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

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

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

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

-Kevin: "I'm 17!"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Me and Sara: "James did it!"

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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While working on our robot cart:


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


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

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Screw it. No, the crate.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Me: Madness?

THIS
IS
FIRST!

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

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LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I spotlighted that one! hahahaha

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

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Two new ones for today:


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



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

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

"Lets ziptie it" me

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Got a new one :)

This conversation takes place during our hybrid testing.

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


this other quote takes place during our programming phase.


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

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

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

Another one...

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

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

Teammate 1: yeah, I think so...

Me: Which one do you think it is?

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

lol



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

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

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

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

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after cutting off a zip tie

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

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

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

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Thats dedication for you!

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

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

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

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

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


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

Opps!!!! My bad!

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not another cieling tile

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

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

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

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REminds me.

Mentor: The janitors are our best friends.

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

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

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

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

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

Team member: Hey, your wife wants you.

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

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

"wheres noah?"

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

-me

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

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During the build season I wrote

"If your reading this, something is probably broken"

on the bottom platform of our Robot.

It was true every time



At at practice day at St. Francis High

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

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

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

K: “Cut measure, cut twice!”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Friday afternoon at Davis-

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

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While testing our autonomous mode on a slippery linoleum floor:

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

-q

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

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

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

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

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

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

thank god it was a scrap piece...

-vivek

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

lol, a member spills yogurt on the robot XD

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

him: "It weighs 10 pounds."

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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


It was a penalty-less match and we won.

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heres the background...

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

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

"CHEESE DAD! CHEEEEESE!!!!!"

absolutely hilarious...

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

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

Yes, that's right. At the Colorado regional, all three of the teams on the winning alliance (1625, 1592, and 1296) were bright blazing orange. It was epic. :D

Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season
 

more specifically, orange pants! lol

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

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i thought this was build season not competion.

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Like it matters. You're building at competition, aren't you? At least a little?

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

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I CANT BELIEVE I SPELLED HIS NAME WRONG :-(

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

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The same thing happened at GLR, except the alliance (291, 573, and 862) didn't win. My friend and I knew from the moment that the second orange team was picked by CIA (I think that it was 862, but I can't remember) that it was going to be very orange-ish...

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"SHAAAAAAAAAAAAANK"

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

I don't know what it means :P

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

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

"HEHEHHE 1100, THATS A BIG NUMBER"

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

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

"Silly Abbas!"

"And then Iceland's like BIAHHHHH"

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

hehe we just barely made it

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Why isn't the program working you made it?


Me- It is.

Then what it is the problem?

Me- That is the problem!

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One of the quotes I remember hearing...

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

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

ARCHI- :p

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

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

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

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

Sometimes you just have to learn by doing.

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

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JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!
^Team word

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

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"OH GOD CODE ERROR!!!!!"

Every single time we downloaded code.

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

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Upon printing out a paper copy of this years code.

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

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

Mental: Dude, it would totally work!

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

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

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

Mental: I guess.

Both of us: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

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

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*Our mentor trying to ziptie something from underneath*

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

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

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

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

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

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me "I think God hates the robot!"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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