for IDing them easily.

Since most people on our team are the kind of people who take AP tests, we all had these little booklets, and since nobody (in FRC) could possibly hope to take more than a couple of AP tests, we each had 12-14 of these stickers on us at one time.

Needless to say, we were high-school kids. These stickers ended up EVERYWHERE in our lab :P

In the fridge, microwave, on the saw blades, grinding wheels, toolboxes, cabinets, robot cart, past robots, scrap metal, power tools, robot batteries, in the light fixtures, probably 100 stickers are scattered throughout the lab.

While they technically have some way of tracing who each sticker belongs to, it wouldn't be easy.

[Akolbi]

"how do we X?"

there are 2 possible responces on our team

"you're an X"
OR
"we build a giant wooden badger!"

[TheHolyHades1]

"Grab the drill and the one inch bit, we need to swiss cheese this ..." Repeated many times during the build season 2 years ago when we were slightly over weight.

[DEacho]

Disney music took over the lab this year. Whenever I was too busy building to change it back to quality country, that is.

Long story short:
Do you want to build a robot?
It doesn't have to be a good one...


I don't remember the full song, but it was written.

[AngelsWings]

"The code never bothered us anyways" But in reality it really did.
"Why aren't you tape?!" You can never have enough tape.
"You brought a flashlight for dumpster diving?" At least the spirit sub-team recycles!

[adammiller3122]

"I think our robot is suicidal!"
~JM after our robot almost went down the stairs for the 2nd time!

[JustPlyZ]

"MORE ZIP TIES" -Electrical
"WHERE ARE THE ZIPTIES" -Electrical
"RIVETS!" -Build
"WHERES THE RIVET GUN" -Build
"Dont you dare touch it" -Programming
"ANDREW WHERE IS ANDREW" -Mentors
"Oh you jacka**" (obviously joking)-Lead Mentor

[Calvin Hartley]

Everyone in the car (as we are riding home as I type) is starting to get quite delirious after 7-8 hours on the road. Almost home. One member just started swinging his torso around in circles and shouted "I WANNA BE A BLENDER WHEN I GROW UP!"

[lgphoneeric]

More of a funny story, but still relevant.

After walking back through the tunnel to get to our pit after a match, we see Will.I.Am getting a funnel cake at the tunnel entrance.

3 of our drive team took a picture and continued on to the pit. But the 4th was also pushing the robot,

After he returns to the pit and we talk about Will.I.Am for a moment I turn to Student 4 and say, "Where is the robot?":ahh:

After a embarrassing moment and a "You had One Job" comment, he hurries back to retrieve our robot from the funnel cake place.

Our lead Mentor laughed after we told him what happened after we were back on the bus.

[Johnnybukkel]

Fellow mechanical student is looking for his zip-ties.
I grab electrical's bin of zip-ties.
"How many of these in here are yours?"
".... Gosh darn it electrical NOT ALL OF THE ZIP-TIES ARE YOURS!"

[kristinweiss]

"I could fit like 10 dead bodies in this" (the bag and tag bag)

This only gets better.... I asked him later on why the bodies had to be dead and his answer was so that they would stack better! Apparently Breaking Bad can teach you some usefully life lessons...:ahh:

[AsherCrane]

Two of my team mates and I were sitting in a corner. I said "Why are we all sitting next to each other?" Kelly said "Group mentality." I said "Nik is an introvert, I am insane... why would you want to get group mentality of that?"

[Shrub]

We were driving back from a regional once (I know it doesn't count) and I spoke in my sleep the whole way back to school (I was riding shotgun) about making the Kazakstani Embassy a sponsor and making our robot out of potassium.

Also, one of our team members is very well known for always tipping over the container of zipties we have, and when I put my hair up zipties are usually placed in it (or in my braids), so there was the usual cry of "ZIPTIES!" once every few days of build (especially towards the end).

[ekovacs]

Student 1: What exactly is a business plan?

Student 2: Draw a piggy bank with arrows pointed at it.

[AndrewPospeshil]

"It'll be fine," "it won't matter," "it's not a big deal," "relax, it'll work," and "whatever, don't worry about it" are, I'm sure, heard at least once a day by any team. My favorite was from a Marketing/Chairman's mentor: "we touch young kids from elementary to high school age." Touch as in "affect dramatically," relax. She's never lived that down, though haha

[thegnat05]

The most common thing said on our team was, "like they say at NASA, good enough!"

[Christopher149]

It's not build season, but I can't not share it:

I was watching My Cat from Hell, and they had a cat named Foley. He had night terrors where he would throw himself off of elevated places he was sleeping on.

And so: "Foley! Freeze!"

[belle94]

I've been writing down funny stuff people say since the summer of 2011 (and I know a lot of funny people) so this is my new favourite thread. Some of my favourites:

One of our head mentors: "That's our job as mentors: to stand in the corner and laugh."

The same mentor: "I'm a genius. I'm so worth the money they pay me."
(5 minutes later) "Oh my god, I'm such an idiot. I'm so stupid."

In 2012, we were working on our bridge lowerer and we decided it needed to be 1 kilo heavier, and this was the comment one of our mentors made:
"We need to figure out a way to add weight without adding weight. Like weight with a purpose. Add a bunch of bolts."
Me: "You want to add a kilo of bolts?"

"Why does the robot spaz out when we're deploying code?"
"I think it's like it's about to die and this is its one last croak."

"If we turned the robot on now, it would be like a fake campfire."

"Let's file this. It's like digging our way out of prison with a spoon. I'm all for it!"

[Whippet]

At the regional this year, after the round of applause for the mentors during the opening ceremony, our field coach emitted the following words of wisdom:

"Thanks, guys! You couldn't have done it without me!"

[RKazmer]

At any time during the competition our lead mechanical member in the pits found a random screw or bolt
"Well that's terrifying."
And whenever our driver came back with the arm broken
"Okay does someone have a stopwatch? Old record was 6 minutes."

[dmaciel10123]

"This should, theoretically, possibly, hopefully work."

[asid61]

Every time somebody said the words "let it go" everybody started singing... ugh it was horrible. And you would be surprised at how many times that phrase was invoked.

[evanperryg]

"Did you measure it" "No, he did, I just drilled the holes" "then why don't they line up?" "well I drilled them where he measured" "No you didn't" "oh"

The team has started making a multitude of vague Space Jam references. Also, one of our mentors, a former member of 1592, has taken on a number of nicknames, including "Slick Brick" and "Steezy Beezy"

[jkoritzinsky]

We named our electrical board test program "Everything is Awesome".

[asid61]

Everone chanted:
"We are not a cult. We are not a cult. We are not a cult".

[caboosev11]

During our dinner break, our president of marketing was saying how our top sponser was DEShaw and that we needed a DES name (i.e. DESbot, DESiree, Desdroid)
One person yells out
"DESperate!...
DESk!...
DERP!!!"
Then he pauses for a moment and say,
"Oh, wait."

[readerboy007]

"If I heated a solid state hard drive until it became a gaseous state hard drive, would that enable cloud storage?"

[SeanFitz]

This is from a while ago:

During a practice match in 2013, our Frisbee shooter was at about half power.
Old Drive Head: "We need more power!"
Me (In a Scottish accent): "I'm giving it all she's got Captain!"

The ref behind us high-fived me after.

[Certified Nerd]

To the member (cadet) we wanted to leave for a few minutes I said "Hey Zack, go find me a metric crescent wrench."


I'll be back!

[RKazmer]

Whenever the software mentor gets something wrong...

"Don't look at me with that tone of voice."

[piersklein]

"Wait, where are the bumpers?" at check-in after forgetting them at Bryant... and Northeastern... and NECMP

Student 1: "This is why we pay him the big bucks"
Student 2: "Wait why don't I get paid?"
Student 1: "Because we deduct his salary from yours"
Student 2: "Oh"

Student 1: "You can't change the downstream pressure below 60 psi"
*Pistons actuate, Robot does a barrel roll*

[DarkRune]

After one of our matches at champs, looking at the robot:
Drive coach: Wait... What's that gray tab?
Me: Uhm... I think that's from the battery
Coach: So you mean to tell me, that you broke the unbreakable batteries?
Me: :V Well... Yes?
Coach: $@#$@#$@#$@#$@#$@#! We just ordered these! Stop pushing so $@#$@#$@#$@# hard

Breaking batteries later became a running joke at champs... We still have the battery ;)

[pabeekm]

Programming Lead: "This is how Begin works...."
Mentor: "You've got five minutes to finish teaching."
"Begin is where everything is begun .... Now on to Teleop...."

[ShinyShips]

"So, to drive have mecanums we are going to have them in a trapezoid shape. Are the programmers confident in getting that working?"

"Yeah, sure no problem."

It went okay.

[Tinmint1]

Said at a meeting, "the robot and I have a special connection, driver to d link, I kick her and than she's nice to me again. Easy as that"

[Whippet]

During our most recent meeting, when we were letting the newbies try driving last year's robot:

"Wow, I feel like a Gundam pilot!"

[Wayne Doenges]

I you think you can or cannot, you are correct.

[dubiousSwain]

"Im trying to reach the ballmer's peak of caffeine!"

*the captain is holding one of the mentor's cats and talking to a new student*
"oh yeah, theres always a cat in here. He steals all of our stuff"

[riverdrake250]

When I lose stuff, I blame Olidammara, the god of rouges from D&D.

[Jacob Bendicksen]

"My first word was lightbulb."

[Team118Joseph]

Me: "Who plugged the lights into a Victor?" <----Day before filming release video

Mentor: "Is the spring tensioned?"
Loud smash accompanied with ball smashing into the driver station glass
Student: "Um... no"

Student 1: "Ok don't shoot"
Student 2: "I think he said shoot"
Student 3: "FIRING!"
Student 1: "Ow! my nose is bleeding!"

[azureorbit]

"Is there anything that we can do?"
"Yeah, sure. Probably lots."
"What?"
"Uh... oh well i guess you can clean up that electrical junk. You see that drawer over there?"
"...we did that already."
"Do it again." :(

***

"See, if you have a hammer and duct tape, you can fix anything."
"What about if you need solder something?"
"Did you know that if you hit something hard enough, it melts?" ;)

[BN1557]

"Floor it!"

"Make it work."

[Hgree56]

My personal favorite from last build season was

"Well there's your problem! You have a hammer sticking out of the wood!"

[MechEng83]

"Freshmen are expendable"
"Sophomores are disposable"
"Juniors are replaceable"
"Seniors are full of themselves"

[TimTheGreat]

"Oh I cut that 80/20 close enough"

[TimTheGreat]

#4000!

"It's okay if the bumpers aren't very secure. We shouldn't get hit a lot."

[Celia]

"I didn't call it stripping lessons this year. I learned." --our electrical lead