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Mentor to Will: "You've never read Dilbert?"
Jared: "You live under a rock!"

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"If you are going to make the motor illegal you may as well make it super illegal" - Talking about the burnt out Tetrix motor that we were opening up with tin snips to snip off the retaining tabs.

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OK, that arm is too fast, and that light is too low.

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Kill the robot before you hit the table.

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heres one we had happen while we were drilling through some plexi near the motors: *drill goes through plexi, almost hits the motor* Opps......that was close. quote from Marie, my fellow mechanical engineer.

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When joking around about slogans for our team...

"Team 1768, We CAD chain one link at a time."

We just switched CAD programs before the season so there was a point when one of our CAD guys just started assembling individual links.

When talking about the 3/8 nuts that came in the KOP...

"Hey, do you have my golden nuts"

~DK

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Head advisor for team: "Excuse me!" (jokingly indignant)
Me: "There is no excuse for you"

Head advisor: "Do you want it centered on the front side of the L-channel or the back?"
Me: "Back"
HA: "Why?"
Me: "That's where the party's at"

Head Advisor: "That doesn't quite line up, we might have to drill that out a bit"
Me: "Don't worry about it"
HA: "I don't like it, we need to fix it"
Me: "I said don't worry about it"

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Someone: *something* "is not working, can you check your code?"
Me: "Its the hardware, it's always the hardware, never my code."


Me: "Don't worry about it"

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"The robot is horribly overweight. We need to delete some code"

Me to team member named Charlie: You're job is to make sure i don't mess up.
5 minutes later I try to tap a hole that I forgot to drill all the way through
Me: CHARLIE!!!! WHAT DID YOU DO?


our engineering lead: Think not what a robot can do for you, but what you can do to get the sucker done. Now.

Mentor: What if we tried a turret idea?
Everyone in our workshop: NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
(We've had a lot of bad experiences with turret designs)



Rookie: What if we pulled up the tubes with suction?
Engineering lead: hahahaha. That would never work.
5 minutes later...
Mentor: We should do suction!!!!

(Our current design is to use suction. The rookie will never let us forget that it was his idea)

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On our team, 1's weigh more than 0's, regardless of the size of the code.

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You know, back in the days of IFI we filled up the temporary storage areas a few times. I don't remember the specifics, but the solution was to randomly refactor the code and try again. If you split up a single calculation into multiple steps that still achieved the same result, it would somehow "fit" better.

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<listening to deadmau5's Sofi Needs a Ladder>
"Why is sour patch kids a bad taste in your mouth? Sour patch kids are a GREAT taste in your mouth." - Jason



"I don't hear smoke" - me :/

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Build Lead to Me: "These brackets are a little too far apart. You need to fix that in code."

For a second I thought he was serious I then explained that code can't fix that.

And I can't believe I forgot:
Me to mentor: "I know those aren't cut all the way but I guarantee that those wires are not touching" *turns on battery, sees spark and hears snap* "abouuuuuuuut that, I didn't think they were touching". the second thing was said after yanking the breaker out of where those wires were connected on the PDB

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From last night:

Student #1: We need to drill the holes in electronics tray (at the bottom of the robot) to mount the line following sensors.
Student #2: So we are going to pick the whole robot up and put it in the drill press?
Student #1: *Laughs*
Mentor: *Shakes Head*

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[I urgently run up to our coach Mr. Hepfer]
Me: MR HEPFER! MR HEPFER!
Mr. Hepfer: What is it Abby?
Me: WE ARE OUT OF TRANSFORMER AND HELLO KITTY BANDAIDS!!! WE NEED MORE!!:ahh:
[Mr. Hepfer sighs and students around laugh]:D

Student screaming across room: I CANT FIND MY NUTS!