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Me: There's too much wireless interferance!!!
Other Student: Well you are in a wireless research laboratry...
Me: We are building a faraday cage for off season!!!

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Next day when we arrive to see if we were just having interference problems...

Me to Timytamy: "Did you bring the cage?"

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(after dropping screwdriver on robot)
...it's not like i'm going to throw my robot at the screwdriver! <pause>...

did you bring your air compressor, we have to raise the pressure in here

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<looking inside gearbox>
it looks mushy....it's mush
(said completely seriously)

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From our safety captain:
"There's nothing more demeaning than writing up your own accident report..."

"Ok, so the number one rule for the build space is: Measure once, cut twice."

On a very LONG and seemingly unproductive Thursday at the Colorado Regional:
"So what are the programmers doing NOW??"
"They're fixing the problem, I believe."
"Oh, so they finally figured it out?"
"Yeah, they were pulling out the battery on the computer and they dropped it, so they put it back in and now everything works fine..."

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those are good flyinD but my fav from our team was

mentor: you guys should file down those edges on the bot.

weeks later

safety inspector: you guys are going to need to file down those edges before i sign off.

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haha! IFB... Then there's always this moment to remember:

Russell (driver): *sigh* this is just not going in!
Me: Its supposed to fit!
Russell: Who measured? Patches?
Me: OH. Ill make a new one...

AND

Russell: This looks like a job for THE TOOL OF PERSUATION!
Me: Ahh, yes, I knew that it would eventually come to this.
Freshman: The what?!?
Me: Russell's tool of persuation.
Freshman: THE WHAT?!?
Russell: The big rubber mallet.

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"this hill didn't seem so big when we were walking to chiles"

"Malinda lets stand over there so we don't kill software"

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At competition this year, the robot stopped working on the field... Get it back to the pits to find, missing a sprocket, it was on there when we took the robot to the field, but not there now. There was an "um guys where's the sprocket" moment there.

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My favorite from this years team annual Picnic.

Me-"Why do we have to build the grills?"
Sam-"Because we're the Robotics team"
Me-"It's 90 out, these grills are black and I'm starting to burn. I know we're robotics, isn't it more FIRST to order pizza and Mountain dew?"
Rob-"While it would be to see what the sun actually looks like. Stop whining and find out where all these extra parts belong!"

Turns out we can build a Robot in 6 weeks, but we can't follow the directions to make a grill. They held up without duct tape, it was an up from last year!
:p

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NJ Announcer

-now starts the 2 minutes of driver controlled chaos
-Parallel Universe blocking the shot not really wise cause they are on the same alliance but interesting strategy
-102 trying to take out our ref that I would advise against
-102 hit the bullseye unfortunatly the goal is underneath it

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While cleaning up our mech lab to pass OHS standards, one of the students was in charge of putting everything onto our shelves...

Student: "Now, if we just mark every shelf "misc" it will be organised!"

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--Hey guys, is the robot ready?
--Nope, it's still broken. Unless we fixed it.
--Alright. Wait, what?

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our coach was a soccer player and was trying to show off when we were cleaning up the field and just about to leave.

Mr. Hepler:"ok, i'm gonna try to slightly curve it through the tower and into the goal". He kicks the ball it flies strait up and shatters a flood light.
Me:"well i guess were not leaving just yet".

after 3 hours of talking later...

Me:"ok, well we should be going. Mr. hepler can you help me take these lights to my car?"
Mr. Hepler:"sure"...hits the door and drops yet another flood light...
Me: *sighs* ill get the broom...

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This may have been said...not reading all the posts!

This was said this week at Lego camp by one of our robotic's students:

"Too many engineers spoil the robot!"