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"if it doesn't have a coffee maker in it yet, its not done"

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havnt read everything on this topic but from what i have read it seems like no one mentioned the reason why all of us guys joined first(or atleast all of us on team 1155). "chicks dig power tools"

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Something we always said was "If it isn't on fire, it's a software problem"

Hehe

I <3 you, Eric..but we did say this behind your back ;)

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This has pretty much been 229's slogan for 2005

"So we want a robot thats specialized, in versatility?"-JVN at kickoff

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If it ain't broken take it apart and fix it!

Poke it if it doesn't work!

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"Ok team, our goal for today is to not make it do that one thing it's been doing anymore. If by chance we make it do some entirely new thing, our goal will be to get it to do the old thing again, because change makes me feel uncomfortable."

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Always said when striking a piece of hardware with a hammer or other blunt obect to "adjust" it.

"Once is maintenance, twice is abuse."

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on our team, this is the one we shouldn't go by, but most the time do:
"measure once, cut twice, buy a new piece"
it becomes a bad bad bad habit

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Most of ours are inside jokes, and I'm new on the team, so I don't get most of them. However, one that was created during my time on the team has to do with any wiring problem. This term is known as "Nick Wiring." This had to do with wiring a victor's input and outputs to power. It made nice smelling sparks.

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That happened to us last year the night before the scrimage, one of the students simply replied: "mmm the sweet sweet smell of failure"

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-"You have a brain, use it."
-"We don't care how you do it, make it work."
-"If you can do it, do it, if you can't do it, DO IT!"

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"Test it, test it, TEST IT!!!"
"A masterpiece of bad engineering." (Jokingly, of course.)
"Always use the right tool for the job."


[ ;) I revived this thread because I know everyone has their own little personal saying/slogan that they have been keeping to themselves while they look for the ideal opportunity to tell all of us. C'mon now, we all do this. So let's hear 'em!]

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ASAP! As slow as possible? As Simple As possible?

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"George don't touch the tools we can't afford to buy new ones."

"Crap we're in the finals and our rollers bent, Robbie, get the hammer."

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And if that doesn't fix it.....get a bigger hammer

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"If it doesnt fit, force it, and if it brakes, it needed to be replaced anyways"

"Close enough for government work."

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"To do is to be, and to be is to do............Do Be Do Be Do"

(on the matter of members coming in and doing nothing)

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All you need to do is get another persuadenator. If that doesn't work, bring out the persuadenatorenator.

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Thread Revival Level: SuperNerd256

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I'd like to know how he found this thread...

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One of the spotlight phrases at the top led me here.


And thanks for giving me my own level of thread revival Akash! :p

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Three key quotes from my team this year:

"I don't always build robots, but when I do they have unneeded strands of LED's"

In response to faulty code, our programmer tends to say "Operator Error" a lot.:o

Spammed by most of our members- "What's a robot?"

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And to all 4 people who made a comment to me about my age at the start of this thread: I was 5. :p

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Measure it with a micrometer, mark it with a piece of chalk and cut it with an axe.

The most important tools in the shop are a hammer and a paintbrush. Cut it to fit and paint it to match.

Garbage in, garbage out.

"That is the sound of a Cross-Part Association failing."

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Here's a good one:

Don't forget to initialize the Semaphore or the CRIO will crash.

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I haven't read all 22 pages of this thread, so I apologize if I'm repeating anything but here are my contributions:

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, all the world looks like a nail."

Dr. Bob's Law of Universal Gravitation--"Nothing ever falls off the floor."

Dr. Bob

Chairman's Award is not about building the robot. Every team builds a robot.

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One of my personal quotes to my teams, that I have to chant every year:
"[Remember that] Gravity Is Your FRIEND!" (or on occasion: "Make Gravity Your Friend!")
First time added phrase for just the gravity quote:
"That downward force is always present for FREE to everyone, everywhere on the field, and adds no device weight to your robot."

It's companion:
"If Gravity fails you, next look to see if you can use a SPRING, before resorting to Cylinders or Motors..."

Once the spring quote is introduced, I often change the chant to:
"Remember: Gravity and Springs are your Friends!"

IOW, whenever possible, try to let gravity (or springs) do a lot of your work for you, instead of immediately jumping to the big active devices.

It still amazes me every year just how many robots show up with motors and cylinders, and consume lots of their limited (precious) pneumatic air and battery power JUST to drive devices and game objects toward the FLOOR. IMO, it is always better to only drive things upward, and whenever possible let springs, bungee cords, surgical tubing and gravity do as much of your downward work for you. It saves energy, and device weight on the robot.

(Of course, if your robot spends a lot of its time tipped or flipped over so that Gravity is pointing the wrong way, that's a whole 'nuther problem... :D)

BTW... The same thing applies to one-shot release widgets (like an end-of-round deployment device). Instead of using a honking motor, that work can often be done with a spring and simple catch, and an itty bitty cylinder, servo, or now even a solenoid as a release device.

There's more savings: Those "little force" widgets can often be driven from the already present cRio bricks (the solenoid driver for a valve or solenoid, or a pwm output for a servo), instead of requiring additional space and weight allowance for another Spike, Victor, or Jaguar, and its associated wiring and breaker.

Even if you have no other pneumatics, one tiny release catch cylinder can easily be driven with stored air, and no compressor is required on the robot. (The "infrastructure overhead" isn't as bad as many fear - a spike by the power distribution panel to operate the off board compressor with a connector, a valve, and one manifold with everything else stuck on it stuffed in some corner of the bot.)

HOWEVER, now that solenoids are allowed, IMO that's even easier than one lone cylinder, as many can be driven from the cRio with no overhead. (Hooray! It's about time solenoids entered the contest! :D)

And lastly:
"When designing, it is always best to save the biggest power motors for the drivetrain, or your highest energy need payload link(s)."

Slowly accumulating energy winding up a spring with a small motor for an occasional big force release often saves you lots of space and weight over its big brothers and their huge, heavy gearboxes. It is also a lot easier on your battery than trying to pulse a bigger load, ...and... it saves the big guns for other uses.

Of them all, I think the first one ("Remember: Gravity is your Friend!") is heard chanted by me several times every build season.

- Keith

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If it's not electrical then its software, if it's not software then it isn't broken

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Sig related. The 7/16ths have endured for decades.

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Sorry to revive a dead thread but...

"Is it moving? Yes. Should it be moving? No. Answer: MORE TAPE!"
"Is it moving? No. Should it be moving? Yes. Answer: MORE OIL!"

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I don't know if someone already post this but engineer law
"if it moves and shouldn't duct tape if it doesn't move and should WD-40"

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at work we use the slogan "Beatings will continue untell moral improves" very effective.

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We bought our head mentor a flag that says that. We hang it in the pits at competition

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"If it doesn't work with force, you're not using enough force".

Not to be confused with The Force, though with correct use it can be a great tool in engineering.

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Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.
Practice is when everything works bu no one knows why.
On our team we combine theory and practice, nothing works, and no one knows why.

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We seem to follow the idea of "Measure twice, cut three times". Cause you know, if you didn't get right the first time, you probably won't quite get it the second time, and maybe you got it by third.

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Along the same lines

"brute force, if it ain't workin, you aren't usin enough of it" (lack of proper spelling necessary)

A classic

"Duct tape is like the force, it has a light side and a dark side and it binds the universe together."

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Here on T3, we have a Safety Captain. The Safety Captian walks around our shop with a hard hat (covered in sparkles and sequins) saying, "That's not very safe!"

Thus, an engineering slogan; That's not very safe!

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This came up in my spotlight today, and I wanted to add one more line...
Duck! - Physicist