Chief Delphi - "Quotes" that were said during build season

9:27 PM - Bot190 {166}: its basically down to tuning the PID loops
9:27 PM - Bot190 {166}: which is a major problem
9:27 PM - [8Db] Demosthenes {166}: ouch
9:27 PM - [8Db] Demosthenes {166}: good thing I took autonomous
9:27 PM - [8Db] Demosthenes {166}: wait...
9:27 PM - [8Db] Demosthenes {166}: FFF-

Kyoshirin

10-02-2011 22:05

Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

C: Who puts a lock nut on backwards!?

Over the course of a week->
Me: You realize to make that work, it'll have to flip out, right?
R: Yeah.
(Two days later there is a triple jointed hinge mechanism)
C: Wait, how are we going to mount our electrical board? there's no place for it.
Me: We can put it upside down under this main support, the have it flip out on a hinge.
C: That sounds like a good idea. Lets do it.

C: Hey, this board is resting on the frame. Is that good?
Me: No. you should make a support for it. How about one that flips out when you unlatch the board?
C: Fine. What should I use?
Me: (hands him large gate hinge) Here, take this.
C: *Sigh*

G: How are we going to keep the battery in the holder?
Me: With a hinge, of course! And I'll lock it with another hinge! On second thought, let's make our entire robot out of hinges! The we can just unfold it completely and fix everything! It's Brilliant! *laughs insanely*

demosthenes2k8

10-02-2011 22:22

Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

Kyoshirin, it sounds like you entire robot design hinges on one central concept...

$~-M.E.C-~$

10-02-2011 22:57

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-You may have not done much today, but you can tomarrow. Unless its time to ship!

$~-M.E.C-~$

10-02-2011 23:00

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Everytime at the end of meetings the president or one of the metors will say, " you don't have to go home, but ya can't stay here!"

The Zevling

10-02-2011 23:09

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"Stupid Lollipop"
- said while trying to find a place for our camera where it won't be blocked by our claw mechanism*, which is a large circle on a stick. Hence "lollipop". The group working on the lollipop is, of course, refered to (at least by me, anyway) as the lollipop guild.

"Excuse me, I want to stick my head in the robot"
- me trying to get a cameras-eye view from a potiential camera spot.

*our claw mechanism grabs outward, so before it was the lollipop, it was called the Walc. It is actually in the code as the Walc, so it's official.

Radical Pi

10-02-2011 23:44

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"Look, if the Mythbusters have taught us anything, it's that an explosion is the best possible outcome."

Me: "Umm, guys, it looks like the software needs at least 40 pounds on the robot"
Mentors: "WHAT?"
Me: "Yeah, look at it! #if, #define, #ifndef, #endif, #s all over the place!"

And my current autonomous code:

Code:

void Autonomous()

{

    // Declare victory

    bool victory = true;

}

Ironically, I get a compiler warning about an unused variable when I compile that :(

Astarties

11-02-2011 01:26

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The robot's not wrong, your drawing is wrong. - Said multiple times by the building group to the kid who drew the robot in autocad.

WhiteShadow1474

11-02-2011 02:14

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Me: It's so secure you can stand on it!
Advisor: You don't want to stand on that...

J.Warsoff

11-02-2011 08:14

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"Guys, why are there cyanide pills on my cupcake?" -Me

Dumper FTW 435

11-02-2011 11:29

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Today I asked one of our rookies to find out how to code springs just to mess with them :P

I also quizzed one of the rookies on the tools we used. She got bonus points when she referred to the hammer as an "attitude adjuster" ::ouch::

Trent B

11-02-2011 11:54

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One of our Rookie Students, who has been extremely helpful this year, working on a minibot deployment method

Him: Is there anyway I can tighten this (talking about a piece of 8020 with an end fastener over another piece of 8020 with an end fastener)
Me: Yes, provided you can make two pieces of matter occupy the same space simultaneously

Andrew Schreiber

11-02-2011 12:14

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"Excuse me, I need to go tell our students to try to be a little quieter, I figured a cinder block wall would keep most of their noise out... guess I was wrong." - Me while talking with a potential future employer who I had been trying to reach for 2 weeks.

On the upside, the person was amused by it. Unrelated to that I now have to set up a day to interview with them :)

TL;DR - when a mentor is on the phone is NOT a good time to play a team game of "whack each other with the pool noodles" in the room next to it. (Use the hall for that)

FRC4ME

11-02-2011 15:42

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Radical Pi (Post 1020323)

Me: "Umm, guys, it looks like the software needs at least 40 pounds on the robot"
Mentors: "WHAT?"
Me: "Yeah, look at it! #if, #define, #ifndef, #endif, #s all over the place!"

Of all the "code has mass" jokes in this thread, this one is definitely the best. :)

While staring at an impressive custom circuit on a 4" x 6" PCB that another group built:
Student 1: "Wow, there are three 10A fuses, two 555 timers, a block of NAND gates, a quartz crystal, a PIC, some power MOSFETS, a wireless USB interface...what could this possibly do?"
Student 2: "Well, it could be a light."

(It was actually a motor controller.)

Nadav Zingerman

11-02-2011 17:47

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Programming to Mechanical: "The code has been ready for days, where's the robot?!"

Three days later:

Mechanical: "Okay, download the code."
Programming: "It's not ready yet.":p

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