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sayso_411
30-12-2008, 19:23
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
lol...thats bound to happen after build season ;)
NorviewsVeteran
30-12-2008, 21:52
some of our team had to try a couple of times with a label maker.
Rather than the classic "Madness? This is robotics!"...
..."Madness? This is Lunacy!
SCROSSLEY-GCEC
04-01-2009, 04:01
Rather than the classic "Madness? This is robotics!"...
..."Madness? This is Lunacy!
agreed :D
Carlee10
05-01-2009, 15:56
"Every board is smart, in the right hands."- one of our mentors
The Megan 2207
06-01-2009, 15:07
"If you mess up in life, you can always make it better, but if you're drawing with Sharpies and you mess up, you gotta start over, man!"
lingomaniac88
06-01-2009, 23:02
..."Madness? This is Lunacy!
Along similar lines:
"We don't suffer from lunacy... we enjoy every minute of it!"
- Me
"Okay, for practice, we're playing basketball."
- One of my advisors
rotolomi
07-01-2009, 13:03
"It has to suck up the balls effectively and NOT suck balls.":P
Katherine B
07-01-2009, 17:44
"I know what I'm doing because I have the sharp pointy object!"--our president
"what if we have an inflatable robot?"-Fish
Tetraman
07-01-2009, 17:57
"You are the ARCTIC Warriors. You are playing on an ICY floor. You HAVE to call your robot "The Zamboni" - Me to my old team, 174 the Arctic Warriors on this year's game.
Skifanatic
07-01-2009, 17:58
This is a list of quotes we have from one of our mentors. Its actually on the back of a t-shirt that we made.
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddh2h7fc_2hdkm8rgp
viperred396
07-01-2009, 18:00
One of my presonal favorites:
"are you sure we cant make a bot that gives the crowed a seizure?"
Two of my favories:
"2x4's ARENT 2x4, you Moron!"
"A spark? Where? Turn it back on and show me... Thats not a spark, thats a FLAME!!"
(this quote is where our robot in 2007, Sparky, got its name!)
this was when we were discussing how rule g14 stinks.
"if your robot stinks, it stinks. if your robot rocks it rocks, get over it." -coach 1
"no you mean moon rocks"-coach 2
*slaps head*-me
296Minion
07-01-2009, 21:08
"Its a series of tube"-said alot more that once most of the times in context and some of the times just because we cant get it out of our heads :p
"Lets just ship the 06 bot...it was a champion"
*Looks at a really tiny netbook computer:"Its the new ipod"
OLDIE: "Its the WWE for smart people"---never gets old.
Bonus point for knowing the joke behind the first quote.
sayso_411
07-01-2009, 21:11
Two of my favories:
"2x4's ARENT 2x4, you Moron!"
"A spark? Where? Turn it back on and show me... Thats not a spark, thats a FLAME!!"
(this quote is where our robot in 2007, Sparky, got its name!)
lol...thats funny our team got the name back in 1999 because our 1st robot sparked ;)
Well i can't think of any quotes, but here are some funny things that happened at some of our meetings, most of which iI heard through word of mouth.
1. the team is working on our '07 robot, and while they are huddled around the robot one of the other members starts "flying an x wing" with the controllers nearly decapitating the entire team.
many more but too tired to type, just got home from a meeting...(2. I was riding a trash can.:D )
BlueMyrian
08-01-2009, 21:00
Sometimes people just set themselves up for the perfect quote...
C: -stands up and looks down- Aw man, I got wood...-pauses to wipe off his shirt-
-the rest of us look around, waiting for someone to laugh first-
C: ...all over my shirt. -is just now realizing what happened- No! I have wood on my shirt from cutting!
-by now the whole class is cracking up-
mynameisbob
08-01-2009, 21:26
"Quick grab the donuts so we can bribe the janitor into letting us stay longer!"
"It doesn't have to work, it's only a test!"
"Hey, where there this many pieces left over last time we put it together?"
*at kickoff* "Ahhh robotics events...the only places where the men have a line for the bathroom too..."
Outoforbit
08-01-2009, 23:39
"Stop Shooting Those Staples At Me!!!!"
"I wonder if they knew they were going to run out of balls." - regarding FIRST's decision to use the orbit balls
NinJA999
08-01-2009, 23:45
"Where are your nuts? Tell me where your nuts are!" -tonight at the meeting
"So we got a new working camera for the robot, and you're using it to film Alex's butt?" -tonight
Cow Bell Solo
08-01-2009, 23:49
lol...thats bound to happen after build season ;)
Someone on our team had a problem with writing, she wrote the numbers on our front bumper upside down.
Another one I said last year which I didn't realize I had, and I'm glad the other person did.
(me working on the robot)
"Hey Grace, Screw me"
(she reaches for a screw, then stops, hesitates and says)
"NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"
One I've heard quite a bit this year, "That's what she said"
GillSt.Bernards
09-01-2009, 11:57
One of the girls on my team while we were brainstorming said "How do we get from that to the robot"
GillSt.Bernards
09-01-2009, 12:05
We had something similer to that but our mentor asked
Mentor: "So how good is your basketball team"
Me: "Runner up in the state championship"
Mentor: "So what is the chance that some of them would come to the competition"
Me: "That's not happening"
Mentor: "So how good are you at basketball"
The Megan 2207
09-01-2009, 13:12
When discussing how to decide how to build the robot:
Student: What do you guys do at Medtronic?
Mentor: What do we do at Medtronic? We dance! :)
During a strategy discussion:
Mentor: So what I want you to do now... *tools clatter to the ground* ...is laugh at Stolte because he just dropped that...
The Megan 2207
09-01-2009, 13:23
Someone on our team had a problem with writing, she wrote the numbers on our front bumper upside down.
I take offense to this. I say the numbers were right-side-up and it was the bumper that was built upside-down. Also, in 2007 the bumpers didn't really have an upside-down or right-side-up. I was not used to the new system. Besides, our robot was the best upside-down-team-numbered robot ever!
carolynn4848
09-01-2009, 14:05
I take offense to this. I say the numbers were right-side-up and it was the bumper that was built upside-down. Also, in 2007 the bumpers didn't really have an upside-down or right-side-up. I was not used to the new system. Besides, our robot was the best upside-down-team-numbered robot ever!
My robot's number was painted upside-down on the front bumper. :P
The Megan 2207
09-01-2009, 14:19
My robot's number was painted upside-down on the front bumper. :P
YAY! It's not just me!!! I must share this information with my team! :)
I was picking my friend up on the way to Kickoff...
"KICKOFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!"
"SHHH! MY MOM IS SLEEPING!"
Cow Bell Solo
09-01-2009, 17:04
I take offense to this. I say the numbers were right-side-up and it was the bumper that was built upside-down. Also, in 2007 the bumpers didn't really have an upside-down or right-side-up. I was not used to the new system. Besides, our robot was the best upside-down-team-numbered robot ever!
Well does it help you to say that the bumpers were built first BEFORE they were painted?:rolleyes:
Brandon_L
09-01-2009, 18:28
I take offense to this. I say the numbers were right-side-up and it was the bumper that was built upside-down. Also, in 2007 the bumpers didn't really have an upside-down or right-side-up. I was not used to the new system. Besides, our robot was the best upside-down-team-numbered robot ever!
Thats ok, we put these big stickers on our side panels for out bot last year. I put them on upside down....
*mentor drops pen*
Mentor: $@#$@#$@#$@# gravity
YES THE GREEN LIGHT'S BACK ON! said right after finally getting the cRIO to detect itself.
Person1: "Why are the router and the gaming adapter on two seperate logical networks?"
Me: "A) Define logical B) Because it's not logical"
2008RobotInspector:"Quick put out the fire before the judge comes!" -this was one that the inspector told us he heard one year.
Zyck_titan
10-01-2009, 01:41
Freshman: "How would i go about cutting this?" (Holds up object)
Mentor: "with Hopes and Dreams"
Freshman: "I don't have any of those...."
Herodotus
10-01-2009, 01:51
We have created something in robotics called outside jokes. They are jokes that no one gets. It would be too confusing to explain that one. At any rate, I tried to explain the concept to someone else on the team earlier.
"Inside jokes some people get, but not others. Outside jokes no one get. Inside out jokes some people don't get, but they get why they don't get it, and other people don't get it, and don't get that they don't get it. Outside in jokes one person gets it, another gets that they don't get it, and someone else doesn't get that they don't get it. You get it?"
Got that?
SCROSSLEY-GCEC
10-01-2009, 03:54
at our meeting today:
J: "it was so cool, I was walking through the mall with my shoes on..." -trails off-
-laughter ensues-
G: "As opposed to...?"
A Few Months ago when we made a goal-height measuring-block for VEX Elevation:
R: "but you see, mine is 21 inches tall, and yours is only 9"
-laughter around the room-
R: -smirk-
Mentor: "Here keystock keystock keystock! *whistle* Here keystock keystock!!!"
Mentor: "It's an itty bitty part"
Captain: *sings* "Itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini..."
Mentor: "Ok, I didn't need the visual for that one...thanks"
We were talking about the music that we had playing at the time...and we got on the topic of an Alice Cooper concert that one of our designers went to a while ago.
"...and there were a lot of older people there who thought it was still the 70s"
Mentor: "It's not?"
Student: "BOO YAY!"
*hilarious joke is made, student begins laughing hysterically*
Me: "I think we killed him"
Student *recovers from laughing spasm*: "I've been dead for three years"
Mentor: "Well, that explains a lot of his behaviors"
Mentor: "Ten minutes until cleanup!"
Other Mentor: "Ya--I mean, nooooooooooooooooooooooo!"
We have created something in robotics called outside jokes. They are jokes that no one gets. It would be too confusing to explain that one. At any rate, I tried to explain the concept to someone else on the team earlier.
"Inside jokes some people get, but not others. Outside jokes no one get. Inside out jokes some people don't get, but they get why they don't get it, and other people don't get it, and don't get that they don't get it. Outside in jokes one person gets it, another gets that they don't get it, and someone else doesn't get that they don't get it. You get it?"
Got that?
I got that xD I like it.
XXShadowXX
10-01-2009, 22:13
"I just slapped you in the face with physics, and you still disagree with me!" me.
ATannahill
10-01-2009, 22:13
Force dump.
robotkayleigh
10-01-2009, 22:31
"It must have been a teacher who did that, an engineer would never do that."
danshaffer
11-01-2009, 01:32
Coach: "No software, no sensors, just motors"
Captain: "Ok, software can be our backup"
robocritter250
11-01-2009, 03:09
This one was at the Cleveland Regional in 2008.
A fellow mentor and I were talking with a mentor from another team in his pit area. While he was talking to us, he turned around and said to some of the students on his team "Tards, stop that!" My fellow mentor said "Why do you call them Tards?" The mentor replied "Because they can't be retards until they do it again."
We were quite amused.
GillSt.Bernards
11-01-2009, 13:01
Charlie: "I keep getting called Mam on the phone" (While calling Wal - mart asking about the orbit balls)
Kostas (Mentor) - "Don't worry people will take you seriosly eventully."
GillSt.Bernards
11-01-2009, 13:13
This really isn't a quote but it is really funny
Alex and Billy are two of our mentors who are mechanical engineers. Most of our mentors are enviornmental engineers. Alex and Billy don't usually come but one day they were helping us (since I was the only student there) we needed a triangle shaped piece of lexan and they offered to help. (Alex is Billy's boss and he knows that he could not do what he does without Billy and Billy knows that too.) So they tried to cut the triangle out and you could hear them arguing
Billy: That is not right are you a idiot"
Alex: "No I am not trust me I know what I am doing."
They come back with a triangle shaped piece of Lexan and try and fit it in. It won't go in.
Billy: "See I told you so nw it is my turn to try"
Alex: *growls*
Billy comes back looking smug and he tries his it does not fit either. They try 18 more times and on the 21st try they fially get one that fits. Then Billy goes
Billy: "See I told you I could do it"
At that point Sandra (one of our other mentors) are on the ground laughing. The team now has so mny inside jokes about that exprience
The Megan 2207
11-01-2009, 14:09
While building a trailer:
Mentor: We're going to make sure the wheels go roundy-roundy first.
During robot design discussions:
"I don't think we can fit the cRIO into a soup can."
its half cat half cat - nick decker
50 dolers!!!! ( thats the way it was pronounced) - santiago the guy from spain
LaserTagChief
11-01-2009, 14:37
Once my friend on the team was like "I hope there's no hidden mines on this course!" lol! gotta love her
slavik262
11-01-2009, 14:38
"Don't worry about that. Code will magically make it work."
carolynn4848
11-01-2009, 14:53
One member of our team wrote "Gullible" and "Gullible 2.0" on tape and stuck them to the ceiling at a meeting.
brianc217
11-01-2009, 15:00
Running quickly into our room from the shop our mentor says:
"Did we ever get those fire extinguishers?!"
"I made it work! Wait...how did I do that?" - Me, several times over during the design process.
------
*Autodesk Inventor crashes on our oldest, most outdated, and just plain terrible laptop*
Student: "Uhh...Inventor just crashed. Can we replace this computer?"
Mentor: "No, that's just a software problem. All CAD programs like to do that."
*1 hour later, Inventor crashes on my laptop*
Me: "Inventor crashed."
Mentor: "See, I told you, it's a software problem!"
popnbrown
11-01-2009, 21:03
We were trying to write a paragraph about our lead team advisor and team co-captains and we asked him what exactly he does on the team.
His Answer: "I'm the head nut that keeps all the other nuts in line." (pointing at me and my co-captain)
nathanww
12-01-2009, 00:18
Other programmer:Why do we have a function called "om_nom"?
Me:That's what controls sucking the balls in
Other programmer:And what does "nom_om" do?
Me:That spits the ball out
"I think we should kill whoever designed this system with a brain aneurysm by forcing them to set it up"--said after 4 hours of trying to resolve this bizarre packet loss problem in the wireless system
Gravitynerd
12-01-2009, 00:32
one of our mentors: "ok so we've got our scoring strategies down to dumping, shooting, or superdumping."
we got out a ladder and went on the roof of our school to "borrow a fan from an exhaust unit. after using a rope to get the whole assembely off the building and into the shop one of the students said "did we just commit grand theft air conditioner" (we put the exaust unit back up and assembled and bolted back onto the roof, the fan was not the right kind.)
GillSt.Bernards
12-01-2009, 16:38
This one happened just yesterday.
Sandra (Mentor): OOh right here (in the manual) is says that we are not allowed to put anything on the robot that would intentionally start a fire. Man, I guess that means no fireworks display."
Charles (freshmen): "Or Flamethrower" (looking really disapointed)
BeyondReality
12-01-2009, 17:02
"I swear, this chain is LITERALLY 1/16 of an inch too short!"
M: We have extra parts from the gearboxes.
A: WHY DO WE HAVE EXTRA PARTS???????
M: Um...because the construction is a simple one...
"She doesn't need a hammer, she has strong thumbs!"
"What? Grease? Where does it say 'put grease' in the instructions? Oh...haha...it's a footnote..."
"Lithium is an antidepressant...don't breathe the grease in..."
"THEY HAVE NO RESTRICTIONS ON DUCT TAPE THIS YEAR!!!"
And, of course, the classic "Oops."
Nin_estarSaerah
12-01-2009, 17:04
"What do you mean the sweep would intersect itself! Now I remember why I have a love-hate relationship with autodesk"
"Great. Another error message that doesn't tell me how to fix the error. How am I supposed to learn from THAT?"
Pneumaticsman
12-01-2009, 17:13
"wait...hold on....HOLY CRAP THE IP ADRESS IS WORNG!!!" said about an hour after trying to figure out why the cRIO wouldn't download code :D
islandboy936
13-01-2009, 09:26
Scotty: So have we figured out how its going to work yet?
Me: Yes, we are going to use the black magic we got from selling our souls to Satan to make it work.
ikhana870
13-01-2009, 09:54
Someone on our team had a problem with writing, she wrote the numbers on our front bumper upside down.
haha so it isnt just our team...i hear it happened to us a few years back---> GO "SL9" (675)!
islandboy936
13-01-2009, 14:01
John choose to give one of his sandwiches to one of our more hefty members.
Just then someone looked up and said: "But I'm skinny."
islandboy936
13-01-2009, 14:07
"I just slapped you in the face with physics, and you still disagree with me!" me.
We got a kid on our team who is like that.
dragonrulr288
13-01-2009, 17:11
*mentor continues to talk to me and our small group, programming*
"... so just let it go straight for 10 seconds..."
*i look at out robot with treads and a maximum of about 2 horsepower and say*
"you know, 10 seconds is an AWFULLY long time for something to go HORRIBLY WRONG....."
Brandon_L
13-01-2009, 18:27
Mentor: *points at the black crate things our kit came with* Lets put these two black boys back in the closet
Students:.......were white.......and were not going in the closet.....
Mentor: I was talking about the crates! I call everything boys you should know by now...
At the end of the meeting today I had Free Bird playing over our in ceiling speakers, playing guitar on a yard stick.
One of the other students said "Wow you are weird."
so I says "This is robotics club, I'm supposed to be weird."
carolynn4848
14-01-2009, 11:12
At the end of the meeting today I had Free Bird playing over our in ceiling speakers, playing guitar on a yard stick.
One of the other students said "Wow you are weird."
so I says "This is robotics club, I'm supposed to be weird."
They thing that Free Bird is weird? Or do they think that playing guitar on a yard stick is? I do that all the time, but instead of playing on a yard stick, I play on a sythe.
dragonrulr288
14-01-2009, 13:20
*team is sitting in annother room when we hear one of our mentors scream, and it sounded like he had been ran over*
me, running into roon- "are you ok Dr. Evil?!?!?!"
*Dr. Evil is freaking out*
Dr. Evil- "OUR ROBOT MOVED OUR ROBOT MOVED!!!!"
*looks down to see the robot moved an inch or so*
*in a meeting really early in the morning, everyone still half asleep*
mentor, too excited- "are we ganna win?!?!?!"
us - "yeah..."
mentor - "we are ganna rock, right?"
us - "yeah..."
mentor- "are we ganna die?"
us- "yeah... HEY WAIT!!!!"
WAIT I FORGOT SOME!!!
*wiring with one of our mentors*
mentor- "hey eric, go grab me some females!"
*eric grabs me and marie and brings us over*
mentor- "No! females as in electrical connections!"
*eric leaves and comes back*
eric- "whats the difference between male and female?" (as in the electrical connections)
mentor- "have you ever gotten THE TALK?
The Megan 2207
14-01-2009, 13:27
One of our members was standing by the window of the shop while we were waiting for our mentors to show up and the following conversation occurred:
Student 1: Are you waiting for Santa Claus?
Student 2: No, I'm waiting for the mentors.
Student 3: Close enough...
BeyondReality
14-01-2009, 14:26
Student: How does the hole-maker work?
Mentor: It's a spring-loaded latchey thingy.........
"Lower the guard. Start sawing. Question the sharpness of the saw...."
- How is the second set of gearboxes going to stay?
- Custom mounting.
- What's that?
- You make it yourself.
- DUCT TAPE?
dragonrulr288
14-01-2009, 18:21
Student: How does the hole-maker work?
- How is the second set of gearboxes going to stay?
- Custom mounting.
- What's that?
- You make it yourself.
- DUCT TAPE?
sound like a kid from my team... only his solution is a dead blow hammer....:ahh:
Me, to my dad via cell phone: "I've found a broken and an unbroken moon rock." (OK, so one of them was an Empty Cell, but it looked like a Moon Rock.)
Incidentally, the Rapid City Walmart no longer has any Orbit balls.:D
dragonrulr288
14-01-2009, 18:35
-"hand me that rock ball thingy!" (enugh said)
- when you have had pizza, coke, and mountain dew for lunch for the past month or so...
NorviewsVeteran
14-01-2009, 18:36
In Norview's first year, the team came into the possession of a mallet with a yellow plastic end and a pink eraser-like rubber end. No one remembers exactly when, but John, the mechanical leader at the time, took a pink marker and wrote "DOOM HAMMER" on the handle. Despite three years of misuse by hammering things meant for a hammer, not a mallet, it still remains a staple in the shop. Every now and then, like during the FTC season, the following exchange (or something close enough) takes place.
1: Hold on, I have to pound this collar onto the axle.
2: Okay
1: Hey, where'd doom hammer go?
2: It poofed!
1: Great. I hope it poofs back this time.
2: Wait. Dude, its on the pegboard.
1: WHEN DID THAT GET THERE?!
amariealbrecht
14-01-2009, 18:38
EPIC...(said by person from halfway across the buildspace that was not even close to being apart of the converstation)...FAIL!!
RobotDevil1985
14-01-2009, 18:49
When it was sugested to make a small robot with a tall pole sticking out the top for the Overdrive game another student responded with,
"That's like tieing a flagpole to a gopher!"
and the room broke out laughing. The quote is still on the board today.
After 2 people drop M&Ms on the ground, "See this is why we can't have nice candy."
A lot of odd stuff has been said already, but my favorite line of the day:
mentor: we need nail polish, do you know why?
student: are we dressing in drag again?
John_P_2632
14-01-2009, 20:03
Shift happens
Jreed129
14-01-2009, 20:04
One of our students broke his glasses the other day and during dinner the following conversation occured:
Student 1: Why are your glasses taped?
Student with Broken Glasses: Well I feel that becasue I am on a robotics team I should take geek to a new level. I am going to start where tape on my glasses and a pocket prot........
Student 2: THEY ARE BROKEN
He is still walking around with tape on his glasses:cool:
MAD skills
14-01-2009, 20:39
*team is sitting in annother room when we hear one of our mentors scream, and it sounded like he had been ran over*
me, running into roon- "are you ok Dr. Evil?!?!?!"
*Dr. Evil is freaking out*
Dr. Evil- "OUR ROBOT MOVED OUR ROBOT MOVED!!!!"
*looks down to see the robot moved an inch or so*
*in a meeting really early in the morning, everyone still half asleep*
mentor, too excited- "are we ganna win?!?!?!"
us - "yeah..."
mentor - "we are ganna rock, right?"
us - "yeah..."
mentor- "are we ganna die?"
us- "yeah... HEY WAIT!!!!"
WAIT I FORGOT SOME!!!
*wiring with one of our mentors*
mentor- "hey eric, go grab me some females!"
*eric grabs me and marie and brings us over*
mentor- "No! females as in electrical connections!"
*eric leaves and comes back*
eric- "whats the difference between male and female?" (as in the electrical connections)
mentor- "have you ever gotten THE TALK?
Nice... :eek:
MAD skills
14-01-2009, 20:43
"be carefull of this machine... we like to call it... The Meat Grinder."
long story.
islandboy936
14-01-2009, 21:05
Kyle: How long is it?
Jory: Long enough to fit the other hole.
Peter(prude): That's what she said!
Mentor: "Constraints are never important"
*insane maniacal laughter when the wireless router talked to the bridge properly and downloaded code*
Then there's the classic "IT'S ALIVE!!!!" when the motors worked.
gorrilla
14-01-2009, 22:13
student- "what would hapen, if the wheel got stuck when the balls went through and the whole motor and everything stopped spinning"?
me-"fire would happen"
MAD skills
14-01-2009, 23:17
*insane maniacal laughter when the wireless router talked to the bridge properly and downloaded code*
Then there's the classic "IT'S ALIVE!!!!" when the motors worked.
uh huh. basiclyy the same here. here is one i just heard---
Mentor in Office, talking to student w/ headache: "well, im not authorized to give you any, but if you stole it..."
MAD skills
14-01-2009, 23:22
ok- i am sitting here on the comutor now and the captain and a mentor start cackling like evil dudes.
Me: "what was that?"
them: (crack up laughing)
Me: i dont get it.
them: (laughing even harder)
ISGOI Howie
15-01-2009, 15:51
size does matter as long as its followed by something horrendously stupid
Jreed129
15-01-2009, 18:53
Our animation team was talking about hair.....(odd enough)
Student 1: Wait you can get your head as bald as the mentors?
Student 2: Yeah, you go the hair place they shave it with out a gaurd and tehn you go home and shave it with the razor you shave your face with.
Student 1: Wait you can get the same reflectivity too?
Student 2: Oh you mean shine
Student 1: Yes, reflectivity must be set to 1.0 and glossiness must be set at 1.0 also
Joe Schornak
15-01-2009, 22:00
*while trying to test our robot chassis, we encountered several programming, wiring, and wireless errors, resulting in our originally only being able to run one jaguar*
"Well... Hooray for one-wheel drive!"
Chris/Fish
16-01-2009, 14:01
"What are you using duct tape for?"
"To hold the zip ties in place"
While making hot chocolate......
"Here pour some milk in it!"
she pours the milk.... just before he goes to drink it she decides to check the expiration date
"WAIT! don't drink that! the milk is bad!"
once she checked the expiration date she realized it expired 3 weeks ago
"sorry I tried to poision you!" :yikes:
"What you tried to poision him!??!" person who walks in a minute later:ahh:
"Don't worry we'll make you a new one!"
I walked into the room where my friends were drawing in inventor. As I walk in I shout "Run, Immigration!" My friends freaked out, one ducked under a table the other two ran off in different directions.
Renee Becker-Blau
17-01-2009, 13:03
"I'm learning structural engineering stuff.... I'M UNDER GOING STRESS!" - KT
"We build robots because they build us." - Katie Hall
(talking about duck tape) "Every team needs a little ducktape, but as the team grows each year we need a little less." -LL
Jreed129
17-01-2009, 13:10
"We build robots because they build us." - Katie Hall
We had one similar quote:
"In Soviet Russia, robot builds YOU!!"
While making hot chocolate......
"Here pour some milk in it!"
she pours the milk.... just before he goes to drink it she decides to check the expiration date
"WAIT! don't drink that! the milk is bad!"
once she checked the expiration date she realized it expired 3 weeks ago
"sorry I tried to poision you!"
"What you tried to poision him!??!" person who walks in a minute later
"Don't worry we'll make you a new one!"
Later on......
After cleaning up from the hot chocolate and putting the milk away...
Student 1: "Hey guys, the milk is leaking!"
I go in the back room to see and it's all over the floor. a few of us went to get paper towels and start to clean it up.
Student 1: "I think it just wanted to see ____"(person in back room, also same person who was almost "poisioned" by the other expired milk)
Student 2: "____ Are you having an affair with the milk?":ahh:
hahahahahah o the joys of build season! :D
Chath Maral
17-01-2009, 13:25
*Having a discussion about DND vs WoW*
our supervisor butts in- "Does that have to do with electrical?"
Me- "Well, not unless you roll high on Chain Lightning!"
Hehe:yikes:
dragonrulr288
17-01-2009, 23:54
(adam)"what are you talking about?"
(me)"deine mutti" ['your mom' in german]
*uncontrollable laughing from the German speakers*
Azure Kite
18-01-2009, 03:44
"The FIRST people said my driving was awesome. If only they knew that the whole robot was built by like, three people... I think they'd be more surprised."
phencer42
18-01-2009, 12:36
"Hey, let's put this Mt. Dew in the microwave!"
*After Experiment*
"Hey, that was pretty good." :yikes:
"It's like brew the dew!"
(all of the quotes found below occurred over the span of two days in the shop)
Student *shoves teammate into the design room*: "Let's stick you in there with the design geeks!"
Student being shoved *retaliation*: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! THEY SPEAK ITALIAN AND RUN LONG DISTANCES!"
Student (discussing what TNT is made of): "Tiny Nitrogenous Turtles!"
Student: "It's a piece of junk"
Other Student: "Until further notice"
Mentor: "She's going over there to take it off"
Student: "...the safety pin..."
Mentor: "Safety pins - perfect for holding up your dirty diapers!"
Student: "I wouldn't use a 1/4 inch safety pin to hold up your dirty diapers..."
Mentor: "Kara's writing, I'd stop talking"
Mark: "At least she grants us some form of anonymity online"
Student: "AGH, something that starts with F!!!!"
Other student: "Firetruck"
Mark: "You know, that should go on CD - Oh wait, it already is"
Me: "STALKER!!!"
Me: "No, nevermind, you can go now"
Mentor: "No, I'm just going to talk in your ear to irritate you"
Me: "EVERYTHING that I write down goes on CD"
Mark: "Oh crap"
Student: "I feel like muttering...and sexual..."
Mentor: "We don't need to know where you're going with this"
Mentor: "He's been dead for three years"
Student who has been "dead for three years": yeah...
Mentor: "But he's been stupid for longer"
Fortunately, I was the only one who heard that last comment.
MORE TO COME
1708xMr.Roboto
18-01-2009, 13:51
"Umm... Guy's don't we need a crate"
"Oh Shoot.."
"Ok, the practice chassis needs 60 extra pounds to simulate having more than just a frame and wheels. What can we use?"
5 minutes later a iMac is zip tied to the chassis.
"A:What...? I cut this sheet metal and it got longer by 1/8in...
B: Well, cut it again."
"Gojo cleans your hands by taking the top layer of skin and ripping it off."
"Me: Asa, why are you taking apart the drive train again?
Asa: becuase I broke it last time I took it apart"
(he took it apart 12 more times)
"You guys gotta see this, this is awesome. It will blow your minds, it is that cool. OH GOD NO! IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THAT! AHHH!!! MAKE IT STOP!... uh... I'll buy you some new pants, ok dude."
"Tap that (followed by snickering)"
"OMG, robotics it driving me bolts.... ...er, nuts... I need to sleep."
Mikesername
18-01-2009, 14:04
Tried to post these earlier but kept getting an error so sorry if this is a double (or triple) post:
"Things will go wrong" "That should be our team motto..."
[I walked into a room carrying our team laptop, and knew that someone was going to ask this question]:
Teacher: Is that the laptop?
Me: No, this is the bomb.
"To-do list: program something." (This was on our whiteboard for about 3 meetings, each time getting underlined one more time)
"So why can't you touch both ends of the battery?" "Because if you do, your arms complete the circuit, and it goes through your heart and you die." "oh."
Can't think of too many right now... but I will later :P
Mentor (to student): "I need you to kick Ian's ***" *Ian runs. Student picks up chair and runs after him*
Student: "So, what would you like me to do?"
Mentor: "Well, first, I would have liked you to not have done that so quickly"
Student: "You know you're addicted to robotics when--"
Other student *playing pinball on the computer*: "YES! HIGH SCORE!"
Student: "It's saying 'Screw you Kara, don't constrain me!'"
Student: "WHEEEEEEE, that was easy!"
Student *oooo-ing and ahhh-ing at a pair of shiny, expensive calipers, after yelling at me for calling them sexy*: "I hate to say this, but DANG, these are hot!"
Mentor: "We do trannies"
Mark: "For shiggles!"
Mentor (watching one student hit another with a piece of something): "So now, the question is, who's hitting on who?"
Me: "In what sense?"
Mentor: "Hmm...good question"
Student: "ZIPTIESSSSSSS!"
Student (to others): "Let's do a conga line to the other room!"
And then they actually did it.
Student: "Huzzah for acceleromet--oh crap, it broke."
...
I need to stop writing down quotes...no, maybe not...maybe I should just keep quoting Mark to annoy him xD (KIDS: Mentors should not be annoyed unless it is for a very very very very very very VERY good reason, few of which exist.)
"Robotics is not just a club, robotics is a lifestyle. Robotics means giving up everything else you want to do in your life and committing every single second awake to it. It means eating, sleeping, and dreaming about robots."
My favorite thing so far this season is we have a table that one of the teachers at our school doesn't like us putting things on. He decided to write a sign saying "DO NOT PUT ANYTHING ON THIS TABLE". It's in a convenient spot next to our hand mill/lathe. I now have four pictures of just random things on the table people put there just instinctively and he just put the sign up last week. I'm looking forward to showing him all the pictures at the end of the season
dragonrulr288
19-01-2009, 18:02
*a student calles for a mentor, with me holding a wire*
me- "Dang, where are the strippers when you need one?"
*Mentor enters*
mentor- "Someone call for me?"
*uncontrollable laughter*
nevereverregret
19-01-2009, 20:16
Days #1
"My boxers are red!" (Alex)
"Mine too" (Hartman)
"haha... so are mine... see"- (Matt- Mentor)
Day #2 (the day after)
"My boxers are blue!"-(Alex)
"Mine too"- (Chris)
"haha... so are mine"-(Matt- Mentor)
guys you need to stop wearing the same color boxers
THE BIRDBEARMAN
19-01-2009, 20:28
me - dont use labview's integral formula, it just does crappy riemann sums
Pat - yea like n = 5
freaky_dork88
19-01-2009, 21:14
mentor: well when we drive it
student:how are we going to fit in the robot????
hysteric laughter
freaky_dork88
19-01-2009, 21:29
"hey guys let's take a trip to the back of the conex" referring to the convienent store down the road and no one ever notices that we left
"Get the radio out of the chains and put the robot in program mode."
"You have been walrus'd"
??????????
"lets go do make robot"
The Megan 2207
19-01-2009, 22:20
While eating lunch:
"Ahh!"
"What?"
"I got pizza in my eye!"
"How did you manage THAT? ...You're even wearing SAFETY GLASSES!"
said by a kid steel wooling the burnt part off our welds
"does steel wool come from metal sheep?":D
We had one similar quote:
"In Soviet Russia, robot builds YOU!!"
See my user title :)
Dam.nit Eric!!!!
Whys it going is it turn when i got stright?
(day later)
Becouse the moters face opisit
(2 sec later)
(read first quote)
techsupport07
20-01-2009, 13:00
Some of our most famous quotes:
"Workin' on it!"
"Who brought the food tonight?"
"What food did they bring tonight?"
"Moist Towlette?"
"Way to go Barz!"
PowerOfKings
20-01-2009, 16:52
me- "where's our wheel"
other student- "it's in the sky and it keeps on turning"
Back story: We work in a team member's garage, and since it's 30ish degrees here (if we're lucky), we use propane heaters to keep ourselves from freezing to death. Unfortunately, these are REALLY hot when you get close.
I came in late to a meeting once after school, and all I hear is "Don't let the smoke into the house!!!!"
"Guys, what happened? What lit on fire?"
"Libby, it's not a fire per se...it's a contained, smoldering garbage can!"
Note: All was fine- a bag of chips got too close to the heater, and when it got hot the student holding it threw it in the trash in fear...setting the paper towels in the trashcan aflame. If your team is in a similar situation as we are, please be careful around heaters. Fire is bad.
rjamesjr
20-01-2009, 22:32
"Lets reinforce the duct tape with more duct tape"
"I Think I Saved It Right This Time...." --Me RE:Webpage
"I Hate C++!", "Well you hurt it's feelings."
Copper Bot
21-01-2009, 12:37
Mentor (me) - "It's okay - I'm retarded"
After failing at English and general thinking so many times and being corrected by the students, it's become my motto.
Jreed129
21-01-2009, 16:03
our animation team is the joking group on our team and we love to use parts of 3ds max to insult people:
"YOUR MOM IS A DEFAULT SCANLINE RENDER!!!"
our animation team is also very helpfull toward eachother with our work in max
"What are you failing at? and how can I help?"
"OH MY GOD YES YES IT WORKS! DO YOU SEE THAT IT WORKS?! IT WOOOOOORRRRRRKKKKKKSSSSSS!!!!!"
Our lead programmer when, after 5 days of trying to figure out what is going on, made the Axis camera work by using the orange wire. Yep, 5 days of time wasted because they were using the wrong wire.
It was quite the sight.
"Hand me the things so I can put these watchamacallit on the robot. I need a thingie too."
Translation: Hand me the nuts and bolts so I can attach the gearbox to the kitbot. I need a wrench, too.
"Are those huge speakers on the robot?"
"No, they are weights that go on barbells."
"The organization team sure cleaned and organized the tool area nicely. Now if only one of them were here and could tell me where the wrenches are."
The animators and PR/Marketing kids share a room and one of the animators is a computer genius. He knows EVERYTHING there is to know. And he does the website for the team.
Today one of the team members little sister was working with us, although she isn't on the team she might as well be she's here enough... but anyways. on the website he took everything down at about 4 and wrote, "Kelly broke it! :(" after about twenty minutes he fixed it again. then at about 5 he changed it too "I broke it again ~~Kelly."
Besides telling the world Kelly broke it, he also enjoys insulting most of us on a regular basis, in his spare time.
"Your epically failed, again??"
hahahah o goodness
"A LAZER?!"
A chain started and went through the whole room where everyone said it
"Not those strippers; the good ones!"
Said by Patrick
NorviewsVeteran
21-01-2009, 20:05
Being the lead driver, the programmers dragged me away from the shop just long enough to ask me how I think the controller should be set up...
"I'm thinking this is the left side, that's the right... ...and this is throw grenade, and this is reload."
dragonrulr288
21-01-2009, 21:50
student(freshman)- "Genious! lets let our PROGRAMMERS BUILD our robot!"
Doctorwho
22-01-2009, 08:49
While at dinner:
"Yes but I have a swordfish and it swims at 70 MPH"
The Megan 2207
22-01-2009, 15:16
Programmers trying to understand girls + mentor who doesn't want to waste time with this nonsense = "I'm not gonna LabVIEW up a female for you!"
Students: We've been analyzing it a bit too much.
Mentor: They've gone into analysis paralysis!
dragonrulr288
22-01-2009, 15:45
*looking at a DS during dinner*
"oh yeah? well my Blissy (a pokemon) is beastly!"
Darkcrosbone
24-01-2009, 16:52
Smoke = Hardware problem
Nothing = Software problem
Still Nothing = Check the on/off swich
demosthenes2k8
24-01-2009, 17:25
"We're the least nerdy nerds."
Chris/Fish
24-01-2009, 17:37
-"Hey, where'd the floor go?"
-"the floor is named Zillah."
-"There's this guy at NI who explained our code for us. [...] We should upload our new code, so he can explain that, too"
-"So, when are we quitting?" "5:00"--said at 5:30.
Azure Kite
24-01-2009, 18:51
A: "Oh no, the wood split!"
B: "Tape! Tape!...ZIPTIES! ZIPTIES!"
NorviewsVeteran
24-01-2009, 22:51
A (just cut 8020 with chopsaw, handing it to B to drill it)
B: Oh, its still warm.
A: Thats what she said
B (and everyone else): ...
A: ...Right...after...she took the cake out of the oven...
ubermeister
24-01-2009, 23:28
Freshman [looking at a schematic diagram I was designing]: Woah, is that LabVIEW?
Burmeister #279
25-01-2009, 01:27
Programming/Website Mentor: Did you just delete the main teleop loop?
Me: Mhmm...
PWM[totally unintentional acronym]: Why?
Me: I like using the control-z function?
[later]
PWM: workin?
me: I? yes, It? not so much.
[edit] oh and my favorite from early on:
Everyone: Does it drive?
Me: Of course it does
Everyone: Wanna show us?
Me: Maybe sometime next month...
The Megan 2207
25-01-2009, 01:30
The programming team was LabVIEWing some blinky lights for practice...
Me: Our blinky light is having seizures.
Mentor: Good.
"I'm trying something new. If it works, I'll tell you what I did."
Lactose-intolerant student eating cheese pizza: I figure the worst that can happen is crippling pain.
(Note: this was a sarcastic response. She was asked if she had taken her lactase pills before eating cheese.)
Burmeister #279
25-01-2009, 02:35
Mentor: Put the energy chain down!
Freshman: *sarcastically* but i'm not allowed to have coffee or mountain dew....
everyone:*facepalm*
my dad works for igus =P 6 feet of 4" wide energy chain is quite fun.
Gnome Meister
25-01-2009, 02:38
"What we aren't playing Quake.";)
Herodotus
25-01-2009, 03:17
Me: Hey, come over here.
Student: Hold on, my ADD is distracting me.
Edit: Also, I said this while working with a student.
Me: So, we can use this to measure things accurately (I forget the name of said device, it's like a scale with a sharp bit on it for marking lines in layout fluid.) I think it's in 32nds of an inch.
*We mark the line and double check it... it's off*
Me: Uh, maybe I'm wrong here. Maybe it's in 64th.
*I count the lines, since it's not labeled*
Me:40ths? What the hell? Why is this in 40ths of an inch?
FriedLiver
25-01-2009, 03:29
I'm sure a lot of people get this classic statement in brainstorming.
Something along the lines of:
Someone suggesting a crazy idea
- Hey! We can (move it/do it/lift that/etc...) here _____ with a thingy over here and another thingy there.
- So what exactly is this thingy you have in mind
- I don't know I thought you might
"Put a can in it!"
"errr, isn't it 'put a sock in it'?"
"I need more sleep"
"Sleep? What does that mean?"
At dinner, we somehow got on the topic of first impressions...
"You know, when I met you, I thought you were incredibly annoying"
"Nothing's changed" </joke>
JaneYoung
25-01-2009, 10:11
Student: Hold on, my ADD is distracting me.
It was interesting to read this today. Last night I was in conversation with someone and they just walked away and disappeared behind a closed door. Later, I asked what had happened and they said they had been distracted by their ADD and forgot to return to the conversation.
mattaltepeter
25-01-2009, 16:29
"we are launching our orbit balls into orbit!"
NorviewsVeteran
25-01-2009, 16:37
"...so it shoots them straight up-"
"-and hit the disco ball at the top of the Seigel Center"
mattaltepeter
25-01-2009, 17:34
I'm wondering what some of the more interesting "quotes" or phrases said this year. It doesn't matter who said them, a student, a teacher, or a mentor. One of mine this year was "Ball chunk colorer person". That was said when someone asked why i was coloring a ball with a sharpie.
"we are going to launch our orbit ball into orbit!"
said when we ran some calculations that yielded the kinetic energy= #e178
ttldomination
25-01-2009, 17:39
"What week is it?"
You build teaming, Build teamer. (Build team is now our curse word)
Darn it! there you go with that common sense thing again.
BeyondReality
25-01-2009, 18:27
My mom: So, it's going to have ten hands?
Me: No....it's going to have a hairy lip and shoot balls out of its ears.
Female part of the team: This robot is so cute!!!
One of the guys, looking at the clamp: Awwww, look at this!
Me: You just said "Aw" at the clamp and you don't let me call the robot "cute"?
"Let's use the heat gun to solder this stuff."
- Why does this say 4.5"?
- Because it is.
- You told me it was 4"!
- No, I didn't....
- I cut it so it's 4"!
- Well, it's 4.5"
- Wait...then why does it fit..................???
"Just hammer it in."
"Lead fumes. Excellent. Inhale deeply."
- What's epoxy?
- It's a glue that smells like ham gone bad.
"Where's the hole...errr...dent-maker?"
"Can we dissect a drill and use its motor on the bot?"
"I am going to spend thirty minutes organizing this stuff."
- How did you find this???
- I put it here...
"Wow, i tend to hurt myself when hammering."
- Did you get a metal splinter?
- Yes....and it's invisible!
- Leave it be. Your body will push it out when needed.
- I pulled it out.
- That's one way of doing it.
"Don't melt the table."
"Have you ever tried licking the solder?"
"Duct tape it."
"This is scrap. This is scrap. This is just crap..."
- Is it turned on?
- No. It's not making that sound.
"I'm pretty sure this is not safe."
A: Why are you sawing this?
B: To make it square.
C: That's what THAT [pointing at the grinder] is for!
- Hey, this frame is like a cage!
- Yup. You just have to surround it by plexi.
Team member: We already decided not to do it that way
Me: So why did I just have to spend 2 hours trying to make it work?!
Team member: We just wanted to see if you could come up with something
Urban Hawk
25-01-2009, 18:57
uhhh...adam.... do u smoke?
(From when the robot caught on fire in my mom's van)
The Megan 2207
25-01-2009, 21:29
After a Saturday of building:
Team member's mother: I thought you guys didn't have the robot on wheels yet."
Team member: We didn't.
Me: We didn't even have the chassis until the PROGRAMMING team built it!
True story.
P1: (Arguing for his helical lift design): Think of how a snow blower cuts into the snow.
P2: Umm, is that a good thing?
While eating snack right ater school, which just happened to be goldfish.
"Look, a flying fish!"
I then proceed to throw the goldfish, hitting the person sitting across from me square in the forhead! everyone bursts into laughter.:D
Another member and I finished building a prototype of our shooter and began testing it.
Member: "What is that loud clicking noise? I don't think the chain is supposed to sound like that."
Me: "Don't worry. It will be fine."
Member (When I tilt it upward to change the angle): "It sounds like something is going to break. I wouldn't touch that thing."
Me: "That's why I am touching it, because I have supreme confidence in my design! And because I'm crazier than you."
Our teacher said this to us when we were being really noisy-
"Listen to my pneumatics- shhhhh"
Daniel885
27-01-2009, 16:33
"Now here's the weed-smoking part of this design..."
smartkid
27-01-2009, 20:06
No diagonals.
Team Member: "There's blood on the chain."
Me: "Oh great. Not again."
Team Member: "What?"
Me: "I'm bleeding again. And I don't know where its coming from."
After a night of prototyping a 4-counter-rotating-wheel ball shooter (at about 2 AM in the car):
Me: You know, we should build a huge one and put it around the world!
Richard: You can't fire the world!
GillSt.Bernards
28-01-2009, 14:33
This was an exchange between my mentor and I talking about last year's robot.
Me: "didn't we have waterford crystal's on last year's robot?"
Mentor: "No let's be realistic here. They were Swarovski"
GillSt.Bernards
28-01-2009, 14:38
Marshall: "it is only a guesstimation"
Also Marshall is always blamed for loosing everything (usually he does)
Me (Over the phone with him and his sister who is also on the team trying to find the mounting screws): "ooh we found them Marshall hid them again."
Marshall: "Where did I hide them this time?"
Me: "Under the second half of the KOP checklist. That reminds me where is the first half."
Marshall: "Uhhh"
XXShadowXX
28-01-2009, 14:39
My proposal to the sponsorship board;
"So we put this big sticker on it that says 0 grams of deathcrystals, and we will be the greenest team out their, and then get all this quack science proving how we don't have deathcrystals and how common they are in robots, like how common snakes are on planes."
NorviewsVeteran
28-01-2009, 21:20
Mentor: "I'd say she works!"
Student: "Why can't it be a he this time?"
Mentor: "Alright fine, HE works, whatever it is, I don't care what the gender is as long as it works."
Then the student noticed my camera was still recording the test we were doing.:rolleyes:
Or just watch the video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DOs4mdX-zk) (at the end)
chi yuki
28-01-2009, 21:50
Here's a few...
• During a fund raising event my friend was talking about the Xerox Creativity Award during a speech and she pronounced it "X-ron". She couldn't seem to figure out why she was laughed at.
• “Little soccer kids go to Subway ‘cause their so soccerish”
• “Did you just fart? Oh, no, that’s my phone”
• “We represent the Lollypop Guild, the Lollypop Guild, the Lollypop Guild”(This one was sung by our head mentor)
Sometimes the hole is off center and the answer I hear most often is:
"The drill bit walked" :yikes:
NorviewsVeteran
28-01-2009, 22:08
Sometimes the hole is off center and the answer I hear most often is:
"The drill bit walked" :yikes:
Yeah, thats normal jargon. Also, "danced" works.
thatsMrMIGboy2u
28-01-2009, 22:30
Me: Hey (anonymous) that metals hot (20 secs later)
Me: hey (anonymous) thats hot
(anonymous): OWWW hot it burns
ME: (Bangs head on wall)
SCROSSLEY-GCEC
29-01-2009, 02:07
Or just watch the video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DOs4mdX-zk) (at the end)
:D i laughed so hard watching that
"You failed epically!" One member of the team told another while putting in the edits for the newsletter. She has a very short temper.
"No, no, no, no! It's epic fail!" said the person who was editing back to the writer. Another team member went in between the arguement and settled the dispute.
A few days later...
"If you don't take me to Turkey Hill so I can get my gummy bears, you fail at life!" This was said from one programmer to another. It resulted in a team wide trip to the closest Turkey Hill.
We all got gummy bears or swedish fish.
one of my favorites that has been said this build season is..."If I'm gonna get my finger cut off, I wanna be the one to do it!"
program1
29-01-2009, 16:46
"...how is that physically possible..."
"ow!"
"can we make the robot move with the guitar hero controller yet?"
Jreed129
29-01-2009, 16:47
The following takes place in our animation room
:::BANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:::
:::Smoke fills the air:::
:::Silence:::
Mentor in other room(yelling):WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!?:ahh:
Students(Yelling): THE LIGHT EXPLODED!!!
Mentor(walk towards room still yelling): WHAT!?!:eek:
Student 1: the light just exploded
Mentor: was it on?
student 2(who turned light on): yeah for like 1min
Mentor: must have been cold
student 3(walking out of room): i can't believe that just happened
Parent Mentor(who was working on other side of room): What happened?
Student 3: the light exploded
after everything is done and cleaned up for the most part
Student 3: What have you learned?
Student 2: Don't touch THAT LIGHT
Student 2: EVIL DEMON LIGHT
Moral of this story: If a 500W Art lightbulb is in an air conditioned room in the middle of winter, don't be the one to turn it on
While singing in the back room around a few of the guys.....
Student 1: "I think you're tone deaf."
Student 2: "I think deaf is an under statement."
they both said it so nonchalantly and 'matter o factly' that all I could do was laugh.:D
NorviewsVeteran
29-01-2009, 19:40
"The chain just straight up raped us."
"Now I see why James and Jon hated chain so much"
A: How did you loose it??? You JUST had it!!! OH MY GOSH!!!
...a little while later
B: Has anyone seen the box of kept nuts?
Mentor: I swear, there's a black hole in this room somewhere... :ahh:
me: Hey, put your safety glasses on!
student: Why, no one is taking pictures.
I would have slapped him if I wasn't laughing so hard.
we have 5 calipers. this is why.
Lead member: "WHAT KEEPS HAPPENING TO MY CALIPERS!"*hands in air screaming to the roof"
MrWibbles
29-01-2009, 23:20
"Hey, the robot isn't responding in Acceleration Control mode, what the hell did you do to it?"
"Technically, the new changes should only take effect when the absolute value of the axis is less than zero..."
nathanww
30-01-2009, 00:45
"You know we've been going at this for a while when we're conversing entirely in C++"
"I think the problem is because we named the cRio Cthulhu"
Plus this conversation that occured while we were cleaning up for the day:
"I don't know if I can go--I've got something tomorrow"
"You mean robotics?"
"Oh yeah, right".
Betty_Krocker
30-01-2009, 09:31
" We are overweight... again..."
"Crap"
"Mike get off the team..."
Betty_Krocker
30-01-2009, 09:33
"We have a problem..."
"What?"
"We need a 1/2 in. bit..."
"You just had it..."
"Yeah its in three pieces all over the shop..."
"..." "WTF?"
Ryan Caldwell
30-01-2009, 09:37
"hey thats a push broom"
"yeah whats your point"
"your pulling it"
"yeah whats your point"
"look at your shoes"
"yeah.... ohh, i get it"
The Megan 2207
30-01-2009, 10:24
A freshman didn't make a very obvious connection during a conversation...
Me: Go... hit your head on a wall or something.
*freshman hits head on table*
Me: No! A WALL!
Freshman: I don't know where a wall is!
...We were inside.
Later, building off of that joke...
Me (to a different freshman): Go hit your head on a wall.
*different freshman walks toward whiteboard*
Different freshman: Oh wait... that's not a wall.
...That's when the programming team decided If freshman=true then wall-finding skillz=0.
After the light exploded in the animation room...
Student 1: I know why the light exploded!
Studen 2: Why?
Student 1: _______ was singing and weakened the light!
Needless to say, the person who had been singing was not all that happy.
XXShadowXX
30-01-2009, 13:34
"It's really simple i just find the difference between the variable here, and after it come out of the shift register, then I multiply that by the change in time, which (looks at screen)...i......don't.......have...........crap." me explaining my first attempt at the TC algorithm
newyorkjr
30-01-2009, 13:47
"If brute force doesn't work, you don't have enough."
NorviewsVeteran
30-01-2009, 21:17
We were marking where to drill, but the sharpie kept smudging.
It started out completely incoherent but after a couple of takes he got it down... Just watch it. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfzjvSv1kXo) It has been transcribed in the video description.
"That motor is going to explode on him, and I'm not too sure I want to be around when that happens"
"You're optimistic."
teampronto
31-01-2009, 01:21
"Can you just stick in in there?....Yes. Nice and tight. We don't want any stuff leaking out on the floor. There. That's perfect."..."Oh and that's what she said."
Herodotus
31-01-2009, 02:19
"I personally like this design as it defies physical laws. I like defying them."
student 1:"Welcome to the club of redundecy club!"
student 2: "Wait, that doesn't make sense!!"
Dancin103
31-01-2009, 11:51
girl - "yeah my dad let me drive the bentley..."
me - "i wanna drive the bentley"
i wish i could drive the bentley. :rolleyes:
girl - "yeah my dad let me drive the bentley..."
me - "i wanna drive the bentley"
i wish i could drive the bentley. :/
Next Day in Homeroom....
me to mentor "I wanna drive the bentley!!"
mentor "as soon as I get it you'll be the first to drive it, I promise!"
me to everyone else in homeroom ":P he likes me better!!"
**keep in mind i am not yet 16! so it will probably take a while for us to get the team bentley!** :(
phencer42
31-01-2009, 13:07
"I put my sweat and spit into making this!"
-A team member on break on the creation of a small carrot person with his teeth
CDlabrador
31-01-2009, 13:50
We had this one yesterday during dinner.
"Programmers, no sitting on the fabricators!"
But, apparently, there is no rule against fabricators sitting on us! :P
We were sitting around today during lunch, talking about the colleges w're going to.
Member: "My brother could have had a full ride to MSOE for bio-engineering, but he wants to be an astrophysiologist"
Me: *face palm* "You mean astophysicist
Lead programmer: "I don't know what you are doing, and I don't want to know what you are doing"
*team laughs*
Lead programmer: "You guys sure laugh at a lot of things I say"
aznkazoon
31-01-2009, 14:45
"AHHH it FireWall!"
Herodotus
31-01-2009, 18:59
Mentor: This here is really the danger zone... which makes this ramp up into it the Highway to the Dangerzone.
-Later-
Me: So I've decided we should name the robot Kenny Loggins.
Mentor: Does anyone have a deathwish so someone can hold this?
College Mentor: Oh, oh, oh, me, me.
harleywhite
31-01-2009, 19:36
We are in the middle of an ice storm and a week long power outage.
Louie: "I've been crazy without technology for a week."
Eric: "You haven't had a bath for a week."
BeyondReality
31-01-2009, 21:31
"I'm fluent in russian tools!"
"They get on...with encouragement" - "You mean the hammer?"
"This is so cool! Aluminum shavings all over me. I feel like a princess."
- When are we leaving today?
- When A gets hungry.
- I'm hungry....
- You missed the point. We're leaving when A gets hungry, not you!
"Seems like all I've been doing today is hurting myself and hurting others..."
"There's a scratch across your forehead." - "Yeah..I walked into the robot."
"Hey, it looks robotic now!"
Me: What'cha doin'?
Programming student: Failing :)
"Debur like mad!!!"
Herodotus
31-01-2009, 21:45
Another one I remember now.
Me: It doesn't matter what it's called, it just matters what we call it.
"check if theres any joel left in the robot"
one of our members faceplanted into the robot in an attempt to ride it like a bull.... using only his hands.
Katie_UPS
31-01-2009, 22:26
"I really want a guy from a metal rock band to follow me around and say the last few words of my sentance. Happy Birthday. 'HAAAPPY BIRTHDAAAAAAAAY!'"
AlexD744
31-01-2009, 22:47
I keep asking the question when do we usually get programming ready?
"5-minutes before the first match at regionals."
"At the competition."
"Never" (so I made that one up. But I'm sure it could happen)
AlexD744
31-01-2009, 22:51
Josh and Ben walk into the hallway where the french fries are. Down the hall are the cheerleaders getting ready for the varsity basketball game. Josh says "Those (the french fries) look disgusting." Ben is eating a fry looks up. Says "I know." Josh looks at the cheerleaders and says "I wasn't talking about them."
The Megan 2207
01-02-2009, 00:29
"Ooh, Colors!"
Also:
"Ahh! UNDO! UNDO!" (Commonly shouted by programmers, but also heard after the sound of metal getting angry.)
NorviewsVeteran
01-02-2009, 00:59
We were talking about the robot's status when...
Mr. C- So, Richard, where are we?
Me- The one room the Janitors don't know about.
phencer42
01-02-2009, 14:53
"I'm drowning my Windriver sorrows in Metallica and root beer."
-Me after everyone else's laptops connect but mine won't even if I follow exactly what they did
rotolomi
01-02-2009, 19:50
"Aha! You should've been wearing your safety glasses!" The team coach, after explaining to some teammates how I got a cut under my left eye. (I walked into a tree... but a very poorly trimmed tree!!!) :ahh:
Clayton Rogers
01-02-2009, 20:58
"One rivet per hole..." :ahh:
One of the fabrication mentor during the assembly of our frame.
*looks at part off of CNC mill* Well, i guess that one will go on the practice bot...
-Keaton
16MentalTempest
02-02-2009, 02:42
I said this at the end of an e-mail I just sent to the team about paying for Portland. Don't know why, but I guess I wanted to end on a positive note:
"One final note to all rookies: the regional competitions are absolutely incredible and it is hard not to have a good time. However, don't go in with a win-at-all-cost mindset; focus on having fun and that will make your team way cooler than if you just focus on winning all the time."
Betty_Krocker
02-02-2009, 07:42
"Come on man..."
"What???"
"I have cut this piece 4 times and it is still too short!"
"Wow"
XXShadowXX
02-02-2009, 08:12
"What's wrong with the accelerometer"
"It's reading 1g on the z axis"
"But its not moving"
Me; "and were still stuck to the ground"
[apologies if any of these are repeats...it's getting hard to keep track of which ones i've posted already]
"As opposed to a weld, it could be a rivet"
*like a frog* "Rivet rivet..."
"Will you eat my computer for $5?"
"No"
"How about for a piece of blueberry pie?"
"..."
We never got an answer, but his face light up quite a bit.
Mentor *listening to the music that's playing*: "Wah? Oh, I'm sorry, I couldn't hear what you said, I was listening to the guitar solo"
"You have beautiful eyes."
"The internet is not a truck!"
"Lunch break!" *pulls fruit cup out of his pocket*
It was 8pm.
"I don't fail at computers, computers fail with me!"
"Culture, torture, it's almost the same thing"
"Old McDonald had a farm, e-i-e-i-o...And on that farm there was a Kara, e-i-e-i-o...With a rule G6 here and a rule G7 there, here a rule, there a rule, everywhere some more rules...uhh...e-i-e-i-o!"
My co-captain is very interesting, to say the least.
"That's more better"
"Well, there's the problem" *holds up one end of a disconnected PWM*
"I'm not sure if that's a programming or a mechanical problem"
"It's a 'You need a longer PWM problem'"
"WHAT!? You mean I have to use TRIG!?"
NinJA999
02-02-2009, 23:45
"And so, when we are in Autonomous mode, we are in the..Autonomous()...function. And our while loop depends on IsAutonomous(), which returns whether it...is autonomous or not. Make sense?"
(Listening to awesome 70's music)
"¿Te gusta este canción?" (translation: Do you like this song?)
"What about cancer?"
Betty_Krocker
03-02-2009, 07:52
"wow... batteries bounce..."
I hate 8020
Why?
Because my nuts dropped... again...
We were making jokes about going to Hawaii, cuz we're so excited :)
"We'll have to wear coats with ice blocks underneath, we start melting when it gets above 32F."
"Obviously we'll have a huge advantage in Hawaii, we're the team that is likely to have the most experience driving on ice!"
"(Team member) will love it there, he eats SPAM sandwiches."
MrWibbles
03-02-2009, 17:24
"Won't anybody think of the moon dolphins?!"
pacoliketaco
03-02-2009, 17:41
"wow... batteries bounce..."
I hate 8020
Why?
Because my nuts dropped... again...
wow that is probably the worst part of working with 8020. everything seems to fit together, you slide a t-nut into a 50" long piece, and it falls all the way down past several objects which will later cause trouble in retrieving it. GAH
"At least we have a rave box"-Eric
"Put that down Chris"-Me
"Hey guys?...(crash)...never mind"-Chris
"Is there an off button to him?"-Me
"Does he ever be quiet?"-Mike (mentor)
NorviewsVeteran
03-02-2009, 18:03
wow that is probably the worst part of working with 8020. everything seems to fit together, you slide a t-nut into a 50" long piece, and it falls all the way down past several objects which will later cause trouble in retrieving it. GAH
tighten the bolt to where it bites the bottom of the channel
"That's a lot more gooder!" This was said from a freshman (me) to a mentor who started cracking up. The freshman looked at the mentor for a minute and didn't get it...for an hour afterwards. :D
Mish Mooney
03-02-2009, 18:57
Newb-"Don't question this wisdom of Mr. Ray"
and from across our lab, I replyed " Don't question anything of Ray!"
And another one just happened today, my boyfriend was asking me if I can hang out tomorrow;
Him- Can you hang out tomorrow?
Me- I live in a world of communist robots, I have to ask their permission to do anything outside of robotics.
Mountain Dew flows through the veins of my team, and it can't be healthy.
Same newb- Mr. Ray, who's your favorite newb?
Ray- My favorite what?
Newb- Newb.
Ray- Alex.
(Alex graduated a few years ago)
Put the hammer down!
said to me many times by my teammates ever since I used a hammer to help join two wires....
Yay!!!! Page 100!!
So I hit my teammate in the face, repeatedly, with orbit balls throughout the course of one of our meetings...A little while later, this happened.
Me: OH MY GOD. 18 Days til ship.
Heather: Reality just hit you in the face?
Me: Better than an Orbit Ball.
"For a team bonding activity, we're going to the rink for public skate on Friday night"
"OH MY GOD, REAL LIFE LUNACY!"
Mish Mooney
03-02-2009, 20:43
Oh, I forgot one...or two...
Ray- You see this emergency stop button?
Newbs- -shakes head-
Ray- -slams button- it doesn't work.
____
Ray- Wait wait wait look at me your not looking at me wait wait watch.
____
Someone walks into our hotel room at nationals...
Person- Why are there red towels in your bathroom?
Us- What you don't dye your hair red in hotel bathrooms for team spirit?:P
____
1-Where's the wallowing bit?
2-Right next to the invisible chains, duh.:D
germanystudent
03-02-2009, 20:55
this is our rookie year.
"i was only gone 3 days! how come the shop's a pig's sty?"
"it doesn't have to look pretty, it's a prototype."
"what?!? 5lbs each? that's freaking redonkulous!"
"we're protecting electronics, not the president! we don't need the whole thing polycarbonate!"
"Yes! Ohhh Yes! I got it to come out!"
SCROSSLEY-GCEC
04-02-2009, 01:59
Mentor (Referring to VRC and FRC robots):
"So you see, some people can be preparing for the big boy while the rest of us continue to play with the little boys"
XD_bring_it
04-02-2009, 02:21
"what is this "sleep" that you speak of?"
SCROSSLEY-GCEC
04-02-2009, 03:06
forgot one:
we were writing issues on the board that need solutions. A senior (our Build Captain) was writing them up. Board began as follows:
Issues:
1. Steph
2.
Hence the user title :p
Jreed129
04-02-2009, 19:59
"It is like the reflective tape you put on your driveway so you can see where the edge is. It is just his built in Reflective tape"
::Talking about one of the bald mentors and the shine off of said ballspot::
NorviewsVeteran
04-02-2009, 20:03
"well, I'm heading home"
"Have fun storming the castle!"
Text messages:
"Why aren't you at robotics?"
"I'm sick!"
"...so?"
"Better question: why are you texting me from robotics? aren't you supposed to be working?"
rotolomi
05-02-2009, 09:39
"L can't work on estimating the weight of our bot anymore. According to her calculations, we have a 128 pound manipulator piece!"
Then they told me to do the math, but I said I probably couldn't do much better than L...
wcamp1742
05-02-2009, 09:52
Our electronics/ Programmer head as he was working on the electronics board underneath a sheet of acrylic:
"I feel like a surgeon. . .at a salad bar."
"Bunnies and rainbows Will, bunnies and rainbows"
AlexD744
05-02-2009, 15:14
"PVC shaving don't taste good." - Andrew
Torboticsmember
05-02-2009, 18:55
We have two freshman on our team. One is a guy, one is a girl.
I was asking the freshman that is a guy to get something for me today
Guy next to me: "Male Freshman go get the tin."
Freshman: "I'm not a Male..."
XXShadowXX
05-02-2009, 20:44
Brian our programming mentor sends the labview update to my laptop which is 1 foot away, not connected. I turn to him after i get the item loaded, "Isn't that technically considered hacking?"
"I told you to change your password..."
robotics quotes 101 (page 101 w00t)
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