"Quotes" that were said during build season

[Tinmint1]

From one of the freshman "I understand Dora and I didn't even take Italian"

[riverdrake250]

"Called it"

[Sparkyshires]

"so it's a trash game....WAIT"

[Christopher149]

Some kind of discussion was taking place about windows (the kind on buildings), slightly paraphrased:

Me: Maybe we can have IT fix it. It's broken, they fix stuff right?
M: *chuckle*
Me: I mean, they support Windows, right?
M: *Bigger chuckle*

[BriteBacon]

While cueing for our match with 469 at MARC:

Human player (who was at worlds): Oh, you guys added a pole.
Rest of us: ... really?

[DJ Carpenter]

"I didnt break it"
"Are the pineapples ripe?"
"It needs more LEDs"
"Thats shiny, I like the shiny"

[Kingland093]

"They would never make us do that, that's impossible!"
- my reaction to a mentor speculating that the game piece is recycling bins this morning whilst waiting for the kickoff stream to start (true story!)

[Nathan_H]

"Do the math, save the world."
"Yo dawg, safety first."

Both quotes were by the same mentor, too.

[dubiousSwain]

"Sorry, I forgot gravity works"
"But if we stack from the bottom, we'd have a tote queue!"

[RockerRobot]

"it's not over..the fat lady hasn't sung yet"

[RockerRobot]

"we should team up with synthetic bio and make the worlds first terminator..."
"Do you think we could build our own mine turtle??"
"Hey...whats going on"
"you are no longer a person! Only a number!"
And those are only the things that first come to mind

[MikLast]

at the kickoff, with the new robot animations, the first thing everyone hears:
"that robot looks sexy."
"mmm, youre right!"

[alephzer0]

I have a couple.
First, at a competition last year, a safety advisor said:
"don't touch the robot while it's powerized."
ever since then we have been making fun of that.

Also:
One of the pit admin people in a 2013 competition said a team needed a c-R-I-O (she spelled it out) and ever since then we have made fun of that as well. (soon we will be using the r-o-b-o-R-I-O!)

[Munchskull]

If you ask where anything is this one girl will say,
"I ate it...I was really hungery!"

[Woody910]

Our team has previously used a department system, with "Game Mech" being the department designing and building all the pieces used to play the game. As such, this department was put under a lot of work. It became a thing that whenever something came up, the first response was "Game Mech will do it." Even since we have moved on to a different organizational system, we still hear "Game Mech will do it." Every now and then.

[Jacob Bendicksen]

"It's essentially like a Lamborghini compared to a peanut."

[jengl]

"A penny saved is a kneecap unbroken." -Our business lead

[asid61]

"It's essentially like a Lamborghini compared to a peanut."

Tell me when you find a tasty Lamborghini.

[Whippet]

Tell me when you find a tasty Lamborghini.

https://www.chocolateworks.com/fun-molds/transportation/lamborghini-455.php

:)

[ey206208]

"Did you do that with your teeth?!"

[jminer19363]

Mentor: What if we throw the totes across the field to knock over their stacks?
Student: That's definitely illegal...
Mentor: It might be illegal but think about how much fun it would be.

[orangemoore]

Mentor: What if we throw the totes across the field to knock over their stacks?
Student: That's definitely illegal...
Mentor: It might be illegal but think about how much fun it would be.

Wow that sure is funny.:D

[Hgree56]

We have said multiple times

"I hate when snow days at school."

[MegaAlberto]

"Where is the tote?"
"Where is the container?"
"Where is the pool noodle?"

- Everyone every 5 minutes :yikes:

[Jay Burnett]

"look, guys! I just bit a hole in this Coke can while sitting here!"

Rest of us, "good . . . job?"

Also: Mentor, "What if we made like a stack foundry that just sat there and unfolded all this pvc infrastructure! Totes go in the top, and stacks come out the bottom! Also it would be compatible with federal manufacturing safety laws."

[Thromgord]

A week before the season begins:

To prove his manly dominance, one team member (won't mention names) is having a push-up contest with the remainder of the Electrical Team.

I notice uproarious laughter in another room, so I walk in and ask, "What's going on here?"
"We're having a push-up contest."
"So... everyone's laughing because you lost miserably, right?"

The laughter doubles as the guy frantically says, "No! I haven't started yet!" An electrical team member gives me a high-five.

Day two of the build season:

"Where's the set of metric Allen wrenches, guys?"
"Oh, they're in Narnia."

...it turned out that the person who asked the question actually had a bin of parts called "Narnia" in FLL, though of course that was years ago. The conversation ended with:

..."But Narnia doesn't really exist, right?"
"Of course it exists! It just exists in your imagination."

Such beautiful words... *wipes away a tear*

Day three of the build season:

"Hello, sir! What's your name?"
"My name is Gabe."
"How's your hat?"
"Hat's fine. It's rather angry, as always."

(It might make a little more sense if you saw it. Here's a video link (http://youtu.be/MtpcWLnmoJU).)

I think I'm going to be posting here a lot.

[Grey Mann]

*Designing a new pit for competitions*
Pit Design Lead: "So, does anyone have any ideas for the pit?"
*A few minutes of silence*
Random Student: "Can we have a figurine of a demon in our pit and call it our Pit Demon?"
Lead: "..... No."

Explanation: www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD: Pit_Fiend (www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Pit_Fiend)

[2508electronics]

Does the router need a hard reset?
(goes and grabs a large hammer that says hard reset on the side of it)

Mechanical team member who knows nothing about electronics: We redid some of your wiring.
Electronics: What did you change?
Mechanical: we switched the output numbers for the motor controllers because the mecanum wheel programming guide said to put them in a different order
Electrical: I use a certain order to make troubleshooting easier, put it back to how it was by Monday and fix it in the programming or have fun trying to scrape the epoxy off the electronics connectors.
(it was fixed right away)

Every time we clean, we can't find anything anymore!

[ZoNi7567]

As the season advances, we just start making random noises instead of words:
ex.
vrr vrr -> get me the drill
gaber gaber -> boltcutters
mehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh -> we messed up
ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh -> good enough

[IronicDeadBird]

G: "That mechanism isn't viable"
M: "Not with that attitude at least."

I also read a few scripts in the most overly dramatic voice I could muster today to help students edit.

[Calvin Hartley]

"We need another table in here."
"We have a plotter."

[jminer19363]

During a random conversation about confessions:

Jewish Sophomore "If i had to go to confessions I would probably say something like, 'i have too much to confess so can you just say that my sins have been cleared or something?' yeah. that's what i'd say."

[jminer19363]

This is from our FLL team that meets across the hall:

student 1: "see? i fixed it"
student 2: "you didn't fix it, you just moved everything around"

[icecube45]

"Real wires have curves"

[IronicDeadBird]

"It works if its not broken!" Joe 2016

[Tammyo]

"Don't get concussed, drink water"

A member of our team last year at the World's Championship last year forgot to hydrate himself. So, as he was walking through booths he fainted and hit his head on concrete floor near a medical booth. Next, thing we noticed, he was rushed to the hospital blabbering about each team member. The only reason he got a concussion was because he refused to drink water. Now our teacher mentor forces us to down a bottle of water before every competition.

Good Job Nabil!

[blackbrandt]

Speculating about how bad it would be to be throwing bins around the field... :)

Mentor: "And there is Team 900.. the Zebracorns... what a surprise. Throwing yet ANOTHER bin across the field. Whoops! There goes another robot. Team 900 must be at a new record now... that is 17 robots broken in 4 matches. These robots may want to consider just covering the entire robot in bumper. At least they may survive the match. Hey! Stands! DUCK!! Team 900 Death Machine just chucked a bin to the top row of bleachers!"

Our entire mechanical team was doubled over in laughter by the end. :)

And then...

Student 1: "We should just throw the bins into the other side of the field to knock over their stacks of totes."
Me: "I think that's illegal"
Student 1: "Illegal. But fun."




And my favorite:

"Guys... it is only week 1. You can't already be going crazy."

[Sperkowsky]

Gg

[IceQueenMiki]

Person #1: *proposes idea about suction cups*
President: Okay, now come up with a name for it.
Person #1: Then, how about 'This Idea Literally Sucks'?

[Dival]

So to make dinner we can cut a potato and fill it with some rice and potatoes!"

[Jarren Harkema]

"We should get a cast iron bust of Dean as a counterweight on the back of our bot!"

A little bit later, after some tote testing:

"Okay, so maybe we need a bust of Dean AND Woodie."

[Wyatt Jordan]

mentor: "Some of us have work"
student: "[mentor name], how many times do we have to tell you work doesn't matter during robotics season?!?!?!"

"hand me the persuader"
persuader=hammer

*when it turns out that our subsystems are going to get in each other's way/ discover a major problem
"I don't like this game"

"Dremel" (nuff said)

"every electrical component has this magic smoke in it that wants to come out, your job is to keep the smoke in the system" -something like this is said every other meeting to the electrical team

"wait we're actually designing it in CAD before we build it? Usually we do that afterwards" -said literally yesterday by a mechanical member while i CADed

[MechEng83]

Students took all the totes we bought for practice and built a fort out of them in one of our meeting rooms. One of the students after seeing it commented "That fort is legit" and the mentor in the room asked "Is it ... totes legit?..."

[SquishyIce]

"Fix it, David!"

"That's mechanical's problem"

"Use more zeroes in the code, it makes it lighter"

and who could forget our quality control motto...
"Nobody likes poopy"

[MikLast]

Last year during the build season i had pandora up, and the song "Ain't no rest for the wicked" comes on. Long story short we get a group of 12 high school students badly singing the chrous while the mentors are laughing their butts off.

Rookie year:
"So this is the connector for our camera right?" - team president while holding a 5v camera with 12v wire attached to it, proceeds to connect them and tests it,
-PZZT-
"...maybe not"

we were at our 2nd district event last year, and we happened to be the #8 slot for elim matches, and we were slightly unprepared:
"um, we want..."
"uh, team 4- no, oh shi-"
everyone gets wide eyed and starts laughing

[nikolojedison]

A friend of mine, the Marketing captain, really likes the song 'Hooked on a Feelin'' by Blue Swede.
One of the final times he was playing it, we sang together at the top of our lungs the I-III-IIII part. Spirit captain looks over, giggling, and says, "Never do that again. It made my day, but never again."

[Calvin Hartley]

"Matthew, did you finish that duplicator yet?"


"How long do we want it?"
"About 10. What is it?"
"About 8."
"Perfect."

[pyrtle]

"DID YOU JUST GOJO MY NECK?!"

[brynnanotbrenda]

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

[swicki]

"I wago, you wago, he, she, we wago. Wagology, study of wago."

[BariSaxGuy]

"Don't you wish your drill bit was hot like mine?"

[trevormcclellan]

"Well, we have a problem." "Wait!, I have an idea!"
10 minutes later: "Never mind, that made a bigger problem"

[Cmac3082]

Me: (holding up a poorly welded piece of 80/20) "it's really hard to TIG weld 80/20."
Jake: "Have you considered that you're just a bad welder?"
Me: "No, that was the second thing I checked."
Jake "What was the first?"
Me "If the gas was on."

[Mineking116]

S:That is not the right saw.
J:Yes it is that is the metal saw.
S:No, that is a grinder. Nice try.
J:Oh, There's a difference?

[Mineking116]

"No, we cannot have the robot dance to your crappy beatboxing."

[Mineking116]

Electrical Team:"None of you make any sense."
Mechanical Team:"None of you wake any sense."
Programing Team:"None of you make any sense."
CAD Team:"How do none of you understand each other?"
Mentors:"This is not what we are here for, don't look at us."

[c.shu]

"Can't you mechanicals just order a bag of constraints? That's how we attach everything in CAD and the robot works perfect!"

[IronicDeadBird]

"Man I love Ether..."
*students look at me weird*
"What? OH hey no he's a resident of delphino plaza not the other Ether"

[DarkRune]

"I am become Bandsaw, sawwer of bands"
-Said by our resident bandsaw guy

[Addison4300]

"That doesn't go THERE!"
"Who took my wrench!"
"After we build it can we build another one that will take over the world?"

[excel2474]

Me: "Thanks for dinner, I've got to run to robotics."
Fiancee: "You're not doing robotics next year."
Me: ;(

[BL0X3R]

"Quick quiz, what does VI stand for?"
"Umm... Virtual interface?"
"You're close."
"Venezuelan interface? :confused: "

[billbo911]

Student: "21K arms, why call them that?"
Mentor: "Because it takes 21000 lines of G-code to make them."
Student: "Awesome name! 21K arms!"

[MishraArtificer]

Me: "Thanks for dinner, I've got to run to robotics."
Fiancee: "You're not doing robotics next year."
Me: ;(I hope that fiancee was joking...

[AustinH]

Upon completion of the drivetrain last Saturday:

"Does anyone have some skulls we can crush?"

[MikLast]

Testing out our new mechanum wheels on an old chassis, we find out we have one of the wheels backwards.

mentor: "We can either reverse the polarity on the motor, or change it in the software."

Jeremy: "Or... we could do both!"

[IceQueenMiki]

Mechanical Person: *shows design*
Me: Isn't that just a stick and two other sticks and a moving stick?

[Whippet]

"chute door"

[EricH]

"chute door"

"Yes, Chute Door."

[Christopher149]

"Yes, Chute Door."

"Hahahaha" - upon reading this well done reply.

[Dave_4539]

Paulson- "Who is working hard enough to have a Gatorade bottle?"
Christian- "That's mine... its got Mountain Dew in it..."

[Munchskull]

During off season this year.

"Ok everyone who is not stupid please leave for a minute." Said by our design lead while I proceed to use a milling bit in a drill to open up a slot by an 8th of an inch.

[asid61]

During off season this year.

"Ok everyone who is not stupid please leave for a minute." Said by our design lead while I proceed to use a milling bit in a drill to open up a slot by an 8th of an inch.

Like by hand?
...Hm.

[Munchskull]

Like by hand?
...Hm.

Yes by hand using a hand drill.

[Nathan_H]

"It's not a Robotics PowerPoint if you don't have a picture of RoboCop in it."

[Whippet]

Yes by hand using a hand drill.

...
...
...



*Runs off to the lab to try it out, disapproving mentors trailing behind*

[snoman]

Knowing how difficult it is sometimes to get technology (computers to use and access needed).
me. I got us some tablets to use for scouting
Student. Wow! You don't just pull strings you pull ropes!

[Amar Shah]

During off season this year.

"Ok everyone who is not stupid please leave for a minute." Said by our design lead while I proceed to use a milling bit in a drill to open up a slot by an 8th of an inch.

Still better than me. I've used a regular drill bit in the same way.

[xXhunter47Xx]

"Thank you Dean Kamen for another great day in Robotics. Amen."

[swicki]

"I love stiff noodles!" -Kayla

[Calvin Hartley]

"Thomas.exe is not responding."
-Thomas

[HelloRobot]

"I am become Bandsaw, sawwer of bands"
-Said by our resident bandsaw guy

Dean Twain's The Adventures of Band Sawwer...

Anyway, today one of the mechanical team guys was talking to me:
Guy: "Hey what group are you in?"
Me: "I'm the captain."
Guy: "We have two captains: A. and B."
Me: :( (I am C. so......)
(one of the guys he mentioned was actually the other co-captain, and the other one was our safety captain) (I guess I can't really blame him since he's somewhat mentally disabled and altogether a great guy, but still.)

[Fielding S.]

"I deburred your Pepsi!"

[EricH]

Earlier tonight:

Mom *reading a railroad museum guide*: "...carriage with six wheels..."

Me: "Is that a 6-wheel drop center, or a 6-wheel with omnis?"

Dad: *starts going into WHY a 6-wheel drop center would be beneficial in a railway application*

[Caleb Sykes]

"One thing I've noticed about the new control system is that it takes longer to get communication than the old one did."

*30 seconds later*

"Oh, I forgot to plug in the ethernet cable."

[riverdrake250]

"You sound like a frog with a combustion engine for a heart."

[EmileH]

On the back of a Norwich University Shirt:

You know you're an engineer if when you hear the word "ohm" you don't think of meditation.

[XenObliv]

Student: "Do you think this is safe?"

Mentor: "No but it's safe enough."

[swicki]

Me: "You should NOT use duck tape as toilet paper."

[vhcook]

"I need tweezers and a screwdriver. My foot fell off and there's an ear stuck in my bobbin."

(Context for this is the student was sewing ears for our hats.)

[RockerRobot]

"No Purple! It'a not Agency colors"

"STOP WIRE STRIPPING PENCILS"

"If I stay in this circle I will end up killing all of you"

[dsmeanaethorn42]

"The more I think about this, the more I think FIRST is trying to show us how much of a hassle recycling is."

[Colin Small]

"Can we put the boring bar in a hand drill?"

[riverdrake250]

1: What does FRD stand for?
2: F and R are front and rear, L and R are left and right, and D is drive.
1: So it's the front-rear drive motor?

[brynnanotbrenda]

me- So just cut out these brackets. You got that?
him- yeah, I got it.
*As I'm walking away*
him- I broke it
me- You didn't break it.
him- Look at this
me- Yup, you broke it. *to everyone* _____ BROKE MY SAW!
Rest of the shop- This is why we can't have nice things!

[brynnanotbrenda]

Background info:
The high school has FRC, middle school had FLL. We were helping the middle schoolers build this platform, but because it was early, the only people avalible to build it were the programmers. Oh dear. Anyway, it wasn't done on time (and their robot got broken twice) and everyone was really stressed.
I was drilling, the guy next to me was tapping something.
Middle school mentor comes in, him and the high school mentor started cursing each other out. (They are also both football coaches.)
The guy next to my looks at me. "____...the tap"
The tap was broken.
"Should I tell him?"
From outside, "That's $@#$@#$@#$@#$@#$@#$@#$@#!"
"Nah, we didn't really need that."

[Cmac3082]

Quick rant:
Can we please stop playing the pronoun game in this tread? If I tell y'all that Connor on team 3082 said "don't touch that, you'll break it." Thats really ok, no one is going to steal Connor's identity and it makes it much easier to read. Referring to a person as a letter or a pronoun is just confusing that's all.

Random funny build season quote:
Me "hey Alex, what did we do yesterday, I wasn't here"
Alex "nothing very productive but we did use the elevator as a guillotine and cut a banana in half"

[Grey Mann]

"Whose pants are these?" -One of our mentors, quite late at night.

(Posted on a sticky note in the far corner of our room)
"The coders live here now. It's kind of a new arrangement"

[Jarren Harkema]

Me: "What kind of metal is that?"

Jake: *Licks* "Well it's not aluminum."

[dubiousSwain]

Adventures as lead programmer:
Billy: "What does this do?"
Me: "uhh...did i write that?"
Billy: "yeah"
Me: "thats ugly"

[fayfan]

"Steer in the rear."

[Amar Shah]

Some background: Our team uses a lot of wood glue. When people are squeamish about getting their hands dirty with it, I always tell them that if you let it dry on your hands and peel it off, it leaves your skin soft and smooth. (It does.)

Teammate: Shouldn't you be wearing safety glasses?
Me: We are gluing the chassis. We don't need safety glasses.
Teammate: What if you get glue in your eyes?
Me: Let it dry, peel it off, and it will leave your eyes really smooth.

[CoachC]

If it wont move, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacement anyway!!!

[CoachC]

The ONLY TIME you shouldn't ask "Why isn't that wire plugged in?" Is if your sitting in an electric chair!!! :D

[CoachC]

Coach: This is so easy, my dog could build it.
Student: Why isn't he on the build team?
Coach: He's busy tracking down wild game.
Student: So why can't he track down the parts we need?
Coach: He did. But all he has to show for is the rear bumper off the UPS delivery truck!!! :D

[BriteBacon]

Legend has it that Evan's laptop is still deploying the code to the robot.

[robonerd]

Last year, after viewing 469's robot up close - "Do these guys worship MacGyver, or are they just making it up as they go along?"

[M.Kong-Sivert]

"Outsource the torque."

I sent an e-mail to a guy I wanted to come over and take a look at our robot. He asked if we had a budget, where our money comes from, and if we had enough. He then asked for the address. I responded, "It's at 512 East Pierce Street, and we have sufficient funding for our needs."

I didn't realize how shady that sounded until a few minutes ago.

[M.Kong-Sivert]

Last year, a teammate was demonstrating the newly-completed ball holder for the robot, saying, "It has two inches of rolly room!"

[EricH]

Quick rant:
Can we please stop playing the pronoun game in this tread? If I tell y'all that Connor on team 3082 said "don't touch that, you'll break it." Thats really ok, no one is going to steal Connor's identity and it makes it much easier to read. Referring to a person as a letter or a pronoun is just confusing that's all.

We are attempting to protect the innocent... er, guilty... er, witnesses...

...From the ridicule that may or may not be applied to them by the Court of Public Opinion.

Also, some folks (obviously you aren't one of them) have an issue with having their name online without permission, and may be unavailable to get such permission. So if you use a temporary moniker to identify them within your quote (or incident), you are home free... you know who did it, we don't know specifically, they might figure it out but it's hard to trace.

[IronicDeadBird]

"Why don't we keep the xbox controllers with the rest of the drive equipment?"
"Cause that would make sense and we don't make sense here we make robots..."

[carpedav000]

(After a long 12 hours of practice)
Mentor: Can you get me a hammer?
Me: (Comes back after a few seconds) Got it!
Mentor: DJ, this is a 6-foot 80/20 extrusion.
Me: I could've sworn I grabbed a hammer.

"Uum... Why?"

"Words are hard"

"It is not a hammer, it is a cognitive recalibration tool"

[Whippet]

"This is called an electric screwdriver. For short, we just call it a screwdriver. If we're in a hurry, we just go (holds hand up, twitching thumb while making screwdriver noises)."

[Oromus]

Mentor1 talking to Mentor2: "Hey, could you, you know, go talk to the students and try and keep them working? They're...well....playing pattycake."

Mentor2 talking to Student: "I'm going to have to take your man license."

Student: "I lost that years ago."

[jgrindle]

Mentor: *Taking bolt out with the end of screwdriver"
Parent: "your using the wrong tool, you're supposed to be using the Thump Thing(Hammer)"
Me: *taking off wheel bolt with end of a screwdriver*
Me: "whoops"

[xXhunter47Xx]

"Bolt's stuck."
"Go get the mallet of persuasion."

[devg29]

Teammate: "we blew a fuse"
Me: "we already replaced it"
Teammate: "no, we blew another one"
Me: :eek:

[cdewane]

Abby: "I swear, next season I'm just going to be on mechanical and hit stuff with hammers!"

[nicool]

"There's a tote in my chute! You know, like Woody from - "
"Yes, we know."

[Joseph1825]

"We don't need to re-invent the wheel, we can just buy one."

[1uan]

Freshman: Are you taking that apart?
Junior: No, i am putting it back together

[Diego V.]

So I said this:
https://i.imgflip.com/gursc.jpg

[1uan]

"There's a tote in my chute! You know, like Woody from - "
"Yes, we know."
now on imgur
http://imgur.com/gallery/Ocf96qf/new

[SuspectedApollo]

While gently stroking a sheet of aluminum that is about to be machined.
"You're going to be beautiful."

[RoboChair]

"There's a tote in my chute! You know, like Woody from - "
"Yes, we know."

Must be spoken with a southern drawl.

[BJT]

Me: So how much was it?
Student: 82
Me: say again!?!?
Student: 82 pounds

When we tried out our elevator I asked the kids to give me a few totes and a little extra weight to simulate a full stack and a can, about 55 pounds, they missed by a bit. it worked though:)

[piersklein]

*I walk into the shop and see 4 guys crowded around the drill press*
James *turning*: "Don't worry about it! I swear its fine"

Further context, they had been trying to attach a warped shaft to a wheel hub and instead of fixing the shaft had decided to mill out the hub

[c.shu]

Mechanical Mentor - "Some teams human players are going to get good at throwing noodles across the field."

Last Years HP - "Oh so you mean like me!"

Me - "He said 'good' human players. ;)"

[Dave_4539]

Paulson: Now we need to update the RoboRio.
David: Great... go get it Arron.
Arron: Ok...(starts walking away)... wait... whats the RoboRio thing?

Ugh... it's gonna be a long night...

[Christopher149]

CS: "When did they change the design of 80/20?"
Me: "That's not 80/20." (it's REV extrusion)

[Cryptogenic]

Senior Programmer to rookie programmer - "Hey that's working!!...... Why is it working? It shouldn't be working"

It's working, that is all that matters right

[NHoffmann]

Programming yesterday:

Me (trying to program encoder stuff): Wait, why isn't this working? This should output 45 degrees, not 1...

Mentor 1 then does the calculations, gets 45.

Me: Coach! We broke math!

Mentor 2: Wait... Is that value in radians?

Me: -_- Coach, we didn't break math.

Mentor 2: It's ok, radians happen.

[Blake B]

A new mentor, during his first day:

'You are all developers and you are all stupid!'

'So having a good first day in the team?'

[mentorroger]

Mechanical student: can I use this light wire to test a motor direct from the battery?

Electrical student: you can but you shouldn't.

lucky that the school didn't burn down and thankfully the mechanical student's fingers healed.

That one never gets old telling. Thanks, you know who you are.

[Adnewhouse]

To any rookie on the team who looks bored:

"Go get me the metric crescent wrench"
"Go get me the wood welder"
"Go get me the un-crimpers. Careful they're quite rare"
"Go get me the hammer-through tap"
"Go get me the wireless LAN cable"
"Go get me the porcelain drill bit"
"Go get me some programmer fluid"
"Go get me the solid state drive lubricant"
"Go get me the wire stretchers"
"Go get me the octane fire suppressant"


We are evil people....:)

[*Rachelle*]

To any rookie on the team who looks bored:

"Go get me the metric crescent wrench"
"Go get me the wood welder"
"Go get me the un-crimpers. Careful they're quite rare"
"Go get me the hammer-through tap"
"Go get me the wireless LAN cable"
"Go get me the porcelain drill bit"
"Go get me some programmer fluid"
"Go get me the solid state drive lubricant"
"Go get me the wire stretchers"
"Go get me the octane fire suppressant"


We are evil people....:)

So next question is, how many fall for that? Especially the metric crescent wrench. I know a few rookies on my team that would go for it. :D

[riverdrake250]

"I thought a dynamo was a species of pig..."

[PAR_WIG1350]

So next question is, how many fall for that? Especially the metric crescent wrench. I know a few rookies on my team that would go for it. :D

http://www.crescenttool.com/new-products/crescent-cx6rwm7-7-pc-x6tm-metric-open-end-ratcheting-wrench-set.html

[EricH]

So next question is, how many fall for that? Especially the metric crescent wrench. I know a few rookies on my team that would go for it. :D

*grins* Reminds me of the time when my then-lead at work asked myself and another new trainee to go get a *wood* stretcher from a particular person. I started laughing. The other trainee asked the person... who naturally had no idea what was being asked about.

Also add to the list:
--nonferrous magnet (preferably brass, BTW)
--aluminum PVC
--headlight fluid
--canned magic smoke, we need to refill some of our electronics.


(It wasn't wood, just substituting that.)

[xXhunter47Xx]

*upon losing the pin for a #25 half-link*
Me: I've scoured the entire floor with the magnet sweeper, I can't find it!
Mentor: Have you tried crawling on your hands and knees yet?
Me: *drops to commando crawl position*
Mentor: because if you haven't crawled around you haven't exhausted all your resources yet
Within the first five seconds of him saying that
Me: *magnet sweeper grabs something* Found it.

[Pretzel]

I ask new electrical team members to weigh all the batteries when they're getting a charged one for testing. I tell them to bring me the heaviest one since it will have more electrons in it. A couple of them have fallen for it so far.

[CoachC]

To any rookie on the team who looks bored:

"Go get me the metric crescent wrench"
"Go get me the wood welder"
"Go get me the un-crimpers. Careful they're quite rare"
"Go get me the hammer-through tap"
"Go get me the wireless LAN cable"
"Go get me the porcelain drill bit"
"Go get me some programmer fluid"
"Go get me the solid state drive lubricant"
"Go get me the wire stretchers"
"Go get me the octane fire suppressant"


We are evil people....:)

Please add:

An Air pump for the bot tires
A can of wifi frequency grease
A backup battery for the pneumatic cylinders
And......A 20 amp hydraulic switch!

[EricH]

Please add:

An Air pump for the bot tires


The teams who use pneumatic tires don't try that one unless they mean it.

[Jarren Harkema]

"I didn't injure myself. It just hurt."

[pikachuguy3389]

me:*holding new hammer*
student1: "can i see the label maker."
me: "sure". *grabs label maker*
student1: *types "mjolnir" into label maker*
me: "why did you name it mjolnir?"
student1: "because the newbies are not worthy of its power."
me *laughs*

[rhinobot]

Me and a few students had spent HOURS making a bunch of custom gussets as per CAD designs sent to us by another mentor for an assembly made of versa frame.

*Mentor comes in for the day, we had finished the gussets and were working on the rest of the assembly*
Me: We finished the gussets, now were are working on the rest of the parts
Mentor: What gussets?
Me: These ones *points to drawing*
Mentor: Oh....we are using the 90 degree versa gussets for this I should have clarified...
- huge gasp by the students and I -
Me: You just crushed our dreams...

-later that day im in the storage room-
Student: Im looking for the things
Me: Things?
Student: The dream replacers
Me: oh...right here *hands 90 degree versa gussets*

[Munchskull]

Today while picking up sheet metal parts from a small town with a Bugerville ( a really awesome northwest buger chain).

*Student1 and mentor are talk in the front seat.*
Mentor:(something)...shank.
Me:I like chocolate shanks.
Mentor: vanilla shanks are good too.

Later at bugerville drive through.

Mentor: I would like 1 medium chocolate milkshake, four medium chocolate hazlenut milkshakes and ONE straw.
Me: So what is the plan for the straw. Share it?
Mentor: No the straw is for ME you guys will figure something out.

[nicool]

Backstory: this year our team has been wiring in the neatest, most organized fashion we have ever done.

Mentor: Wow, that looks really nice! The only downside is that we can tell exactly what wires go where. It takes out the suspense of tracing by hand.

[riverdrake250]

"Next year, we should build the robot out of toothpicks."

[Tinmint1]

Two teenage boys walk into our shop...
Boy 1: what kinda store is this
Coach: This is a Robotics meeting place
Boy 2: where is the robot
Coach points to trash can, both boys stare for a minute
5th grade FLL girl practicing near by: are you two actually stupid.... It still has trash in it.:]

[Captn_Dave]

"If David drops this allen wrench, I am going to punch you..."

[Jarridj4009]

Marketing captain-"This is a clamp right?"
Me (Build captain)-"No those are pliers..."
Marketing captain- "Whatever, I deal in money not tools"


I'm sitting in our machine shop playing with our custom screw that has a pulley dead center. The pulley pulls free and just about flies across the room.
Me-"I DIDN'T KNOW IT DID THAT!"
Build mentor- This is why we can't have nice things.

Build mentor-"It's within 2 thousandths, its close enough."
Team Machinist-"Not in my world." *continues placing piece back in the mill.

[Jarridj4009]

There is a small scrimmage the Sunday before bag and tag and we found a large flaw in our design. After staying up all night the previous night to finish the wiring for the scrimmage. Our team is at one of our mentors garages where i have my own personal bedroom. I just delegated tasks to have completed before morning.
"If you value your life, wake me up only after its done, or if there is a DEFCON 4 emergency. When you do wake me up, make sure you have dew ready."

[xXhunter47Xx]

"Guys I think I'm devoting too much time to robotics, I'm coming in at lunch to CAD"

"Thank you for joining the rest of us on the team"

[1uan]

Robotics is not a time to play with your noodle

[Mineking116]

G:Go get the Pneumatic fluid
M:Oki!
*5 Minutes later to our coach and a few mentors*
M:Hey, anyone know where I can find the pneumatic fluid? G sent me and I can't find it.
Mentor:Yeah, it's in my office. It should be in a red canister
M:Oh, ok, I will grab it. Thanks
*5 More minutes later*
M:I still can't find it
Mentor:You're standing on it
M:What?
Mentor:Right there
M:Where?
Mentor:Everywhere. It is air...
M:.........


Now the running joke for today.

[nicool]

"These needlenose pliers are the best. Bae."
"Bae-dlenose?"

[MechEng83]

Mentor: "How much weight did you just add?"
Student: "We don't know."
Mentor: "You could have weighed it before you put it on."
Student: "Well, we could weigh the robot, then rip off the piece and weigh the robot again."
Mentor: "..."

[Dana Simpkin]

"With all due respect, I would much rather use common sense than the Transitive Property of Addition." -- Matt Sinclair

[Grey Mann]

"I'm going to transform my foot into a foot with your a$$ wrapped around it!"
-Overheard at competitions last year. I think someone was forgetting the whole Friendly Competition thing.

[Tinmint1]

You have now wasted your dumb statement of the day.... From now on only intelligence please

[Whippet]

"This is good progress. Usually by this point nobody knows how it's supposed to work until it doesn't. Now that it's all coming together, we can all see exactly how it's going to not work!"

[3BlindMice]

Me - J, are you cutting the sheet of sandpaper?
J - Yes.
Me - J, what are you cutting the sandpaper with?
J - Scissors.
Me - J, are those the good scissors?
J - Yes.
Me - <Rolling Eyes & Under Breath> Not anymore.

[3BlindMice]

Random Team Member to other Random Team Member selecting which song to play next in build area - "Play some Korn. Mitch likes Korn."

[RomeroFRC5012]

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.

"Good Enough"

[Navid Shafa]

Me: "Pop Quiz Kids: Tell me something new about this year's tournament strucutre"

Student: "It's a Red-Robin right?"

MFW
http://i.imgur.com/8ELiBIGs.jpg

[BL0X3R]

One student was drilling a hole, two other people were spotting him.

Spotter 1: a bit up...
Spotter 2: to the left...
Spotter 1: up again...
Spotter 2: right a bit...
Driller: it's like I'm entering a cheat code, up up down down left right left right.
Me and another mentor at the same time: B A start!

Much laughing and high-fiving was done afterwards. :cool:

[CoachC]

Close enough. We're not building a piano

[3BlindMice]

Overheard a lot while building field pieces: "Don't worry about it. We'll tape it."

[Diego V.]

Thought I would just mention that the FRC Q&A team has a magic 8 ball that they use to predict what teams will do.

http://i.snag.gy/sNNPs.jpg

[nikolojedison]

Battery Master during brainstorming a couple weeks ago: "Put it in the centre of the middle."

[Addison4300]

"WHO STOLE MY DRILL?!"
"We need to stack the box, container, bin, tote, thingie"
"Why do we even bother...?"
"Close enough!"
"WHY WONT THE AXLE FIT!?"
"WE NEED MORE POWER!!!"

[snoman]

on our girls team. girl A hands girl B our tote grabbing mechanism girl B clutches it with both arms to her chest. girl B says "robots hurt to hug". i almost died...:D

[Grey Mann]

Scouting Master"Can I name the scouting laptop 'Lieutenant Commander Data?"
Scouting Mentor:"... No..."

[CoachC]

"Coach. The holes on this don't line up".
"Turn it around".

"Coach. I think it's broke".
"Ok. Just add some pizza sauce".

[xXhunter47Xx]

Mentor on CAD last week
"Is the CAD done yet?"
"almost there!"

Today
"Is the CAD done yet?"
"almost there!"

[Calvin Hartley]

Lead programmer, on the topic of duplicate components:
"Well, they're spliced together. One is working and the other is not. That means it's a mechanical problem."
*fist pump*
"I love saying that."

[xXhunter47Xx]

"Chit Kassis"
"#!@% kassis?"

[alexis tuggle]

After a long build day two students were watching us test the robot for a long time and our head mentor said "what are you guys doing? Are you guys pidgins?"

[Ozuru]

"Can't we just hot glue some Plexiglas to it or something?"

[Certified Nerd]

Me-"what's wrong with the robot code?"
Mentor-"It's so broken we may have to re-install labview"

Me-"Where is the sonic screwdriver?"

Me-"go get me the metric sharpie"

Me-"I don't think we should build our drive train out of would"

Mentor 2-"Gobble-Gobble-Gobble"

[Dave_4539]

The other morning we were doing some test driving. After making a stack of four this is what happened:

Christian: Dang, we're getting pretty good at driving.
(Not more than a second later he bumped the controls and knocked the stack onto the table causing everything on it to explode)....
Nevermind....

[Whippet]

(...causing everything on it to explode)....

Stuff on tables doesn't tend to explode... Care to elaborate?

[Dave_4539]

Stuff on tables doesn't tend to explode... Care to elaborate?

Well I didnt mean that literally, it just sounded like it and stuff went everywhere... dont worry, we're not making any bombs here. :)

[MDAWG25]

"We managed to turn recycle rush into a water(ish) game."

[Christopher149]

Stuff on tables doesn't tend to explode... Care to elaborate?

Clearly someone was playing KSP; everything explodes there.

[rainbowbear998]

"It works, just not yet." Currently the most said phrase on our team...
"I'm sure the code will work this time!" Said wayyy too often.

[Christopher149]

We've recently taken to calling one pair of scissors the "Magic Scissors". They look about like this (http://www2.knifecenter.com/item/AU18053/Clauss-7-inch-True-Professional-Titanium-Bonded-Snip-Bent-Serrated), and a casual observer might think they're "funny" and not good for anything. But they're fantastic at "soft" materials like pool noodle, pneumatic tubing, dual-lock, fabrics, and rubber sheets. We've also cut some wire with them better than the wire cutter part of our one wire stripper.

If it won't cut otherwise, try the Magic Scissors.

[debbiemusselman]

"We're gonna need a bigger bag"

[Jacob Bendicksen]

It's like I'm giving birth!

[Whippet]

Clearly someone was playing KSP; everything explodes there.

Touché. It seems that stuff there is made of Explodium.

*Explodium, or Xp, is the secret ingredient in 1902's Mentor Bacon.

[bobjones227]

"Why should we name our robot Admiral Akbar?"
"BECAUSE IT'S A TOTE!"

[Daria Wing]

"Friends let friends eat Cheese-Its out of their pocket when the snack shelf is low"
"Its gigabytes"
"Don't do that. It can kill you."-"We should just make 1000 ways to die, Robotics Edition"
"Is that enough duct tape"
"Are you sure you measured it again?"
"What are you guys doing?"-"Breathing. Growing hair. Sitting."

[Oromus]

*Explodium, or Xp, is the secret ingredient in 1902's Mentor Bacon.

Sssshhh, you're not supposed to make secrets like this public!

[Ashley Hartley]

"The compressor is half the temperature of a toasted Subway sandwich."

[Woody910]

"Square hole, round shaft. No workey."
"Yeah, I know some programming languages. A little Spanish, mostly German though."
"6 inches is the new 7.125 inches."
"Where's the fifth and six wheel?" Four weeks into build season, FYI, and our robot has four wheels.

[Arrowhead]

When talking about testing the code:
Me: You don't really expect the code to work perfectly the very first time yo run it.
Coach: Yes you do(completely seriously).

[Mythheart]

"I have some good ideas for the name.

Either Elly, Fang, or Angry Llama!"

[Grey Mann]

Mechanical Mentor: We really need to get the funnel attached to the robot by the end of today.
Mechanical Student: We have a funnel? Really? When did we get that??
Mechanical Mentor: About two weeks ago..

[TogetherSword8]

Freshman: "Why are we mounting such a big battery at the bottom?"
Veteran: "Well, we wanted to put it at the top, because gravity will help the electricity flow that way, but we decided that if we just used a larger one we could get enough power between that and an electricity pump and use its weight to prevent the robot from falling over."
Freshman: "Why not just put the big battery at the top and use the extra power to prevent the robot from flipping over?"

[Linkathon1986]

Mentor: We need to find a way to make it faster.
Me: Add more speed; or turbo boosters, always add turbo boosters!
Teammate: Strategy Department, making flawless strategies as always.

[dsmeanaethorn42]

Captain, shaking a doorknob: "Listen, you can hear the ocean!"
Rules Manager: "Now we can get standard-issue multitools!"

[catacon]

"I'm only good for two things: makin' parts and rippin' farts."

[Jacob Bendicksen]

"They can throw away our Cluck, but they can't throw away our Norris!"

[Grey Mann]

Backstory: Our school does Candygrams around Valentines Day as a fundraiser for various clubs (Not Robotics, sadly). Said Candygrams are traditionally delivered to their recipients by a horde of the manliest men in school, all wearing bright pink tutus, leggings and the occasional set of fairy wings, all singing various songs by Justin Beiber. Naturally, one of our captains sent a Candygram to another captain and this is what transpired when they met in the hall before our meeting.

Captain 1: So did you get a candygram today?
Captain 2: Oh, just one. I can't quite remember who it was from though...
Captain 1: Beats me.
Captain 2: Oh that right! I remember now!
Captain 1: Who was it?
Captain 2: You! (He then proceeds to spout a very creative string of curses and death threats that I am obliged not to replicate on these forums.)

[toramo]

http://imgur.com/r9wcDnD

[BJT]

I think it would be fun to put on a leather suit and fight a raccoon.

Random, out of the blue comment from college age mentor.
It's time to be done:)

[M.Kong-Sivert]

Alvaro: Does somebody have a flash drive? We need nine gigabytes.
Dadream: Here! (Hands over a ridiculously old flash drive)
Alvaro: No! We are not using this. How much storage does it even have?
Dadream: It has gigabytes.
Me: (After trying it) You lied, Dadream; this does not have gigabytes, it has one gigabyte.

You can't fax money

[Christopher149]

"a ridiculously old flash drive...one gigabyte."

I still have a 128MB flash drive.

[Jarren Harkema]

Two students are discussing across vs acrosst

"Look at me! Look at me. I don't care."

[blackbrandt]

When milling parts...


"I LOVE THIS MILL!!!"


About 30 seconds later, when we are trying to get the x location to 1.1875 and it keeps flipping to 1.1188...

"@#$%^ YOU MILL!!"


We finally determined that the student was in a love hate relationship with the mill. :)

[xXhunter47Xx]

No sleep till robot.

[IronicDeadBird]

"We are all in agreement next years theme is Frozen correct?"

[bEdhEd]

"Scratching the powder coating in a match is a mark of honor. Scratching the powder coating while building the robot is inexcusable"

[legts]

"I'm gonna call the sleepy-sleepy method right now......." - a very tired programmer who was forced to go take a nap

[1uan]

in a Steve Irwin voice "crikey look at those programmers"

[Steven Smith]

It was reported to me by my wife that at ~4:00am Sunday morning, I was sleep-walking around the bedroom, trying to find a drill to re-rivet the arms for our elevator. I'm thinking a 48 hour nap after bag and tag might be in order...

[cgrace]

"Did you seriously forget the battery?"

[M.Kong-Sivert]

Since last night was Stop Build Day, we have today "off" from robotics (except for an officer meeting), so this happened last night as we were packing up:

Me: What's a "day off," and what does one do with it? Should I just spin around in circles until I get a splitting headache?
Lead mentor: Well, you could still do robotics stuff at home. You could work on the website.
Me: (immediately cheering up) Okay! I'll do that.

[The_ShamWOW88]

"You guys are still here?"

[homerun33ss]

"Let's not, and say we did!"

[xXhunter47Xx]

Upon bagging the robot

Mentor: "And now back to our regularly scheduled lives"
Student: "what's that?"

Student: "What am I going to do with my life now?"

Senior members
Student 1: "This is our last build season..."
Student 2: "I'm gonna miss this in some sick sadistic way."

Student 1: "I'm gonna start having robot withdrawals"
Student 2: "You're gonna wake up at 3:00 AM and start looking for a 7/16 nut driver"

[tStano]

"Thats a tomorrow problem"

[KMeyers]

"Not with that attitude you can't"

[nikolojedison]

Me, when about to install RobotPy on the practice bot to our programming mentor: "We're spreading the gospel of Python!"

[sergioCorral842]

One of our engineering mentors, when the robot was starting to get heavy:

"Well, we could always strap a bunch of helium balloons on the robot"

[Rob Davis II]

"But the empty battery weighs less!"

"Looks like the robot needed another blood sacrifice."

While detaching our electronics board:
"Is this technically removing the robot's heart or intestines?"
"Its nervous system, I think."

Later that night - a.k.a. midnight on the last day of build:
"So we pretty much bagged an empty frame?"
"Yep."

And on the list goes...

[hyprvx]

"Gimme that ALCOHOL!!!"
"Ohmygosh blood"

Someone cut their finger. First is their (joking) reaction to disinfection with Hydrogen Peroxide in contrast to rubbing alcohol, the second is someone else on the team's reaction upon walking in on the area.

[hyprvx]

Today I found some papers in our recycling bin game piece.

"Who's been using the recycle bin for its intended purpose?"

[Ashley Hartley]

"Jarren, where's the center punch?"

[Jarren Harkema]

"Jarren, where's the center punch?"

See, this would only be funny in context. I shall elaborate.

You know when someone asks where something is before looking for it themselves? That has been the entire build season with the stupid center punch. One day, fed up with this needless question, I proclaimed "If I hear 'where's the center punch' one more time I'll [insert threat I can't remember here]"

Needless to say. They found my button, and the question is asked the moment someone needs it.

[Tina Nguyen]

I love this so much:

"Some people just don't understand logic until you've written it on a 2 x 2 piece of plywood and hit them over the head with it. Even then there are those few who still don't get it."

Spoken by one of our mentors with whom I was discussing some of the issues with certain teammates.

[OAXACA]

**Conversation said whilst compiling a list for a Home Depot run**

M: What do we need from Home Depot?
A:Spray paint.
J: Oh...and uh...tell Popham we broke our dremel.
M:...
A:...
J:...
A: Nah, I'm not telling her that.
J:I'm not telling her either!
M:She's gonna kill us, we're dead. And it's not even stop build day yet!!

[KosmicKhaos]

"This years game is a lot like NASCAR. It's only exciting when things go wrong"

[Cody Lowen]

"I guarantee 100% that it will work this time.."

"Theoretically there should be no issues."

[BJT]

I don't care if Jesus himself programmed that thing, we're testing that auto mode before we try it on the field.

[MooreteP]

"Better would be better."

[thyme]

By some of our machining people, written on the white board:

"Stop Machinist Abuse
Every time you make a machinist do math, God throws 100 kittens into the fires of Mount Doom."

[MechEng83]

Last night while working later than our scheduled meeting time, our lead controls mentor's wife comes in:

Wife: "Hey, just wondering when you were coming home"
Mentor: "We're almost finished here"
Wife: "Ok, so another hour or two"
Me: "So you do speak robot time"


right after she left, another programming mentor chimed in with this one:

"Mr. M has a watchdog, and it just timed out"

[Mschmeh144]

During testing and the first fire up of the old robots

" what the hell? Why is it spinning"
" oh great now parts are flying off"
" can we play bumper cars with the bots?"
"OOOHHHHH ITS ANGRY!" As the 2014 robot body slams a student against a wall.
"It's not working"
" you forgot to turn it on."
" how much of the LED do you need?" " all of it"
" team 144s robot= epic seizure time" * did anyone see our bot at the Pittsburgh regional? If you did you'd understand
" why didn't you go" " stop asking that same stupid question before I smack you"

[Jarren Harkema]

Mechanical student goes to ask programming student a question.

Mentor: "DONT DISTRACT MY PROGRAMMER!"

[kmusa]

Probably been heard before, but...

Programmer: "It's in the code."

Team member: "It's in the code to run into the wall at full speed???"

[GreyingJay]

"MERGE!"

We use GitHub on our programming team, and it gets fun when multiple people need to update the repository. A person will make a pull request and yell "MERGE!" to let the other students know that changes are coming (or that someone's changes resulted in a merge conflict). Everyone yells it back in response. It sounds like a herd of mooing cattle.

When we took a vote to name our robot, "Merge!" came in second place.

And don't ask what happened to me when I was back at work and overheard a coworker say "merge"...

[MariOlsen]

This technically wasn't during build season, but on the bus coming back from our first ever regional one of the freshmen said "Yeah, the judges came and asked me a question and I didn't know the answer. So I looked around and saw someone with a big button and figured, 'Oh, he must be important!' so I told them to ask him." The person with the big button was our safety captain, so that strategy worked...

[NHoffmann]

Testing a new autonomous,

Me: "Yep, it's programmed fine. We can just line the robot up next to the table and try it out."

*Robot proceeds to run full-speed into the table, trying its best to push it through my rib cage*

"Never mind, it's not fine. The robot isn't happy that we're trying to make it do what we want."

[GreyingJay]

"Why is it mad at me?" - students really asking "why did the compiler flag this line of code with a red X"

[IronicDeadBird]

While discussing strategy:
"You don't want a dead fish on your plate of scallops."
I still don't know where that came from.

[BigJack]

We like to pawn weight or space issues off to other sub-teams as a running gag.

"She's a little over weight. Add more zeroes to the code!"

"But where do the electronics go?"
"On a trailer behind the robot, of course."

Coincidentally, we've been saying that second one for years, but this year it's actually a valid response.

[Jacob4564]

"Hey can you remove the gyro, programmers need to work on it."

"Sure." (Rips it out.)

(Tries to drive later on) "Why won't this thing drive?

I think the programmers broke it."

Silly engineers, just why? :confused:

[UnknownFactor]

Q: "Hey programmers, why doesn't the robot drive?" Says the driver.

"Have you tried turning it on and off again?"

"Did you put a battery in it"

"Did you plug in the controller"

"Are you using the correct robot?"

"Did you press the space bar by mistake?"

"Are you on test mode?"

"Is it a problem with the driver height difference?"

"Has Atlas become sentient?"