"Quotes" that were said during build season

[riverdrake250]

"Wait, our left or their right?"

[silver505]

" No sleep till robot" (Team members put quote on every white board and water bottles)

[GeeTwo]

About two weeks before Bayou, our tote stacks weren't level, so we decided to add a few washers behind the "foot" that holds the bottom of the tote away from the robot and therefore level. We were afraid that if we went out too far, we couln't pick up totes at all, so we figured we'd have to tweak it in and out a few times. After the kids tested the best estimate from some measurements, I went back to Jesse (head coach).

Me: Y' know how we were afraid that we couldn't pick up totes if we put those spacers behind the foot?
Jesse: Yes.
Me: Well, build added 3/8 of an inch, and the drivers say it picks up better than ever.
Jesse: (shrugs) Better is better.


This one is from yesterday, as we were designing upgrades for St. Louis:

Me: "We can't use hose clamps to hold it on"
Jim: "Why not?"
Me: <make wrapping horizontal motion with finger and pull the lift plate up and down>
Jim: "You're crushing my dreams."

And a few one-liners:


(At Bayou, while the robot was in the queue) "Don't throw the pointed noodles in the pit" (a mitered bumper piece)

(Said many times to many people): "That's using your noodle, <name>"

"Do the thing!"

[killer_rabbit3]

Mechanical: "can we borrow this for 5 minutes?"

Controls: proceeds to start counting to 300 seconds

300 seconds later

Controls: They tell lies!!!!!!

[Jarren Harkema]

I was overhearing our programming lead and mentor discussing adjusting our strafe drive control.

Mentor: "What did you tweak the fudge factor on the strafe to?"
Programming lead: "Oh, I didn't, I made a separate fudge."
Mentor: "...so fudge on top of fudge."
Me: "mmmm. ..double fudge..":rolleyes:

[Ichlieberoboter]

Team co captain to freshman: "What do you and our robot have in common right now?"
Freshman: "What?"
Team co captain to freshman: "Neither of you work"

[Skyehawk]

"Oh, that's easy."
- Myself as a programmer

[CaptainKirby]

These were all chants we used in the mosh pit during eliminations in Colorado:

"My name is Adrian"
"We can make a circle too"
"Believe in the me that believes in you"

And one of my favorites from the entire regional:

"Totes my goats, totes totes my goats"

[rainbowbear998]

"It's like the Placebo Effect, but being an idiot."

[killer_rabbit3]

"Drew! The microwave's on fire"
everyone looks towards the smoking microwave
"I swear I put water in it"

[GreyingJay]

"Drew! The microwave's on fire"
everyone looks towards the smoking microwave
"I swear I put water in it"

Water can superheat and explode when heated up in a microwave. If you've ever seen video or had it happen to you, it's scary! Check out YouTube for plenty of examples.

Never actually seen a microwave on fire though...

Speaking of... here's a quote that was unfortunately said of our team at the North Bay regional this past weekend:

"Hey, um... isn't that your robot over there that's smoking?"

(We let the magic smoke out of a CIM motor)

[RoboChair]

(We let the magic smoke out of a CIM motor)

You actually KILLED a CIM motor? I thought they were indestructible....

[MishraArtificer]

Speaking of... here's a quote that was unfortunately said of our team at the North Bay regional this past weekend:

"Hey, um... isn't that your robot over there that's smoking?"

(We let the magic smoke out of a CIM motor)That does not seem physically possible...

[GreyingJay]

You actually KILLED a CIM motor? I thought they were indestructible....

That does not seem physically possible...

The motor drives our forklift by way of a pair of belts. In bagged configuration we completely removed the forklift carriage and fork assembly as well as the belts. So on Thursday, we assembled the carriage and clamped it securely to the frame while reinstalling and tensioning the belts. The next step was to assemble the rest of the fork while everything was still clamped.

Meanwhile, the robot inspector had us power on the robot to test pneumatics and other things "down below" in the drive frame. I don't really know how or why it happened, but we suspect that when the robot was put into teleop mode to test the compressor, the forklift motor was somehow activated. In any case, the motor became incredibly hot and started to not only send smoke into the air, but began to drip melted winding insulation.

Oops. :(

[Tytus Gerrish]

http://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pocket_sand_king_of_the_hill.gif

[ey206208]

"You are a disappointment to your family, your village, and your cow!"
Don't ask about that one...

[3175leheh]

"Pool Noodles Make Me Nervous"

[GeeTwo]

"You are a disappointment to your family, your village, and your cow!"
Don't ask about that one...

What's to ask? Disappointing your family is all too common. Disappointing your village is two or three sigmas out. Disappointing your cow takes special talent.

[GeeTwo]

Actually this one was during driver practice:

Silly drive coach, totes are for 'bots!

[MechEng83]

Not a quote so much as a conversation that was occurring:

Several boys on my team were discussing hair care products today, while the girls worked on the practice robot...

#diversity

[carpedav000]

Not a quote so much as a conversation that was occurring:

Several boys on my team were discussing hair care products today, while the girls worked on the practice robot...

#diversity

I bet I know who :cool:

Miss you guys, working very hard to be able to participate over the summer/1st nine weeks.

[GeeTwo]

Our safety manager isn't allowed to use the power tools, because he used a drill as a pointing device.

So 1787 isn't the only team that made the least-safe person on the team safety captain?

On 1523 ours is safe she just forgets to wear closed toed shoes, bring hair ties, and she sometimes doesn't pay attention when walking into a room. Sadly she isn't the most unsafe person on the team............ that belongs to a mentor

That would be a resounding "no".

Same here at 3946. In addition to the safety captain, we have a safety officer in each department (programming, controls, drive, manipulators). The captain is usually a sophomore or junior whom we're grooming to lead a department. Most of the safety officers are selected from the least safe team members. We also purchased some safety orange bandanas from Hobby Lobby, and the safety officers toss them sort of like NFL penalty flags when they observe an unsafe activity taking place (or increasingly, about to take place). It's worked well this year, and in all but one case in our short four year history.



"Karl stuck the multimeter in the wall, and it's smoking."
Yeah, I did that, too -- at the house when I was about three years old. (Dad was an electronics technician/engineer and ham extra class operator.) The smoke stain persisted for about twelve or fifteen years (mostly behind a stereo system) as a reminder before finally being painted over. If FRC had been around in the late '70's, I would have assigned my high school self to safety as well. Undergrad lab courses and a few trips to sea were my biggest safety instruction.

[evanperryg]

Scouting meeting:
"Well this isn't right, the ranking algorithm isn't supposed to output negative values"
"What's it saying"
"Negative 2"
"I rate your scouting a negative 2"

[zsnow]

"Put it in the cuddle position!"

[75vs1885]

This was said a couple years ago but it was still funny
"Stephen, you are like a blackhole, you suck all the positive energy out of everyone..your new nickname is now blackhole"

[ClearDonkey]

Well, it's not quite a quote, but everyone right now on our team is pointing out the irony of their safety captain fracturing her foot right before Worlds... ::ouch::

That safety captain might be me... :yikes:

[Hgree56]

Our favorite quote during this season was from our competitions, "Did it work this match?"

[Juan&Only]

One of my favorite quotes from this build season was "I do the math"

[MaGiC_PiKaChU]

Before our last final match...
Me : "Coach! I feel like a wheel is broken when I drive"
Coach : "Get the hammer"

turns out hitting things works sometimes

[jgrindle]

Mentor"everyone's got there team shirt on for a picture before wet leave right?"
Me"uhhh... No I've got 811's"

[jprince58]

Our teams drive coach after every match had two words for the drivers and the human player, whether they put up 20 or 200 points:
"You suck".
It was later taped to the practice human player station, so the human player never forgets.

[Connor McBride]

"let's not build a 6 and a half foot tall robot!" (ended up making one):D

[jgrindle]

"This is popcorn, it tastes like all kinds of nice tasty things"

[legts]

This was back in week 4, but my reaction after my team won the regional engineering inspiration award: 'HOLY MOTHER OF PIZZA WE'RE GOING TO WORLDS!!"

[riverdrake250]

To family member: "Of course I know how to throw a pool noodle, I'm on a robotics team, remember?"

[jijiglobe]

Quote from an inspector at New York Regional:

"How do you say chainsaw in Chinese?"

[carpedav000]

(Us at the FTC state championship, turning on our robot's alliance-indicating LEDs before a match)

Me- Initiate swag-mode!

*Teammate switches to the wrong color*

Me- It would seem our swag is the wrong color

[Mschmeh144]

"Good job, we got it to spin in circles and now there's bolts flying off it. Amazing. "

[K-Dawg157]

"We all about dat Swerve Doe"

"Hey... where's the robot?"

"So... forklift?"

"Oh look. The robot dinged the wall again..."

[Sophia2605]

"I didn't know it was called conduit, I thought it was called doctor octopus!"

[blackbrandt]

Well... In describing the harpoon system that 900 was installing before EINSTEINS...


I was the guy answering questions about the robot. Someone asked what it actually was...

"This is a Hail Mary shotgun approach that borderlines insanity. Any questions?"

[evanperryg]

After having a disaster of a match because we forgot our ramp, we printed signs reading "dont forget the ramp!" and taped them all over the pit.

[Jack Gillespie]

Do you have any pneumatic fluid?

[devg29]

friend on another team: "well, it worked!" (it did in fact work, but we didn't do so well in the match)

[fovea1959]

Do you have any pneumatic fluid?

air *is* fluid, so that's actually a profound question...

[MattRain]

*autonomous starts*

*Robot moves*

*Robot Stops moving*

Student: "The robot stopped working in Autonomous."

Me/Coach: "GO kick it"

*Robot starts moving again*

(Multiple times, teams would laugh at us when they saw us do it on the practice fields.)

(We will be the first to die when the robots take over....)

[K-Dawg157]

Inspector comes to inspect our robot;

Inspector: And you don't have any sort of extra radio waves or anything that may mess up others right?

Teammate: Awww man! Does that mean no EMP'S?

[Poseidon5817]

One of our mentors, regarding our tote stopper mechanism: "It's almost like it's retarded or something!"

Me: "We can't stack that fast even if we do hack the chute door!"

Announcer from a regional: "If they stack those boxes they get HUUUGE bonuses!"

Me, after autonomous fails again: "Still more accurate than SpaceX."

We also named our stack clamping mechanism the #25fourks and our main elevator forks the #11fourkteens...

[aphelps231]

"We were supposed to queue in two minutes which was one minute ago" -a mentor

[astriano375]

* after auton starts and we run the code that does nothing*

"Hey look the code worked"

"Maybe it will break and give us a 3 tote auton"

[Deneb]

"Jackie Robinson, not DELPHI ELITE" (when discussing maximum points per stack)

[Jus_McG-3193]

"Jackie Robinson, not DELPHI ELITE" (when discussing maximum points per stack)

I'm going to have to take personal credit for that one ;). For those wondering, we said it jokingly of course seeing as team 48 (Delphi E.L.I.T.E.) is one of 3193's most trusted friends. It was brought up when a team member confused the maximum point stack for 48 points instead of 42. Why I chose Jackie Robinson I will never know

[GeeTwo]

Do you have any pneumatic fluid?

air *is* fluid, so that's actually a profound question...

There was at least one call for compressed air in the pits at CMP. I'm presuming they wanted it for tools or practice, as the robot must compress its own air for competition.

[Sperkowsky]

I'm going to have to take personal credit for that one ;). For those wondering, we said it jokingly of course seeing as team 48 (Delphi E.L.I.T.E.) is one of 3193's most trusted friends. It was brought up when a team member confused the maximum point stack for 48 points instead of 42. Why I chose Jackie Robinson I will never know
Jackie robinson is #42

[Padava]

A programming student after running a new auto.

"OK, so there are a bunch of numbers on this screen, so I'm going to read them"

15 seconds later

"I don't have the number I needed."

[Joseph DeRoest]

When my dad drops me off at our shop: "Have fun, make friends, break things."

The team's famous last words: "In theory, ..." (I know, so original!)

When said theory breaks down during competitions: "It all worked at the shop!"

My response to the theory breakdown: "...That is pathetic."

[fargus111111111]

1. From a mentor to me, the programmer, "If it ain't tested, it don't work"
2.The team's favorite quote from a student when a motor started smoking, "It's catching on smoke!"
3. The famous, "Just give me one more minute"
4. it was said of one student, "If he can't break it, it can't be broken"

[BaileyJoseph166]

A personal favorite of mine was "This robot is held together with 4/40 hardware and tears."

[FRCmediaMan]

"MECANUM WHEELS?!?!?! ON A BIN CLAW?! ARE U CRAZY?!"

[Sperkowsky]

"MECANUM WHEELS?!?!?! ON A BIN CLAW?! ARE U CRAZY?!"
When I saw your reveal video I thought you were crazy at first.

[halowaffle47]

"Just use the percussive maintenance device, works every time"-student

[CaptainKirby]

When we were watching footage of our bin raker in slow motion, a student who couldn't see the video said this:

"What are you watching? An earthquake?"

[logank013]

A team member and I were measuring the dimensions of our new trailer for CAD modeling. We are both holding a tape measure above our head to try to measure a part.

Phil "What's the measure!?!"
Me "2..... 2...... 2......" *Can't get a good read*
Phil "2 What Logan!?! 2 What!?!"
*I drop the tape measure and start cracking up laughing...*

[logank013]

*Looking at scouting data on an excel spreadsheet*
*Non-Scout comes up* "That team must be amazing. They have a 9 in that category where everyone else has a 0 or 1."
Me: "Considering that category is 'step bins in auto', someone done messed up"
Non-scouter: "Oh"

[TheSteamedPunk]

"Don't listen to what I say, listen to what I mean."

[HolyDollar]

Do you have any pneumatic fluid?

Can you get me a left-handed screwdriver?

[Zac Schofield]

"Our Robot Om nom nom tote!"
~Our CEO

[carpedav000]

Can you get me a left-handed screwdriver?

I also need a metric sharpie.

[GreyingJay]

I also need a metric sharpie.

I wish you could convert them more easily. Our workshop gets a little cluttered when you have to keep separate sets of pens, pencils, erasers, etc. for imperial and for metric.

And don't even get me started on screwdrivers...

[3BlindMice]

Random Team Member - "What is wrong with the shop vac?" as a sawdust fountain appears at the exhaust.
Me - "Did you put the filter back on when you dumped the sawdust?"
RTM - "What filter?"

This leads to a trip back to the dumpster to retrieve the filter paper. After 20 minutes, the shop vac is once again ready and the power switch is flipped. <Sawdust Fountain>

RTM - "But we put the filter back on."
Shop vac is opened, showing the filter laying in the bottom of the tank.
Me - "Did you put the plastic filter ring back on to hold the filter in place?"
RTM - "What plastic ring?"
Me - "Take it to the WALL OF SHAME (the place for broken tools and equipment) until we can order a new one."

[TheBoulderite]

"Go drive the grabber station."

-One of our software mentors

[carpedav000]

(an 8th grader referring to a cordless drill chuck)

*How do I make the screwy-tighteny thing release?!?!

[MaGiC_PiKaChU]

*autonomous didn't work*

-You didn't make a sacrifice before this match, did you?

[Zac Schofield]

"...I got it before I Kamen"
(came in... get it?)

<during our robot's initial testing>
"Get in the Zone, AUTO ZONE"

[Pretzel]

A conversation within the drive team during a match at championships in which our claw motor burnt out.

*Claw begins smoking and spitting out sparks in copious quantities*

Operator: Hey Tyler, the claw is on fire.
Me (driver): So it is.
Me: Hey (human player), the claw is on fire.
HP: That's cool.

*Human player continues to load totes*

Operator: What is that, five now?
Me: Unfortunately.


This season we also used less than durable joysticks manufactured by Thrustmaster. Two of them, used by the driver, had issues with the hard stop on the twist axis breaking. The first one also damaged the joystick in such a way that it could turn left anymore (making for an interesting right turn only match at Colorado), but the second one kept working in a unique manner.

*Joystick snaps while turning left and over-twists to face directly at me, the driver"
Me: Hey (coach), another joystick broke.
Coach: No it didn't, you're still driving around fine it seems.
Me: Look at it...

*Coach looks to see backwards joystick*

Coach: Oh, we should fix that.

[Helix]

not a quote, but I turned up at our shop one afternoon and someone had written: "replace magic smoke in RoboRio"
had a little bit of a freak out.:ahh:
-helix

[GeeTwo]

"replace magic smoke in RoboRio"
I'm not sure whether I'm laughing or crying, but my eyes are definitely experiencing an overabundance of moisture.

[Ginger Bread]

We were cleaning up the lab and one of my friends is asked to find an allen wrench. He heard the person wrong and went around asking people "what is an owl wrench ?". We then nicknamed him owl wrench.

[adammiller3122]

I'm not sure whether I'm laughing or crying, but my eyes are definitely experiencing an overabundance of moisture.

agreed!

[GeeTwo]

It wasn't build season, and it wasn't even robotics, but it seems right for this thread. It was time for the vacation bible school class to go to the next station tonight, and Fr. Harry called out something that sounded to most of the staff like "OK, it's time to go to hearts and craps!". (No, it was not gambling with cards and dice, but "arts and crafts". Harry's an early riser, and our first evening VBS isn't working out so well for him.)

On an only slightly more FRC-related note, I can personally confirm both of the following from experience of the past two days:

a pool noodle can be whittled into the shape of a rhinoceros horn if you're interested in making a rhino mascot
hot glue can be used as an emergency fix for all five wheels on a prop jeep (four drive wheels plus the steering wheel)

[rainbowbear998]

"So you're telling me, that we got acrylic laser cut and you let the software guy touch it? Why would you do that?"

Said after we got some acrylic laser cut to make our robot look less dodgy and it was snapped in half by one of our software guys within five minutes. The sheet metal and hot glue repair was beautiful though...

[ClockworkGold]

"This simple design incorporates 24 pneumatic pistons." -Captain explaining the design
"I call this part, the Big Stick." -Captain explaining the design

"I am sick of your good ideas, sensemaking, and problem solving!" -Mechanical Head sarcasm during build
"I want to go to St. Louis so bad it hurts" -Mechanical Head during our 2nd regional

"Yeah, we'll be running the 3D printer all night in the bathroom so we have those spare parts for tomorrow." -Me during Northern Lights at around 2 a.m.

[DrewMatic]

On our team, the seniors liked playing jokes on the new members. We were putting felt on the battery holder. One of the seniors said if you lick the felt it would stick better to the metal. It has been a joke ever since.

"Don't lick the felt!"

[The other Gabe]

S1: "what's that sound?"
S2: "must be brett milling again"

Fabrication Lead: "this is my motivator" (in reference to half of a pool noodle stuck onto a PVC pipe)

Me, at DCMP: "we have a canburglar, someone will pick us" (we aren't picked for elims)

Me, at Champs: "We might get picked as a 4th robot, or for cheescake" (we're the 3rd alliance's second pick)

[MechEng83]

Student: "When is a good time to email you?"
Me: "... What do you mean?"
Student: "I want to make sure I email you at a convenient time."
Me: "We're not talking about a phone call. Just send the email whenever."
Student: "So you don't care when I send it?"
me: "You don't know how email works, do you?..."

[Trevor1523]

"No, we're not building a crane. That is a terrible idea."

[thatprogrammer]

Today, so technically not build season.
"We need something stiffer but more malleable."

[logank013]

Probably heard a thousand times but it's still awesome. Veteran members that will renamed unnamed tend to ask new members to find an aluminum magnet for them. It happened to me and it will keep happening to new members... lol ;)

[thatprogrammer]

Probably heard a thousand times but it's still awesome. Veteran members that will renamed unnamed tend to ask new members to find an aluminum magnet for them. It happened to me and it will keep happening to new members... lol ;)
The Mclaren f1 had an aluminium part of a radio with small particles of steel sprayed on it to allow for it to be magnetic but still as light as possible...

[JustinCAD]

"How do I derive this part?"
"Figure it out!"

That was a common phrase heard on the CAD subteam.

Another phrase that was heard throughout the team was "SHIA SUPRISE!"

At competitions, we would hear "Guys, Cotten-eye Joe is on! Let's dance!"

[1uan]

As we were lying the robot down to work on it
"CAD me like one of your french robots"

[Jacob Bendicksen]

"That song [Danger Zone] is Jake's bat-signal."

[BryceKarlins]

Probably heard a thousand times but it's still awesome. Veteran members that will renamed unnamed tend to ask new members to find an aluminum magnet for them. It happened to me and it will keep happening to new members... lol ;)

LOL! Our team "hazes" rookies by asking them to get a Left-Handed Allen Wrench.

[CadetGizmo]

Not exactly a quote from a singular occasion, but our electrical VP insists that "beatings will continue until wiring improves." I suggested using positive rewarding, which resulted in "snuggling will commence when wiring improves." It didn't catch on...

[Zac Schofield]

The VP of my subgroup brought a container of Thyme towards the end of build season and told us "We're running out of... -takes out the container- time!"

[kyle_hamblett]

Not exactly a quote from a singular occasion, but our electrical VP insists that "beatings will continue until wiring improves." I suggested using positive rewarding, which resulted in "snuggling will commence when wiring improves." It didn't catch on...

I'll have to work on that...
:P

[Jacob Bendicksen]

"Belts are like sheep - they don't go where you want them to."

[rhinobot]

"Eh it'll pass inspection"

I say that way too often

[Whippet]

"Ramen Bot" has been a running joke in my team since I was a freshman. Our head mentor still thinks it would be a good idea.

[CarinaSav]

"WHERE'S THE POT? PASS THE POT! I NEED THE POT!" -Mentor talking about a potentiometer

[CadetGizmo]

"If ever you aren't sure of what to do, stick a wago in it." - our electrical VP

[logank013]

"Ramen Bot" has been a running joke in my team since I was a freshman. Our head mentor still thinks it would be a good idea.

The long running joke for our robot name is "Robusto". Ironically, we weren't allowed to name our robot "Robusto" but it was fine to go to week 1 without a name. We then gained our name in building for Week 3.

[GeeTwo]

This is your big chance to prove to me that in the zombie apocalypse, you'd be more valuable as an ally than as the meat you're made of.

[TheBoulderite]

Team Vice President making motivational speech:

"You don't know you've lost until you've lost."

[jlindquist74]

Probably heard a thousand times but it's still awesome. Veteran members that will renamed unnamed tend to ask new members to find an aluminum magnet for them. It happened to me and it will keep happening to new members... lol ;)

It's going to be very painful for you when a rookie comes along who knows how to induce enough current in that aluminum...

[I_AM_Clayton]

"Hey!, why is there a glove in the robot?"

Said by a mentor as we were putting away our 2014 robot yesterday.

[GeeTwo]

We had a movie night tonight in the classroom (former build space), Men In Black followed by The Goonies.

During the scene in The Goonies where they're about to be hauled out of the wishing well on a bucket: "Hey, who's doing physics problems up front?" Yes, a couple of the kids were trying to estimate how much force on the handle it would take to lift someone. :D

[Mythheart]

Did you just pull a bottle of maple syrup from your pocket?

[Zac Schofield]

(At competition) "Why is it that every time Darude-Sandstorm plays we do twice as well as we did in our previous match, and do you think we can get the DJ to play it for the next 4 hours?"

[Classified*]

After I didn't understand one of the puns by a mentor:

Mentor 1: It's because she's so short! All of the jokes just go right over her head!

After about 10 minutes of not getting any of Mentor 1's puns:

Me: (To mentor 2) I must be really short today!

_______

"Let's just put aside reality for a moment." :D

[CanadaQapla]

My team has a t-shirt cannon that we use at football games. A memorable quote, courtesy of one of our mechan subteam members:
"When the band plays the John Cena theme song we should try and shoot a t-shirt into one of the tubas."
Safe to say, we chose not to go through with it for obvious safety concerns (for both the tuba section and us on the receiving end of the band director's probable wrath) but it was funny to think about.

[GeeTwo]

My team has a t-shirt cannon that we use at football games..."we should try and shoot a t-shirt into one of the tubas."
Safe to say, we chose not to go through with it..

The same thing happened at our homecoming game this year (though without the John Cena reference).

[FRC2501]

"Go get me the metric crescent wrench"

I told one of our freshmen to go get one and he came back with a crescent wrench with metric markings.
"I found the metric crescent wrench!" -Freshman

"I need a screw gun!" -Programmer looking for a drill

[BBray_T1296]

"I need a screw gun!" -Programmer looking for a drill
One of our field construction guys a few years ago exclusively referred to it an electric screwdriver. Even if there was a drill bit in it.

[legts]

"Wait, you mean some people DON'T keep FRC Spyder on their phone during off-season?!?!"

[logank013]

"Wait, you mean some people DON'T keep FRC Spyder on their phone during off-season?!?!"

I mean, it wasn't working too well at champs, but still, even in the offseason, I've viewed Spyder at least 25 times... ;)

[MaGiC_PiKaChU]

FLL kids in FRC pits trying to put their litter in our recycle container

Me : "That's not a trash can, well theoretically it is"


This one with my friend at school :

"Hey look! That's 6 points!" While putting a noodle trough his car roof :rolleyes:

[logank013]

At the end of the school year, we did a demo in front of every kid at our school at a spring pep session. The team met downstairs and we were talking about what we would do. I remember a few other team members saying something along the lines of this:

"Can we make it more interesting by knocking the stack over with a ball shot from last year's bot?"

[legts]

"Hey, I bet if we ever lose a team member we could find them with echolocation via shouting out the first numbers of our team number!"

(A lot of our cheering is comprised of one person shouting "twenty three" and the rest of the team responding "ninety nine")

(This actually works, by the way)

[GreyingJay]

"Can we make it more interesting by knocking the stack over with a ball shot from last year's bot?"

At least one team's Recycle Rush robot reveal video featured this exact scene.

[CadetGizmo]

http://i68.tinypic.com/121g4mr.jpg

Posted at the request of my electrical VP.

[CanadaQapla]

In Mecanum Drive, the wheels fight each other... kind of like having a humidifier and a dehumidifier in the same room.

"Mecanum, a drive system so graciously professional that it lets other teams drive your robot."

[CanadaQapla]

"Hey, I bet if we ever lose a team member we could find them with echolocation via shouting out the first numbers of our team number!"

(A lot of our cheering is comprised of one person shouting "twenty three" and the rest of the team responding "ninety nine")

(This actually works, by the way)


You don't know how frustrating it is to find out the time during robotics when your cheer starts with "What time is it?". It usually takes me about 4 tries to find someone who'll respond with the actual time as opposed to "KRUNCH TIME".

[Mr.Twister]

I am on the CAD team. Every time i would ask a stupid question, the CAD lead would always "Figure it out!" This was probably said around 100 times in the six week time period.

At the end of the year, we had a paper plate awards ceremony. We would write famous quotes, nicknames, etc. The paper plate that i received had the quote "Figure it out!" on the front and a really long calculus equation on the back. Unfortunately i couldn't figure it out. Anyway, that was the quote that was said to me a lot. :rolleyes:

[MikLast]

At least one team's Recycle Rush robot reveal video featured this exact scene.

4488's reveal, in case you were wondering.

[*Rachelle*]

You don't know how frustrating it is to find out the time during robotics when your cheer starts with "What time is it?". It usually takes me about 4 tries to find someone who'll respond with the actual time as opposed to "KRUNCH TIME".

Similar thing around PNW, it's 488's cheer, and I guess some of our scouting team found it pretty catchy. I rarely get an actual response :)

[BenGuy]

"Let's not forget the bumpers this time!"

Yes we did that one time...

[Raggy]

"ROBOT!!!!!!!"

[GreyingJay]

4488's reveal, in case you were wondering.

Ah, thanks. I couldn't remember.

[mcbknight]

"Is this REALLY the best robot we've ever built?..." -Rookie Member

[GeeTwo]

And I thought I was weird! (said by me)

(I don't believe the back story myself, so why bother).

[thatprogrammer]

And I thought I was weird! (said by me)

(I don't believe the back story myself, so why bother).

Now you've got me curious...

[blackbrandt]

NO BUILDING THE GREAT WHEEL OF DEATH IN THE LAB.

[GeeTwo]

And I thought I was weird! (said by me)

(I don't believe the back story myself, so why bother).

Now you've got me curious...

Sorry, but it was so unbelievable that I forgot (blocked out?) the circumstances.

[legts]

"Well, I should try the logical way since the stupid way isn't working, but I want to try the stupid way for a few minutes yet"

[fargus111111111]

Can someone grab the precision adjustment tool?
Said anytime someone needs a hammer

[Chris Endres]

"It's not complicated, you just don't understand it"

[abigailthefox]

A few things from the preseason/last season in honor of kickoff


Me: *runs into the nest* MR RIKER THEYRE USING A CHOPSAW TO MAKE A HALL PASS AND I DONT KNOW WHY
Mr Riker: *look of fear*
Me: its the freshmen
Me: *runs into build room* Why are we using the chopsaw???
McGinty: This was my idea
Me: so what you’re saying is that you’re less responsible than cocky 14 year old boys surrounded by dangerous tools?

Mechanical lead, at 10 pm, standing on top of a filing cabinet surrounded by falling objects: I derped

our team is a $@#$@#$@#$@# show like the michigan ohio state game

"you can't stand still...I feel like you were once a mountain goat"

"free stuff from the part of kits"

"my middle finger is going to be so worn out by the end of a season with you"

"woodie flowers and his derpy little ponytail"

"you're doing ok!...ish"

"she has teeth!!"
"...why is that surprising?"
"have you seen this video????"

[abigailthefox]

A few things from the preseason/last season in honor of kickoff


Me: *runs into the nest* MR RIKER THEYRE USING A CHOPSAW TO MAKE A HALL PASS AND I DONT KNOW WHY
Mr Riker: *look of fear*
Me: its the freshmen
Me: *runs into build room* Why are we using the chopsaw???
McGinty: This was my idea
Me: so what you’re saying is that you’re less responsible than cocky 14 year old boys surrounded by dangerous tools?

Mechanical lead, at 10 pm, standing on top of a filing cabinet surrounded by falling objects: I derped

our team is a $@#$@#$@#$@# show like the michigan ohio state game

"you can't stand still...I feel like you were once a mountain goat"

"free stuff from the part of kits"

"my middle finger is going to be so worn out by the end of a season with you"

"woodie flowers and his derpy little ponytail"

"you're doing ok!...ish"

"she has teeth!!"
"...why is that surprising?"
"have you seen this video????"

At kickoff:
"so BB8 is R2-D2's child?"
"this involves discussion of robot s@# that I am not ready to have"

[EricH]

"Wait, does no one know how to program on the programming team?"

Said during a strategy discussion.

[CurlyFries]

"There's either six wheels or eight wheels. Three on one side and four on the other."

This year's strategy - 7 wheel drive train.

[Jay Burnett]

Upon recieving a 1400 psi gauge in our bag from Automation Direct our head mentor said,

"With that sort of pressure we can just bounce over the defenses!"

Team mom: It says you can't go over the low bar...

Mentor: Yeah, but it doesn't say anything about the Porticullis!"

[IronicDeadBird]

The 5 foot 6 student said something along the lines of...
"Some of the defenses could be problematic for line of sight, for you guys at least."

[crowbarthegreat]

"Eh, close enough" -The entire team

[legts]

"What's that rule about flying robots?"

"Physics."

[April McShorty]

(Talking about pneumatics for the tower scaling portion)
"I don't think 60 FPS will lift a robot." (A build team member)
"I don't think any FPS would lift anything. I believe you mean PSI." (Myself)

[Simplify]

"I'm telling you guys, we should build a monster truck!"

[MikLast]

(Talking about pneumatics for the tower scaling portion)
"I don't think 60 FPS will lift a robot." (A build team member)
"I don't think any FPS would lift anything. I believe you mean PSI." (Myself)

I found the PCMasterRace guy!

[Daria Wing]

"Honestly, we could just stick some electronics on a 2 by 4, add wheels, and have a robot that could compete relatively well..."

[He-manChiluka]

"make a bracket"
"Robotics yeah"
"Put the trash in the trash, obviously"
"Rank 38!!:mad: :mad: "
"jackson"
"johny broke the robot"
"the robot broke"
"just configure the d link"
"Ill put you in the trash can"
"Ill finish it on my lunch break"
"The greatest strength of a team is the ability to work as a team"
"Here begins our legacy"

[Toatekua]

Me: "Look! Robot eyelashes!" (Me, on something that was reminiscent of the little broom-like things that usually go under a door. We had huge googly eyes on the robot, but one of our teammates was like "no, that isn't professional" and ripped them off when we unbagged the robot...)

[conrbanana]

"There's either six wheels or eight wheels. Three on one side and four on the other."

This year's strategy - 7 wheel drive train.

Hey... Its a legitimate strategy...

[IronicDeadBird]

MECHANUM means your priority list should be: lose, break a wheel, make excuses, drive sideways...


This story needs a bit of context so bear with me.
Yesterday the students sat down and decided to organize priorities for strategy. While discussing this strategy our school sponsor/coach/mentor/superhero needed to go home and the discussion carried on. After a long talk and discussion we decided on what we thought was a fairly strong strategy and list of priorities. One thing that was clearly established with this strategy before the coach left was that mecanum was not ideal for our strategy.
At that point we sent this (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0rOqZ5xUGZkMG8tSHJFdk9rT2JtbnZSZHVkWjNFX1g1M1lz/view?usp=sharing) photo to our school sponsor/coach/mentor/superhero and IMMEDIATELY we got a call from him asking what was going on with the conversation. We pretended there was static, he asked if we were kidding, I asked when did we get kittens, he hung up with a sigh.
Then came the update on facebook, I explained that the students decided on what we would call a MecHanum drive base, this drive base consists of four mecanum wheels in the standard layout, and an omni wheel running perpendicular to those wheels in the center of the robot making it a hybrid of an h drive and a mecanum robot. Best of both worlds.
After explaining this we got this response about our strategic priorities...
"MECHANUM means your priority list should be: lose, break a wheel, make excuses, drive sideways"
I then explained the thought process behind it.
"Alright, alright hear me out. If we have a mecanum drive and we have an omni wheel in the middle and a gyro when we get pushed sideways we can push back with the omni wheel. It's great for defense. And we cant get stuck on a platform cause the omni wheel can move in any direction. Its perfect."

[hank2247]

"Time to start drilling holes." said on the Saturday before bag and tag at 8 pm after we weighed the robot for the first time (it weighed 170 lbs).

Now whenever the topic of weight comes up the response is "well we can always drill some more holes."

[RoboChair]

"The rules are perfectly clear and understandable once you apply the 'Don't be a dick' filter to them". "Anything that passes said filter is either there on purpose or is a temporarily exploitable loop hole that might be left alone"

Said by me.

[Kevin Sevcik]

Background: We're looking at a under the low bar robot with simple systems due to this years decrease in funding, students, and super-mentor availability.

"I want to build a high goal shooter because we've never built an accurate shooter before."

We reminded him that we had a decent shooter for Ascent, and this probably wasn't the year to try this experiment during build.

[Type]

"I'm trying to make you not stupid"

[BariSaxGuy]

chute door



"SHUT THE #%$%!@% UP!!!!!"

[frcguy]

"Hey guys, I found a ruler! Oh wait, never mind, it's a broom."

[MrJohnston]

"Oooooh.... Rhinos!"

[Zac Schofield]

"Wait... our robot has to comply with the rules? Dang it..."

[blackbrandt]

"I'm pretty sure a thousand drunk monkeys slamming their faces on the keyboard using the CLI in AutoCad could build a better CAD model than this....."

"The CAD team models physics and the mechanical team breaks physics"

[Hgree56]

So we built a model of our robot's frame out of wood. We've also made a couple of the defenses, high goal, and the hanging bar. At our meeting last night, I sat in the frame and was "becoming one with the robot." I recall saying at one point: "To build a good robot, you must become a good robot." This was followed by me trying to cross all the defenses, shoot into the high goal, and climb. I impressed my self by scoring 40 points.:cool:

[Team34Guy]

"Are Luke and Anakin brothers?"

trust me chaos ensued....

[abigailthefox]

"Are Luke and Anakin brothers?"

trust me chaos ensued....

...you're not kidding are you...:eek:

[GreyingJay]

So we built a model of our robot's frame out of wood. We've also made a couple of the defenses, high goal, and the hanging bar. At our meeting last night, I sat in the frame and was "becoming one with the robot." I recall saying at one point: "To build a good robot, you must become a good robot." This was followed by me trying to cross all the defenses, shoot into the high goal, and climb. I impressed my self by scoring 40 points.:cool:

I... I actually want to do this now. :cool:

[rich2202]

After a brainstorming session, one of the tired students posted the pic:

[Adlermontana]

"But we could"

[Hgree56]

I... I actually want to do this now. :cool:

It was actually a lot of fun!! Only issue was when I tried to go under the lowbar:D

[GeeTwo]

"Chicken Butt"

This was originally 3946 for "an idea that is useless or at least very poorly communcated" and has transformed into a question meaning "How does this mechanism accomplish the task?" There's a TL;DR story here: For Aerial Assist (25" diameter ball), we did a brainstorming sessions for ways to acquire and launch the ball. The next session, we were gathering "half baked" ideas to select two or three for further development. A team member drew a picture of a frame perimeter with a ball centered in it as a presentation. Until prompted for details, he gave no indication of how the ball got there, or how it got out of there. A mentor asked if the robot just laid the ball on the carpet like a chicken lays an egg and walked away from it, or what. IIRC, he actually did have answers, but the picture didn't begin to explain the idea.

[Kingland093]

from a student on the build team: "C-Clamps are like marriage counselors. they make 2 things stay together even though they really don't want to."

[abigailthefox]

"well…drone biowarfare is a topic for another day"

[TheSousaLife]

"See on the Farm"
"I Bet You Kids Haven't Ever Held a Hammer"

-Ed Barker Team 1311:]

[Nerdygreenguy]

Team: *Yelling about wheel hubs*
Gavin: "So what's all the 'hub'-ub about?"

[Nerdygreenguy]

Ray: "I don't care about parameters."

[hubcappancake]

J: I haven't reached full mass yet!
me: why would you want to reach full mass?

me not understanding an inside joke. :cool:

[HelloRobot]

After watching a news segment about a girl whose phone's lithium ion battery caught fire when she had her phone under her pillow (it was relevant to our safety lesson at a lunch and learn), I said to my co-captain, "I guess she knows when that hotline blings."

(Serious note: This was right after the news story called the incident a "very close call." I do not make light of fire safety.)

[Harman341]

"Why do we need a vacuum if we have a spatula?"

[Team34Guy]

...you're not kidding are you...:eek:

Sadly no. If this individual had not been our lead CAD designer they would have been sent to the Chairmans sub-team...

[GreyingJay]

It was actually a lot of fun!! Only issue was when I tried to go under the lowbar:D

Seems I got my wish! (Sort of)

http://youtu.be/2UiGOExMt1w

[frcguy]

(Student picks up washer and turns to mother)

"Hey mom, I don't need to take a shower, I have a WASHER!"

[mwmac]

"Now that's a quality breadstick.!"

[blackbirdsingin]

Our electrical head just asked "Why are there two different sizes of 18 gauge wire?"

It turns out that one just had more insulation than the other, but still.

[grimmsterj]

While trying to figure out if the low bar is possible for our current shooter prototype... "With negative space you can't"

[BL0X3R]

Programmer A: "what is this... 'Rhea dawnly?'"
Programmer B: "... You mean 'readonly'?"

It was a long day.

[tylerc102]

Was yelling to one of the mechanical students and they couldn't hear me. They yelled back:

"I can't hear you over the sound of safety."

[IronicDeadBird]

"Are you Kanye or Tswizzle?"

[Cam_Team 2619]

"Honestly, we could just stick some electronics on a 2 by 4, add wheels, and have a robot that could compete relatively well..."

You forgot about bumpers

[James Juncker]

When the CoTS was called a BoM

"Someone has set us up the BoM!"

"Why is everyone talking about explosives with the refs?"

"'Put it in the BoM'
'the Bomb!? I didn't know we were building one'
a mentor then explained what the BoM was
'Oh I'll do that, that job sounds like the BoM'

[SeeleySWS]

Me: "If you touch anything slow enough it generally won't hurt you..."

Mentor: "Try not to apply that to flailing blades..."


*shooter hits ceiling "That should do it!"

*me trying to attach a mount for a phone on top of a wall
"He must have been part squirrel at some point"

[riverdrake250]

"We should make this out of Pykrete."

[IronicDeadBird]

Me: "Programmers have made miracles don't underestimate them."
Programmer: "Our sorcery knows no bounds. Except for laziness."

[frcguy]

Student: "I can't go into the shop because I am eating pizza, and there aren't any plates."

*thinks*

"It's ok, I can just put the pizza in my pocket!"

[logank013]

Every night as we leave at 8, one of the mentors on our team without a doubt will say "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here."

[Heburn]

"Why does it take so long to convert a banana?"

[riverdrake250]

[as our dynamic CAD falls apart & starts looping the ball around the sides of the screen]
"Woah... matrix much?"
"Just... pretend that isn't broken, OK?"

[cait.schroeder]

Programmers: Wait it works?
It should have errors but not this many errors

Pretense: I am a liked freshman.

Someone says "your gonna drill next" or "your gonna cut next"
Me: "Wait me?"
"Yes you"
*In shock because they hate most of the freshman*

One more event that I found really funny.

It is the second meeting of the year, they are giving the freshman a tour of the lab.
"This is the lathe, you will never use it"
*ten minutes later the adult team captain calls me over and teaches me and lets me use the lathe*

[1337WaffleBendr]

these are comments describing our functions in our code:
"unloads robot's balls"
"suckysuck"
"I'm not sure but i think this gets the balues we need"

[hank2247]

"This would be awesome!!! If it worked.."

[bmire3206]

we need a team song for this year- lead mechanical mentor (low rider in 2014 and uptown funk in 2015)
"do not use without mentor" sign on direct drive CIM shooter prototype that sounds like an industrial fan.
"do you think it went high enough when our wheel shooter had 8 in wheels at a 45 degree angle and hit the ceiling of the woodshop that is around 20 feet high.

[M_A._Kelley]

"Quick Question" - something our programmer ALWAYS said when he had a question

"Over rotated" - for our auto

"Under rotated" - for our auto

"Tune the PID" - for our auto

[steve3408]

In a battle royale, who would win-- cats or the Curiosity rover?
Pretty obviously cats....

[legts]

"This would be awesome!!! If it worked.."

On a similar note....."That's a terrible idea. Let's do it!"

[orangemoore]

In a battle royale, who would win-- cats or the Curiosity rover?
Pretty obviously cats....

On what planet though? B/C cats in space suits would be pretty useless.

[Speckles04]

I have code for it. - Every programmer ever (Explanation: we always say that we have code for it but in reality we only have code made, never tested. I.E. "Hey hows that gyro coming?"
"i have code for it"
"does it work?"
"i dont know"

[GeeTwo]

In a battle royale, who would win-- cats or the Curiosity rover?
Pretty obviously cats....

On what planet though? B/C cats in space suits would be pretty useless.

Absolutely. And on Mars without space suits, Curiosity would not have to kill the cats. [duck and cover]

[dieDoktor]

Me every time I was set back trying to organize the pit now that we're in week 3 and can't find anything:

"And then it got worse"

Needless to say, I had a few words for the team before we left that night about keeping the place tidy.

[GeeTwo]

Who ate the 3/8" shaft collars?

[dubiousSwain]

I have code for it. - Every programmer ever (Explanation: we always say that we have code for it but in reality we only have code made, never tested. I.E. "Hey hows that gyro coming?"
"i have code for it"
"does it work?"
"i dont know"

We would be able to test it if we had a robot...

*sips tea*

[The Doctor]

So... how's the autonomous code coming along?
Build me a robot and we'll talk.
Every meeting.

[xXhunter47Xx]

Being a college student mentor I arrive late sometimes because you know college. One time I showed up around 12 when lunch arrived. I was also the one who at the most my last year as a student member.

"Wow Austin, showing up just for the food huh? Some things just never change."

[tiernan12992]

My father has always been interested in Robotics as a whole, though originally for different reasons.

"You know what you should do? Attach knives to the robot and fight with them. You would get so much more money for doing that. I know that I would pay to see that."

Now he is a part of our nerdy fold. And still thinks we should make battle bots.

[James Juncker]

Just now when talking about how to get our robot working

"It all depends on When the gravity is located"

[dieDoktor]

Just now when talking about how to get our robot working

"It all depends on When the gravity is located"

The robot only works well on tuesday's when the sun's gravity lines up with Mars'

[adciv]

The robot automatically turns off when we flip it. (Torqy & light robot this year)

On Linux - The solution to any linux issue is to reinstall the OS. (Sadly, this works)

[IronicDeadBird]

"I thought you said 'Genghis Khan was a muggle."

[CheerlessBear]

"Im not about to take it apart just to be safe"

[Mythheart]

The glory of Photoshop:
"Oh my God, He looks like a troll-face naturally"
"He looks like one of my other friends...it's only when you're photoshopping someone when you realize this"
"I'm gonna rip a chunk out of his face. Yeah, yeah, your forehead doesn't exist anymore"
"Whoops, I didn't mean to erase your eyes"
"Now I'm just cutting my face directly out"
"Oh God, I cut out my own eyeball"
"Sam! Don't kill me man! Don't kill me!!"
"-Shawn! Your face is not cooperating!
-I'm sorry, my face is too perfect to be touched by machines."
"Where's the boulder?
-why?
-Because I want to smell it. It smells like cherries."

[vala]

Our new team motto "Close enough is good enough"

[MikLast]

"Safety is our #1 Priority!"

Proceeds to eat soup right by computers.
dont worry we are safe

[CheerlessBear]

"Come on lets go. Why are we not amputating my head off yet!?"

[jlindquist74]

On Linux - The solution to any linux issue is to reinstall the OS. (Sadly, this works)

You misspelled "Windows". Hope this helps.[1] (At least Linux reinstalls[2] are vastly faster than Windows[3].

I don't want to go off on a rant here, but one of the beautiful things about switching the runtime off of VxWorks is that the toolchain license never expires. You're free to experiment with last year's robot to your heart's content. Even better, pick up a Raspberry Pi, a BeagleBone, or soon enough, a CHIP (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-worlds-first-9-computer), and go exploring. Worst case, you totally bunghole something, so you reimage the flash and start over.

The same applies to virtual machines. (Somehow, Oracle gives away VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org/) for free. And I hear Oracle charges its own employees for air[4].)

Google is your friend. When something goes wrong, start searching for answers. If you aren't clearly given an error message, get familiar with /var/log and /bin/dmesg. Toss the message at Google. Someone else has had this problem. Bookmark pages where you find solutions, take notes on what you find.

(Have I mentioned that embedded Linux will get you paid in the future? Your efforts pay dividends long past your last FRC match.)

Before long, you'll find yourself able to remedy most Linux issues without a reinstall. This is a skill set every team needs, as much as machining, CAD, software development, or driving.

[1] Although the behavior of distributions with respect to picking up bug fixes[5] is driving me a bit nuts right now

[2] To protect your work, always put /home on a separate partition. For sanity's sake, also split off /var/log. On Debian-based dists (like Ubuntu,) separate /var/apt/cache too.

[3] If that's something you HAVE to do, get yourself familiar with WSUS Offline (http://www.wsusoffline.net/)

[4] Larry Ellison must pay for his yacht racing habit, natch.

[5] No shipping/recent Debian has a git-svn/libsvn-perl/libsurf1[6] that doesn't segfault on a checkin which touches a large number of files.

[6] Unless you're an overworked configuration management engineer in El Segundo, or their management, your opinion about source control systems is not relevant. Thank you, drive through.

[7] This is the famous recursive footnote[7]

"Safety is our #1 Priority!"

Proceeds to eat soup right by computers.
dont worry we are safe

As long as you wear safety glasses while doing that, it's safe. Right? (This is also preparation for work in professional software development. Our office manager went out on medical leave. Her substitute neglected to include Cup of Noodles in the weekly Costco order. It was almost anarchy when she returned.)

[Gary Dillard]

Quotes I can get away with only this year, thanks to the kickoff video:

As I'm starting my "pizza and physics" class to go through all of the projectile and catapult calculations, I say "of course, velocity is very important to this year's game, because what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?" After a long pause, finally another mentor gives the correct response.

In my questionnaire on survey monkey regarding who is travelling to which competition:

1) "What is your name?"
2) "What is your quest?"

[Golfer4646]

We can't have hamburger-like pool noodles! -Me

Hello Chief Delphi community! (It's my FIRST post! Yay!)

[Monochron]

Someone says "your gonna drill next" or "your gonna cut next"
Me: "Wait me?"
"Yes you"
*In shock because they hate most of the freshman*

One more event that I found really funny.

It is the second meeting of the year, they are giving the freshman a tour of the lab.
"This is the lathe, you will never use it"
*ten minutes later the adult team captain calls me over and teaches me and lets me use the lathe*

Sounds like you have a serious problem on your team that you should address.

[frcguy]

"I got flour all over my Chromebook!"

[Jarren Harkema]

Mentor: "Building a robot is like cooking. Clean as you go"
Student: "Or you could just eat it."

[jlindquist74]

Student 1: "So you're worried about Ryan's mating part?"
Student 2: "He hasn't drilled holes in it yet."

[JasonBecker]

Programmer:"Deez Nuts!"
Me:"Those are gears..."
Programmer:"I'm trying, OK!"

Not our proudest moment.

[Dan Waxman]

Programmer:"Deez Nuts!"
Me:"Those are gears..."
Programmer:"I'm trying, OK!"

Not our proudest moment.
Or alternatively, "Darnit Becker!"

[JasonBecker]

Here's one that most teams can relate to in some way:

Student 1:"So the motor isn't working, tell electrical to fix it."
Electrical:"No, it's wired correctly."
Student 1:"Then it's a programming issue."
Programming:"No, the code is right."
Student 2:"What's with this key and bearing on the ground?"
Student 1:"Oh."

'Fix' gear box and repeat.

[IronicDeadBird]

We can't have hamburger-like pool noodles! -Me

Hello Chief Delphi community! (It's my FIRST post! Yay!)

Welcome to the party mate!

As for a quote.

I was working with a student to make a website and after sticking to our color scheme she went to save the color for future reference. She meant to put in "Dark Red" but she put in "Dank red" and immediately I said.
"No that red is dank."

[Abby_Schuett]

"Why build a robot when you can become the robot" (this was said because I'm under the weight limt, so my team jokes about disguising me as the robot.)

[Ozuru]

Student: "Can't we just cut it in half? Doesn't that make it stronger?"

Mentor: "Cutting something in half doesn't ever make it stronger."

[dubiousSwain]

Student: "Can't we just cut it in half? Doesn't that make it stronger?"

Mentor: "Cutting something in half doesn't ever make it stronger."

What about pencils? Glass?

[BBray_T1296]

What about pencils? Glass?

That is due to a percieved increase in stiffness. It is harder for you to apply a bending moment to a shorter piece, but does not change the bending resistance of the object. It would still break again were you able to apply the same bending moment. Since it is shorter, it takes more force to do so (moment=force*length)

[tylerc102]

We got our new band saw in today:

Lead mentor: This is going to revolutionize robotics!
Other mentor: No, its just going to make sketchy engineering faster!

[GeeTwo]

"He had the power strip plugged into itself and wondered why it didn't work"
"The problem is that he plugged it in to a dead outlet. You need two strips for that to work."
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"Plug one of them into the wall to energize its outlets, then plug the second one into that to energize its outlets. Then move the plug from the first strip into an outlet on the second strip, and you'll be good to go.";) :D

[Tharioth Pillow]

"Hey guys the Chairman's essay is almost done!" - me

[SquiddlyPoo]

While we were cutting heat shrink with wire cutters, "Its the wrong tool for the right job."

[Tharioth Pillow]

The thing needs to go here pointing in this direction but this thing needs to be fixed by that thing so we can put it in this thing.

[marshmello]

"I have bad news. The boulder doesn't smell like anything."

[T99]

"It's all fun and games until a small child gets hurt."

"He hurt himself again? Does he still deserve neosporin?"

[Legoboy0109]

My friend and I were talking and he said
"Hey Kaden check out what I found on the way to the robotics meeting today"
He then showed me a picture of a garbage can that somehow got dropped on the side of a hill.

[arc25565]

"Screwdrivers are not punches except for when they are"

[alephzer0]

Mentor: "I need a hammer."
Student: "What kind of hammer?"
(in reference to the 3 rules of engineering. for those of you who don't know the 3 rules of engineering:
1. Always use the right tool for the job.
2. The right tool is always a hammer.
3. Anything is a hammer.)
Also:
"I never truly knew what a love-hate relationship was until i joined robotics."

[CJ_Elliott]

From Captain: "Hey sweatshop, you aren't being very productive. Fix it"

[GeeTwo]

Mentor: "I need a hammer."
Student: "What kind of hammer?"
(in reference to the 3 rules of engineering. for those of you who don't know the 3 rules of engineering:
1. Always use the right tool for the job.
2. The right tool is always a hammer.
3. Anything is a hammer.)
Also:
"I never truly knew what a love-hate relationship was until i joined robotics."
That reminds me of one:
G2: Hey, Ballio, what kind of wrench do you use to pound a screw into a brick?
Ballio2: (slight pause, then delivered deadpan) A big one.

[Tharioth Pillow]

"You'll spend a lot of time on Chief Delphi. Think homeschoolers, but ten times worse."

[Friskle]

"Please don't pour your pants honey on me" ;)

My friend had honey packets explode all over his pocket and he tried to stick his hand on my other friend during programming