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We were building a trailer today, and it was just me and a junior. We got into some pretty dumb coversations.
Me: "We're making lots of wood chips."
Him: "Chips? like Sun Chips? Maybe this is how they make them."
Me: "My hands are so full of sawdust. At least when I eat I'll get plenty of fiber."
Him: "You'll be constipated tomorrow."
Me: "Clamp it down."
Him: "Fine, gosh."
Me: "Don't argue, its time to climpity-clamp that clamping piece of clamp to the drill press. CLAMP!"
Me: "Meow go get the pvc meow, cut it to the right lengths, and don't screw up. Meow go."
Him: "Stop with the supertroopers references."
Student: "He's doing what all engineers do - *other student joins in* Mosey on down to the break room, get a cookie, mosey back to the cubicle, eat the cookie, mosey--"
Engineering Mentor (works for GM): "Haven't you read the newspaper? We cut the cookies"
when we were on the conference call waiting for the chairman to log in on the call.....
"the chairman is 5 mins late!"
...half an hour later
"wheres the chairman???"
45 mins later....
"7pm EST!...OH $%@!"
"This is what happens when we let programmers into the shop."
Our lead programmer started to play with all of the 80/20 pieces.:D
Betty_Krocker
06-02-2009, 07:25
"...where did I put my car...?"
"...thats not supposed to work..."
kamikazi521
06-02-2009, 08:16
LTD-"FUDGE MONKEYS!!!"
LTD-"What happened to the robot?!?!"
me-"I didnt do it"
LTD-"LIES!!!!"
me-"ok i did do it. but lets blame the programers"
LTD-"Sounds good to me"
"Peter are your pants calling people again?"
"What oh yeah."
"He cant help it if is paants are social"
"My pants like you kyle."
This may be hard for some people to undestand, but we have a big tiger head in our lab.
So I said "geez I never realized how big this tiger is"
And the other kid said "It's not as big as the Jaguar"
Astrokid248
06-02-2009, 14:09
While trying to open one of those breaker panel doors:
Senior: "Did you just break it?"
me: "No. It still works."
Senior: "What did you do?"
me: "I think I knocked the plastic piece down."
Senior: "You broke it!"
me: "It still works. See, you can use that metal piece instead!"
Needless to say, he didn't like that.
GillSt.Bernards
06-02-2009, 15:12
"It's pretty sad that all we need to get people to come to the meetings during lunch are Amanda's famous white chocolate peppermint bark and power tools."
Doctorwho
06-02-2009, 15:14
When we started on the chassis:
INTEGRATION TEAM ASSEMBLE!
OOOOOOOOOOOOO pretty light!
While watching someone practice tack welding aluminum
teshazman
06-02-2009, 17:03
As I was getting random assorted parts off the floor, X looked in my hand.
"You're a true man." He said.
"Huh?" was my blank reply.
He pointed to my handful of parts.
"You screw, nut, and bolt."
teshazman
06-02-2009, 17:08
As we were assembling our brain, X got impatient with the wires.
"Just stick it in there, whats the worst that could happen?"
When one of our programmers was putting together part of our bot, he was trying to get a nut on the screw. He couldn't do it, so he says,
"Guys this is way to hard to do by hand. Get me a nutdriver."
Gnome Meister
06-02-2009, 18:57
Refers to my signature.
dragonrulr288
06-02-2009, 20:08
Me to a kid who was really getting on my nerves
"I REALLY want to punch you. like you don't know"
*goes to swing arm*
"Must resist... But its so tempting.. NO!"
*everyone stares*
*Me again, talking while drilling holes in a piece of metal, loud noises emit from drill, hard to hear*
Me- "I think I am going to make cookies for you guys tommorow..."
*from the other roo,, a kid runs in*
"COOKIES?!?!?!
16MentalTempest
06-02-2009, 20:21
From a sophomore to a senior:
"No ____, I'm not going tighten your nuts!"
*Everyone facepalms*
ikhana870
07-02-2009, 00:08
"Is solder conductive?"
caffino54
07-02-2009, 01:00
'our robot sucks balls'
B.Collette
07-02-2009, 10:13
Poon: "There are a lot of robots here..."
Jeff: "Yeah they've been here since the beginning, they won the first chairman's award"
Poon: <looking around> "Ooooooo they were her when the founders were here"
Note: Yes Poon is his real name.
/brian
NorviewsVeteran
07-02-2009, 10:17
Over texts because I slept in till 9:30
Cameryn: Lazy buttmunch! Get up! Rick's Here by himself. Working on the robot. Unsupervised.
Me: crap
Cameryn: HURRY!
banannaman20
07-02-2009, 12:40
"Keep ure Rod of Todd away from my Walls of Balls" "Thats what she said"
do'ght
and stop dont ride that kitbot scooter
AlexD744
07-02-2009, 15:34
"hey we should write a song about our team...dun dun dun sharks are cool, sharks are fun, don't get bitten in the sun. only swim, at night, because that is when they sleep tight. their smiles are creepy, oh i dont know"
FatBabyJezus
07-02-2009, 17:06
"FOR ALLAH!!!!!"
jihad durka durka.
Azure Kite
07-02-2009, 17:50
"Just wait, the board's gonna crack, and we have to do this ALL OVER AGAIN."
From a sophomore to a senior:
xD
Those conversations always make for some interesting moments...speaking from experience :cool:
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Mark (to me): "Have you finished marking that?"
Mentor: "She doesn't mark things, she Kara's things."
Heh. Failjoke.
germanystudent
07-02-2009, 19:00
upon buying more grease for the gearbox:
chris: that stuff smells like an old moose. give you a dollar if you lick it!
me:well it does kinda look like jolly rancher...
nick: old moose jolly ranchers? what are you guys talking about?
"Measure 5 times, cut three times, then cry because you still screwed up."
"Ow! Drilling into a steel bar throws up hot shards of steel."
Cliff: "Is that hot glue hot?"
Andy: "Probably."
Cliff: "OW! THATS HOT!"
*facepalm*
Don't let programmers touch anything but electronics.
NorviewsVeteran
07-02-2009, 20:24
Mr. C- "I love it. I more than like it, i LOVE it."
Me- "I'm telling your wife."
Mr. C- "Would she be jealous of a robotics solution? She might be..."
iTHOS=awesome
08-02-2009, 16:42
"If it doesn't work this time we go to plan B"
"Plan B? We are on at least plan YZ69 by now."
"I know, all we need is a small enough freshman to sit inside the frame and throw balls from inside ... no one will ever know."
"But we don't have any freshmen on the team ..."
*looks over at a Sophomore* "How much do you weight?"
"Alright, all we need is a spotlight, and a powerful enough magnifying glass to amplify the power of the light enough to melt the other robots to the regolith, it's totally legal; didn't see anything that said it wasn't."
lingomaniac88
08-02-2009, 16:54
"The real challenge this year is being able to work without being blinded by the vision targets."
- One of my advisors (paraphrased)
Creator Mat
08-02-2009, 17:04
Team question: What should we name our Robot.
Team answer: Gladus... (and yes it is still alive)
s0crates
08-02-2009, 19:49
"Why are you stroking my hair with a tape measure?"
hmm... some are "GO IRON EAGLES!" another "Whoever said this game is merely athletics hasn't seen the big picture" by me lol (the athletic thing is because when described to some students and teachers and students they said this competition seems to be based on athletics)
XXShadowXX
08-02-2009, 20:12
"Of course our traction control will work, but i need to streamline it."
"Why?"
"Because right now it's lagging the dual core 2.89 Ghz processor in the laptop, i don't want to know what it will do to the cRIO."
dragonrulr288
08-02-2009, 20:16
Annother freshman, poking me in the side-"Poke.... Poke....Poke..."
Me- "WILL YOU STOP THAT?!!??!?!?!"
Oter freshman joins- "Poke... Poke.. Poke..."
Me- "Ugh! Why bother!?!?!?"
"That looks great! There has to be something wrong with it."
Matt: "Where's my stripper?"
Everyone: "It's right in front of you."
Matt: "No, that's the cheap stripper. Where's my good stripper?"
"We should make a sign that says 'CAUTION: Do not put pneumantics suction cup on forehead. Will cause giant circular hickey'"
Bsteckler
09-02-2009, 22:02
*looks at mentor's hand*
Me-What happened to your thumb?
Mentor-This is an objective reminder as to why you don't drink sake and operate a drill press"
XD_bring_it
09-02-2009, 23:40
We are standing around the robot clapping. I though it saw someone'e eyes water. "We finished our robot before ship!" T T
Hellfeier675
09-02-2009, 23:51
"Guys It's So Inconvenient Delphi is Down at 3 am.... Hey I Was Bored Last Night!!!!"
"You're Doing It Wrong"
"Don't Tell Garth We're Doing It This Way"
"If It Isn't Broke Fix It 'Till It Is ...." - *Or Just Put Your Hair In It XD*
"Hand Check!" >.> <.<
techedguy
10-02-2009, 02:39
At around 9PM on a weeknight with only two other team members present, we noticed that the shooter mechanism extended beyond where it could...
Me: "Well as long as we're here this late we might as well do something completely stupid" ...then I went for the SkilSaw.
techedguy
10-02-2009, 02:44
upon buying more grease for the gearbox:
chris: that stuff smells like an old moose. give you a dollar if you lick it!
me:well it does kinda look like jolly rancher...
nick: old moose jolly ranchers? what are you guys talking about?
Coach (me):
"New rule...Everett's not allowed to taste any more parts of the robot so stop daring him to do it"
Leon Canidae
10-02-2009, 09:38
While looking at the CADD version of our robot.
Me:Well, i'd say it's doing pretty good considering it is apparently held together by either super glue or magic. That and our belts look like carrot sticks.
Team 135
10-02-2009, 10:31
That's what she said.
nuff said
freaky_dork88
10-02-2009, 13:01
programmer: how do i sand it until its smooth???
me: touch it
*takes it back and sands it*
me:touch it now
programmer:ooooooo i got it now
joshsmithers
10-02-2009, 14:48
Myself: "I can't figure out how to attach this..."
Mentor: "How 'bout leather?"
Myself: "Well... I guess that would work.... Do we have any leather?"
Mentor 2: "I have a jacket at home..."
Myself: "Actually, we could just use my leather belt."
Mentor: "That won't be necessary, josh..."
Myself: "C'mon, I'd my drop my pants for science!"
Robert103
10-02-2009, 14:53
Student: So how does this work again?
Mentor: We hunt them down and put our balls in them
Ryan Caldwell
10-02-2009, 14:58
"We need to take some of the rock out of our robot."
"can we keep the and/or roll?"
ikhana870
10-02-2009, 17:18
when asked if she would like to transport the robot or kids to a practice day my mom replied, "I AM DRIVING KIDS! i am willing to endanger the lives of kids but NOT the robot's!"
Mr. Weaver (head mentor)- "wow, this woman has her priorities straight!"
"Could you hand me the thingie?"
(used by one team member to refer to everything in the lab, yet we always know what she's talking about)
Programmer: "How many speeds do you want on the shooter motor?"
Mentor: "Why, I would like seven and a quarter speeds."
Everyone the moment a programmer walks into the lab: "No, no, no, no, no, no, no..."
3ds Max Animator: "Hey everyone, come check out my awesome static animation."
Student: "Aww, we're too heavy."
Mentor: "Wait a minute - the battery's in! That must weigh like 900 lbs!"
Student 1: "Where are the wire cutters?"
Student 2: "I think they're in the toolbox."
Student 1: "Really? Nothing's ever in the toolbox..."
Student 2: "This is true."
Me my first year drilling a hole with the drill spinning the wrong direction:
"Man, this Lexan is tough!"
We've been spending so much time at the lab recently, we now measure time in hours instead of days, as in:
Mentor: "Which sensor is plugged into this input, again?
Student: "I don't remember; we wired that eleven hours ago!"
Oh, and the platform on which we will mount the camera has officially been named the "peek-a-boo patio"...don't ask...
"My code is NEVER wrong!"
- said right before our autonomous mode failed
Our nicknames for the new electronics:
cRIO -> cry-o
Drivers station -> kiwibyte
me after a fellow team member face planted into our test platform: "oh no! lets make sure there isn't any Joel stuck in the robot."
Joel:" Oh sure, better make sure there's no bits of Joel in the robot, never mind if there's any bits of robot stuck in Joel!"
Hippo7990
10-02-2009, 22:31
the other day Coach was looking for a small belt and he searched for 20 minutes straight, completely turning the room upside down....including the robot. He even walks to the other side the school to use the rest room. hes sitting down and looks at his leg and realizes its wrapped around his leg lol!
cloud_254
10-02-2009, 22:44
This all happened during a tour we gave to kids from local elementary schools.
"Wow...That was really bright..." Kid on welding arc, after forgetting to flip down face shield.
"I don't have a daddy..." Kid after our team leader said the dewalt shifters we use are like the tools in your daddy's garage.
"Why did all the lights go out?" Kid on auto-darkening welding masks.
Finally a conversation about the lead-filled hammer we used to kick trackballs last year...
Smalls: "Yeah...this hammer is pretty heavy, we filled it with lead"
Kid: "Lead?"
S: "Uh...Yeah?"
K:"Lead Lead?"
S:"Yeah, like the element, I didn't really think there was any other kind..."
K :"Like Element 82 Lead?"
(Note: The periodic table memorizing prodigy is also the kid who forget to flip down the visor of his welding mask AFTER RECIEVING EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION)
Kid probably should have learned about the effects of UV rays before the periodic table.
XD_bring_it
11-02-2009, 01:49
"Hey Mike, guess what, Mr. Shinta (club advisor) just banned "thats what she said"!"
(its sexual harrasment guys)
Blue_Mist
11-02-2009, 02:08
So now that we only have 6 days left until the Kickoff, everyone's brains are getting more and more fried. There have definitely been more, but these are a few from our collection...
"Ducks make duck feet." From dinner one night, during a discussion of "real" Chinese food.
"The robot's like a lamprey; it doesn't kill you, just sucks you dry." Tonight, during the first of seven days in a row when we have robotics (until Ship Date).
"How did you measure that?"
"With my favorite geometric theorem,"
"What's that?"
"The Eyeball Theorem..."
Also from tonight.
Programing Mentor: "Good, it did nothing, like it was supposed to do."
Me: "What did it do last time?"
Mentor: "Crash."
Me: "Ok, time to suck some balls."
insert every ball sucking quote ever HERE
Programmer to Max Goodwin (a.k.a. Sunshine!): "Dont let me ever catch you playing with that dongle!"
"If it ain't broke, fix it until it is"
BradMello
11-02-2009, 22:29
Biker Larry: I've got some wood in my trunk
khr1stian
11-02-2009, 22:46
almost everyone - "i just lost the game"
:D
Jim_1137
11-02-2009, 23:32
Boom! Like a Puma!
*after hearing the programing/electronics team call ourselfs "team efficency"
"team efficency!? you guys are about as efficent as a drunk monkey climbing a greased pole"
"Lets make ordering pizza into a logic puzzle."
carolynn4848
12-02-2009, 10:47
We had to use a big drill bit (no, I don't remember the size). It was big enough that our mentor won't let us use it. He finished drilling the hole and handed me the drill. He took the drill bit out and held it out to me.
Me- "Don't give me that! I'll go shove it in someone's eye!"
He laughed and put it on the table.
Mentor- "Now, that you can put on CD."
(When ever someone says something really inappropriate, I say "That's going on Chief Delphi." and he says "No, it's not." That's why this is the first quote I've put up this year, although there have been a lot that I've wanted to.)
Edit: The drill bit was 5/8.
(When ever someone says something really inappropriate, I say "That's going on Chief Delphi." and he says "No, it's not." That's why this is the first quote I've put up this year, although there have been a lot that I've wanted to.)
Heh...I have the sam problem...
Mark: "This would be a great example of a dragon. It's something we're told exists but we've never seen. It also has a tendency to drag on us"
At a later point in time...
Mentor: "What is our bot at this point?"
Liv: "It's a DRAGON!!!!!"
"I wish real life came with copy and paste?" Mat Sinclair
Said while making duplicate parts.
teshazman
12-02-2009, 14:47
I'm not sure if this counts, but i was looking up stuff on chief delphi and i saw this guy with a quote in his signature.
"If you don't stand behind our troops, please feel free to stand in front of them."
Astarties
13-02-2009, 01:03
"SILENCE!!! I'M PNEUMATICSING!!!" - me
"Why doesn't real life have 'Ctrl-F'?" - me
"What doesn't kill you... probably will the second time." - me
"This is a very convenient method, it fits perfectly, we don't have to change any parts. What are we missing? This isn't right." - me
Betty_Krocker
13-02-2009, 07:21
"We are overweight again!"
"Ok so drop those, those and those"
"What will hold it together?"
"Open Inventor and place a constraint!"
GillSt.Bernards
13-02-2009, 11:49
Mentor: "hey, look there are written directions, and pictures
(Kid tells a joke): "That was a joke you know"
Student: "Not really"
PurpleHaze
13-02-2009, 12:00
"Why is that ball stuck?"
"You ziptied it to the robot..."
Its nice when problems have easy solutions.
GillSt.Bernards
13-02-2009, 13:03
Programmer: "I want to adjust the x thingy."
Mentor: "That x thingy has a name, and english word name."
Prorammer: "I know. Can I call it the x thingy though?"
Rick TYler
13-02-2009, 13:31
We have two student geniusprogrammers. One of them is in 9th grade and weighs about 80 pounds.
Q. Is the robot having bad problems?
A. It must be bad. The skinny little kid is working on it.
That was a compliment, actually.
rsegrest
13-02-2009, 15:13
"IT CAME OUT MY NOSE!!"...
Now for the rest of the story...you guys in the north won't know what I'm talking about but down here in south Texas they sell a ton of specialty Mexican seasonings and one is called Tajin (pronounced Ta-heen) (very good on fruit). SO, one of our brilliant team members, in a fit of frustration over parts not working right, dumped about a tablespoon of Tajin in his mouth and then took a BIG swig of Coke...WELL it seems that when Tajin and Coke mix there is a MASSIVE chemical reaction that causes more fizz than you've ever seen in your entire life to form (think Mentos and Diet Coke)...and this occurred in his mouth...he ran for the trashcan, spit everything out and came up for air yelling,..."It came out my nose!!!"...
Astrokid248
13-02-2009, 16:46
A watermain exploded in our facility, so the carpet around the field was wet. Unknowingly, I sat down, soaked my pants, got back up, and went somewhere else. After two guys discover this:
Tom: "Haha. You have a wet butt. You know what? Your name is now WetButt.:
Soloman: "Yeah, that's good, WetButt. We could call her WB."
Me: "Guys..not funny..."
Tom: "Oh wait a minute. Did you poop your pants? Hah, WetButt pooped her pants!"
Soloman: "Jeez, you couldn't even hold it in?"
I started laughing and had to slap them.. and they are seniors!
"Are you bigger-izing the hole?"
The hole that we had drilled in a piece of tread was to small, so I was twirling an alan wrench in there to expand it a little more, and a mentor walked up and said that.
"Lets make ordering pizza into a logic puzzle."
You know...we actually have one of those on the whiteboard in one of the other clubs that I take part in. It's quite epic.
nevereverregret
13-02-2009, 20:29
"she said".... I cant explain that... I'm the only girl on the team and the guys decided one day to say she said after like everything because they would change what I ment... you kinda had to be there it was actually pretty funny at the time
Me: Let me come inside.
Mentor: Thank you!
Me: Huh? Oh I get it...yay we have something for chief delphi!
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A city alderman was given a tour of our program at the school. He asked one of the mentors to describe what the robot did and his response was, "Well, it gobbles up the balls, and cradles them until it spits them out."
Our mentor likes Arnold Schwarzenegger accents too... "Dang git"
nathanww
14-02-2009, 01:59
"I don't think this soldering iron is working"
"John, that's a paper clip"
We now refer to paper clips as "John-solder"
"The robot might oscillate slightly"--said about a second before the robot spun wildly.
"So, theoretically our autonomous works--but keep in mind that it theoretically worked last year and it still destroyed the practice field"
"The relays do not require incremental backups"--me, after one of our electronics people decided to "replace" a spike be putting on a new one and just leaving the original one sitting there
Mish Mooney
14-02-2009, 12:52
So a few other people and I were sitting around the programming table, cause there wasn't really much else to do at the moment, and one of the newbs comes up from down stairs and we ask what he's doing?
Newb: They told me to go get a wrench.
Us: Oh, ok.
a few minutes later the newb walks past in the opposite direction to head back to the group below, holding pliers...
Me: :confused: Those didn't took much like a wrench...
Others: Yeah...they weren't...
a few minutes later the kid comes back hanging his head to get the wrench...
and walks past again with something else...still not a wrench...
alectronic
14-02-2009, 13:29
I'm not sure if this counts, but i was looking up stuff on chief delphi and i saw this guy with a quote in his signature.
"If you don't stand behind our troops, please feel free to stand in front of them."
I dont think that counts, it was not a build season quote. This is probably not the place for it. Good quote though.
charmed862
14-02-2009, 13:31
I'll compact your RIO, thats our team motto, gotta love it.
alectronic
14-02-2009, 13:31
"Lets make ordering pizza into a logic puzzle."
It has gotten to the point now that when we call our local Dominos, they answer the phone and say "Is this that robotics club again?" and usually guess our order!!
"Remember, if your in there for a while, keep the feces in ONE corner, and not all over." (while someone was locked in the crate hehe) :D
"Go get the Liquid Nazis!" (liquid nails...)
"Boraas isnt THAT much of a crazy lunatic..."
"That what she said..." (a billion times) :yikes:
"Today, we shall teach the robot to feel love."
"Epic fail."
"T.F.R."
"Wait, THATS what '<3' means???" :eek:
"Oh my god! Get that out of your nose!" :ahh:
"I soo think 'Eye of the Tiger should be our theme song."
"That's a stupid quote."
Im sure we had a lot more but my memory isnt too great. Sowwie. :)
The Megan 2207
14-02-2009, 17:26
Our team members brought in a ton of food today because it's Valentine's Day.
"Valentine's Day tastes good."
"It's Valentine's Day- robotics style!"
"No, more like Valentine's Day- diabetes style!"
"Are you a cannibal?"
"No... I'm a huggable!"
Me: "Where are the strippers?"
Kristen: "Pat has them"
Me: "PAT, WHERE ARE THE STRIPPERS???"
Pat: "In my car"
Me: "The good ones"
Pat: "Well, I don't take the bad ones home....."
"Here you go, a butt connector, you and your little friend can use them"
"$@#$@#$@#$@#$@#$@# we got a bad pot from radio shack, you really gotta be careful when buying pot"
"I think we're at the point where we find everything funny."
"That's what she said!"
everyone laughs*
dragonrulr288
14-02-2009, 17:44
Student-"That tickles!!!!"
*I struggle to not say anything*
Diffrent Student-"Thats what she said!!!!"
phencer42
14-02-2009, 17:56
"We're agnorrant"
"Do you mean ignorant?"
"No, agnorrant."
"Arrogant?"
"That's the one!"
cookiemonster
14-02-2009, 18:05
"We've just built a really expensive vacuum cleaner."
"That's a loud little beastie."
Machinewomen
14-02-2009, 21:05
One Student on safety glasses
They are not forehead protectors, they are not chin protectors, they are eye protectors.
Another student in response
Are you sure they are not pocket protectors? *puts safety glasses in pocket after drilling*
While we were bench testing the control system:
Mentor 1: Okay, now flip the disabled switch.
<Mentor 2 reaches for teleop/auto switch>
Mentor 1: No!
<Mentor 2 flips teleop/auto switch>
Everyone in unison: Aww...
Mentor 1: Reboot it...
It was then we realized how much of an issue the drive station's long bootup time was going to be.
germanystudent
14-02-2009, 23:22
"i tell you i've tasted 80% of that robot and the rollers are the best part!"
Zach Herbst
14-02-2009, 23:29
"That looks pretty sexy."
"NO COMMS! NO COMMS!"
shaggy0928
15-02-2009, 01:18
teacher after drilling over the uncovered cRIO "Sorry, guys I got more aluminum in the cRIO...........................*starts to sing* oops I did it again"
Bad aluminum and crio parodies of britney spears ensue
also
same teacher - "Why has everyone been whistling the melody from Funky Town all night?"
Student- "wait, what, I though we were whistling Sunshine of Your Love"
Me: "It's past 11PM, we're almost done with the robot, you better finish that cart soon because we're leaving when the robot is done."
Andy: "Nope, I'm staying until this is done. As long as it takes."
Me: "Okay, but I better not find you here tomorrow morning passed out on the floor with tools in your hands. ESPECIALLY if it is a welder."
Herodotus
15-02-2009, 02:16
Me: It looks like we are actually getting somewhere now.
Other Mentor: You're delusional.
ctorloey
15-02-2009, 10:56
Mentor to programmer: So what are you programming the robot to do now?
Programmer: The most EVIL kind of good there is.
Creator Mat
15-02-2009, 11:10
Mentor: where are your safety glasses?
Student 1: I don't need them i got safety contacts
Student 2: I don't need them to i got safety retinas
another mentor: Well i really don't need them i got glass eyeballs (hes just joking don't worry)
another conversation that came about after to many students we saying something was almost done and people thinking it was done.
Student 1: we are almost finished
Mentor: we are no longer allowed to say the f word until i say we can
Student 1: ok we are almost done
Mentor: or the d word
Student 2: ok we are almost complete
Mentor: or the c word
Student 3 (one of the team clowns): but can we say F*#$, D!@#, or C!@# they aren't the f, c, or d word
Mentor: no
"______ why are you on the ground?"
"Well...You know..." *laughs*
"I broke it!"
"Calm down, come on, put it back in! Do it quick! Do it quick!"
"I got it!!!"
*After laughing for a while* "And that is what she said!"
alex&lisa353
15-02-2009, 15:35
Some quotes i've heard
*my dad (a mentor) tries to demonstrate the height of the dump basket to another student by picking up a box and holding it over my head*
student " so it will be about that tall"
my dad "well know my daughter's an inch and a half taller then the height limit so about 2 inches lower"
me "sorry next time i'll shink a little bit"
"wait i think the robot is too tall"
*i climb on top of the bench and slide my foot out of my shoe*
"nope we're good i'm eye level with the top"
"what do u mean it where its supposed to be i just check there and ...Oh never mind"
me"i know its not nearly as exciting as the first real time of driving the completed robot but in the back they just finished painting the shipping crate and we think it looks pretty good"
Me to a friend about the painting on the shipping crate (btw we named the hawk hawkie) "no offense to her painting skills/laziness but it looks like someone hit hawkie over the head with a frying pan"
"ehh only a little"
"these r really fun to play with"
"omg they are"
*me and a friend making the limit switches/microswitches click*
morning of ship day
"what do u mean we never put something on to hold the battery"
In relation to the above
head of electrical/president "shouldn't mechanical be doing this"
me "yeah but i'm busy doing something else" *i was providing mental support for my friend who was painting the crate*
"what do u mean chris is working his job is to be here"
friday after school
me "finally time for me to have a little bit of a social life"
teacher "ur not allowed to have a social life outside of robotics what is this social life you speak of"
*after testing out ball feeding system for the first time when it it stops working because the magic orange rope slipped of the pulley*
"hey it actually works... mostly"
thats all i can think of right now :P
alex&lisa353
15-02-2009, 15:41
Some quotes i've heard
*my dad (a mentor) tries to demonstrate the height of the dump basket to another student by picking up a box and holding it over my head*
student " so it will be about that tall"
my dad "well know my daughter's an inch and a half taller then the height limit so about 2 inches lower"
me "sorry next time i'll shink a little bit"
"wait i think the robot is too tall"
*i climb on top of the bench and slide my foot out of my shoe*
"nope we're good i'm eye level with the top"
"what do u mean it where its supposed to be i just check there and ...Oh never mind"
me"i know its not nearly as exciting as the first real time of driving the completed robot but in the back they just finished painting the shipping crate and we think it looks pretty good"
Me to a friend about the painting on the shipping crate (btw we named the hawk hawkie) "no offense to her painting skills/laziness but it looks like someone hit hawkie over the head with a frying pan"
"ehh only a little"
"these r really fun to play with"
"omg they are"
*me and a friend making the limit switches/microswitches click*
morning of ship day
"what do u mean we never put something on to hold the battery"
In relation to the above
head of electrical/president "shouldn't mechanical be doing this"
me "yeah but i'm busy doing something else" *i was providing mental support for my friend who was painting the crate*
"what do u mean chris is working his job is to be here"
friday after school
me "finally time for me to have a little bit of a social life"
teacher "ur not allowed to have a social life outside of robotics what is this social life you speak of"
*after testing out ball feeding system for the first time when it it stops working because the magic orange rope slipped of the pulley*
"hey it actually works... mostly"
thats all i can think of right now :P
raceteen48
15-02-2009, 17:11
Last week, me and a few people went to Radioshack, to buy knobs for a couple pots, and since I can drive, I ended up going, so we went into radioshack and it went something like this
radioshack guy "Can I help you guys?"
my friend - "No, we are just looking for something to put on our pot"
Radioshack guy- (gives us the weirdest look and quietly says) "what"
me later on- "ok, you need to learn when you can say Pot, which is when you are at robotics, and when you have to say potentiometer, which is everywhere else"
I am sure there are alot more quotes, just this one just happened last week
robonerd13
15-02-2009, 18:20
Between one of our mentors and I:
Me: Dont touch that its hot...it was just welded!
Him: Oh gee thanks for the warning...
*touches it*
Him:Ouch thats really hot!!!
Me: What did I try telling you?!?!?!
Needless to say he found out very quickly that I was right...
The Megan 2207
15-02-2009, 19:31
While soldering was happening...
Non-electrical team member: Hmm, smells like yummy smoke.
Me: Yeah, that's solder burning.
Non-electrical team member: Oh.
Me: And if you read the label on the solder, you'll learn that it can cause birth defects!
Non-electrical team member: Lovely.
Later, I found a piece of solder that hadn't been put away...
Me: Would you like some birth-defect-causing solder?
Different non-electrical team member (excitedly): Yes, please!
*A is banging a rubber mallet on his palm*
B: You have a rubber mallet
A: Yes, and if I had a rubber sickle, I'd be a rubber Communist
*whole team bursts out laughing*
A: Bet you didn't expect me to make that joke
Bannanakin
15-02-2009, 23:12
Setting: After three team members had gotten 4 hours of sleep in the past 2 days due to junior year, and were playing around with pliers and a quarter while programming was in session.
(programmer comes over) Eugene: GO TO SLEEP! YOU GUYS ARE SITTING AROUND DOING NOTHING.
The three "culprits" (James, Nicky, and Rohan):............NO! I don't want to sleep.
Eugene (Programmer): YOU GUYS ARE BENDING QUARTERS WITH PLIERS!!!!!! FIND SOMETHING ELSE TO DO!!!
Rohan: Well you're programming, and it's like watching paint dry.....
A pretty epic quote was said yesterday at the Scrimmage in Greer, SC towards our team...
"Fredrick Moore, your motor is on FIRE!"
Yelled across the floor during a match to my friend after I stalled an rs545 for too long (don't ask how...)
Needless to say, all of the magic smoke was released... and a little bit more on top of that
So this technically wasn't at Robotics, but anyways...
I showed up late to musical rehearsal on V-Day, and one of the other cast members (she's about 11) says, "You're late. What were you doing??"
And I reply, "Well, I was building a robot."
She stares at me, bewildered, and says "People do the strangest things..." and walks away. :)
GillSt.Bernards
16-02-2009, 00:30
Student: "It is being held together by hot glue and hope"
*A friend and I while looking for a hot glue gun to fix a trailer*
Him: "Well, why don't you just heat the glue with your mind?"
Me: "I don't think it works that way."
Him: "You sure?"
Me: "..."
*I stare at the glue sticks he is holding.*
Him: "No no! Not in my hand!"
The hole is too deep!
Perfectly set up for "That's what she said!" =p
tanguma26
16-02-2009, 13:56
ok we are worn out from this week and everything comes out sounding totally wrong so this is what happened
(i was using the vaccume to clean up shavings under the robot and our frame is made from 80-20)(there was a thread fastener in it...)
me: omg this is so cool i can make the thingy move back and forth
mentor: what are you talking about
me: look its so cool
mentor: oh your sucking the nuts to make them come
(everyone busts out laughing and i nearly fall out of chair because of the statment)
Black Claw
16-02-2009, 18:11
Mr Henze most famous quote, "Okay, Let's go to work!"
My famous quote of the year, "It goes BOOM!" :eek: seconds after Josh pressed enter on a self destruct program of a computer.
me: what happened
student: motors got hot.
me: how hot?
student: do you have any eggs?
chrisrobin
16-02-2009, 22:30
"The male mind only thinks about one thing...robots and food."
Steelix4532
16-02-2009, 22:57
This was said by one of our mentors:
"If your not in a panic, you don't understand the situation!!"
Daniel G.
Programmer
Team 269
Oconomowoc, WI
Herodotus
16-02-2009, 23:15
Mentor: Do you think you can get us any cash donations?
Me: Or check donations, or credit donations, or diamond donations, or gold donations, really anything will do.
Mentor: Or bank account donations.
Me: Did you say bacon account?
Mentor: What? Bacon account? No.
Me: Oh, cause that would be pretty sweet.
Student: You'd gain interest on you're bacon and stuff.
Me: Yeah, they'd add little slices of bacon every couple of months. This is going on Chief Delphi.
XD_bring_it
17-02-2009, 02:02
*we were testing our robot*
Driver: Pneumatics work.....:P
Mentor: Hey look the pneumatics are moving!:yikes:
President: MAGIC SMOKE!! MAGIC SMOKE!! :ahh:
James1902
17-02-2009, 02:19
Student: What does it mean when the display screen on the scale says ololololol?
Mentor: It's laughing at you because the robot is overweight
The Megan 2207
17-02-2009, 11:26
-3, 2, 1, BOOM?
-No, just 2, 1, BOOM. You don't get that much warning.
Hammer in screws, it saves time! :P
Nick Chermack
"NO COMMS! NO COMMS!"
Along those lines.
"Libby, enable?"
"We have no comms."
"How many?" (he was talking to someone else, I responded anyway.)
"ZERO COMMS. WE HAVE ZERO."
Amy Yznaga
17-02-2009, 16:13
While waiting for the programmers to finish: JVN (mentor) -- "Have you ever seen a kid get beat to death with a track ball full of dodge balls?"
Right after the bot was ready to ship: "Can has sleep now?"
I got a new laptop for my birthday this year (in preperation for college) and it ended up being used as the programing laptop eveon though i was the project coordinator and helped the mechanical team. On Vista theres a gadget which looks like sticky notes which the programing team and i kept regular conversations over. here are a few that i remember.
~Programer~
To do list:
get linux
~me~
To do list:
kill b____
(i quite thoroughly enjoy my vista system and one of the programers feels the need to constantly talk about linux which anoys me greatly)
__________________________________________________ ______________
~programer~ (in reference to this (http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/02/02/challenger/) picture which i had made my background): lions pwn cat
~me~(at 2 in the morning): in soviet russia pwn cats lions
a day later i find this as my new background (see attached picture)
__________________________________________________ _______________
When we were at our practice competition this week we managed to short out the surface mounting fuse on our CRio resulting in our robot never being tested before ship. Needless to say our whole team was terribly disappointed so late at night (this seems to be a reoccurring trend with me) i wrote this on 10 seperate sticky notes (the max that the gadget will allow).
~me~: REMEMBER: Robotics isn't the only thing in the world... its just the only thing that you've cared about for the past 6-9 weeks and also happens to have made you compromise morals, push back other projects, reject schoolwork, and alienate friends... so just take a deep breath, put down the 7/16 drill bit you were about to drive into your skull and be happy we have a robot and learned a lot while building it
Patrick Chiang
17-02-2009, 18:28
"Whoah. We are 30 pounds overweight!"
"Let's drive it around to lose some weight."
carolynn4848
17-02-2009, 18:41
ok we are worn out from this week and everything comes out sounding totally wrong so this is what happened
(i was using the vaccume to clean up shavings under the robot and our frame is made from 80-20)(there was a thread fastener in it...)
me: omg this is so cool i can make the thingy move back and forth
mentor: what are you talking about
me: look its so cool
mentor: oh your sucking the nuts to make them come
(everyone busts out laughing and i nearly fall out of chair because of the statment)
*is laughing while my dad gives me a weird look*
Nicknames for components on our robot (don't ask):
-Shooter motor: "gentle lobber"
-Diagnostic light: "stupid light"
-Camera platform: "peekaboo patio" or "bare-a__ balcony"
-Electronics board (shifts left and right for turning): "moveable feast"
Our autonomous has a switch with two positions - turn left and turn right:
Me: So, left goes left?
Mentor: Right.
Me: And right goes right?
Mentor: No, right goes left.
Me: So left is right, but right is wrong, right?
Mentor: Not even gonna go there...
Programmer: The robot is overweight.
Mentor: More zeros and less ones, guys.
XXShadowXX
17-02-2009, 19:33
36 hours of programming, here we go
Mentor(non programming); so three functions, three switches right?
Me: No, two.
Mentor: Two?!?!
ME: There are 10 types of people in the world...
Mentor: Overruled your getting three switches...
Me: We didn't build this code to be tested, We built it to work!! (it didn't)
Me (looking at a massive decision making structure): I think that I "C" a better way of doing this. And I really hope that you will "C" my way of doing this.
Mentor: Yes I think that I "C" what Cody is trying to say, and I really hope that you will "C" the programming his way.
Brandon: No!, No! formula node
Bsteckler
17-02-2009, 20:13
Me: I wonder what would happen if you heat-gunned an orbit ball
Ok, so one of our programmers always forgets to put in the start codes, (at least we always know where to check if we have problems) so we came up with this simple acronym as a joke to help remind him.
D.U.F.U.S.
Did U Forget Ur Start Code?
Me: "So how the heck are we going to beat the dumper bots?"
A: "Jack knife their trailers so they can't move. Then we lob balls into their trailers."
Me: "You are forgetting two things. One, our shooting program isn't fully functional, and two if we don't move we're dead."
A: "Just believe it will work, and it WILL WORK."
Student 1: "What's the speed of light?"
Student 2: "One light year per year."
Student 1: "That was real helpful."
Me: 'Is it possible to get a gravitational sensor that has like 24 decimal places of percision?"
???: 'Why 24? and No, becaus A) cash and B) I don't think they make sensors that are legal that are that sensitive"
Me: 'Dang, so we can't detect the gravitational effects of the pocket lint in the crowd on the robot?'
???: 'No, that would be called an amazingness factor'
Me: 'Well.............................. darn'
???: 'Yeah'
Me: 'Wait, what?'
???: 'I'm not sure anymore'
Me: 'Yay overly sensitive sensors!'
*Strange looks*
Me: 'What? I'm a programmer, and I'm in AP Physics...'
Me: 'OMG labview provides code for EVERYTHING. What were we doing in C?'(I mean, they seriously do. They have a PID function built into it of all things)
???: 'Coding more powerful stuff'
(30 minutes later)
???: 'Have you thrown up yet?'
Me: 'No but in about 30 minutes I've completly redid all the code that we did in the past 4 weeks'
???: 'It looks like someone threw up on it. I mean I've thrown up things more organized than that'
Me: 'No, It's an organized mess. Just like my room'
core2kid
17-02-2009, 22:36
after wiring the battery terminals to the switch and breaker board:
me: We have power!
mentor: looking at me with a "wtf" look because his hands and head was inside the robot checking wires.
me: Well, the ability to get power.
Jreed129
17-02-2009, 23:22
While working with the Inventor kids today after school.
Me: So you guys have the pictures of the robot right?
Student(just walked in room): If you get me a camera I'll go take pictures for you
:::silence:::
other student in the room(whispering to me): does he know it shipped today?
me: You know the robot shipped right?
:::more silence:::
Student who was going to take pictures walks out of room
"Is the robot supposed to be smoking?"
(The answer was no, and after we hit the kill switch, we found that the frame was warm, and our jaguar wires had melted to our camera power wires, and the camera crossover cable was smoking. oops!)
Then there was the talk afterwards-
"If you ever see the robot smoking, even from across the room, you have full permission to turn it off. We will warn everyone if robot is supposed to be smoking."
Ok, I have another one I have to share. I'm kinda the rules/research/information person, but I also became known as the bearer of bad news. It started out as
"Mr. R, I have bad news..."
After awhile it became
"Um, Mr. R, I kinda need to show you something..." It was almost guaranteed bad news by now. (by the way, I'm trying hard not to smile/crack up/ act amused. I couldn't help it.)
Eventually it ended up
"Hey, Mr. R, you know how I like giving bad news..." (no longer trying to hide my laughter.)
I should probably mention that this happened like 8 times in one day...
balderdash707
18-02-2009, 01:02
person sanding a bar: "does anybody smell that?"
belt sander starts spewing flames, I yank the power cord out of the wall
we had very bad luck with our power tools this year, fortunately nobody was seriously injured
Mentor: How much amperage can this driver station provide?
Me: I don't know; let's check...
<holds +5V to one multimeter terminal and ground to another>
Me: I'm getting five amps.
Mentor: Five amps Are you sure that's correct?
Me: Probably, because my fingers are getting hot. I'm letting go now.
Us programmers needed power, but all the outlets were full, so we randomly unplugged something that didn't seem to be in use.
Five minutes later, the head mentor complains:
"Why is that every time I go to use the sander someone has unplugged it?"
Mentor: "Disable the robot, please."
<I reach for the disable swtich, and a 1 inch spark jumps from my finger to the driver station>
Me: "Ow! I'm happy to report that we have effectively grounded the driver station; thanks, guys."
Here's the difference between programmers and builders:
Okay, so last year, we're all eager to start the second day of VCU. Upon getting to the pits...
Mechanical Mentor: "Turn on the robot."
<student turns on robot, nothing happens>
Programming Mentor: "Okay, let's check to see what lights we have and try to-"
Student: "The battery's not in."
Programming Mentor: "-troubleshoot the problem..."
<programming mentor facepalms in embarassment while everyone else laughs>
Amy Yznaga
18-02-2009, 21:18
People on the team failed so much that we came up with the idea to record the fails in 'fail boxes'. Whenever someone failed: "I think that deserves another fail point."
Azure Kite
19-02-2009, 03:09
"You don't hit people with nice cameras!"
Tetraman
21-02-2009, 23:27
Friend: What is with all this robot stuff you keep talking about? Geez, you've gone psycho the last two months.
Me: And imainge what I'd be like if I had a team to mentor this year
Friend again: So why go all nuts about it?
Me: Have you ever had a moment where you realized to yourself that everything that led up to that moment just made sense?
Friend: Not really, but I know what you mean.
Me: My moment was had when my team won the Team Spirit award in my senior year. It's not one of those big awards that anyone really cares about...but for one moment, I held that trophy and everything just made sense.
Friend: Alright man, whatever you say.
Me: I cried out of joy...
Friend: Will you stop, I get it already!
XD_bring_it
22-02-2009, 13:35
I had some people from the electrical/programmer division help me clean the workshop. Their job was to sort out a pile of screws and nuts. My back was turned and I kept on hearing this:
"aww this screw is soooo cute!"
"awwwwwwww"
"Look at that nut, isn't it cuuute?"
"I just want to hug this screw."
I had some people from the electrical/programmer division help me clean the workshop. Their job was to sort out a pile of screws and nuts. My back was turned and I kept on hearing this:
"aww this screw is soooo cute!"
"awwwwwwww"
"Look at that nut, isn't it cuuute?"
"I just want to hug this screw."
You should know better than to let them touch anything that isn't a computer. And even then you have to watch them closely.
when we have to force fit something to the robot and one hammer doesn't always work the first words out of anyone's mouth was "We need a bigger hammer!" it always eventually ended up at the sledge hammer but before we used that we always actually adjusted it
"JOBS?" by me everyday asking around
NorviewsVeteran
23-02-2009, 00:22
"When in doubt- bigger motor"
That was early in the build season, and we did end up changing a set up with FP motors to one with a CIM.
powerkane
23-02-2009, 10:21
lol these are too funny
GillSt.Bernards
23-02-2009, 11:34
Student - "how are we going to get this done all on Thursday?"
Mentor - "Prayer."
We have a rubber mallot that we call "gentle persuasion". Whenever something doesn't fit, we hear:
"Time for gentle persuasion!"
From the first page:
"I just have to tune the PID loop!"!"
...and he still isn't finished.
GillSt.Bernards
23-02-2009, 14:50
"Marshall stop using the stable gun on your shoe"
"Hello Officers" ....
..... when we stayed at the school late one night, and didn't realize the alarm turned on automatically at midnight!
SCROSSLEY-GCEC
24-02-2009, 04:03
(talking about NZ VEX teams)
Teammate: "I don't understand when you say symbiOHSis! call them onehunga high!"
Me: "what?! thats like saying you know Team #47 Chief Delphi, as Pontiac Central High School!.. or #1114 Simbotics as Governor Simcoe Secondary School... or #100 Wildhats as 'Woodside High School & Carlmont High School & Sequoia Union High School District'!"
Teammates: "...how do you remember all that? we havent even started FRC yet"
Me: "...or #217 ThunderChickens as whatever school they come from"
I got tired of people actually relying on my answers to physics questions, so I came up with the "universal qualifier" in my sig.
I got tired of people actually relying on my answers to physics questions, so I came up with the "universal qualifier" in my sig.
...which apparently doesn't show up for that particular post?
I think it's visible on this one
vv
sxysweed
25-02-2009, 13:29
"I give up, it will never be done in time"
"Where's my Red Bull(s)?"
"Poof, Poof, BOOM!!!!!!!!!"
"Exploding Tick Tigers"
"Tiger Bacon"
Rick TYler
25-02-2009, 14:49
(i quite thoroughly enjoy my vista system and one of the programers feels the need to constantly talk about linux which anoys me greatly)
On our team the ongoing, boring argument is "Mac vs. Windows." I've instituted a program where anyone arguing about operating systems has to put a dollar in a cup. There are a lot of dollar bills in there.
This year from Team 2164: The Corps. :
Team Members:
-Sharp: Coach/Teacher/Instructor
-George: Mentor/All-Knowing-One
-Kohl: Coach/Teacher/Instructor
-Mel: Head of Public Relations Division/2009 Treasurer (Senior as of 2009)
-Ben: 2009 President of “2164: The Corps.”/ 2008 VP (Senior as of 2009)
-Matt L. : Head of Electronics Division/2009 Vice President of “2164: The Corps.” / 2008 Pres (Senior as of 2009)
-Sariah: Member of Apparatus Division (Senior as of 2009)
-Matt R. : Member of Apparatus Division (Senior as of 2009)
-Tyler: Head of Chassis Division (Junior as of 2009)
-Levi: Member of Apparatus Division (Junior as of 2009)
-Jake: Member of Electronics Division (Junior as of 2009)
-Nick: Member of Chassis Division (Freshman as of 2009)
-Holly: Member of Public Relations Division (Freshman as of 2009)
-Ryan: Member of Public Relations Division (Freshman as of 2009)
-Adam: Mentor/Previous Member
-“It’s an easy fix.”-Sharp (always a 50/50 chance):D
-“Is it an Adam alert?!? “ - Kohl (the code that Wal-Mart uses for a missing child.)
-“It’s not my fault, I’m just a nudie.” - Nick
“A what?” – Tyler
“You know, a new guy.” – Nick
“You mean a NOOBIE!” – Tyler
-“Our pit is 10’x10’x10’? So it’s a triangle?” – Mel (we never let her live it down.)
-“You might remind them that the balls are delicate!!!” – Sharp (while members are kicking /throwing game pieces.)
-“It’s got a great rhythm, but you can’t dance to it.” – Jake (whenever any earsplitting sound could be heard.)
-“I seriously think I’ve drankin’ half this bottle!” – Levi
-“It’s a beautiful thing!” – George (this quote has come to signify a successful design.):cool:
-“I don’t appreciate your over-simplistic analysis of the engineering field!” – Ben
-“Smell my face! Smell my face!!!” –Holly (while talking to another member about chlorine.)
-“Where’d Billy go?” – Kohl
“Who’s Billy Goat?” – Levi
-“Hey, hey, hey… I am trained!” – Ryan
-”You can’t hit the broad side of a Sharp!” – Kohl
-“I saw it on an infocommercial.” – Nick
“A what?” – Matt R.
“Ya’ know the things that sell stuff on TV.” – Nick
“You mean an INFOMERCIAL!?!” – Matt R.
-“Who’s side are you on?!” – Brady:mad:
“Who’s side you think I on?!” – Levi
-“It’s in there on the table with that Drilly Downy Thing.” – Sariah
-“I’ll put theses needle nosed pliers in your needle!” – Kohl
-“So now that build season’s over … what do we do with our lives?” – Matt R.:(
“We live Matt … We live.” – Matt L. (ironically, Matt R. has more of a life than Matt L.):cool:
Jonnadiah
25-02-2009, 20:52
Our team founder and mentor Pat Hughes always asked us "Is it just done, or is it done right?" whenever we presented him a finished piece. These words have become an integral part of my life throughout college.
GillSt.Bernards
25-02-2009, 23:30
American Student with fake Austrailian Accent = "Do we get points for being foreign"
Faculty Advisor to student - "You would make a great hippie"
XXShadowXX
26-02-2009, 08:53
So that brings the total wieght to.. um 176 pounds.
Brandon-Wheres that white smoke comming from?
Chad-Whats that smell, it smells like curcuit boards burning.
Me- I hate that smell.
Well, that sensor got fried...
Trueliez
28-02-2009, 01:53
I was organising the final details for the morning of a VEX competition with one of my team mates over msn, for which I was supposed to be transporting the robot;
K: Ok sweet as. I'm gonna try be there about 9.30ish, but we can't register til the bot is there
G: yeah
K: XD
G: Tell them we're beta testing the VEX invisibility kit or something lol
K: haha yeah I'm sure they'd believe that
"how am I supposed to measure the dimensions?"
"umm... carefully" lol
And in another discussion about our team mascot Gary the Gryphon (and his later invented girlfriend Gabby XD);
S: Mom says we should have a row of baby Gary's
G: nah uh, we're keeping this PG. Gary and Gabby are not procreating!
"In order to succeed, you must struggle prior to achieving glory" - Prof. from VT
This is my first year not affiliated with a team (hopefully starting one next year!) so today I was super excited for the webcast. I started trying to explain what was going on to my room mate and she said "You're like a guy with football, but more excited!" Basically story of my life with FRC.
GillSt.Bernards
01-03-2009, 13:17
At the weighing station
Student - "It weighs 89.9 pounds. Man (puts a wrench on) now it weighs 90 pounds. Yes!"
And during the competition, this really isn't a quote but it was funny. our robot in autonomous took out the trailer in front of our payload speciailist when there was no robot attached to it. Our payload specialist was thrilled
dragonrulr288
01-03-2009, 13:26
"FIRST competitions... Its like robot porn"
*scilence*
GillSt.Bernards
02-03-2009, 13:45
Whenever we lose something
"It's the room. It sucks things up"
We worked in the Chemistry lab and everything seemed to disapear in it. A couple items even went down the drains
Brown 2010
02-03-2009, 14:11
Mentor- "if ur gonna burn the motor, burn it good"
me-(after the next match)-" I burnt it good!!!"
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after winning the buckeye regional,
student-"did u get some???"
team 2010- "we got the WHOLE thing"
Doctorwho
02-03-2009, 17:20
-"If we put a Shamwow on the intake roller then we can just absorb the Orbit Balls!"
- "Ok to connect these wires we must burn them with fire."
Mentor: So to do this we might have to use a blow torch
Entire team: BLOW TORCH!?!
(We basically have a team full of pyros, it was a good thing we never had to use the blow torch)
teamdriven17.30
02-03-2009, 19:50
"Ow that's hot!" Me after we bent some steel using a blowtorch.
"Why is the trash can on fire?" Said by a member a little to calmly.
ttldomination
02-03-2009, 20:00
"Freedom is the right of all sentient being"
"Shut up cameron and start tapping"
The above conversation was between a team leader and a relatively new member of the team.
and...
Sunny - "Why won't the intake mechanism work?"
Dok (Build Team) - "Not my fault"
Tanner(Programming) - "Not my fault"
Stephen(wiring) - "Don't look at me, I run wire"
Laura_587
02-03-2009, 21:30
Whenever we lose something
"It's the room. It sucks things up"
We worked in the Chemistry lab and everything seemed to disapear in it. A couple items even went down the drains
on our team when we can't find something, it's always "alright, who's been cleaning" (and it's usually me, but I always know where it is)
SCROSSLEY-GCEC
03-03-2009, 03:31
*texting a friend about organising a VEX practice event at our school*
G: "yes! this has got to be a record for our team. Not only did we all agree on a plan in one meeting, but we organised it all the next day!"
XXShadowXX
03-03-2009, 08:33
well we weight 119.9 pounds. And when you exhaled on the robot we weight 120, so...
GillSt.Bernards
03-03-2009, 14:02
Teacher cleaning out his room
"Does anyone want a stuffed donkey?"
mountaindewftw
03-03-2009, 20:31
"IN THEORY, THIS SHOULD WORK!!!!"
I arrived home at 6:30, after an all nighter, only to be back at the shop at 10:30 am. In that time, I got one hour of sleep.
Me talking to Aaron: I'm sleeping the entire way to Traverse City.
Wanna sleep with me?
Brian (mentor): eyes open wide
Me: That's not what I meant! I'm not even going to bother to explain it either.
Brian: It's okay, go sleep.
...we don't leave for another 3 hours...
XXShadowXX
04-03-2009, 08:27
Teacher cleaning out his room
"Does anyone want a stuffed donkey?"
Sadly our teacher cleaned out his room and found a minature donkey skeleton, it now has a little paper/tape top hat, and sits on a storage cabinet.
Lead programmer: "We need that stapler fixed. We use staples to hold the program together."
While we were waiting at a metro station to get to the DC regional:
Mentor: "So, you know where you stand?"
Student: "I'm standing in the metro station?"
<mentor facepalms>
Transit Cop: "Young man, you can't just jump the gate!"
<everyone facepalms>
Student 1: "What's a Commonwealth bathroom?"
Student 2: "Ballroom."
Student 1: "Oh."
Driver after a match: "So guys, I pushed that switch that you told me never ever to push..."
Programmers: <sigh>...
On our team the ongoing, boring argument is "Mac vs. Windows." I've instituted a program where anyone arguing about operating systems has to put a dollar in a cup. There are a lot of dollar bills in there.
On our team its XP vs. Vista. We were the lucky recipients of the only Vista laptop in our entire school district. I like it and the programming mentor hates it (although his opinion of it slightly improved when shadow copies saved our entire code base).
GillSt.Bernards
04-03-2009, 13:32
Amanda: "It's Chaotic. No its Team Chaos! haha!":D
Rest of the team: *Throws her a dirty look*
Cody Michl 2811
05-03-2009, 00:00
"It's about a day out"
-said every day for two weeks about the shooter :D, it has officially become our motto
dragonrulr288
07-03-2009, 20:52
Me texting a friend a funny quote he missed:"Well, it worked before it started sparking....!"
His reply: "Too bad sparkes didnt fall on anyone *evil grin*"
*I walk over and hit the back of his head*
"No it would not! 1. No trips to any place with medical staff! 2. I was sitting under it!"
Creator Mat
07-03-2009, 22:58
1 Team member starts to stab another team member with a peice of aluminum tubing. A mentor than says "That isn't safe to stab people with that" the student doing the stabing answers back "Its alright he's where saftey glasses"
This was said during the Traverse City District event over loud speaker.
"To all computers on the network: computer name 'SS39'...you have a virus".
Our announcer in Boston loved us. Blair is a great MC.
"The Robo-Rebels, who have been outright... disgustingly good today."
ttldomination
08-03-2009, 11:52
Anyone who has gone to the Peachtree Regional knows the following quote.
"ROAD TO THE GEORGIA DOME"
Although the regional has not occurred yet, the quote above is a staple throughout the competition. Courtesy of Sir Charles.
ZInventor
08-03-2009, 13:27
at the oregon regional awards ceremony:
me: oh, rookie all star, we'd never get that.:(
friend: yeah, rookie innovation maybe, but not all star...
me: :eek: OH MY GOD WE'RE GOING TO ATLANTA!!!!!!!:eek:
everyone jumps up screaming.
-Z
"And here's 1189, who made me wear this silly poncho!!" -Paul Copioli
He was MCing at Kettering...we asked him to wear one of our mascot ponchos when he was announcing the teams.
dragonrulr288
08-03-2009, 16:35
This was said during the Traverse City District event over loud speaker.
"To all computers on the network: computer name 'SS39'...you have a virus".
I remeber that! It was funny!
I got to talking with someone from a team, and he was wondering:
1.Why was I carrying around a stuffed dog
2.Why does it have a pair of saftey glasses on...?
My answer:
"The dog has a name you know! His name is Brutus. He is a bulldog, and so is our mascott [288/216 Robodawgs]. He has saftey glasses on because we are in the pit, and EVERYONE needs a pair! Duh!":D
He just kinda looked at me blankly, and I laughed ^_^
GillSt.Bernards
10-03-2009, 08:49
While practicing softball with a couple members of the robotics team on the newly done gym floor
"Ahh. It's like throwing on Regolith!"
I got may strange looks on that one
GillSt.Bernards
10-03-2009, 08:54
We let Nate one of our programmers play with the autoadjustable wrench for a few minutes
Nate: "ahh. I closed it on my nose.!"
Me: "This is why we do not let you play with the powertools, Go back to your laptop,"
GillSt.Bernards
10-03-2009, 09:27
Student at the competition to a random team
"Do you have any canned air? We got saw dust in the control system?"
*Very weird look.*
Ryan Caldwell
10-03-2009, 09:33
Student: what ya doing?
Mentor: bending lexan
Student: by melting it?
Mentor: by heating it untill it acheaves plastic deformation
Student: right melting it because its made of plastic
Mentor: yes and at the same time a great big no
GillSt.Bernards
10-03-2009, 09:50
Our build site is in our school chemistry lab
Mentor: "Why is there a drill bit in this syringe?"
Marshall: "Well I am going to be honest here. Amanda looked like she was getting dehydrated again so I saw the syringe. I took some water from the sink and squirted her with it. Well at least I think that it was water. Actually I hope it was water. Well anyway I pushed the plunger thingy down with so much force that it cracked."
Mentor: "So there is a drill bit in it why?"
Marshall: "I wanted to make sure it was really cracked so I stuck a drill bit in it"
Mentor: "OOh that makes a lot of sense *rolls her eyes* come on guys you have to pay attention. we are in a chemistry lab and what if that was not water that you took out of the sink. You have to watch what you are doing and where you are putting things and move things that can be harmful. (turns around and almost knocks over the 6.0 M hydrochloric acid)
Cody Michl 2811
10-03-2009, 10:15
on saturday at the oregon regionals, one of our team members [Keaton] brought in a Mr. peanut suit :yikes: and the shortest team member [Ian] had to wear it. then when our boeing mentor Kyle said "Hey Ian, I heard on a news report that there was a giant squirrel out to get you!" :)
"Mrs. XXX told me not to by any paddle balls, so I ordered 4 dozen! She told me not to buy any hacky sacks, so I got 4 dozen. She told me not to buy any more boas, so I ordered 50! She told me not to buy any more aliens, so I bought, I don't even know how many!"
MARS is gonna have lots of goodies to give out in Orlando.
Herodotus
11-03-2009, 10:39
"I think I might be a robot stalker. I sit around on Chief Delphi waiting for teams like Beach Bots and Pink to release photos of their robot."
Raging Min Pin
11-03-2009, 10:45
On our packing of the controls we withheld-
"It looks like a demented Missile Silo decorated for Christmas, but it'll hold."
ATannahill
11-03-2009, 21:36
A student during Bacon's social "I met people who are like me"
NorviewsVeteran
11-03-2009, 22:29
over the DC pa system... "attention in the pits, team 365 needs hugs, team 365 needs hugs."
Monday after we got back, Kevin sat down at the lunch table and said, "I felt like I fit in there." All I could think for a minute was, 'this is so cool- I feel like it's my fault he said that'
well today our coach, myself, and a couple of other students were cleaning up our work space. we were in the process of sorting through some scrap metal when my coach pulls our a piece and begins to say what we could've used this for...
my teammate john grabs a similar piece and goes...
John-what is this, aluminum?
coach- no its metal.
of course we craked up:D
student to mentor: "we're in twelfth"
mentor: "cool"
a little while later....
student to mentor: "we're second!"
mentor: "I don't believe you, go take a picture"
she does, and shows him....
a little while later...
student to mentor: "we're first!!!!!"
mentor: "Nooo....."
XXShadowXX
17-03-2009, 16:10
"Back in the days when my friends and I used to hack satellites..." Chad Miller our technology mentor, we promptly closed his office door so he wouldn't get arrested.
"Back in the days when my friends and I used to hack satellites..." Chad Miller our technology mentor, we promptly closed his office door so he wouldn't get arrested.
As he is telling us some of the "stupid things we've done."
Chad: "There was a bridge..."
Cody: "Did you blow that up too?"
"Hey, that shooter setup looks like it could potentially break the limit switch..."
"Let's test it!" (proceeds to bang shooter arm as hard as possible against the piece of 80/20 which it normally rests on)
"Ok, new plan. We duct-tape the programmers to their chairs until the camera tracking works."
"How's the flyweel shooter working?"
"We've renamed it. It's now the duct-tape and ziptie shooter."
"Why's that?"
"It shoots duct-tape and zipties."
"Robotics is really preparing us for jobs at NASA. Look. We're past deadline, overweight, overbudget, and our [project] doesn't even work!"
"There's a small bug in my password changing script: it won't change the password unless the new password is the same as the old one."
"The harvester almost harvests, the shooter almost shoots, the robot almost drives, and the code almost compiles!"
"Looks like we have to reset our 'number of days without killing a speed controller' counter again. It was up to 4!"
"What smells like smoke?"
"Hey guys, first fire of build season!"
After a few minutes...
"So what happened?"
"A freshman wired four victors backwards and we tried to run a motor in reverse. They shorted and caught on fire."
"Wait, so you killed four victors at once?"
"Yes."
"New high score!"
And my sig.
Creator Mat
17-03-2009, 20:46
Our build site is in our school chemistry lab
Mentor: "Why is there a drill bit in this syringe?"
Marshall: "Well I am going to be honest here. Amanda looked like she was getting dehydrated again so I saw the syringe. I took some water from the sink and squirted her with it. Well at least I think that it was water. Actually I hope it was water. Well anyway I pushed the plunger thingy down with so much force that it cracked."
Mentor: "So there is a drill bit in it why?"
Marshall: "I wanted to make sure it was really cracked so I stuck a drill bit in it"
Mentor: "OOh that makes a lot of sense *rolls her eyes* come on guys you have to pay attention. we are in a chemistry lab and what if that was not water that you took out of the sink. You have to watch what you are doing and where you are putting things and move things that can be harmful. (turns around and almost knocks over the 6.0 M hydrochloric acid)
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On our robots shooter "ARE YOU STILL THERE???" and yes that is a portal quote
Novi Hopper
18-03-2009, 17:06
I feel compelled to contribute.
Mentor: *checks rankings* That last match bumped us up to 6th. For our first event, we're doing pretty well!
Student 1: ...That's not right. We can't be THAT far up on the first day.
Student 2: What day is it?
Mentor: Uh, Friday the 13th...
Student 3: That explains it. We're just immune to everyone else's suffering.
------
*digging through the electrical bins*
Student 1: *pulls up a tightly wrapped object* Uh, what is this?
Student 2: Lead. Don't ask.
Student 1: Uh...Isn't this kinda dangerous to have in here?
Student 2: We like to imagine it makes the electrons go faster.
------
Marketing Leader: Ooo, I always wanted to solder! Wanna teach me?
Electrical Leader: Sure. We need to find the tips of my fingers and shreds of burnt flesh and we'll set you up.
Marketing Leader: Uh...I'll go work on Chairman's.
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Programming Leader: Chris!
Chris (Pneumatics Leader): What?
Programming Leader: Robot go "psssh!" Fix!
This later turned into "Beepu" for programming, "Ga-lunk" for drivetrain, "Chrff" for chassis, "Vrrrrk" for gamespec, and "Biz-zit" for electrical.
------
*after weighing the robot for eliminations*
Inspector: Yup! You're fine. Dropped from 119.6 to 118.9.
Mentor: Grea-...Did we lose weight? What? How?
Student: We didn't take anything off...
Mentor: We're going to interpret this as a good sign.
Student 2: I'll go get the duck-tape and the lead block.
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Sensors Leader: ...Did we just blow a year's worth of Victors?
Student: Uh...
Sensors Leader: ...And how far are we into the build season?
Student: 40 minutes?
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Mentor 1: *finishing up weight meeting* Haha! And if we need more weight, we'll take it out of programming.
Programming Student: Namun, make your code lighter!
Namun (Programming Leader): *smashing at his computer* I'M CHUNKING AS FAST AS I CAN!
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Driver: Its ROBOTICS!
*activates shooter and smacks a student with a moonrock*
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Student: Should we be worried that the only blood spilled this year is from programming?
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Sensors Leader: Who're we with next round? Anyone we know?
Scouting Leader: Mr. and Mrs. Stationary Trailer.
Cody Michl 2811
19-03-2009, 13:34
-said by me while designing a T-shirt cannon to mount on the robot for use in a spirit assembly-
"if this injures anybody, we're totally getting arrested for illegal building and use of a mortar":ahh:
XXShadowXX
20-03-2009, 08:36
One programming meeting:
Me: We build codes to work not test!
Brandon: Yeah!
Mentors: 'Laughing to hard to respond'
One student is deburring a piece of fresh cut metal in our machine shop and slices his finger on a bur.
Another student sees this, "Mr. Kreiger, your son's spewing blood all over the machinery!"
Mr. Kreiger runs into the shop, "Quick, someone get the blood off the lathe and cover the mill."
misspunk
20-03-2009, 20:22
"I don't have the brain power to do that."
Needless to say I have said some pretty stupid stuff during the season.
"All your CH3CH2NH2 are belong to us. You have no chance to survive ha ha ha ha."
"Yet another mallet with a personality." said when a student found a mallet with smilies drawn on each side.
"That is some of the worst human-playering I ever seen"
"That is the worst grammars I ever heard."
Bsteckler
21-03-2009, 21:31
"We're number 60!"
"We're number 60!"
"We're number 60!"
After epically phailing in our qualification matches...
"I see your 2x4 is as big as mine."
sparkscarz
22-03-2009, 00:17
Mentor:
"Sparky get of the table!"
"Sparky your not Mr.T!"
"Sparky do the electrical!"
Mentor:"ok break the chain here"
me:"ok wheres the bolt cutter"
"Im hungary"
"its inhumane to be awake this early!!"
"When in dout blame luke(mentor)"
"just burn it off"
"o thats suppose to be on fire"
nathanww
22-03-2009, 01:31
When I was fixing our 2008 robot's steering feedback system for a demonstration. The robot is sitting on the ground so that we can test the effect of friction on the Ackermann system:
New member:So what funny stories do you have about this robot
Me:I don't know, they're not usually all that funny since they usually end in people getting hurt
*3 minutes later*
New member:What does this do?(picks up joystick)
John: DON'T TOUCH THAT IT'S THE THROTTLE!!!!
Me:Okay, that one was kind of funny
"You know, if we tweaked the color parameters, this could become a humane substitute for bullfighting"--while I was testing the color tracking by wearing a pink shirt and getting chased around by the robot
"The robot might oscillate slightly"--me, about 5 seconds before the robot starts spinning around at maximum speed(it turns out gyros are harder to use than I thought)
Me: "Okay, the robot should turn about 90 degrees now."
<robot spins around three times, I look at the code>
Me: "Oops, I told it to turn 900 degrees."
Mentor: "Well, at least it was working on it."
Mentor: "Okay, everyone needs to pitch in to pay for the pizza."
Student: "Would you like this five or this ten?"
Mentor: "The five is fine. You donate whatever you want."
Student: "I'm asking you; do you want the five or the ten."
Mentor: "I'll take the ten."
Other Student: "That's five dollars closer to Atlanta!"
Student (excitedly): "I got someone to donate $100 for Atlanta!"
Mentor: "Great; now you can fly first class."
At least one scouting sheet each day: "Sorry; watched Kilroy."
Our favorite Apples-to-Apples plays:
-Lazy: creamed corn
-Perfect: my friends
-Sensuous: largemouth bass
"They haven't updated it yet?"
-Repeated by members of various teams roughly once every five seconds as we waited for the rankings to be updated with the latest matches.
Mentor: "Let's take the shooter mechanism off the robot."
Student: "We can't do that; we're sixth in the bullpen."
Mentor: "We're not going to play in the elimination tournament."
Student: "It's always possible."
Mentor: "No; it's not. Take the shooter off."
<pop> "Awww."
-Everyone in the stands each time a balloon popped at Chesapeake.
Programmer: "So, can someone tell me why 'The Idiot's Guide to Amazing Sex' is in the Computers and Technology section?"
Builder: "They knew who would need it."
^And that's a true story; sighted at the Border's in the mall in Annapolis.
Katie_UPS
22-03-2009, 15:34
Pit Admin: "Team 1675 is willing to trade jaguars for cougars"
Pit Admin: "Team 1675 is looking for a universal pneumatic actuator"
Pit Admin: "Team 1675 is looking for a Schroedinger Cat Wrench"
We like to do one Pit Admin joke a regional. But the student we sent for Schroedinger's Cat just said Cat Wrench cause he couldn't pronouce Schroedinger.
Katie_UPS
22-03-2009, 15:35
HAPPY HILLTOPPERS POST!!!
its post 1732!
1261scout
22-03-2009, 15:39
We have little pieces of tubing that stick out on our intake that we call "fingers", and when we were first testing the concept we only had one of them. Someone lost the finger, but my team was working on the intake design and I needed it. I then began yelling "SOMEONE GIVE ME THE FINGER! I NEED SOMEONE TO GIVE ME THE FINGER!"
NorviewsVeteran
22-03-2009, 16:09
I don't know where they came from, but at VCU they were handing out little stress-reliever moons. One of our mentors had a bunch in his backpack when he went out for lunch. When he came back, they checked his backpack, and the lady said, "You have a lot of balls"
Programming Student: "It's that tan thing..."
Programming Mentor, also the student's dad: "It's not tan, it's beige"
*continued debate about the differences between tan and beige*
Mentor: "I hope you two aren't discussing makeup"
They're all guys.
"Let me get the whatchamahoosit..."--Me
Watchamahoosit--my term for the bumper measuring device used at the L.A. Regional. It could measure: bumper height, trailer hitch height, and tongue clearance. With a little ingenuity, you could also check the length of a bumper segment.
bandducky511
22-03-2009, 16:26
During build season:
"Wait, are you duct taping PVC onto 80/20?!"
"Does PVC rust?"
NorviewsVeteran
22-03-2009, 16:32
This is in the pits.
Corey-"Richard, go ask for 20 inches of chain at pit admin"
*I go up to the table wearing this (http://s438.photobucket.com/albums/qq104/NorviewsVeteran/?action=view¤t=IMG_0660.jpg) hat*
Me- "Hi, 1793 nee-"
Pit Admin Lady- "OOhhh those ears are so cute!"
Me- "yeah, can I ask for the part now?"
sparkscarz
22-03-2009, 21:17
"I have tried nothing! and i am all out of ideas!"
"remember to unplug the battery before you stripp that.....zzaapp(sparks go flying)....$@#$@#$@#$@#$@# you practically welded the wire stripper to the power wire!!"
"why are you doing electrical?" "cuz i dont want him to do it!"
"Thats what she said!!!!"
Mark was trying to explain what had happened during alliance selections at what I believe was Cass Tech:
Mark: "So you've got 67 and 217, who else would you choose?"
Me: "Well, who was there?"
Mark: "That doesn't matter"
Me: "67 and 217...Well, in that case, I'd choose 1902. I want to see Exploding Chicken!"
Mark: "One big FIRST barbecue..."
Edit: My 217th post. Loving how the Thunderchickens are mentioned in it.
Alex2614
22-03-2009, 23:55
Can't remember which team...but at pittsburgh, a team asked for a flux capacitor at the pit admin table. I wanted to go over to that team and say that we have one in 1985.
Pit Admin (at Dallas): "Team 476 needs a shift register"
Hey, us programmers need to get some humor in now and then.
bandducky511
23-03-2009, 00:31
"Err guys, is there supposed to be liquid here?"
"So all we need to do is put the plastic thingy on and finish building the robot, right?"
Said to me: "You should ignore the voices in your head."
At Wisconsin some team asked for a FTL drive, right before me
Me "I WAS JUST GOING TO ASK FOR THAT"
Student: "Think of somethign else."
Me: "How about a Cylon detector."
Student: "Oooh, I have one of those on my iTouch."
GillSt.Bernards
23-03-2009, 20:42
Me: Hey Sandra you might not want to turn the robot on yet.
Sandra (Mentor) - Why would that be?
Me: Becaus we haven't gotten all the sawdust out of the control board yet. :)
MC at FTC regional: "...and you guys know what you're here for..."
Student: "Robots!"
<audience laughs>
Mentor to judge: "Nice to meet you...and I do know the physics!"
(entire team had just finished explaining to the judge that "our head mentor is a history teacher")
Me: "Would you like to run autonomous in second gear?"
Mentor: "I would like to run it in fifth gear."
(we only have two gears)
On the bus to Chesapeake:
Student: "I have to go to the bathroom."
Mentor: "Go knock on the door of that bus in front of us; its a charter bus and probably has a bathroom."
Student: "No!"
Mentor: "Then you'll have to wait fifteen minutes."
Student: "Okay."
On the bus from Chesapeake:
Student: "I have some bad news."
Mentor: "Hold it!"
<everyone laughs>
Mentor: "You've got fifteen minutes."
Student: "But will we get there soon?"
Mentor: "That would depend on whether your definition of 'soon' includes fifteen minutes."
Safety captain at Pizza Hut: "I have a safety announcement. Everyone walk slowly, no trampling, and save me more than one piece of cheese pizza."
Driver: "The drive system seemed to get worse and worse as the match went on; also, the pivoter doesn't work."
^After this, I look at the code and realize I left the robot in tuning mode, which uses the pivoter switch to adjust a traction control constant.
Mentor: "What value are we sending to the motors?"
Me: "I don't know; let's print it out."
Mentor: "Okay, what's the value?"
Me: "The value is dollar-sign dee."
Mentor: "I think you meant to type percent dee. Try again."
Saturday, at the end of week 4:
Me: We're running out of time, and we still have to perfect the drive system and write autonomous.
Andrew (programming leader): It's okay, we'll finish teleop and drive this week, then write autonomous next week.
Me: Oh, I didn't realize it was so simple!
Friday night/3:30 Saturday morning, end of week 6:
We have to ship the bot, and the practice bot for a scrimmage:
Me: Okay, the drive should work, what now?
Andrew: I'm tired, lets go home.
Me: What about autonomous?
Andrew: We don't really need it until Chicago (Midwest Regional). We have two more weeks.
Wednesday, week 8:
The day before we leave for the Midwest Regional:
Me: So, what do we have for autonomous?
Andrew: Nothing, but it's fine, I'll write it on the care ride up.
Thursday morning, 10:00ish, week 8:
We just arrived in Chicago:
Andrew: I fell asleep in the car, could you please write autonomous?
Saturday afternoon, Boilermaker Regional:
Alex (Qbranch): How's the autonomous work? I does something different each time.
Andrew: It's supposed to drive forward for 2 seconds, then drive in circles. I have no idea what's going on, it can't even be weird encoder values, it's based entirely on timers.
Me: IT'S BECOME SENTIENT!
We used LabVIEW this season, despite much of us wishing we were using C.
Mr. Kelly is a teacher Andrew and I have, not at the same time.
Me: So, none of us knew LabVIEW going into the season, but all but 1 of us knew C.
Mr. Kelly: Who, Andrew?
Andrew: One of the biggest things I miss about C is that you look smart doing it. You even look smart typing out "Hello World." In LabVIEW no matter what you do, it's just linking pictures together with lines.
*using aluminum pipe to sword fight with Andrew*
Mentor: Hey, why aren't you coding?
Me: The code's deploying.
Mentor: Carry on then.
(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/compiling.png)
These are all funny, but I think the Greatest Quote of 2009 Award must go to Team 177. From a thread (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=74129&highlight=jaguar) on Chief Delphi:
2884: "DUDE! Check that you don't have the wires in the jaguars/victors inverted..."
2883: "I think that might have been our problem....thanks"
2883: "we switched them around and it still doesn't work....do you think we could have fried the jags?"
177: "If you didn't before, you have now..."
I know its probably mean, but I just had to laugh at that one. If someone from 2883 is reading this: don't worry, I know it was an honest mistake (albeit a funny one). :)
I've got a bunch. And they're all from about an hour or two time span...
Mentor talking about how he went to a Smashing Pumpkins concert a long time ago.
Stoldt: I don't know why people throw shoes. Then they don't have any shoes.
Wishing our lead mentor was here. With our electronics so we could test. This has become a regular quote in the Programming Room.
Cody: We write our code to work! Not to test!
Brian: Documentation is a very important way of life.
(Mentor)Brian: What would you do if you didn't have an answer to everything?
(Student)Brandon: That will never happen!
Brian: I was really impressed there for a second.
Brian: Is that an Xbox to PC adapter?
Chad: Yes
Brian: That takes all the fun out of it!
Cody: Our current speed is 2.32831, which is perfectly exceptional, except it's 2.32831 x 10^-10 power, in inches per second. Continents move faster!
A mentor and I filing down corners on masks for the younger siblings on the team.
Stoldt: Here Cody, run your hands all over the edges and tell me if it makes you bleed.
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Candy: KODY! TURN YOUR PANTS OFF!
Kody: I like my pants being turned on...
Doc: A total piece of stuff on wheels
Candy: Did you just get dressed in the closet?
Candy: How cheap do you think I am?
Waage: I can afford you so...
Candy: I dont get you. Ever.
Josh: Angry whopper is coming!
Hook: Im using the redneck engineering system, if it doesn't work, use a bigger hammer
Ray: Im gonna dance till my voice is gone!
Kody to Candy: Would you like to hold my wood?
(Waage hits his head on a drill press and some type of cutting oil looking stuff starts leaking from his nose) Me: Was that cutting oil or your brain?
And our team celebrated National Thats What She Said Day, but for the girls (like myself), we celebrated National Thats What HE Said Day
Mentor picks up our human player grippers and starts waving them around.
Mentor "This reminds me of one of those bug sci-fi movies. Where the bug's like 'anghanghangh' and you're like 'ahhhhhh' and the bug is like 'anghanghangh' and you're like 'ahhhhhh' and the bug is like 'anghanghangh'."
Student "Just like that Bryce?"
Mentor "Just like that."
Mentor looks at the loose chains on the robot's pickup.
Mentor "This is all foohgoley."
Other Mentor "Is that a technical term James?"
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