"Quotes" that were said during build season [Archive] - Page 5

Mitch1525

12-02-2008, 00:15

Regan **our mentor**: What is that?
Me: a giant nut and bolt
Regan: I can see that... but why is there half a pound of weight in one nut and bolt?

followed by:
Sam: this robot needs to be bulimic

looking at the bumpers:
Rixon: what did you do?
Harrison: why are they sparkly?
Me: What? They're hott!!! I mean come on... we used stripper dust!!!
Regan: stripper dust..... good choice
**i dont think he was really paying attention to what was going on**

Blue_Mist

12-02-2008, 00:24

Written by a mentor:

3+2=4

Thing is, he was serious and it was true at the time.

JoshD

12-02-2008, 09:02

Recently we've been having some weird discussions at our meetings...

After getting the vacuum hose too close to his mouth, Matt simply said "that tasted like suck."

And somehow we got into the topic of global warming and Brian enlightened us to the fact that we aren't the cause of forest fires, "It's those dang trees that are the cause of forest fires!"

t-raum

12-02-2008, 10:43

Our team has three main quotes that we hold to:

#1: "We are way ahead of schedule!" (We never actually are)

#2: "We'll be way underweight!" (We always at the 120 mark if not above)

#3: "In Theory this should work!" (Sometimes it does, other times it doesn't)

LangleyCurtis

12-02-2008, 18:06

we had a good one today so we are a rookie team and we have about 6 main kids working on it. but anyway myself and another were woking on the bumpers putting the fabric on

Curtis: Do you need help? (as adam uses his foot to hold the fabric)
Adam: No, I'm a monkey!

well anyways we thought it was funny but whatever

apesquera

12-02-2008, 18:29

Fulminante!!! this was said by edwin caldera, rafael pesquera, andres pesquea, and armando gonzalez from team 1872 Yellow fever, colegio san ignacio de loyola, SJ, PR throughout the WHOLE season.. Very naiss!!

jumpe1990

12-02-2008, 18:51

"What do you mean, there's nothing lemony about lemony switches at all!!"
..."LIMIT SWITCHES! Not lemony!"
said by two student to a mentor.

Our programmer even changed the limit switches comment in the programming to lemony switches. :D

jumpe1990

12-02-2008, 18:56

Mentor1: We need to find nut plates.
Student1: What are nut plates?
Student2: They're those thingys.
Mentor2: See, he's learning the terminology.
Student1: Look I've made it 4yrs just fine with, "What's that?"!!!

The Megan 2207

12-02-2008, 23:49

Student 1: "Which way is up?"
Student 2: "Umm... *motions toward ceiling* That way is up, John..."

He was referring to a piece that he was attaching to the robot. He wanted to know which side of the piece was supposed to go up.

falconmaster

13-02-2008, 00:06

Ok... we're done!...........Really!

Alalea

13-02-2008, 22:10

"Mandy Moore brought pizza! Now I can't him Mandy."

Me: "[Long stream of curses]!"
Mr. Jimmy: "Don't you go to a Lutheran school?"
Me: "Yeah...but c'mon! [Insert problem here]!"

Hastypickle

13-02-2008, 22:37

(referring to last years robot) "What do you guys need all these zip-ties for?!"
Most of our electronics were held on with zip-ties.

Same person, same robot.

"OMG, why did you use this piece of plexiglass?" He goes on to hit it with a hammer.
The plexiglass is an inch thick with all the electronics mounted on it.

MasterMkanik

13-02-2008, 22:52

Okay... I have the electronics board done.... hopefully third time is the charm.

so what, so far we rebuild the wheels six times... the lift at least eight, and the electronics three.... the only thing we havent rebuilt is the transmission...

Life is a mans kingdom, death is a mans castle - Graffiti on a board in our shop

M- Well.... i dont think she skull idea would go over great with the parents...
Me- Awww come on, we could put saftey glasses on him, with a sponsors hat
M- Well... maybe

Me- Well my car has magic powers.... it wont turn off! haha!
Bill- Your an idiot
Jan-How'd you manage that?
Me- Um... I don't know...

Don't worry, we still have six days...

Mitch1525

13-02-2008, 22:57

Me: "That's the teeny tiny little thing-a-ma-bobber. Duh."

Sam: "Okay, I'm going to teach you how to turn the robot on and off"
Me: "Don't you just flip the switch/ push the button?"
Sam: "Yes, but you'd be surprised how many times this thing has gotten broken!"
Me: "Broken??"
Sam: "Yea by D or S."
Me: "Oh, well that I can see, they're beasts."

Me: "What is that?"
Mr. Regan: "I don't think I should tell you that. Just don't inhale it."
Me: **scared face** "You wanna do it? I don't really want to die"
Regan: "You wouldn't die, just dont put it in the fire."

The Megan 2207

13-02-2008, 23:02

While discussing who should drive the robot...

Me: "Does anyone object to me being the RoboCoach?"
Captain: "I don't know. Can you see over the wall?"
Me: "...I can bring a footstool."

My team likes to make fun of me for being short. This was one of their best insults.

Tiix

13-02-2008, 23:04

Student: ...A male/female cord....
Me: *blink, blink* A what?!?
Student: You know... the male side has the prongs like...
Me: OKAY I GET IT!

reflion

14-02-2008, 00:56

So we're trying to figure out how to get more people to be able to cut and drill at a time, since our work table is too small for two people to work simultaneously.

"Look, we need to get another work table, or we just won't cut it."

Get it?

Alalea

14-02-2008, 20:43

"They've had...20 sodas? 20...sodas. Clare...I can't do this anymore."

XD

program1

14-02-2008, 21:01

"why do you have a hammer? your a programmer!"

StephLee

14-02-2008, 21:50

"Just round it up to an arbitrary number that's above it."

DPTeam270Driver

14-02-2008, 21:51

we have this sheet of foam but its in circular foam and one of our team leaders was looking for a chain breaker soo......

Leader- Shane!!! Wheres the Chain Breaker??!?!?!?
Me- Not now Burg, Im in the foammm!!!!!

We finished( or thought we finished) the robot about 2 weeks early, so we tested it

Leader- Its Finally done extend the claw
Mentor 1- looks great, lets test it on teh ball
Mentor 2- wait a minute, is it out of the 80" rule??
Me- wat?? what are you talking about?
Mentor 2- Oh c**p
Other leader- you mean we have to do this over?

waiakea11

14-02-2008, 23:02

"You know...we've been waiting for the program to download for...oh say...TWO HOURS!!!!"

Akash Rastogi

14-02-2008, 23:17

While taking team pictures a friends of mine begins to explain how everyone should actually be standing.

"Dude, I really don't want to hear the logic behind this." Me
"Well...I'm going to tell you anyway." lol Abhi

...I guess programmers are always thinking in logic:rolleyes:

Mitch1525

14-02-2008, 23:21

We were test driving the robot for the first time in close corridors
Me: "Chris, WHY DO YOU HAVE AN AXE!??!?!?!"

The robot began running into lots of things
Me: "Harrison, maybe we should try to NOT kill Regan's (our mentor) shop. That would be good.
Lawry: "DON'T HURT THE MILL!!! WE STILL NEED THAT!!!!"
Karen: "BUMPERS!!! LETS PUT THE BUMPERS ON!!!!"

as we leave the shop:
Me: "Hey Karen! Look at the floor!!!"
Karen: "THe stripper dust is working!!!! We now know where the robot has been, and who's been with it....":D

Betty_Krocker

15-02-2008, 08:24

mentor: "we need to save weight!"
me: "we can take some from programming, make then use more 0's than 1's"

me: "thats gonna be hard"
student: "i didnt say it was gonna be easy, i just said do it"

Team 135

15-02-2008, 09:32

"The code will work perfectly"

Said by me:rolleyes:

JYang

15-02-2008, 23:43

Said by the little sister of one of members...
Devil, human, devil, human, devil/human... me!

Cow Bell Solo

15-02-2008, 23:43

While working on the Hybrid programming

This is the LAST time we will try this.
Now this is the LAST time we will try this.

While describing the game to either a friend or with someone on the team can't remember

Me: The ball is 40 inches in diameter
Other: How tall is it
Me: The ball is 40 inches in diameter
Other: Yes, but how tall is it
Me: (sigh of disipointment)

Try the hybrid code, push the button. (robot starts moving) STOP (robot stops) I forgot to disconnect the labtop.

BurnFischer

15-02-2008, 23:50

"Alright, so we should have everything up and running to test the driving in about five or ten minutes... pushing for five."
"I have an hour of work ahead of my before the chassis is assembled..."

1361ducttape

16-02-2008, 01:06

From 1361:

"I didn't do it, I swear!"

"Hey, what's this thing do?...OW!"

"Load harder!"

"My computer is...like...SPED."

"So this one time at robotics competition..."

"With this design, the ball is lifted with this curvy piece here."
"Is that what the toilet seat in the parts box is for?"

MasterMkanik

16-02-2008, 01:44

"Well, i can have this thing done tonight.... if we pull an all nighter, and you go out and get about ten punds of candy and about 6 2-liters of soda..."

I was the last studen't left, and was workin on the drivetrain, the mentors were testing out lift...

Me- "Mentors realy shouldn't work on the robot without students..."
Mentor 1- "Well, your still here"
Mentor 2- "yeah, and besides, we wern't working on it, we were trying to break it!" (They twisted a peice of 1"x1" 80/20)

Me- "I dont think thats going to pass inspection"
Mentor- "Why? the springs are held in place with zip ties"
Me- *rolls eyes* "Well, at least use the KOP industrial size zip ties"
Mentor- "Allright! Even better!"

Bsteckler

16-02-2008, 21:48

So we wasted two hours based on the fact that we have a crappy compiler?

Alalea

16-02-2008, 21:51

"I DO THIS A HUNDRED TIMES A DAY! WHY ISN'T IT WORKING?!" - Teacher-Dude
"What, do you, like, count how many times you do it or something?" - Sara

NickJames

16-02-2008, 23:24

"Hold on, I got to go get my pants"

Alalea

16-02-2008, 23:25

XD See my sig for the "pants quote".

NickJames

16-02-2008, 23:31

XD See my sig for the "pants quote".
haha nice.

StephLee

16-02-2008, 23:32

"Always blame it on the person who isn't here."

"Where's John?"
"Upstairs."
"What's he doing?"
"Sleeping, most likely."
*faintly and sleepily from upstairs* "No I'm not...."

Alalea

16-02-2008, 23:36

haha nice.

XD Yeah. The belt in question is black with pink skulls.

MarySheridan

17-02-2008, 00:38

Please note, when this happened, I was writing the Woodie Flowers award for our mentor

Mentor to student: In all reality, you're really just a pain in the $@#$@#$@#
Me *saying aloud while typing*: Motivational...
Mentor to entire team except me: GET YOUR ASSES BACK TO WORK BEFORE I KICK THEM DOWN THE STAIRS
Me *saying aloud while typing*: Keeps the work flow going...

Jaybee1405

17-02-2008, 12:12

Alalea

17-02-2008, 21:31

Me and Sara are listening to "No Sleep in Brooklyn", sitting on desks, with Christine next to us. Not a lot of talking, but whatever.

Sara: No...sleep...in BROOKLYN! *excessive head-banging*
Me: *laughing*
Christine: *look of confusion and horror*
Teacher: *funniest look I've seen in awhile (mix of confusion, horror, and WTF?)*
Me: *elbows Sara* *points to teacher* *laughs*
Sara: *looks* *laughs*
Teacher: Poor Christine. She looks so...excluded.
Christine: ...

iTHOS=awesome

17-02-2008, 22:33

"Alright guys, the robot is done! Now if anything fails we can blame it on software."
*next day*
"$@#$@#$@#$@# it, why won't the claw open! What did you break!?"

kevin.li.rit

17-02-2008, 23:12

Me: *Arrives late to robotics after plane flight* "Hey watsup guys!"
Sun (foreign exhange student from vietnam): "Kevin say that if u not back in 15 minutes he will destroy steering"

Kevin is the distraught programmer, I'm the mechy who wanted steering
You're the Mechy who didn't put on the steering correctly or design it. Also I didn't say 15 minutes or destroy. and I didn't say that at all.

"Lets just take out all the code to save weight."

NinJA999

18-02-2008, 00:08

Some from last year:
Mentor:"Sparks! I saw sparks!"
Mentor 2:"Wait, turn it on again. Let me see!"
*we turn robot on*
Mentor 2:"Those aren't sparks, that's a FLAME!!!"
*and that's how Sparky got his name*

"You cracked the lexan!! Lexan. Doesn't. Break. What kind of Mechite are you?"

--

This year:
Me:"Why do you keep writing PWN? It's PWM!"
Other Programmer:"Too much gaming."

Programmer:"I wrote my code a week ago. Now that we have the robot, it should work perfectly!"
Wirer:"Yes, but every time you say that, the number of things that will go wrong increases by two."

Mechite:"Ok, so charge it to 60 psi."
Me:"Ok, turn the compressor on."
Wirer:"Compressor on."
Me:"10 psi...20,25,30,35,40,45,50.."
Me:"55, aand stop!"
Me:"STOP!!"
Wirer:"I was waiting for you to say 60!"
*and now we say 60 whenever we want him to do something

And a final quote:

I am always bringing around my camera with a huge old flash unit.
"Nick, STOP FLASHING PEOPLE!!!"

MasterMkanik

18-02-2008, 00:38

me- "Two balls are allways better than one!"

Mentor- "The programmers said they don't need anything"
Me- "They need a table..."

Me- "Didn't we set a deadline of having this thing done of about... last week?"
Mentor- "yeah..."
Me- "Told you so"
Mentor- "shut up"

Me- "YESSSSS!!!! The robot can hold the controllor board!"
Everyone in the room- "YES!"

(The previouse years OI was quite heavy and we didn't have a place to set it down while waiting to go on the feild)

Me- Just bolt it down allready...
(after 30 min of talking about how to mount somthing, it ended up being bolted don in the exact same position it started in)

Jaybee1405

18-02-2008, 00:43

You're the Mechy who didn't put on the steering correctly or design it. Also I didn't say 15 minutes or destroy. and I didn't say that at all.

"Lets just take out all the code to save weight."

I thought you denied to be on our team? :)
Regardless, I was quoting Sun, not you.

But here's a Kevin quote:
"We can save more weight by programming more because code weighs less that air!"

Fab.Master

18-02-2008, 01:20

-S1-Holy @$#$%#%@ crap thats a case of Full Throttle
-S2-Can you get the other case out of the car
-S1- why do we need so many when only 2 people work on the bot
-Mentor- If its worth doing its worth overdoing, plus it keeps me going

jtbandes

18-02-2008, 03:14

"That's not hydraulic fluid, it's blood!"

"It's not worse, it's just a different kind of bad."

purplecatnip

18-02-2008, 03:31

"it's like socks on a chicken!"
" stuffed animals have feelings too!!"
"the soda can attacked me"
" it's called a planned accident of coarse"

and a thousand others
thinking about this made me realize how big of spazzes we all are! :p

purplecatnip

18-02-2008, 03:39

omg I almost forgot my favorite one said by our principal, when he came in on our first meeting
" wow!!! the team will have FEMALES!!!!!!!!"

J-me

18-02-2008, 11:00

"I can't work with everyone staring at me!"
" Where the crap is the food!"
"Anyone have a dollar?"
"Go away!!"
"U're so annoying!"

And others like that...nothing all that fun yet... :yikes: :p :cool: :rolleyes:

Bsteckler

18-02-2008, 11:56

C: What's this entry with a range of 0 to 4,000,000,000,000?
M: Mabey it's the speed...

RoXmySoX

18-02-2008, 12:01

"we're done with the arm..."

(couple days later)

"ok, now we're done with the arm...."

(few more days later...)

"Ok you know what? Just wait!":mad:

Betty_Krocker

19-02-2008, 08:39

while our brains were fried we came up with ways to delay fedex.....

"So how can we get more time...?"
"Hack the GMT computer?"
"Naw... what about roadblocks..."
"Too risky..."
"I got it... we will get ladies for all of the fedex drivers..."
"Nice... hey Mike is you mom free tonight?"
"... I hate you..."

D_Price

19-02-2008, 09:02

"Oh MY GOD!! I am burning...uhh wait that is just my durning desire to build this robot."

"wow building a robot is easy....designing sucks!"

StephLee

19-02-2008, 09:07

"Ball."
"Ball"
"Baaaall"
"BBbaaalall"
"BALL"
"ball"
"BaAAall"
"Too much fun!"
"Second semester senior!"
*hysterics*

^This was me and another senior while waiting for a team picture. We essentially just said "ball" in about as many forms as possible, and "second semester senior" is our excuse for everything lately.

Parent: "Why do you have three balls?"
Student: "...Well you see, there was this problem with some radiation..."
Parent: "I AM a biology teacher, I understand how that happens!"

kDude

19-02-2008, 10:19

G: "I wish we had a time machine so we could go back and make the robot in half the time"
K: "Well we don't have a time machine..."
G: "That's what you think! *makes a weird humming noise*

This was also after we had been working for 12 hours so we were tired and thought everything was hilarious.

MasterMkanik

19-02-2008, 14:37

Dr. Pepper is Jesus juice and Cheerwine is God Cola

"What?!?!?! Your leaving? It's not even midnight yet!"

"We can't.... were out of food"

Me- "But... We don't have anything to fix on Thursday!"
Mentor- "You will be driving the bot"
Me- "But thats no fun!"
Bill- "We will bring Halo three and a tv!"
Me *evil cackle*

"I got it! Put the Poof balls in the crate!"

Bill "Epic FAIL" (after i tryed to sit on the trackball and failed)

JYang

19-02-2008, 14:56

Because it was raining when we shipped off our robot:
The sky cries when the robot is shipped off.

ZakuAce

19-02-2008, 15:10

"So is it working?"
"No, its all screwed up?"
"Wait, what's screwed up about it?"
"When I tried to drive the right drive motor foreword, the claw opened."

troy27

19-02-2008, 15:16

Where the heck is my Simon Clamp!!!!!!!

Tottanka

19-02-2008, 16:48

i was buying some bolts for the robot a few days ago along with the finance head of our team.
The total was 1 Shekel (about 27 cents). He asked the seller for a reciept to get a refund from our sponsor.

Another good one is a problem i had a few days ago with Kevin's code. I was coding andbuilding till i finally managed to get a success in the build.
Then, for 5 hours i was uploading code to the robot, fixing stuff. No metter what i did the robot did not respond, not to the joysticks, not to the sensors, not to hybrid, anything! i was going crazy trying to figure out what it was, till i found out that the new MPLAB saves code by defauly in c:\mcc18\yourfolder
and i hve been uploading empty code from the desktop the whole time.
Once i found out what it was the other team members did not give me a break laughing at me, and i still recieve phone calls from them with the only goal to laugh at me :D

alicen

19-02-2008, 17:06

We lost the trackball in the lab quite a few times, which was always followed with a "how do we lose that thing in here?!"

"Buddy plugged the lift motor into the wheel motor!"

Not so much a saying as a lasting moment, we went ot scrimmage and came back with lots of free vitamin water, and so one of our freshmen drank 9 of them, and by about 10:30 that night he was loopy on it, and slighlty sick to the stomach, but wouldn't stop drinking it. :D

James1902

19-02-2008, 18:32

"Iz it can b pig go boom time now pleaz...kthanksbye!!!"

yeah, someone brought up lol cats during an all nighter and it just went downhill from there.

The Megan 2207

19-02-2008, 19:37

Mentor: Son of a %^&$&*. It's actually working.

Nin_estarSaerah

19-02-2008, 19:50

The Megan 2207

19-02-2008, 20:03

Mentor: We need someone to paint the team number on the bumpers!
Me: I'll do it!

10 minutes later...

Me (holding bumper with team number painted on it): I made an oopsie.
Mentor: It looks fine to me...
Me: (turns bumper upside down): It goes this way.
Rest of team erupts in laughter.

It's the front bumper, too. The mentors thought it was funny, so we left it that way. Anyone attending the Minnesota Regional, look for the team with the upside-down front bumper (unless it doesn't pass inspection and we have to fix it really fast).

muffinxo

19-02-2008, 21:08

Tyler : As a robotics team we should do some kind of activity together besides building

Amanda : did you guys know that you can get a pole dancing team together and take lessons

Lindsay (me) : OMG WHAT!!! I wanna start a pole dancing team

Lindsay : *turns to Matt as he walks away disgusted* MATT, will you be myy pole dancing partner??"

Paige : CAN I BE THE POLE???

---------------------

Mitch started this and it stuckk the WHOLE season..

"Too much heavy, add more light"

We used it all the time...

This battery has too much dead.. add more alive.

The robot has too much forward add more back!

lol. etc. etc...

another weird MITCH quote that we said ALL THE TIME

"I can't brain today, I have the dumb"

muffinxo

19-02-2008, 21:15

"oh wow, the ball is rolling up hill"
"and half the team is chasing it, why don't they wait for the wind to die and let it roll back down?"
"that would be easy, this is robotics."

"ahh, more burning metal"
"actually, thats burning t-shirt"
"why are you welding t-shirts?"

"i can't get out of the crate"
"thats okay, what do you need"
"a box of tools, a box of donuts, and a hole"
"what is the hole for?"
"output"

I almost spit my drink out with laughter!!! I can totally relate to the "that would be easy, this is robotics" ... perfect excuse for doing something dumb :)

thanks for the laugh Nin_estarSaerah!!

TomZ

20-02-2008, 10:53

One of the best ones this year was said by me

"We need more females! How much do they cost?"

Said about female PWM Connnectors:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Templar1396

21-02-2008, 11:27

"hey Mr ______ You mind if i skip out of class today? ive got a smoking robot downstairs....?"

jkeith227

21-02-2008, 14:13

V:"hey stick the wrench in the battery nothing will happen i already tried it"
J:"really?"
V:"yeah"
J:"ok...."

(sparks fly everywhere, directly in the middle of the pits)

VinW

21-02-2008, 14:21

(In elevator with people who worked there after Team Dinner)

AJ : "Hey lets get some grab a$$ going here"

(Lady gives our team mate the weirdest look and laughs)

usbcd36

21-02-2008, 15:54

Alalea

21-02-2008, 16:19

(while filling out information to send to FIRST)

Captain - What are the general meetings called? We had a name for it...
Me - I dunno...General Assembly?
Captain - No...Does anyone remember what were supposed to call the meetings when the entire team is there?
Teacher - Chaos?

That reminds of when our teacher was filling out a form, asking for money.

Teacher: *reading* What will the money be used for?* *thinks* Ham sandwiches!

afi419

21-02-2008, 16:21

"We don't need a cover" reffering to the muffin fan as I stick my hand in.

Karibou

21-02-2008, 17:18

Me: "The first person to make a crack about this will be impaled with a metal file that was shot out of a pnumatic cannon"

*mentor comes out holding a brand new set of bits*
Other mentor:"Holy #&^%, where did you find those?"
*I laugh*
"Crap, I did NOT just say that"

kevin.li.rit

21-02-2008, 17:28

Mechanical guy, "Can we get a pot on the robot"
me. "Sure. Are you going to put it on?"
Mechanical guy, "I don't know how to do that"

Anyways he didn't know what a pot was.

billbo911

21-02-2008, 17:52

hipsterjr

21-02-2008, 18:05

After any little event in the shop: "ooooh:( , I wanted to see it go boom!:p

Chief Samwize

21-02-2008, 19:58

While programming our robot this year:

Me: Ok, I didn't tell it to do that. (Looking back at code) Oh wait ... yes I did. :yikes:

-Sam

T3_1565

21-02-2008, 20:13

"MMMMMMMM ball ball ball ball!!!!!!!!!!!!" *robot chases after trackball*

dr1008

21-02-2008, 20:58

well there are a number of funny things that were said on my team but i think the most reoccurring one was "my god, thats a big ball"

Nin_estarSaerah

21-02-2008, 21:00

said by our female mentor
"well, guys do like balls"

mta

22-02-2008, 09:03

When asked how to hurdle the ball I replied, "We can use a tractor beam."

At recurring pionts throught the six weeks when we ran into mechanical problems I would say "Should have used a tractor beam."

Whisper

22-02-2008, 10:50

(after programming spent an hour and a half trying to get the left motor on the robot to work)
"Ummm....did anybody check the cable thingys?"

alicen

22-02-2008, 11:49

whenever we were attaching something to the robot, but everybody was being lazy, one of us would say "use the magic constrain button"

this is because while designing, all of the parts on the inventor bot were just constrained, and didn't have any bolts or things holding it together

christina_omg

23-02-2008, 01:37

advisor: "did anyone notice what when you stenciled the bumpers they were upside down?"

Devibeast

23-02-2008, 11:26

"Home, whats home? Is that place we go for food and sleep?" - Shane

The Megan 2207

23-02-2008, 12:13

"All progress ceases when food arrives."

This was said by many people nearly every day. Dinner comes, and all work stops!

Alalea

23-02-2008, 12:14

"FOWARD! FOWARD!"

The student, at this point, has crashed the robot into the place with the controls, also smashing our teacher into the computer he is working on. She keeps pulling back instead of foward. Chaos...then I manage to push the controls foward, releasing the innocents.

Jaybee1405

23-02-2008, 12:47

Mechanical guy, "Can we get a pot on the robot"
me. "Sure. Are you going to put it on?"
Mechanical guy, "I don't know how to do that"

Anyways he didn't know what a pot was.

Um that's funny because I was the one who installed the pot on the robot. I assume you were referring to me...

Kevin: Lets do an omni drive with all traction wheels.
Me: That's not going to be very easy to turn.
Kevin: Yes it will, it will work.

kevin.li.rit

23-02-2008, 12:49

Um that's funny because I was the one who installed the pot on the robot. I assume you were referring to me...

Kevin: Lets do an omni drive with all traction wheels.
Me: That's not going to be very easy to turn.
Kevin: Yes it will, it will work.

I never said that, I don't even like the traction wheels. And If you did it right you could do it with traction wheels and it would be easy to turn.

And you only installed the pot after I said I wouldn't tell you how to do it.

"Me: I have several solutions. I just don't feel like telling you."

Jaybee1405

23-02-2008, 13:04

muffinxo

23-02-2008, 16:15

Here's one of our team's favorite quotes. Whenever anything goes wrong (no matter what it is)

"Blame Kevin"

Kevin, AKA Coffeeism, is our super genius college student mentor who knows everything (yes, everything). So it never is actually his fault, but we pre-plan who we're going to blame.

OMG.. ironically we had a student on our team last year,, and he like knew everything... he was very "sure" of himself.. and like once year he FRIED A RC :O anyways...

The whole time he was on the team they referred to KFC (Kevin Fries Circuit) and every since he left we always say KFC whenever something goes wrong :P

Danny McC

23-02-2008, 16:18

Oh my god! I know someone who's like that. Coincidentally he posts on here a lot. His name is thattallguy. LOL everyone laugh at him.

Devibeast

23-02-2008, 16:52

"There was a meeting this weekend?" -Freshman, 2/20/08

tar.ancalime

23-02-2008, 21:44

Q: "What do I do if it doesn't fit?"
A: "FILE IT"

Q: "What if we don't have the right size drill bit?"
A: "DRILL IT SMALLER AND FILE IT."

Q: "Um...this is slightly crooked..."
A: "FILE IT STRAIGHT"

Q: "Dude, this piece is totally off. What.."
A: "FILE IT"

Q: "Where's the file?"
A: ...

Our robot is basically a bunch of filed pieces held together by cut-down screws. :rolleyes:

iwashere1990

24-02-2008, 10:58

Me: "where do I put the fans" (fans to cool down the motors)
R: "you want the fans to blow upwards to create a downwards force to increase acceleration"
W: "It perfect... we want the fans to blow up, so the upwards force will decrease the weight"
Me: "W___'s Idea is perfect, If we have enough fans we could even have negative weight"
M: "You can't have negative weight, thou you can put helium in the tanks and have a floating robot."
-------
W: "We should put the ball caster on a piston"
Me: "Why?"
W: "So when the piston fires we can bank turns"
Me: "The robot is probably not going that fast"
-------
(minutes before shipping)
R: "Just tape the claw to the crate"
Me: "Pass the Gaff tape"
(crate on the truck)
R: "Oh, you didn't put enough tape...How much you wanna bet that claw will fall off during shipping"
Me: "5 bucks"

Hannah1405

25-02-2008, 19:11

As joe said, "Blame Kevin",
Others include:
-Joe:"I am going to tell you how to perform an operation.... now I will scratch myself excessively."

-Whenever something was lost: "Looks like Tosean came back..."

-Me: "Do you like being men? If you don't put away that file, you won't be for long!"

-Kevin: "I'm 17!"

Jaybee1405

25-02-2008, 19:25

Hannah: "Put things away. As in: Put. Things. Away. K thx bye."

Mitch1525

25-02-2008, 20:12

Harrison: "SHUT UP!!!! If I can't justify half the stuff i say, you certainly can't justify this madness!!!!!" ~weekend before ship, the robot broke and Harrison was yelling at the guy who did it....

Lawry: "If you want to live, I suggest you avoid death" ~words of wisdom at 11:30 PM

Sam: "Where's the hitty stick" ~midnight Sunday before ship, hammer becomes hitty stick..... go figure...

Harrison: "I tried it on trees because I figured the trees would simulate your bone structure. But then I realized you weren't a tree. You were more of a pile of snow."

Lawry: "I will continue to eat donuts and maybe eventually I will just fall over."

Harrison: "Sam, why is my drill hot?"
Sam: "It wants you."
Harrison: "I hate you."
Sam: "Screw it. Screw it hard!"

Harrison: "Don't use your big nuts Sean, I've got small nuts."

Karen: "The frosting is the tastiest part of the Oreo."
Lawry: "But the frosting fell on the floor."
Karen: "But the frosting is the tastiest part."
Lawry: "But the floor is the dirtiest part of the Oreo."

Lawry: "Flat like a prostitutes @$$." ~talking about 6 year old un-opened 2 liter of Squirt

Harrison: "I get G-d $@#$@#$@#$@# addicted to junk food."
Sean: "It's like crack cocaine to him."
Karen: "It's like he just got broken up with." ~Oreos, Krispy Kremes, coffee cake, and cheese-it's

Alalea

25-02-2008, 20:17

Me and Sara: "James did it!"

Whenever we need to laugh. Especially after several munchkins and a "fruit" (sugar) snapple drink apiece.

StephLee

25-02-2008, 20:27

"*gasp* You stolded my gum!"
*intense struggle*
"My gum...it is bended."

"Boring!"
"But it's catapultish!"

XXShadowXX

25-02-2008, 21:06

After returing from a neighboring teams track, and relizing that our shops scale was off, and that we did not weight 94lbs, but 127lbs (lol :(...)

Me and ben were up for nearly 3 days straight, and ben had just sounded the 14hrs till ship warning....
My friend josh who had been up for only 24 hrs at this point start to complain about the lateness. And he complained for nearly 20minutes straight, as everyone worked 'cept him. And as i was disasembling a toughbox (for the 11th time that build season), i asked for a tool.

Josh: its really late (looks at watch around 3am or something)
me: neet (not carring)
josh: im tired
Me: im not (just slammed 2 5hr energies)
josh: oh
Me: hey josh can you get a tool
Josh: sure
Me: its called 'shut the heck up'

Enigma's puzzle

26-02-2008, 10:09

On Enigmas' team we have 2
Blame Dennis,
Or Blame Mitch

But otherwise,
"How do all the rule books keep disappearing but yet no one knows the rules any better?"

MasterMkanik

01-03-2008, 19:38

While working on our robot cart:

Ross- "The screw won't go in"
Me- *Take's biggest hammer we have, beats screw into wood*
Ross- "oh..."
Me- "yeah"

Mentor "I thought we wern't packing till' next week?"
Me- "oops...."

ShotgunNinja

03-03-2008, 22:27

Jaybee1405

04-03-2008, 00:39

Screw it. No, the crate.

You know robotics has achieved a level of pure awesome when it had Grant Imahara before Mythbusters started calling him anything other than a "Myth-tern".

(But seriously, has anyone else noticed that throughout the first season or so, the Mythterns remained nameless?)

I noticed that, but I also noticed that in the recent episode all about dogs, Grant used his "Battlebot" to try and distract a guard dog. I was heartily dissappointed.

Nin_estarSaerah

04-03-2008, 06:24

"my life is incomplete, my nose has lost the imprint of my safety goggles."

Herodotus

06-03-2008, 23:28

"Better safe than sorry, we don't want to be caught with our proverbial pants down... then again, we don't want to be caught with our real pants down either." - me

"I'd never wear tie-dye outside of a regional. In fact there's a lot of things I probaly wouldn't do outside a regional. What happens in FIRST stays in FIRST." - me

MishraArtificer

07-03-2008, 20:53

Team newb: To expect any average group of high schoolers to build and develop a robot in less than six weeks is...madness!

Me: Madness?

THIS
IS
FIRST!

Newb: Yeah, I just walked into the Pit of Death with that one.

Jaybee1405

07-03-2008, 21:48

Laura_587

09-03-2008, 18:28

(At the Richmond Science Muesum for the team Social for VCU, talking about an exhibit) "Hey, those are the same nuts we used on our robot!"

Zyik

09-03-2008, 20:04

Two new ones for today:

"Can you use a heat gun to dry paint?"

"Don't call me I have dial-up!"

TeamG.I.R

09-03-2008, 21:14

" Aww look at our robot, isnt he cute?"

"Lets ziptie it" me

XXShadowXX

09-03-2008, 22:20

Got a new one :)

This conversation takes place during our hybrid testing.

ben: "How can it do that, we didn't program or build it to do that."
Kevin: "How can you question it, you just saw it."

this other quote takes place during our programming phase.

kevin: "Bugs weren't orginally called bugs, when located they can be called features."
robot flys into all.
me: "New feature."

The_Ravioli_Man

12-03-2008, 09:53

alright, I got one...
We're getting on the bus before heading off to the Richmond/VCU Regionals and we're all sitting down talking and stuff. The Administrator that was seeing we got on the bus and left safe and sound quited us down to speak. When he was finished, my buddy Chance stood up and, in the dead hush of everyone said, "Does the hotel have a continental breakfast?"

Everyone busted out laughing! How he said it and the randomness of it all was what made it so hilarious. We're still laughing about it, lol.

Another one...

Setting: Wating to get into T.G.I. Fridays to get some food on thursday night.

Me: Hey, is that another robotics team right over there?

Teammate 1: yeah, I think so...

Me: Which one do you think it is?

Teammate 2: There's only one way to find out. Everyone run in yelling "2028!" and see what they do!

lol

There are more, I just have to remember them, lol. As soon as I do, I'll post them. :D

ZakuAce

12-03-2008, 10:03

We were practicing driving with our practice robot last night, trying to decide our controls and practicing manuvers

Me "Don't complain about my driving, I only hit the wall TWICE!"

MegaSparks

12-03-2008, 10:19

After walking into the build area and smelling the great smell of wire insulation burning.
Student: I think we might have a problem here.

TomZ

12-03-2008, 13:34

One of our mentors (college student) had cut off the end of a Zip-tie leaving a very sharp point. I asked him to cut it off flush with the latch to make it less likely to cut someone. As he was cutting it, I was warning him about the possibility that the pointed end might fly when he cut it and to make sure he was wearing his safety glasses.
His response:
"What good are those? That thing just shot up my nose"!

Sure enough, two hard blows later, out it came.:yikes:

after cutting off a zip tie

MENTOR:"Get the dremmel and remove the tip from that zip tie."
ME: "It's obviously sharp, no one would be stupid enough to grab it."
MENTOR:"Watch this" *Walks over and grabs the zip tie. Blood starts pouring out of the wound."
ME:"Wow, thanks for the example!"

feliks_rosenber

12-03-2008, 15:05

X:"The other team members don't take me seriously"

Y:"You will wave goodbye to them from the airplane"

ZakuAce

12-03-2008, 22:13

after cutting off a zip tie

MENTOR:"Get the dremmel and remove the tip from that zip tie."
ME: "It's obviously sharp, no one would be stupid enough to grab it."
MENTOR:"Watch this" *Walks over and grabs the zip tie. Blood starts pouring out of the wound."
ME:"Wow, thanks for the example!"

Thats dedication for you!

Phyrxes

13-03-2008, 09:58

We have a student who always asked if we can place some blatently rules violating piece of equipment on the robot.

Student: Hey Mr. B. can we....
Me: No
Student: Why?
Me: It Violates Rule <G2>, which is why we are renaming that to <G2, the Rule of "NO!">

FF_1610_EMT

14-03-2008, 10:40

Said by a teacher one Sat. night right before curfew laws set in.

Teacher:Go home so you don't get in trouble for being out after curfew
Me: If i get pulled over, i'll just tell the cops that i'm returning from a call(as i am a volunteer firefighter as well)
Teacher: Don't lie to them just go home

I ended up going home around 2:30-3 in the morning along with taking home two other teammates and the curfew law was midnight.

Another one from me after everytime i drove the robot off the ramp during practice and the one time i drove it up the ramp so fast that it hit the wall and bounced off and flipped off the ramp

Opps!!!! My bad!

spc295

14-03-2008, 23:26

not another cieling tile

FF_1610_EMT

15-03-2008, 13:11

(crashing sound in background)
Teachers and Mentors:WHAT WAS THAT!?!?!?
Students: NOTHING!!!!!!!

SL8

15-03-2008, 18:14

(crashing sound in background)
Student:WHAT WAS THAT!?!?!?
Mentor: Gravity!!

ZakuAce

15-03-2008, 20:08

One of the janitors for our school would come in pretty much every day during the build season and say "Let's build a robot!"

SL8

15-03-2008, 20:13

REminds me.

Mentor: The janitors are our best friends.

Jimmy Cao

15-03-2008, 20:37

Well, this one isnt during build season... but...

<Our driver (of a car) drives past a turn and begins backing into it (it was in a subdivision, so it was legal)>

Lucy (Base driver): "10 point penalty (G22)"

Jaime65

18-03-2008, 12:16

Ken: "Why are you wearing BOTH tubes?"
Carmichael: "Because 1 is NOT a life saving device, so 2 would work"

Ken: "I dont really know how to do it, i just know enough to fake it."

Team Member: "How long has that battery been charging ken?"
Ken: "Only since I put it on there (running to battery) Last night....."

Ken: "Hold down the Prog. Button"
Me: "ok, its solid"
Ken: "Ok, im going to download, im glad these have been fixed so you dont have to retry over and over"
--Computer-- Failed to Download
Ken: "...Maybe there are still a few problems"

Ken: "And the company name is Cross The Road Electronics"
Jaime: "I dont get it...."
Ken: "Copioli brother?..."
Jaime: "Oh..the chicken guy with you at kickoff"

oh wow I just LOVE how you quoted me and I did NOT know
lol

klrswift

21-03-2008, 23:24

Lead Mentor's wife: John. John! John!!!

Team member: Hey, your wife wants you.

Lead Mentor(while grabbing pizza):.....She can wait

ajisjesus

22-03-2008, 19:59

"well im glad we didnt need that part..."

"wheres noah?"

"i attempted liberty spikes but all i got was a long poofy horn..."

-me

Gboehm

22-03-2008, 21:52

Team 1516's motto: "If there is a harder way to do it, we can find it!"

Bigflip2073

23-03-2008, 01:05

During the build season I wrote

"If your reading this, something is probably broken"

on the bottom platform of our Robot.

It was true every time

At at practice day at St. Francis High

announcer: "Hybrid mode starts in 3,2,1 *ding*"
Team member: "Why isnt the Robot moving?"
Other Team member "THE ROBOT ISNT ON!!!!"
*Leans over table and presses a button*
Team member: ".....Oh"

ErikSR71

23-03-2008, 03:46

*A mentor* "I'm going to attempt to give you a college junior level education in 10 minutes, so if you don't understand, try to figure out the ingredients in these cupcakes."
This mentor's wife makes cupcakes that are legendary on our team

Renee Becker-Blau

23-03-2008, 22:28

These are my all time favorite quotes from the 1675 build season

K: “Cut measure, cut twice!”

G: JOSH!!!!! MAKE DO THINGS!!!...............MAKE DO THINGS!(the robot code)(That ended up on an Index card... that was left on the field at the Midwest Regional)

S-"You don't need 1,000 thread count, that's like egyptian silk. We're not putting a princess to bed!" (For the bumpers)

K-"1501, I'm in love with their robot."
R- ">_< KEVIN YOU"RE CHEATING ON OUR ROBOT!"

(Rewriting Woodie Flowers) Kevin- "What did I inspire you to do?
Max- "Kevin inspired me to throw away my life for robotics.... or Kevin inspired me to let robotics eat my brains.”

(In Chicago) 1625 mentor: oh, hello
Us: hi
Him: you guys look like you're in prison
Us: well we are the programmers

UWM Media "Can we get a shot of you working on the robot?"
*All the guys in the pit..* "NNNNOOOO!!!"
R- "Oh dang,.... I guess.....T-T" *Untightens the electrical block.. Everyone freeks out*

There are more at http://team1675.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=187

Blue_Mist

24-03-2008, 00:10

Friday afternoon at Davis-

Dave(mentor): Are you done?
Nick: As time approaches infinity, doneness approaches one...

Qbranch

24-03-2008, 14:12

While testing our autonomous mode on a slippery linoleum floor:

Me: "It's slipping too much... I don't think its gonna make the turn.."
<robot now doing 13 ft/sec coming about to cross fifth line>
Other guy: "Yeah it will, it's just your perspective
Me: "Dude it's gonna hit the column..."
Other guy: "No it w...."
<robot hits column without bumpers>
Me: "Whoa... so that's what's inside these columns..." :yikes:

-q

Danielle H

24-03-2008, 14:29

This wasn't build season, it was Boilermaker, but it was still funny:

*Paul comes out from behind the bus with a look of pure horror on his face* "Is the bus moving?! Why is the bus moving?"
"The bus isn't supposed to move unless the driver's INSIDE..." -Me

XXShadowXX

24-03-2008, 16:03

"3 hours till ship!" yells Ben, robot is stripped (nothing on it's bare frame)
"Time is relative Ben, now shut the hell up!" me.

vivek16

24-03-2008, 18:00

OWWWW!!- me when touching scrap pieces on the welding table. This happened multiple times...

I wonder what happens when you dont use coolant when milling...

"WhiRRR!! EERRKK!" -mill
"Crack" -aluminum

thank god it was a scrap piece...

-vivek

EDIT-mm.. Mills dont like being back driven...

JBotAlan

24-03-2008, 22:38

We've been using the sticks of those driveway reflectors to put into our ball-knocker, and we discovered today that we were running out of sticks. We had no more reflectors. When a student brought the topic up to a mentor, he simply said, "OK, I'll bring another half-dozen in from home. I won't be able to find my driveway, but it's OK." :D

Cody Carey

24-03-2008, 22:48

That doesn't sound very nice.
I wouldn't say that to anybody. How can that be funny?

Yeah, It was kind of an insider team joke. Although I'm sure we've all had times when we've wanted to seriously say that to a team member, it would be quite rude to actually do so. Also, Nobody said the quotes had to be funny here:p

lilBcos

25-03-2008, 08:09

F:dude we just fried the IR board
Me: no we just tell them it was "inceficent" for our needs

Alalea

25-03-2008, 11:22

1: *crashes robot into desks*
2: Hey, he saved the munchkins!
Munchkins: *balanced on robot*

klrswift

28-03-2008, 22:09

Student: We're going to Logan's Roadhouse? Don't they have peanuts all over the place there?
Adult: Yeah.
Student: Oh, I dont think I should go. *Calls parent on cell phone* Can you come pick me up so I don't die?

Karibou

29-03-2008, 21:35

This wasn't during build season, but it was at GLR...

*Advert for the machine shop over the PA system in the pits*
"...so come to the machine shop, we break it, you fix it!"
I was escorting our bot out of the pit at the time, and I just stopped in my tracks and burst out laughing (in the doorway...oops), then checked with my friend to make sure that I heard it right...

and...
Mentor to student: "If I even BEGIN to talk about using aluminum axles ever again, you have my permission to beat me. Hard. And I'm serious, by the way."
*five minutes later, that mentor is talking to another mentor and mentions our poor use of the aluminum axles*
*student hits mentor with a hammer; lightly!*
"What the *&^#%?!?"
"You said to beat you if you talked about aluminum axles"
Sorry, that was a funny moment in our pit...

Torboticsmember

29-03-2008, 21:40

This was during Bayou today
Other team member: "Don't be shocked if I squeeze your arm because I am nervous and I don't know what I will do."
Me: "Just as long as you don't bite me"

We were in the picking rounds and we didn't know if we would be picked, we were, and she was nervous. The day before we were in first place and she was excited and bit our mentor, I just wanted to make sure it didn't happen to me.

Day before Bayou:
To other team members
Me: "I have a new nickname for Eric" Eric is a kid I pick on at school, jokingly of course, about being a failure
Other members: "What?"
Me: "PWM, because he fails all the time!!!"

While on the practice field
Pit announcer: "We practice safety first"
Me: "Haha, get it Safety FIRST, i crack myself up sometimes"
*strange looks from team members

Kaushal.K

29-03-2008, 23:18

This wasn't during Build Season but it was at GTR and lasted over the course of Friday (28th March) and Saturday (29th March)...

Mr. Philips (Team 1114) "donated" an Aluminum Magnet to the Spare Parts desk.
AJ (Team 1241) "the victim" borrows it out from the Spare Parts desk (signs for it) along with a guarantee to pay for it in case it break (cost of the Aluminum Magnet $2,000 Canadian)

well obviously an Aluminum magnet doesn't exist.. (even though our GTR Spare Parts desk *thanks Linda and Kevin* made it magically work:yikes:) and AJ BROKE the Aluminum Magnet... thankfully Mr Philips knew someone who could fix it, and AJ doesn't have to pay him the $2,000 but it was amazing watching his reaction (watch for the video 1241 uploads later on)

Thanks to 1114 and 2056 for making this work :D, and also congratulations to all the teams that qualified for Atlanta.

astephen68

30-03-2008, 00:11

" Miracles can happen to the the most likely of people"

Akash Rastogi

30-03-2008, 00:28

"aww man!! now our robot's gonna smell like peaches you idiot! What will the judges and inspectors think of us now???:mad: "

lol, a member spills yogurt on the robot XD

Nawaid Ladak

30-03-2008, 00:37

"we are all inspired by excellence, but not all of us celebrate it"
Karthik Kanagasabopathy at GTR today during elimination rounds

Akash Rastogi

30-03-2008, 00:40

"we are all inspired by excellence, but not all of us celebrate it"
Karthik Kanagasabopathy at GTR today during elimination rounds

lol, who knew Karthik could be so deep:p j/k

Dreadfrost

30-03-2008, 10:54

Well is the quote wasn't during the build season but did anyone else catch Karthik mumble something like "teams are inspired by excellence but, never seen to congratulate it..." It was in eliminations and was said right after the small cheer for red and then huge cheer for the blue alliance. It kinda caught my attention...

Wow i guess i should read whats been posted first........sorry

kristenliz_28

30-03-2008, 14:46

we had made a very large binder at a regional, and on the car ride home a girl my teammate 'bob' had been flirting with called:

him: "You should come to my hotel room in Atlanta and see my scouting binder..."

me:"Oh yes, his scouting binder is huge..."

him: "It weighs 10 pounds."

me: "Its so huge you need to grab it with two hands."

it made the whole car laugh...'bob' had no idea what was so funny about his 'scouting binder' =P

Katie_UPS

30-03-2008, 15:14

"hey look, look, we can't use this part, it's bigger then my drawing!"

"If I can drive in weather like this just think what I could do with the robot...."

Or my favorite: (but after a comp.)
Renee: "Ryan, why can't we be like 1114?"
Ryan: *puts down his fork, looks over at her, and slams down his hand* "Because we aren't Canadian."

Renee Becker-Blau

30-03-2008, 15:17

Mentor- "What we need is a team, where do we go? To Teams R' Us and get a shirt."

The Megan 2207

30-03-2008, 17:19

While queueing for our last qualifying match, which we were sure that we were going to lose, our media person said:

There are three ways that we can win this match.
#1: They have a power failure, forget to turn on their robot, wires fall out of the terminal block, or something to that extent.
#2: Their hybrid program got messed up and they spin on a line and get 11 consecutive <G22>s.
#3: *jokingly* We actually win, no penalties or failures.

It was a penalty-less match and we won.

Rhall233

30-03-2008, 20:52

heres the background...

*Craig on the phone talking to his dad,
everyone is standing around waiting on the battery to get changed during driver practice...and checking out the bot..me and Michael Parker are standing having a conversation..*

all the sudden you see Craig jumping up and down screaming into the phone...

"CHEESE DAD! CHEEEEESE!!!!!"

absolutely hilarious...

apparently, it was a conversation about pizza. Look for me & Parker at ATL...we'll probably scream it a few times..

Éowyn

31-03-2008, 02:21

Aren_Hill

31-03-2008, 02:42

joyflying

31-03-2008, 03:40

Heard over the PA in the pits at GLR from the Spare Parts/Help desk "Team #### needs a blow torch. If you have one please bring it the the Spare Parts desk." *puzzled thought in head* a minute later "Blowtorches are not allowed in the pits, if you bring one up here you will get in trouble. Team #### will take a heavy duty solidering iron instead." murmer heard amoung team mates "we can't use blowtorches but they never said we couldn't bring them with us..."

XXShadowXX

31-03-2008, 12:47

i thought this was build season not competion.

EricH

31-03-2008, 12:49

i thought this was build season not competion.
Like it matters. You're building at competition, aren't you? At least a little?

XXShadowXX

31-03-2008, 12:52

during a regional event i never leave the pit....
i understand completly

Nawaid Ladak

31-03-2008, 14:30

"we are all inspired by excellence, but not all of us celebrate it"
Karthik Kanagasabopathy at GTR today during elimination rounds

I CANT BELIEVE I SPELLED HIS NAME WRONG :-(

EricH

31-03-2008, 14:42

I CANT BELIEVE I SPELLED HIS NAME WRONG :-(
You aren't the first, I'm sure. (I've never tried...) There was an attempt to add it to the CD spell checker some time ago. Need I say more?

Karibou

31-03-2008, 16:21

*being shouted from 3 teams at once in the stands* Orange Al-li-ance!

Yes, that's right. At the Colorado regional, all three of the teams on the winning alliance (1625, 1592, and 1296) were bright blazing orange. It was epic. :D
The same thing happened at GLR, except the alliance (291, 573, and 862) didn't win. My friend and I knew from the moment that the second orange team was picked by CIA (I think that it was 862, but I can't remember) that it was going to be very orange-ish...

i_am_samus

31-03-2008, 16:58

"SHAAAAAAAAAAAAANK"

Some new word someone on our team came up with, and now everyone says it.

I don't know what it means :P

HOT_SOUP

31-03-2008, 18:03

"THIS IS A NO-NINJA ZONE!!!"

"Actually, I read the rules, and you can't do that"

"HEHEHHE 1100, THATS A BIG NUMBER"

"C'mon, Jeremy, lets drive. You can fix all that stuff in programming."

"I need a big bullwhip so I can snap you guys from across the room and keep you guys working." "Actually, I have one of those"

"Silly Abbas!"

"And then Iceland's like BIAHHHHH"

FrozenFish

31-03-2008, 19:19

15 minutes before we had to leave for the Blue Man Group show in Las Vegas, our team leader says "Let's change the sprockets!"

hehe we just barely made it

SL8

18-04-2008, 16:16

Why isn't the program working you made it?

Me- It is.

Then what it is the problem?

Me- That is the problem!

Protronie

18-04-2008, 18:07

One of the quotes I remember hearing...

"This game is so lame... all you do is run around in circles... this won't be no challenge." :eek: name withheld for their protection. ;)

What a difference running around in circles for six weeks make.

ARCHI- :p

SL8

18-04-2008, 18:13

One of the quotes I remember hearing...

"This game is so lame... all you do is run around in circles... this won't be no challenge." :eek: name withheld for their protection. ;)

:D I remember that one too. NASCAR is way harder than we thought.

Renee Becker-Blau

18-04-2008, 18:19

We did a demo today and when we asked the students what an engineer was, one replied with,

"A person that makes stuff with silver stuff and screwdrivers."

Herodotus

14-05-2008, 18:14

Student: "I tried three times but I can't get the angle right."
Me: "So.. try a fourth time."

Sometimes you just have to learn by doing.

The Megan 2207

14-05-2008, 21:45

:D I remember that one too. NASCAR is way harder than we thought.

But you don't hurdle in NASCAR! And there are no robots driving around in NASCAR!

Big Kid

14-05-2008, 21:59

JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!
^Team word

P.S. It was written on one or two of our orange capes are nationals, for those who might remember from the Archimedes division.

acdcfan259

18-05-2008, 21:07

"OH GOD CODE ERROR!!!!!"

Every single time we downloaded code.

Katie_UPS

18-05-2008, 23:07

"Safety first! Ummm....where's the first aid kit?

UPS style: "QUICK! GET THE WOUNDED MAN KIT!"

Herodotus

28-05-2008, 17:56

Upon printing out a paper copy of this years code.

Me:Hey, let's weigh the code now. *puts code on the scale* It weighs a half pound! See, that's how much weight you guys add to the robot.

Mentor: We should use floating points to reduce weight! We can actually remove weight from the robot that way. Forget those heavy integers, we'll just use floating points.

Mental: Dude, it would totally work!

acdcfan259

28-05-2008, 20:01

"Rocky Road Block"
I want to see if anyone makes the connection.

Herodotus

29-05-2008, 19:20

One of the college mentors and I have been very amused lately by the energy chain(but who isn't?) so we were looking into buying out own. This is the short conversation that resulted.

Me: Where are we going to buy energy chain from? Igus?

Mental: I guess.

Both of us: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

acdcfan259

29-05-2008, 19:54

After bending a limit switch like crazy for about ten minutes. One teammate looks at it, "Thats very Dr. Seuss."

ginosoprano09

29-05-2008, 20:52

*Our mentor trying to ziptie something from underneath*

Me:"Can't find the hole huh?"
Mentor:"Yeah,'cuz it doesnt have any hair around it" *wink*

Chris/Fish

16-06-2008, 19:03

"And then we turn the carpet on..."

We were making a portable field out of plywood squares covered in carpet and somebody (who shall remain nameless) suggested using electromagnets to stick them together.

Dancin103

17-06-2008, 09:05

"It's ok, as long as we have some hot glue, duct tape, zip ties, and pallet wrap, we can fix any problem..."

acdcfan259

17-06-2008, 09:31

Person 1 - "What if we got sponsored by McDonalds."
Person 2 - "Then we could be the McMechatronic Maniacs!"

Dolan

17-06-2008, 11:58

me "I think God hates the robot!"

SlaminSwimster

19-06-2008, 21:17

3 am Sunday morning - "We have 3 and a half wheels" (we had 7 ball bearings)

thefro526

19-06-2008, 21:41

"Dude leave me alone, once I get the magic generator working there will be no need for these silly drawings!"

Needless to say I was very tired one night and no one would give me any more caffeine. :D

JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!
^Team word

P.S. It was written on one or two of our orange capes are nationals, for those who might remember from the Archimedes division.

That word was said wayyy to much during our season. But it did look good on my Philly cape. I don't think it was on my ATL cape. Every time someone said Jam on my team our head mentor would say jelly... there were a lot of Jam vs. Jelly battles.

typharn91

28-06-2008, 19:21

electrical rookie:give me something to do
me: how bout you go debur somthing
electrical rookie:whats deburing
me: you take a tool and you shave the sharp edges of metal
electrical rookie:sounds like fun!!!
**whole pit goes quit**
team captian: who just said that

SlaminSwimster

29-06-2008, 20:42

"Who needs scouting, just put on your pretty face and smile" - We were talking about how we were going to scout with such a small team.

Herodotus

29-06-2008, 20:53

blaxbb

30-06-2008, 00:12

The deburrer is one of my favorite tools, so don't go bad mouthing it. :p

My Mentor @ me: "So how did you break my 30 year old deburring tool?"
Me: "I.....don't......know......"

carolynn4848

08-07-2008, 18:44

one of our mentors walked up to our driver at the meeting after the Boston Regional (we were one of the fastest robots there)
Mentor- Hey, there was a glitch in the code at Boston.
Driver- *gets confused look on his face*
Mentor- The robot wasnt going full speed.
Driver- *gets really happy look on his face* Really!?!?

at the next competition our robot was going too fast for anyone to handle we drove into the baracade between lanes and broke some of the welds on the robot and and put a huge dent in the front

at the next meeting after that i looked at our mentor and said, "you should probroly(sp?) put that glitch back"

sayso_411

28-08-2008, 20:56

Its been a fun season! I m already set for the next!
:D

seg9585

29-08-2008, 17:23

Not as much a quote but more of a story:

After we powered up our bot last season at the competition, for some unknown reason after its been sitting idle for about a minute, the code error light turns on (requiring an RC reset to work correctly). So sometimes when we put the bot out on the playing field right before a round and the judges are taking a long time to introduce the teams, we got that annoying code error light and would have to reset it (using the button on our OI), otherwise our autonomous mode would not run. So every round the drivers and I (field coach) would helplessly stand there praying the code error light didn't turn on again before the round officially started.
Several times I sprinted back onto the playing field while the judges introduced the teams (with the judges permission of course) to power down the bot and power it back up and hope that darned light never came back on.

ZInventor

31-08-2008, 16:56

Me (mechanical team) to a programmer when we realised we were a few ounces from being under 120 pounds...

Z- hey, i was wondering, do you guys think you could make your bits lighter?
CS- i'm not sure, but that seems like it's a hardware problem, the chips are physical objects aren't they?

we then realised that we had used 1/4 inch lexan as a shield for our control board... yes, it's overkill, yes, it weighs 5 pounds, and yes, it's important to bullet-proof the control board...

ReapersRule

21-09-2008, 18:17

One day our team was eating KFC for dinner. Kate is sitting next to the Mountain Dew.
Matt and Joe are seniors (or were, they have graduated since), Kate is Joe's younger sister.

Matt: Hey, Kate, is there any Mountain Dew left?
Kate: Yes.
Matt: Hey, Kate, Dew me!!!
At this time the entire team bursts out laughing.
Joe (after a half second): That's my sister!!!!!!!

ReapersRule

22-09-2008, 14:22

We were voting on how many wheels the robot should have at the beginning of the build season. Our mentor gave everyone a slip of paper and told them to write how many wheels they thought the robot shoud have on it. After, we were counting votes. This is not exact words.

Mentor - Six, six, four, six, ... Apple Pie! What the...!!!
Team starts laughing
J.Z. - that was me.
J.H. - What the ****!!! I voted for that too!!!
Mentor - What the!!! You two were across the room from eachother!!! And who voted for unicycle?
Team laughs even harder
C.G. (my BFF) - *raises hand*

carolynn4848

22-09-2008, 14:24

you forgot the part where a senior looked at me and said

"You.... are a genious"

Spartan151

24-09-2008, 15:08

"There's something you know that I don't. Which closet did you lock it in?"

This was said a good while ago, just before our last Bayou Regional. Just remembered it. =P

Raumiester2010

24-09-2008, 20:37

from our about 50 year old engineer: "We pimped it good!" (shortly after we got our articulating chassis working from last year)

m3ch4num470r

07-10-2008, 13:56

Me: "We need to find a girlfriend for Eric."
Eric: "What? You need to find a drillpress for me?"
Me: "Yeah, lets go with that. We need to find a 'drillpress' for him."

Chris/Fish

06-11-2008, 09:04

"But that would have required planning ahead"
--answer to any idea that would have made our lives a lot easier if we had thought of it a month ago.

lenny8

06-11-2008, 09:27

Go to Woooork! - Josh Sjorsma

I dont know how to use the bandsaw... - Student not to be named:]

Lenny: so how heavy are our balls? (Track balls)
Ollie: We have 10 pound balls lenny
John: no. our balls are 8 pounds
Ollie: HE mite have 8 pound balls but we have 10 pound balls

Anna B.

06-11-2008, 16:23

"Anything's a nail if you have a big enough hammer"

Cyberphil

06-11-2008, 17:54

"Whats a Track ball?" asked one of the second year members.

admalledd

07-11-2008, 11:42

"It didn't work so i just deleted it." -- rookie programmer(code folder befor: 2mb after:16 kb)

"steerings broke! fix it!" "why you telling me? i program. i can make you a manual of how to fix it though."

"we need more pot!"--me forgetting to add the "entiometers" at the end.

"let me go! i did your work now let me eat!"--me being ducktaped to a chair to finish the programming(time in chair: 8 hours) now we have 5 programmers instead of one *me*

samir13k

07-11-2008, 18:47

Samir, don't electricute yourself!

spc295

08-11-2008, 01:15

we have this freshmen who is constantly breaking things, his name is jon. (now he is a sophmore) so now we rate things around the shop at how many jons they can take. for instance the cieling tiles are 1 jon, the miter saw is 15 jons, the air drills are 8 jons, the microwave is 3 jons, and so on. (yes he somehow broke a cieling tile)

Cow Bell Solo

08-11-2008, 11:58

Nin_estarSaerah

16-11-2008, 22:35

"we're spreading the gospel of engineering."
-our team president

JesseK

17-11-2008, 10:39

"A new scratch a day means a robot will soon be at play"

Goes back to the hands paradox of the build season.

ATannahill

17-11-2008, 15:09

A bit of wood filler and it was as good as new. Referencing when our chain broke and scratch the gym's floor.

Joe G.

17-11-2008, 15:12

"Me: Chiefdelphi is like facebook, except everyone on it is just as obsessed with robots as me!

other person: oh..."

christina_omg

17-11-2008, 19:28

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w221/christina_omfg/l_0cc6b593ee2f6efe503dbe9211b87a14.jpg

something we saw taped to the robot a couple of times....

Benny

17-11-2008, 20:44

"More purpler"

and

"Work harder on a program that works!"

(more to come as I remember them)

Anna B.

19-11-2008, 16:19

kid walking into the physics class room where we work:
"Wow, smells like... physics"

JaneYoung

20-11-2008, 10:44

On our team and I'm sure its the same on others, we have lots o failures. And we will always rate things that happen using different levels of fail, like "wait for it, borderline fail, minor fail, fail, epic fail, major epic fail" and soo on. So this year we have created a large poster sized "Failometer". It is awesome I will try and post the document once I get my hands on it. We will have it up in our shop and have a marker that will mark what level of failure we are currently at, kind of like the fire warnings or the security threat level stuff.

That's pretty funny/clever.

It would be cool to see another meter rating achievements/successes alongside.

Edit: so as not to hijack the thread - in response to Andrew's Bacon Scale posted below - I was thinking along the lines of daily successes as well - looking at team-building development, organizational development, development of a business plan, developing a safety plan and practicing it. A big slice of bacon could be awarded to the team if they make it through build without any safety accidents or injuries - possibly rating it week by week. That way every team qualifies for the bacon in their shop. Not just CA winners or robot competition winners - although those certainly could earn a slab of bacon. :)
Just a thought.

Andrew Schreiber

20-11-2008, 11:00

That's pretty funny/clever.

It would be cool to see another meter rating achievements/successes alongside.

I would vote for this scale being called the bacon scale. This is X slices of Bacon, this is Y slices of Bacon. Like winning a regional would be 100 slices of Bacon, winning Chairman's would be 200, hearing your physics teacher sing Superbeast by Rob Zombie would be 500 slices.. etc etc

phr34kR

20-11-2008, 15:40

Programmer:
"Oh no, now i have to try programming it while its spinning"

Me: "hey, could i please use your BBQ to heat my hammer?"

Benjwgarner

09-12-2008, 16:28

Team member: We need a team bonding activity.
Team member 2: Bowling!
Team member 3: Paint ball!
Mentor: Fishing... :rolleyes:

Mr_I

09-12-2008, 16:41

Last year's best line:
"2x4's aren't two by four, you moron!"

All-time best line (circa 2005)
"Mr. I, can you can you come down here, preferably running?"

Stephen of REX

09-12-2008, 19:29

"So the Ultrasonic is going to determine what color the track ball is!"

"One divided by zero is zero, right?"
Everyone else: "NOOO!"

Mentor- "Don't mess with success guys..."
Us- "No, we're messing with FAIL!"

Me and Coach to Driver:"No! Get the blue trackballs!"
(This was in Atlanta, and we had had 5 red alliance matches in a row, so our driver was confused when we were on blue alliance.)

Edit: "EPIC FAILURE! *clap clap, clap clap clap*"

Herodotus

09-12-2008, 23:21

Mentor: Be careful with the T-Handle wrench especially, it gives you a lot of torque.
Student:T is for Torque!

He was so excited too.

Renee Becker-Blau

10-12-2008, 00:06

The first of the pre-season!

"Did she just projectile hug you!?" - Itchy

"Required = Have to do it!" - Josh (Talking about mandatory meetings)

"As I know, teenagers are habitual time wasters." -Will

Chris/Fish

20-12-2008, 16:43

When cleaning out our closet:

"Sporkets" --label on the Sprocket box

"Ahh! I have internet on my head!"--our president, getting his hair caught in an ethernet connector

"I have added safety" --Me putting a "Duck" sign on the cable

NorviewsVeteran

20-12-2008, 20:15

"Stupid hose" --James getting frustrated installing pressure lines during our first year with pneumatics

"Corey doesn't like the strippers because they're flat?" --Me responding to a student telling a coach not to use a pair of wire strippers

OMAIGAWD THERES MORE

Camoryn- "Its a random fluctuation in the space-time continuum"

Camoryn- "go into the shop and tell them the popcorn's ready"
Me- *walks into the shop* "guys, the popcorn's ready" *two newbies walk out* "knew it"
Sam(freshman)- "I didn't come here for the food"
Me- "THAT'S what I want to hear, THAT'S the attitude I'm looking for!"
*Sam begins walking out from behind the workbench*
Me- "NOW GET BACK OVER THERE!!"

This is from the InvenTeam season, I guess it still counts...
Coach(referring to me)- "you, um, gah... sketchup kid."
Me(looking up from computer with a certain level of wtf)- "what?"
Me(later that day)- "Hold on, if I'm 'sketchup kid', whats that make him(Cedric)?"
Coach- "you, the black one!"

And one from game design class with 'the black one'
Cedric- "Someone said Riu from Street Fighter could beat Scorpian from Mortal Kombat. I said no way, Scorpian could take Riu any day of the week."
Me- "ANY day? Dude, he could take Riu EVERY day of the week: GET OVER HERE!"

NorviewsVeteran

20-12-2008, 23:48

Also one that was written on the whiteboard during the FTC season (anyone who saw the 'gnomes' episode of South Park will get it):

PHASE 1: Build robot
PHASE 2:
PHASE 3: WIN

...and it was later written over by the teacher:

PHASE 1: Build robot
PHASE 2: rebuild robot the night before competition so it works
PHASE 3: WIN

zakk

21-12-2008, 00:23

:D This one actually found its way onto our Chairman's Award video.
person 1: "the problem is that these holes don't line up"
person 2: "holes never line up"

NorviewsVeteran

22-12-2008, 00:56

Minions are like cats- they only come to you when they want something and you're working. Other than that they just sit there and eat.

DJWattsALot

22-12-2008, 13:11

I heard this one on ship date

"It's only temporary, we'll fix it later"

nathanww

28-12-2008, 12:27

"That's a software problem"--said by our mechanical leader after a bunch of gears fell out of our drivetrain

"Hey, let's put a gyro on it!"--said at the end of the first day of a regional
*two hours of hacking later after the gyro screwed up all our analog inputs*
"Okay, I think I've removed all the tentacles of gyro.c from the code"

"It's the PneuMetal!"--our driver noticing that the "Pneumatics" and "Metal" labels got stuck together

McGurky

28-12-2008, 14:39

a quick said quote, that is now our team motto

"Tats to easy"

where if you know our team, it fits right in, we just seem to make everything much more complicated that it should be!!:rolleyes:

thehurd03

29-12-2008, 00:01

"Team 470 Alpha Omega Robotics is looking for a blue bumper, if any team has an extra blue bumper please return it to team 470"

At Kettering kickoff in September someone from another team stole one of our bumpers and we still haven't gotten it back, but that was the announcement made.

Stephen of REX

29-12-2008, 00:47

We used red superballs on the end of our forklift, and they tended to fall out... so when they did fall out the MC at Philadelphia said

"And 1727 has released its rolley red apple things onto the field"

Needless to say we just got rid of them after it happened a second time.

The Megan 2207

29-12-2008, 00:51

"Water game? Ice field? ROBOTS ON ICE! It's a new musical coming to a town near you!" :yikes:

khemathunder09

29-12-2008, 14:47

"Oh we changed that...You didn't know?"

"Its Robert's fault./ Robert did it."
(He is a senior from last year and everything was always blamed on him, though it was rarely actually his fault.)

"Go ask Mr. Epp."
(He's our mentor.)

surferacf

29-12-2008, 17:47

Someone had marked the location for a bolt, and it needed to be drilled out. They asked Justin, one of the fabricators, but failed to think before they spoke.

"Justin, Drill my Hole."

Laughter ensues.

Brandon_L

29-12-2008, 20:22

Me: ".............."

After I sanded my fingers down and just walked out the door ;_;

Karibou

29-12-2008, 22:01

"Sporkets" --label on the Sprocket box

Hey, so we're NOT the only team who has problems with spelling! Our cart for "Finished Atlas Parts" (Atlas is our 2008 bot) was labeled "Finshed Atlas Parts" instead :D

dpeterson3

29-12-2008, 22:15

We have a spot on the board (and now a program) dedicated to stupid remarks one of our mentors likes to make.

Our shirt said last year "You may not know this, but I'm kind of a big deal". It was meant as a joke (which got passed around the rest of the daY0, but the person ordering the t-shirts didn't realize that