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"I think powering a robot with a hamster is legal"
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OOC, Lessee... {reviews rules} Darn... R34 bans them. Too bad. ;) OTHERWISE, if you want to have some fun with your newbies, argue this with a straight face...: "Well according to the FIRST Manual..." ...Rule R31 only talks about legal ELECTRICAL energy sources. So... As long as the hamster: A) is considered a part of the Robot (no "banned materials list" this season! Hee Hee...), B) costs less than $400 each, they meet parts cost Rule R11 C) is NOT considered a "team member" (see Rule G9), and D) ONLY provides MECHANICAL energy (no treadmill generators), ... then you're good! (Ditto with trained dogs or ferrets on treadmills within in your robot to run your shooter, etc... Be creative! ;-) To cap it off, tell them: "Just make sure you don't put both male and female hamsters in the same squirrel cage. Team {xxx} did that last year, and they lost power in the middle of the Finals. Very embarrassing!" ;) If someone smart sees Rule R34, say: "Oh darn, I guess FIRST finally banned the squirrel cages this year. Too bad, that's an end of an era. You should have seen the cool robots that used them compete..." and walk away... Just be sure to come tell us the response...Have fun! {snicker} - Keith |
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I would say that a hamster would fall under part C of R34. I consider a hamster running as 'deformation of ROBOT parts'. Therefore, it is legal. I did my research carefully! :D (For reference) Quote:
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At Kickoff, the driver pointed out that I would probably get hit by a ball at least once. 3 hours later, the scouting leader bounces the ball off my face.
Explaining scouting to rookies... "No ninja drawings on the scouting sheets." "Why is the comp bot named Willow?" "It looks like the whale in Whale Trail." In the pit at SVR... "People, remember to put down the tablecloth, we aren't supposed to have a bin full of food." |
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*After programmers try to unscrew Victors from robot.*
Electrician: Why is there a screw in the Victor?! |
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Student: Is this good enough
Passive Aggressive Mentor: I don't know is it? |
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"Our team plays to win, I don't know about other teams but that's what we do"
Also as a mentor sees me typing this "I hate people who post in that thread" |
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"I GET KNOCKED DOWN, AND I GET UP AGAIN, YOU'RE NEVER GONNA KEEP ME DOWN!"- Said after our robot slipped and came crashing down off the top rung of the pyramid during the St. Louis Curie qualifiers.
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"Game mech will do it."
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Overheard from the design room:
"I'm just going to ignore you for a second." EDIT: Again, from the design room: "You guys are like children!" "We are children!" |
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"How long should it be?"....."Uh... about 4 fingertips."
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After sending our safety captain a picture of one of the team members cutting a pool noodle with a hack saw:
"Put the Thomas away, and nobody gets hurt." |
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"It's not a selfie if it's a Snapchat"
"We're not terrible people, the people around us are just much, much better." |
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When we were looking for a large tarp or sheet to test a prototype with:
"We could just use his shirt. A bed sheet is just a shirt without pockets." |
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"I don't see very far into his future."
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"It starts off slow, then goes VWOOOOOOMPH. That's a technical term."
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"We love Josh Chen!"
Says the electronics team. Everywhere. They've not only labelled all of their motors and cabinets with it, but they're ordering stickers and are thinking of making t-shirts. "Yeah, that's about right." The aforementioned Josh when someone mentioned that the electronics team seemed a lot like a cult. |
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When one student was asking another for an impact driver:
S1: "Could you pass me the thing that does the stuff?" S2: "You mean the bdddddddddd?" S1: "Yeah!" |
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One of my teammates was trying to figure out some calculations for our design. After about twenty minutes (for one problem) this is what he said;
'I'm taking a break from math. The more numbers I find, the less numbers I know.' |
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"Gravity Test!"
This has been said several times as things are dropped. |
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"We should probably move the testing outside so that we don't break a sprinkler head and drown all of the testers."
We were testing the prototypes inside the halls. |
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"No good sentence can start with 'just' unless you're talking about the law."
"We need more weight." I mean, how often can you say that? |
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Seems someone was playing soccer inside, or some such activity--and knocked one of the sprinkler heads off. At some point after the dorm was evacuated, it was discovered that all the shutoff stuff was locked up, and the Dean of Students had to be called to open it. Then the whole place had to be dried as much as possible. A couple days later, I was attending a meeting where the previous Dean of Students--who the dorm was named after--was speaking. One of the first things he said was something to the effect of "I heard there was an incident in [dorm] recently. I just hope I don't get the bill because my name's on the building!" |
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one of my favorites is when one of our programming mentors came over to the build guys and asked. "Is the ball punchey-thingy punching balls yet?"
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"Alright guys I think we need a rule about not playing with balls"
After we managed to put a hole in our game ball this year from testing trajectory |
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Our team has a history of displaying ceiling tiles actually. We had to remove one to fit the minibot pole during logomotion. We knocked a few up with the frisbees last year, we even knocked one of those light coverings so hard that it went forwards and got stuck in another grid in the ceiling. We knocked two out of place prototyping this years shooter. Good stuff. |
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"You can either be purple or super sticky, PICK ONE!" - Getting the mechanical team to pick a color of post-its for our task board
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"So we'll try both [mechanism option one] and [mechanism option two]. If neither work..." *gets interrupted as student walks into room* "we're screwed."
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♬ "In the shop... the mighty shop, the Bimba plays tonight" ♬
Last night, found that blowing in one end of a piston, and changing the length is a decent musical instrument. Crazy kids. |
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"If dirt-simple works, you're done. You can improve from there." ~The Dominator; AKA Dom. So true...
Chris- "Get me that thingy!" Me- "The black slidey thing?" Heather- "The black slidey thing???" Chris- "Yes, the black slidey thing." Me- "That's going on Chief Delphi!" |
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Whilst reviewing our CAD model assembly file in Inventor:
Stella: "I can't believe you broke my chassis..." |
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Noah (Programmer): "Come on ladies, don't you want to join us."
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THIS IS ROBOTICS!!!!!!!!!
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Jake.....Jake...don't pull on my mouse.(while CADing)
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Don't open that project on the server, I'm using it here.
Well, just don't save anything. Later: "I didn't save anything! I only renamed some files!" |
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"If you see the magic smoke rise from your robot, chances are it ain't working no more"
A coach reiterated this to us today after we burned our Raspberry Pi. Good news is that the students learned where NOT to put electrical components :o |
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So as a refresher, don't magnetize the ratchet set....
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"We should name our robot 'Snap, Crackle, and Pop', since it's going to snap our battery in half, crackle as the acid sets our motors on fire, and pop when our air tanks explode from the heat."
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Our mentor sadly remarked that "I never get original ideas, I can only steal from people" and another mentor said "Congratulations! You're the next Thomas Edison!"
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"Don't hurt yourself!"
-Me, anytime I hear some loud bang somewhere in the shop. (The exclamation is to express loud volume, but not high pitch. I'm not panicked or anything.) |
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What are you doing??? Oh wait, I forgot you could do plastic CAD...
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There are two ways to do things: right and over.
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I don't normally browse this thread, but today I let out this goodie:
"You need to move it ten more angles" |
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"Come on guys we've gone fourteen years without a reported accident"
Key word being "reported" |
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"Who switched the Buisness Room and Bathroom signs around?!"
*Various responses* "But why....?" ".....it makes sense!" "Ohh...." |
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Student 1: Ah crap, my computer blue screened
*Everyone laughs Student 2: Wow, the error code is just a bunch of zero's Mentor 1(from across the room): Did you completely screw in the hard drive that mentor 2 gave you? Student 1: The screws didn't fit, but I duck taped it really well... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Literally as I was posting this: Student 1: ... snap the necks of baby bunnies Mentor 1: You snap the necks of baby bunnies?!?!?!?! Student 1: No, that's not what I - Student 2: It's an accident every time... |
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"Ghetto"
This phrase is used so much on my team. Whether it be duct tape, a bent screw or bolt, or any wacky engineering it's described as ghetto. I originally had no idea how to use this as an adjective, but I guess I've had to sort of get the hang of it on this team. :P |
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From Team 564:
When in doubt hit it with a hammer! 🔨 |
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Alexander: Hey, Andrew, does the camera work?
Andrew: It works harder than you. |
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"I guarantee it"
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Mentor:"I saved you? I knew it!"
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Everything was perfect, except for those issues...
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As a second year team, we're still learning a lot.
"The robot doesn't work" "Why is it doing that?" "Where does this go?.....well it fits here!" "What is this and what does it do?" "How do I robot?" "I'm still disappointed it wasn't a water game" |
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Student 1: We want the el torro intake but horizontal
Student 2: So torrizontal? |
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"What is your deal, Mr. Giraffe?"
-Tim Kilmer |
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Had a great quote from one of our mentors who was trying to explain field orientation for driving.
"Field orientation is like a homing pidgeon that can fly backwards." Needless to say, this is going on our team's shirt. |
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Members about other members: "I'll ship that."
When tired: "Sit/sleep on the headbutt pillow." (We have a pillow, made from leftover bumper material, that has a head side and a butt side.) Me, speaking about not having time for reading, not actually being able to read: "I wish I could read." Everyone: "Where is the duct tape; I can't believe we used ALL the duct tape-again." |
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Electrical Engineer Mentor: While reading the data sheet on an I2C Compass. “Your sidecar isn’t fast enough. It won’t work.”
[a day passes] Software Engineer Mentor: “We got the compass working. It’s funny we read the data sheet and found out we were using the wrong address. You read the data sheet and concluded it wouldn’t work.” Electrical Engineer Mentor: "I only said that because I was too tired to read and I knew you would prove me wrong." |
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Noah (programmer): "Anyone have pepto-bismol?"
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Thrift Shop reference: I've got the velcro.
Said by a super nice member when cutting the band (unsuccessfully) for our catapult launcher thing: "This is how I use my pent up aggression." "How many robotics students does it take to screw in a lightbulb?… None because we can't even figure that out." "Your elbows are ashy… Cinderella." |
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My new saying when being told to run code.
'I'm waiting on comms!' |
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"I used to have a neatly arranged electrical board, then I took PWM to the sidecar."
"Rigidification" -Both from a couple days ago. |
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"According to my calculations, what we just did was mathematically impossible."
(While using the search on CD, not logged in) "How the heck are we supposed to know Dean Kamen's last name?" me--"Well, we're improving! It's working now." mentor--"Well, yeah, if by 'working' you mean 'not working'." |
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"Hopefully our Robot will be finished by our 2nd regional"
[Whilst hiding a a tub of licorice from the PR in the build room] "We can't trust those animals without our commodities" Oh and here's my favorite personal qoute that luckily was filmed for future generations. |
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Non-Programmer: "Where is the PID on the robot?" *all the programmers vaguely point to the robot*
Same non-programmer: "How much does the PID weigh?" Programmers: "Like 5 lbs" |
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"Really dude? You revolutioned that? Dear lord..."
"Once this part is done CORRECTLY..." CAD guru berating the absentee designer and his...questionable technique, which, ironically enough, was taught to the designer by the other CAD teacher. "You go to (Insert Teacher Here) to learn how to use CAD, you come to Rath to learn how to CAD." "I see no inaccuracy in this statement." |
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[We hammered on a very tightly fitting gear to a CIM shaft...it was pretty solid once it was on there. Afterwards, we realized that our original design was flawed and that we would have to take it off]
Mentor (to build team): "This is gonna have to go" Builder: "Oh Lord. That took forever to get on there! How are we going to get it off?" Another Builder: "Prayer, Fasting, and Butter." Mentor: "That's going on the wall." |
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(We have a sponsor with a water jet cutter and another sponsor with a laser cutter)
Student: When can the parts be laser jet? Mentor: A laser jet is a printer. Although, we might be able to 3D print them. Good idea. |
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"Just because you have a bag of chips doesn't mean you are on a permanent lunch break" spoken eloquently by our team captain
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"Go eat so you can be useful" was a choice one from a few meetings ago. Blood sugar is important for maintaining productivity, folks!
(After finally finding a hex bearing which would actually fit on one of our gearbox shafts) "It's like winning the lottery, sort of, if the lottery jackpot were about $3 and you were forced to buy tickets to make your robot work." "As best we could tell, this piece of tubing had a demon in it, which we have exorcised." "Clearly, we forgot the ritual sacrifice to the NI gods. Quick, fetch a goat!" |
New team motto "It doesn't work..." Said many times when trying to drive and noticing a jag was fried, then after the second attempt noticing our DSC was DOA, then again for the third time when we ran the code and only 1 wheel decided to spin.. This has not been a very good year for us so far hopefully we can turn it around in the next 2 weeks
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"It cant be my fault, I never even touched the robot!"-Programming lead
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"Ehhh...close enough."
"GRAVITY CHECK!" preceded by something clanging to the floor "Tom, can you go find a shaft stretcher?" "Chris, drink this." (Chris drinks slightly soapy water) A:"But this *insert improvement here* could make it better!" B:"The question is, is it good enough?" "Joe! What did you do!?"(He didn't actually do anything but is always present when something breaks.) |
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"Well, it's pretty straight."
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Team Lead: How'd it get bent?
Me: They hit it with a hammer. (Referring to two people) Person one: No we didn't! Person two: Yes... we did. |
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"When something goes wrong mechanically, we blame Clever."
"When did the word "mechanically" begin meaning "at all"?" |
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1: Is that lexan?
2: That's cardboard. |
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During the 2014 season, we have decided (because of a mispronunciation by a student) to refer to the winch mechanism on our robot as a "wench."
It's been decided that we need to use air quotes every time we talk about our wench around a referee. |
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Person 1: "why is this metal hot?"
Person 2: "because we just welded it..." Person 1: "oh well that explains everything" |
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Should I wire that?
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"Who said we couldn't do that?"
"Reality." "It's not dodging the problem if it's a solution." |
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"What should we name our crimpers?"
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"Giving the robot to the electronics team is like watching a child go off to school for the first time" -- a fellow mechanical team member
"The sprocket doesn't fit through the hole!" "Well, take it off the shaft." "That's not going to happen- I put a pin through all of it, epoxied it, and put in the set screw." "...Oh." "Time for some fine adjustment." |
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I was assigned by the head mentor of our team to make an inventory list of all the t-handle allen wrenches so that we could keep track of whether we were missing any. I had an armful of close to 20 of them and, as I passed by the head mentor, I said, "You can' t-handle me!"
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"I lost the game."
-Programming team members |
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