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"Everyone please be quiet! I'm performing liposuction on some aluminum."

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I've always held that a good idea is worth stealing no matter where it comes from.

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"Did you know a pencil is a 3/16 allen key?"

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HANG ON! This is the moment of truth, where we find out if the gearboxes mount right. Now get me a hammer.

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"Hey, guys! I was bored last night, so I grew a beard!"

This build session has gotten off to an interesting start...

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LedLover-96 tells me Ungoliant is a spider spirit from LotR...

I would have understood Shelob, though.

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Ungoliant is a distant ancestor of Shelob, living during and before the first age of Middlearth. Go read the Silmarillion, folks!

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About taking the robot to a team members house, to have extra build time while were locked out of the school:

"ok were good for both as long as we dont work after like 8 (weve got 2 older neighbors and our robot sounds like a bus)"

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I didn't tell him the whole thing because I thought he might take initiative to read it...oh well, such is life.

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...which is why I only gave a tiny morsel of the whole story. The tale as a whole is crazy.

Back on topic, "Mountain Dew...STAT!"

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(Kid steps on computer)
Thats three strikes! TIME OUT CHAIR!
This is why we can't have nice things!

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"No, No, No, No, No, well maybe, Yeah go get a wrench!!!":confused:

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"Yes AND No" (:

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"Don't threaten me, I have a power tool."

"The metal is a bully" (Regarding marks on hands)

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Me: "I had a dream about ship date last night."
Head mentor: "I have nightmares about ship date."

"How many volts are in a watt?"
"Well, watts = volts * amps, so there are amp volts in a watt."

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Electrical mentor: OK, the light is blinking and nothing is smoking, my work here is done.

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Student: Get to the clickey, get to the clickey part...

Said while wrapping a zip tie around a rod in a tight spot.

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-- Mr. C., Shop Teacher/Manager
Give credit where credit is due.

I don't remember this, but it sounds like something I would say.

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Me: "How am I supposed to know this is a crossover cable?"
Student: "It's orange."
Me: "But it doesn't say crossover cable. It says patch cable."
Student: "But it's orange."
Me: "So how do we know which cables are crossovers?"
Student: "They're orange."

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"Okay guys, let's get the router out of the shooter"

-Our Project Manager, trying to convince the Build Team that the shooting mechanism is a bad place for our router.

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"OK, I didn't know that when I turned the motors on, they would move!"

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Sam: I pressed the emergency stop button 5 times and it still didn't work.
Emily: That's because you have to press the button when it turns green.

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One member said today when trying to explain what had to be taken off.

"There's No Time for Adjectives!!!"

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Nearing the end of a midnight build...
"I like hippos."

"Ratchet? I hardly know her!"

A: "So I knew this one guy-"
B: "No you didn't."

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"But, it work fine in the Inventor model, why does it not work in the real world?"

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We bet our mentor we could program the robot to shoot it in the hoop first try.

It went about 2 feet and way of the the right.

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Mechanical Standby, it the best time of all team mechanics when you have a wood shop, a 5 1/2 foot tall pile of scrap wood, 4 rookies, and one veteran hyped on energy drinks to lead them all!!!

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Mentor: I'm not sure how helpful looking at old storage mechanisms will be. This game isn't quite like 2006 and 2009, when your intake had to suck a lot of balls.

Students: **snicker**

Mentor: Oh, man, I forgot I'm at a high school! I could have made that joke on purpose!

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Student: "I pinched my finger in the safety glasses!"
Safety Captain: "You should have been wearing gloves!"

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"Chris, why are you hitting the robot with a wrench? This isn't Team Fortress 2!"

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"WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE'S NO MEETING TUESDAY??!!!"

Me, at yesterday's meeting

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How does that even work??? (And I don't often use multiple punctuation marks.)

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We bagged and tagged last night. We're.....done.

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It is possible to finish early. We at 1124 finished our robot yesterday, and we're just bagging today. It felt really weird being done early - enough for me to write a custom dashboard BEFORE ship (er...bag) day.

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*On the back of our binder*

1. Always be modest and gracious.
2. Always be open minded.
3. Always be happy to ask & answer questions.
4. Never say "graciously accepts" rather; "enthusiastically accepts".
5. Remain calm at all times.
6. Always be willing to learn; you don't know everything.
7. Always be aware of where your robot is.
8. Have fun.
9. We are a TEAM, not a bunch of individuals derpin' around.
10. Make sure EVERYTHING is plugged in.

-Items collected by Jenn Feathers, Mac, and I.

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BLASPHEMY!!! HERETICS, THE LOT OF YOU!!!

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We needed a battery to test a motor, and two people brought two batteries. Instead of plugging in one of the batteries to the test Jaguar, someone inadvertently plugged both of the batteries into each other D: D: D: Luckily, someone else noticed a fraction of a second later, and promptly unplugged the leads before any damage was done. Moral of the story: "One table, one battery."

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"where is the shooter" or even better "that does not do didly squat"

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"I wish this was like TF2 [Team Fortress 2]. We would just swing our wrench at the robot and it would build itself."

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"What is it with you guys and hitting me in the face with a robot?"

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"Aww... the chains not breaking. That must be so hard to bear. Do you want me to call the wambulance?"

The wambulance stopped by our team many times this weekend.

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"Will that work?"
"No, but it looks cool."

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If you aren't out of time when you bag up the robot, you forgot something.
If your robot weighs less than 119.9 lb when you weigh in at competition, you forgot something.

I think some teams forgot something.

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Is that supposed to happen?

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"You were right! Zip ties do make effective hair ties!" - me
"We aren't cannibalizing Wilson (last year's robot), we're integrating him." -Karina, team co-captain
"No, we will NOT name the robot Reptar. I don't care that no one else had any ideas." - Fred, all-purpose mentor

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alright, i need magical people who can measure!

so, safety gloves are not safe?

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What is this thing you all refer to as "done"? We are never done. Ever. :confused:

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"Well statistically there's a 50% chance the tubes are right, which means there's a 90% chance that the tubes are wrong."

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"I think we have a bad case of PWM gremlins"

To the robot:
"I think that we will be very good friends, my bot"

"You can be sure I will be violent with the robot, look at what happened last year"
(This was me driving last year, look at 1:43)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKi8KyO7dIk

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mentor: "When in doubt, throw it out."
me: "I'm going to apply that to my homework. Thanks!"
Oh how I love robotics. (:

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"Johnathan, you Forked up the code."

"FINE, I'll just do it in LOLcode."

"Robot, why you no get on Threadmill?"

"The motors should shoot about 50 feet. give or take 45 feet." "DUDE WE CAN HIT 95 FEET!". "no, we can get maybe 10 feet." "Hmm.. we need the BaneBots."

"whats with all the doughnuts? The custodians are going to kill us."

"I think the Java didn't get it's coffee...."

"Washers. we don't need no stinking washers."

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"I thought I smelt a motor burning out"

*snicker snicker*

"what I did smell it"

It's smelled dude not smelt, that what you do to metal.

"I'm pretty sure you can say, I smelt something"

a quick look at google and, dangit you were right

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You must have magic hair. My hair never stays firmly tied back with a zip tie; it always starts sliding out after an hour or so of doing work!

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While filming for a weekly video update:
Cameraman: Quite on the set!
Interviewee: It's not a set, it's a small room in a high school.

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"I meant that it's built, not that it works!"

Me after saying "I can't believe it's done" moments before the robot acted on its own.

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I did this earlier this season. I remember saying "I did the thing a robot student has always feared, and absolutely nothing happened." Really, absolutely nothing happened. When you connect two batteries together like that, the positive is going to the positive and the negative to the negative. No explosion, just an equalization of power. If it were the other way, then problems would occur. But it isn't!

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11. Whatever floats your bot

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"A robot can always be fixed - but a match can never be replayed".

-Dustin Benedict of 816

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After being teased at robotics one day, one of our lead mentors, "Don't be mean to Natalie! She is making our bumpers and she could easily ruin the robot!"

Ever since Ive had nightmeres of our bumpers failing inspection... ):

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"Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement"

"I think our robot is a little too tippy"

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"We are 119.5 pounds! your code better weigh less than .5 pounds!"

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"Don't yell at me because I'm Fat" - Robot Base

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"I think we should name the robot 'Orion'."
"Have you seen the XKCD for 2/23/12?"
*goes to xkcd.com*
"Oh. Any other ideas?"

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Operator: "Shoot now?"
Driver: "I don't know. Does it look good to you?"
Operator: "I guess so."
Driver: "Sounds good to me."
Operator: "Shoot?"
Driver: "Sure..?"

^The dialogue my operator and I had at the Suffield Scrimmage.

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LOL. I wear glasses, but if not, I'd have poked myself in the eye several times with the safety glasses bows trying to put them on. I just wear them for the whole meeting now and get used to looking through scratches.

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Our FRC lead just posted his Week 7 update. My favorite line: "this week is like Bag and Tag week for NEMO and they need help" Gotta love a mechanical guy who understands the importance of image!

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"I am proud of this wire" - our official solder kid

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"I made it a whole day without spilling something!"-me

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Think about it, really think about it

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I didn't break it, I mutilated it.
-me after taking apart something I wasn't sure how to put back together.


This has become somewhat of a common saying now whenever someone breaks something.

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"So let me get this straight. We'll have 6 hours to re-build an entirely new robot that took us 6 weeks originally to make."

-Me on the phone with a mentor (A little teaser for all those going to SVR)

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"It can't be programming, it's gotta be an electrical issue... I think." -Me, a first time programmer.

I was right.

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-Me "Hey K you guys messed up the bumpers again."
-K "You said they were fine after we fixed them last time!"
-Me "Well, last night I was on Chief Delphi..."
-K "I'm going to take that website and smash it into itsy bitsy pieces!"

Our bumpers are still in the bag; they need white outlines AND some need to be removed.


-M "Is the shooter programmed yet?"
-Me "Yes, I told you that yesterday"
-M "Have you tested it yet?"
-Me "I'm not even going to answer that"

He was holding the unfinished shooter in his hands at the time.


-Me "Jw go get Jb"
-Jw "Got him"
-Jb "What do you want?"
-Me "Go get rob"


-Me "C hit the button!"
-C "Why!"
-Me "That Jaguar is smoking!"
-C "But I want to driveeeeee"


-Me "K go get me the screwdriver"
-K "Which one?"
-Me " I haven't figured that out yet, just bring me some options"


-Mentor "What is going on over here?"
-Me "What do you mean?"
-Mentor "There has to be 100 bottles of mountain dew over here."
-Me "Those one are empty, there's more in my backpack if you want one"


-Mentor "Robots wired! Time for code!"
-Me "Where's the TwoCan?"
-Mentor "I can't put it on yet there's no radio"
-Me *Facepalm*


-Me "Did you know that adding code to the robot actually makes it lighter?"
-J "Bull"
-Me "No really, it makes the particles inside the CRIO disappear."
-J "oh that's cool"
*J walks away*
-K "I think he bought it"
-Me "Do you think he still thinks the Jags run on smoke?"


-Me "So as you can see I am unofficially officially posting this teaser on CD.
-Mentor "Why"
-Me "Because S said I could."
-Mentor "But, Why??"
-Me "It looks cool!"
-Mentor "It's a zip tie."
-Me "But it's blue!"


-Me "D go to bed tonite okay."
-D "Your the one who hasn't slept in days"
-Me "Hey, we're talking about your problems right now, not mine."
-D "And stay off Chief Delphi tonight."
-Me "How can you even say that??!!??"


-Me "Just put that block here and connect this he..."
*Incoming ball smacks computer shut.*
-Me "I'm going to put that target onto your back in a moment!"
-D "It's your code!"
-Me "Yeah well you built it!"
-D "Did not, M made the shooter!"
-Me "Then bring M over here and shoot him!!"


All I can think of right now.

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From my experience, unless its complex code (taking a sensor and trying to convert values. Or tracking with the camera) It is more than likely it is electrical, But on our team we are the electrical/controls/programming teams so it's still our fault...

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Person from another team: "Why do you use Jaguars?"
jyh947: "Because we CAN."

ahahaha

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Sweeten the kitty.
I am the prettiest dolphin in all the land.
I will slap the chicken out of your hand.
What would you do if I rubbed this chicken on your face?

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" Wait! do NOT bleed on the robot!"
"Who keeps taking my tools!?"
"where is the 7/16 wrench?"
"...that was not supposed to happen"

"we will be done at 8pm..." Fred~coach
"umm... it's midnight." me
"CRAP!"Fred

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Said today, with competition on Thursday:

mechanical person: "If I had more time, I could do this right!"
me: "In FIRST, if you're doing it right, you're doing it wrong!"

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I love you, Karina. Was that the night you and Fred stayed in the shop until 6 AM?

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H: W, you gave the robot AIDS
W: Okay....WAIT WHAT!

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"Michael, take the peanut butter bar out of the tire." - Said during a late night tire changing adventure after a long build night.

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I require the assistance of someone who is not afraid of death.

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An old one, but a good one:

Our newest engineering mentor this season: "So let me get this straight. We have 6 weeks to design a robot, build it, wire it, program it, debug it, and then compete with it a few weeks later. ....... Are you sure it said 6 weeks? For my adult engineering projects, we have more like 6 months."

And of course our favorite new one:

"Why do I get the feeling that this is going to get me even less sleep?"

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Me: "I thought we finished the bumpers?"
Mentor: "New rule: we have to outline them in white."
Me: "Well, it just wouldn't be build season without an arbitrary bumper rule."

Hahaha a few years ago I had a conversation with a programming mentor on 339 that went something like this:

Me: "This has got to be a hardware problem."
Him: "I doubt it. Keep checking your code."

<during one of my tests, the Victor catches fire>

Me: "The Victor is on fire."
Him: "Hmm...I think this might be a hardware problem."

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"Fine, mine will be just a bit smaller than his!"

Poor Liam was talking about pet wrenches.

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From a Freshman:

"We may or may not have accidentally clamped this (Bimba air cylinder) in the vice....

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"Hey! I need a freshman!"

This one shocked everybody. Turns out it was a job in which the user had to be....expendable.

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be when ever somebody falls or drops something its "be careful there's gravity there."

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Me: it reminds me of hungry humgry hippos
(weird looks from everyone)
Me: what?!?!?! it just shoots the balls instead of eating them... so its a hungry hungry bulimic hippo cannon.
(everyone facepalms)

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"Man, this stream has the resolution of a gameboy and slower FPS than a slide projector"

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regarding a soutering tool,

Patrick- "grab the soutering tool"
me-"will it burn me"
Patrick- "no its coll it has been off"
me-"just because it is cold doesnt mean it cant hurt you"

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This is in relation to last year:
Student: What just happened... the flashies aren't on anymore!
Mentor: Total electrical catastrophe...
Student: Is that bad?

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Me(Coach)
"If you'd clean the shop you might even find Amelia Earhart in there. I think this year's shop is responsible for more loss than the Burmuda Triangle"

Student: "Seriously?"

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This might have already been said
Whos not doing anything, who wants to do something?
this was asked about every 5mins during our build
most of the time it was directed towards all the people socializing instead of building a robot

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Machinist mentor: "Didn't Africa and asia used to connect, so they built
The Panama Canal?" -12:30 P.M

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In regards to the build site-
"What do you mean I can't live here!"

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From the bot code: System.out.println("Exception caught and ignored"); :D

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Me: (explaining a circuit) that thing there is a transformer, your know what a transformers are?

Student: yeah, robots in disguise!

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Kill the watch dog