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The Negotiator
 

Meet The Negotiator. It is a lead sledge hammer that dwarfs all other one-handed sledge hammers. When something doesn't fit right, you'll generally hear the following:

<The User>"Blast! This jobbie [pronounced "job-e"] is stuck! Someone get me The Negotiator!"

<From someone supervising the job>"SEND IN THE NEGOTIATOR!"

<From deep in the shop>"We're sending someone in to negotiate!"

<The User><WHAM!>"Okay, that got it!"

I nominate the MOE Pit crew as Progessional grade. During the Philadelphia Alliance Regional, both of MOEHawk's wings sustained damage. The right wing was twisted completely backwards rendering it useless, the left wing was moderatly twisted, and we only had 15min before the next match (note.. after 5min in the pits, they started calling us to be in the queue line).

The pit crew was able to completely replace the right wing along with all sub-systems AND bend the left wing back into working order within the 15min and we were able to deploy, grab all three goals, and held ground the entire 1:53 (after latching down) against 2 robots with minimal support from our allie. We won the match with 0qps because the 'enemy alliance' pulled out of the end zone and blocked our allie from getting into their zone.

Go MOE's Pit Crew!

Fundamental rule of Engineering: "The more complex it is, the more likely it is to fail."

"e^x dy/dx e^x dx.
cos, 1/cos, cos/sin, sin, pi." - excerpt from the Rose-Hulman cheer

"Do you know the Muffin fan . . ."
"The Muffin Fan?"
"The Muffin Fan!!" - will someone PLEASE stop my team from saying this?

"Just build it and let me look at it, and I'll draw it!" - what I said last year

"My ship works better when I kick it . . ." - Cowboy Bebop

"Your tax dollars at work" - informal name of our robo (in reference to our NASA grant)

"Never underestimate the power, number, or magnitude of stupid people." - me

oh and my ever famous motto
"dont stop till you hear glass breaking"
that can be applied to so many things whether it be parking or general shenanigans

What does an engineer use for birth control?
-Their personality.

Team Member: "There are no attractive women in this room."
Female Team Member: "Guess you're right. You do have a larger rack than I do."

Wearing Camo Labcoat "Alright you newbies, this here is Oakwood Robotics 992, the best of the best. We are gonna do something this year, and you are not going to mess up this man robotics club. Do you understand me maggots!"

"I think we need to do aerodynamic tests on the boxes."
"Oooh! Oooh! Can I throw it now?"

"The physics don't allow that."
"But it's so cool."

Parkinson's Law:

"A project will increase or decrease the time needed to complete it to fill exactly the time alloted for it."

--Petey

It's not what you know, but what you are willing to learn. ~Me

oh and my motto for life "THINK the safe way is the best way"

Our software doesn't have bugs, it simply develops random features....


If it falls off, it obviously wasn't important, or it would have been attached better....

It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye...then it's fun and games in the dark...

-Steve

I've always liked

theres never enough time to do it right, but theres plenty of time to do it twice


and


if its not broke, theres not enough features

if something doesn't fit, I usually just say you have to lie to it a little bit.

It'll find a happy place.

BAH = Big @$$ Holes - Allows for some slop for everthing to fit perfectly every time.

If it doesn't fit you didn't drill the holes big enough.

Looks straight to me.

If there's no tolerance listed, just assume it's a quarter inch or so.


Hey, can we get a list of all these on CD sort of like the spotlight list?

Engineering Sayings
 

Our team particularly likes to use the phrase PFM - Pure Flipping Magic to describe anything that has anything at all to do with electronics. We also use the "it can be fixed in software" phrase all the time during our fabrication and design.

I really liked Woddie's "Mother nature does not give partial credit" during the kickoff.

In the fab shop we also go with "Slop is good" - at least to an extent. On the same token, if something is too tight to fit together we say that it was machined accurate to the nearest atom. When a part comes out too inaccurate to use we say that it was made with ¼ inch accuracy on an 1/8 inch part.

We also always result back to the simple K.I.S.S. principal.

"worry about thie ounces and let the pounds worry about themselves."
-George Williams
60's machinist

What sipmle logic right, and the best part, it works 60 has never had to make a robot that looks like swiss cheese thanks to this philosophy.