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"Steer in the rear."
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Some background: Our team uses a lot of wood glue. When people are squeamish about getting their hands dirty with it, I always tell them that if you let it dry on your hands and peel it off, it leaves your skin soft and smooth. (It does.)
Teammate: Shouldn't you be wearing safety glasses? Me: We are gluing the chassis. We don't need safety glasses. Teammate: What if you get glue in your eyes? Me: Let it dry, peel it off, and it will leave your eyes really smooth. |
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If it wont move, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacement anyway!!!
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The ONLY TIME you shouldn't ask "Why isn't that wire plugged in?" Is if your sitting in an electric chair!!! :D
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Coach: This is so easy, my dog could build it.
Student: Why isn't he on the build team? Coach: He's busy tracking down wild game. Student: So why can't he track down the parts we need? Coach: He did. But all he has to show for is the rear bumper off the UPS delivery truck!!! :D |
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Legend has it that Evan's laptop is still deploying the code to the robot.
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Last year, after viewing 469's robot up close - "Do these guys worship MacGyver, or are they just making it up as they go along?"
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"Outsource the torque."
I sent an e-mail to a guy I wanted to come over and take a look at our robot. He asked if we had a budget, where our money comes from, and if we had enough. He then asked for the address. I responded, "It's at 512 East Pierce Street, and we have sufficient funding for our needs." I didn't realize how shady that sounded until a few minutes ago. |
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Last year, a teammate was demonstrating the newly-completed ball holder for the robot, saying, "It has two inches of rolly room!"
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...From the ridicule that may or may not be applied to them by the Court of Public Opinion. Also, some folks (obviously you aren't one of them) have an issue with having their name online without permission, and may be unavailable to get such permission. So if you use a temporary moniker to identify them within your quote (or incident), you are home free... you know who did it, we don't know specifically, they might figure it out but it's hard to trace. |
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"Why don't we keep the xbox controllers with the rest of the drive equipment?"
"Cause that would make sense and we don't make sense here we make robots..." |
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(After a long 12 hours of practice)
Mentor: Can you get me a hammer? Me: (Comes back after a few seconds) Got it! Mentor: DJ, this is a 6-foot 80/20 extrusion. Me: I could've sworn I grabbed a hammer. "Uum... Why?" "Words are hard" "It is not a hammer, it is a cognitive recalibration tool" |
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"This is called an electric screwdriver. For short, we just call it a screwdriver. If we're in a hurry, we just go (holds hand up, twitching thumb while making screwdriver noises)."
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Mentor1 talking to Mentor2: "Hey, could you, you know, go talk to the students and try and keep them working? They're...well....playing pattycake."
Mentor2 talking to Student: "I'm going to have to take your man license." Student: "I lost that years ago." |
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Mentor: *Taking bolt out with the end of screwdriver"
Parent: "your using the wrong tool, you're supposed to be using the Thump Thing(Hammer)" Me: *taking off wheel bolt with end of a screwdriver* Me: "whoops" |
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"Bolt's stuck."
"Go get the mallet of persuasion." |
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Teammate: "we blew a fuse"
Me: "we already replaced it" Teammate: "no, we blew another one" Me: :eek: |
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Abby: "I swear, next season I'm just going to be on mechanical and hit stuff with hammers!"
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"There's a tote in my chute! You know, like Woody from - "
"Yes, we know." |
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"We don't need to re-invent the wheel, we can just buy one."
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Freshman: Are you taking that apart?
Junior: No, i am putting it back together |
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While gently stroking a sheet of aluminum that is about to be machined.
"You're going to be beautiful." |
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Me: So how much was it?
Student: 82 Me: say again!?!? Student: 82 pounds When we tried out our elevator I asked the kids to give me a few totes and a little extra weight to simulate a full stack and a can, about 55 pounds, they missed by a bit. it worked though:) |
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*I walk into the shop and see 4 guys crowded around the drill press*
James *turning*: "Don't worry about it! I swear its fine" Further context, they had been trying to attach a warped shaft to a wheel hub and instead of fixing the shaft had decided to mill out the hub |
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Mechanical Mentor - "Some teams human players are going to get good at throwing noodles across the field."
Last Years HP - "Oh so you mean like me!" Me - "He said 'good' human players. ;)" |
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Paulson: Now we need to update the RoboRio.
David: Great... go get it Arron. Arron: Ok...(starts walking away)... wait... whats the RoboRio thing? Ugh... it's gonna be a long night... |
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CS: "When did they change the design of 80/20?"
Me: "That's not 80/20." (it's REV extrusion) |
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Senior Programmer to rookie programmer - "Hey that's working!!...... Why is it working? It shouldn't be working"
It's working, that is all that matters right |
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Programming yesterday:
Me (trying to program encoder stuff): Wait, why isn't this working? This should output 45 degrees, not 1... Mentor 1 then does the calculations, gets 45. Me: Coach! We broke math! Mentor 2: Wait... Is that value in radians? Me: -_- Coach, we didn't break math. Mentor 2: It's ok, radians happen. |
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A new mentor, during his first day:
'You are all developers and you are all stupid!' 'So having a good first day in the team?' |
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Mechanical student: can I use this light wire to test a motor direct from the battery?
Electrical student: you can but you shouldn't. lucky that the school didn't burn down and thankfully the mechanical student's fingers healed. That one never gets old telling. Thanks, you know who you are. |
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To any rookie on the team who looks bored:
"Go get me the metric crescent wrench" "Go get me the wood welder" "Go get me the un-crimpers. Careful they're quite rare" "Go get me the hammer-through tap" "Go get me the wireless LAN cable" "Go get me the porcelain drill bit" "Go get me some programmer fluid" "Go get me the solid state drive lubricant" "Go get me the wire stretchers" "Go get me the octane fire suppressant" We are evil people....:) |
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"I thought a dynamo was a species of pig..."
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*upon losing the pin for a #25 half-link*
Me: I've scoured the entire floor with the magnet sweeper, I can't find it! Mentor: Have you tried crawling on your hands and knees yet? Me: *drops to commando crawl position* Mentor: because if you haven't crawled around you haven't exhausted all your resources yet Within the first five seconds of him saying that Me: *magnet sweeper grabs something* Found it. |
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I ask new electrical team members to weigh all the batteries when they're getting a charged one for testing. I tell them to bring me the heaviest one since it will have more electrons in it. A couple of them have fallen for it so far.
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"I didn't injure myself. It just hurt."
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me:*holding new hammer*
student1: "can i see the label maker." me: "sure". *grabs label maker* student1: *types "mjolnir" into label maker* me: "why did you name it mjolnir?" student1: "because the newbies are not worthy of its power." me *laughs* |
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Me and a few students had spent HOURS making a bunch of custom gussets as per CAD designs sent to us by another mentor for an assembly made of versa frame.
*Mentor comes in for the day, we had finished the gussets and were working on the rest of the assembly* Me: We finished the gussets, now were are working on the rest of the parts Mentor: What gussets? Me: These ones *points to drawing* Mentor: Oh....we are using the 90 degree versa gussets for this I should have clarified... - huge gasp by the students and I - Me: You just crushed our dreams... -later that day im in the storage room- Student: Im looking for the things Me: Things? Student: The dream replacers Me: oh...right here *hands 90 degree versa gussets* |
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Today while picking up sheet metal parts from a small town with a Bugerville ( a really awesome northwest buger chain).
*Student1 and mentor are talk in the front seat.* Mentor:(something)...shank. Me:I like chocolate shanks. Mentor: vanilla shanks are good too. Later at bugerville drive through. Mentor: I would like 1 medium chocolate milkshake, four medium chocolate hazlenut milkshakes and ONE straw. Me: So what is the plan for the straw. Share it? Mentor: No the straw is for ME you guys will figure something out. |
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Backstory: this year our team has been wiring in the neatest, most organized fashion we have ever done.
Mentor: Wow, that looks really nice! The only downside is that we can tell exactly what wires go where. It takes out the suspense of tracing by hand. |
"Next year, we should build the robot out of toothpicks."
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Two teenage boys walk into our shop...
Boy 1: what kinda store is this Coach: This is a Robotics meeting place Boy 2: where is the robot Coach points to trash can, both boys stare for a minute 5th grade FLL girl practicing near by: are you two actually stupid.... It still has trash in it.:] |
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"If David drops this allen wrench, I am going to punch you..."
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Marketing captain-"This is a clamp right?"
Me (Build captain)-"No those are pliers..." Marketing captain- "Whatever, I deal in money not tools" I'm sitting in our machine shop playing with our custom screw that has a pulley dead center. The pulley pulls free and just about flies across the room. Me-"I DIDN'T KNOW IT DID THAT!" Build mentor- This is why we can't have nice things. Build mentor-"It's within 2 thousandths, its close enough." Team Machinist-"Not in my world." *continues placing piece back in the mill. |
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There is a small scrimmage the Sunday before bag and tag and we found a large flaw in our design. After staying up all night the previous night to finish the wiring for the scrimmage. Our team is at one of our mentors garages where i have my own personal bedroom. I just delegated tasks to have completed before morning.
"If you value your life, wake me up only after its done, or if there is a DEFCON 4 emergency. When you do wake me up, make sure you have dew ready." |
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"Guys I think I'm devoting too much time to robotics, I'm coming in at lunch to CAD"
"Thank you for joining the rest of us on the team" |
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Robotics is not a time to play with your noodle
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G:Go get the Pneumatic fluid
M:Oki! *5 Minutes later to our coach and a few mentors* M:Hey, anyone know where I can find the pneumatic fluid? G sent me and I can't find it. Mentor:Yeah, it's in my office. It should be in a red canister M:Oh, ok, I will grab it. Thanks *5 More minutes later* M:I still can't find it Mentor:You're standing on it M:What? Mentor:Right there M:Where? Mentor:Everywhere. It is air... M:......... Now the running joke for today. |
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"These needlenose pliers are the best. Bae."
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Mentor: "How much weight did you just add?"
Student: "We don't know." Mentor: "You could have weighed it before you put it on." Student: "Well, we could weigh the robot, then rip off the piece and weigh the robot again." Mentor: "..." |
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"With all due respect, I would much rather use common sense than the Transitive Property of Addition." -- Matt Sinclair
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"I'm going to transform my foot into a foot with your a$$ wrapped around it!"
-Overheard at competitions last year. I think someone was forgetting the whole Friendly Competition thing. |
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You have now wasted your dumb statement of the day.... From now on only intelligence please
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"This is good progress. Usually by this point nobody knows how it's supposed to work until it doesn't. Now that it's all coming together, we can all see exactly how it's going to not work!"
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Me - J, are you cutting the sheet of sandpaper?
J - Yes. Me - J, what are you cutting the sandpaper with? J - Scissors. Me - J, are those the good scissors? J - Yes. Me - <Rolling Eyes & Under Breath> Not anymore. |
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Random Team Member to other Random Team Member selecting which song to play next in build area - "Play some Korn. Mitch likes Korn."
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Me: "Pop Quiz Kids: Tell me something new about this year's tournament strucutre"
Student: "It's a Red-Robin right?" MFW  |
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One student was drilling a hole, two other people were spotting him.
Spotter 1: a bit up... Spotter 2: to the left... Spotter 1: up again... Spotter 2: right a bit... Driller: it's like I'm entering a cheat code, up up down down left right left right. Me and another mentor at the same time: B A start! Much laughing and high-fiving was done afterwards. :cool: |
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Close enough. We're not building a piano
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Overheard a lot while building field pieces: "Don't worry about it. We'll tape it."
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Thought I would just mention that the FRC Q&A team has a magic 8 ball that they use to predict what teams will do.
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Battery Master during brainstorming a couple weeks ago: "Put it in the centre of the middle."
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"WHO STOLE MY DRILL?!"
"We need to stack the box, container, bin, tote, thingie" "Why do we even bother...?" "Close enough!" "WHY WONT THE AXLE FIT!?" "WE NEED MORE POWER!!!" |
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on our girls team. girl A hands girl B our tote grabbing mechanism girl B clutches it with both arms to her chest. girl B says "robots hurt to hug". i almost died...:D
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Scouting Master"Can I name the scouting laptop 'Lieutenant Commander Data?"
Scouting Mentor:"... No..." |
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"Coach. The holes on this don't line up".
"Turn it around". "Coach. I think it's broke". "Ok. Just add some pizza sauce". |
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Mentor on CAD last week
"Is the CAD done yet?" "almost there!" Today "Is the CAD done yet?" "almost there!" |
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Lead programmer, on the topic of duplicate components:
"Well, they're spliced together. One is working and the other is not. That means it's a mechanical problem." *fist pump* "I love saying that." |
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"Chit Kassis"
"#!@% kassis?" |
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After a long build day two students were watching us test the robot for a long time and our head mentor said "what are you guys doing? Are you guys pidgins?"
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"Can't we just hot glue some Plexiglas to it or something?"
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Me-"what's wrong with the robot code?"
Mentor-"It's so broken we may have to re-install labview" Me-"Where is the sonic screwdriver?" Me-"go get me the metric sharpie" Me-"I don't think we should build our drive train out of would" Mentor 2-"Gobble-Gobble-Gobble" |
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The other morning we were doing some test driving. After making a stack of four this is what happened:
Christian: Dang, we're getting pretty good at driving. (Not more than a second later he bumped the controls and knocked the stack onto the table causing everything on it to explode).... Nevermind.... |
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"We managed to turn recycle rush into a water(ish) game."
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"It works, just not yet." Currently the most said phrase on our team...
"I'm sure the code will work this time!" Said wayyy too often. |
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We've recently taken to calling one pair of scissors the "Magic Scissors". They look about like this, and a casual observer might think they're "funny" and not good for anything. But they're fantastic at "soft" materials like pool noodle, pneumatic tubing, dual-lock, fabrics, and rubber sheets. We've also cut some wire with them better than the wire cutter part of our one wire stripper.
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"We're gonna need a bigger bag"
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It's like I'm giving birth!
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"Why should we name our robot Admiral Akbar?"
"BECAUSE IT'S A TOTE!" |
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"Friends let friends eat Cheese-Its out of their pocket when the snack shelf is low"
"Its gigabytes" "Don't do that. It can kill you."-"We should just make 1000 ways to die, Robotics Edition" "Is that enough duct tape" "Are you sure you measured it again?" "What are you guys doing?"-"Breathing. Growing hair. Sitting." |
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"The compressor is half the temperature of a toasted Subway sandwich."
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"Square hole, round shaft. No workey."
"Yeah, I know some programming languages. A little Spanish, mostly German though." "6 inches is the new 7.125 inches." "Where's the fifth and six wheel?" Four weeks into build season, FYI, and our robot has four wheels. |
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When talking about testing the code:
Me: You don't really expect the code to work perfectly the very first time yo run it. Coach: Yes you do(completely seriously). |
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"I have some good ideas for the name.
Either Elly, Fang, or Angry Llama!" |
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Mechanical Mentor: We really need to get the funnel attached to the robot by the end of today.
Mechanical Student: We have a funnel? Really? When did we get that?? Mechanical Mentor: About two weeks ago.. |
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Freshman: "Why are we mounting such a big battery at the bottom?"
Veteran: "Well, we wanted to put it at the top, because gravity will help the electricity flow that way, but we decided that if we just used a larger one we could get enough power between that and an electricity pump and use its weight to prevent the robot from falling over." Freshman: "Why not just put the big battery at the top and use the extra power to prevent the robot from flipping over?" |
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