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Mentor: We need to find a way to make it faster.
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Captain, shaking a doorknob: "Listen, you can hear the ocean!"
Rules Manager: "Now we can get standard-issue multitools!" |
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"I'm only good for two things: makin' parts and rippin' farts."
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"They can throw away our Cluck, but they can't throw away our Norris!"
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Backstory: Our school does Candygrams around Valentines Day as a fundraiser for various clubs (Not Robotics, sadly). Said Candygrams are traditionally delivered to their recipients by a horde of the manliest men in school, all wearing bright pink tutus, leggings and the occasional set of fairy wings, all singing various songs by Justin Beiber. Naturally, one of our captains sent a Candygram to another captain and this is what transpired when they met in the hall before our meeting.
Captain 1: So did you get a candygram today? Captain 2: Oh, just one. I can't quite remember who it was from though... Captain 1: Beats me. Captain 2: Oh that right! I remember now! Captain 1: Who was it? Captain 2: You! (He then proceeds to spout a very creative string of curses and death threats that I am obliged not to replicate on these forums.) |
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I think it would be fun to put on a leather suit and fight a raccoon.
Random, out of the blue comment from college age mentor. It's time to be done:) |
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Alvaro: Does somebody have a flash drive? We need nine gigabytes.
Dadream: Here! (Hands over a ridiculously old flash drive) Alvaro: No! We are not using this. How much storage does it even have? Dadream: It has gigabytes. Me: (After trying it) You lied, Dadream; this does not have gigabytes, it has one gigabyte. You can't fax money |
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Two students are discussing across vs acrosst
"Look at me! Look at me. I don't care." |
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When milling parts...
"I LOVE THIS MILL!!!" About 30 seconds later, when we are trying to get the x location to 1.1875 and it keeps flipping to 1.1188... "@#$%^ YOU MILL!!" We finally determined that the student was in a love hate relationship with the mill. :) |
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No sleep till robot.
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"We are all in agreement next years theme is Frozen correct?"
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"Scratching the powder coating in a match is a mark of honor. Scratching the powder coating while building the robot is inexcusable"
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"I'm gonna call the sleepy-sleepy method right now......." - a very tired programmer who was forced to go take a nap
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in a Steve Irwin voice "crikey look at those programmers"
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It was reported to me by my wife that at ~4:00am Sunday morning, I was sleep-walking around the bedroom, trying to find a drill to re-rivet the arms for our elevator. I'm thinking a 48 hour nap after bag and tag might be in order...
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"Did you seriously forget the battery?"
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Since last night was Stop Build Day, we have today "off" from robotics (except for an officer meeting), so this happened last night as we were packing up:
Me: What's a "day off," and what does one do with it? Should I just spin around in circles until I get a splitting headache? Lead mentor: Well, you could still do robotics stuff at home. You could work on the website. Me: (immediately cheering up) Okay! I'll do that. |
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"You guys are still here?"
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"Let's not, and say we did!"
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Upon bagging the robot
Mentor: "And now back to our regularly scheduled lives" Student: "what's that?" Student: "What am I going to do with my life now?" Senior members Student 1: "This is our last build season..." Student 2: "I'm gonna miss this in some sick sadistic way." Student 1: "I'm gonna start having robot withdrawals" Student 2: "You're gonna wake up at 3:00 AM and start looking for a 7/16 nut driver" |
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"Thats a tomorrow problem"
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"Not with that attitude you can't"
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Me, when about to install RobotPy on the practice bot to our programming mentor: "We're spreading the gospel of Python!"
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One of our engineering mentors, when the robot was starting to get heavy:
"Well, we could always strap a bunch of helium balloons on the robot" |
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"But the empty battery weighs less!"
"Looks like the robot needed another blood sacrifice." While detaching our electronics board: "Is this technically removing the robot's heart or intestines?" "Its nervous system, I think." Later that night - a.k.a. midnight on the last day of build: "So we pretty much bagged an empty frame?" "Yep." And on the list goes... |
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"Gimme that ALCOHOL!!!"
"Ohmygosh blood" Someone cut their finger. First is their (joking) reaction to disinfection with Hydrogen Peroxide in contrast to rubbing alcohol, the second is someone else on the team's reaction upon walking in on the area. |
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Today I found some papers in our recycling bin game piece.
"Who's been using the recycle bin for its intended purpose?" |
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"Jarren, where's the center punch?"
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You know when someone asks where something is before looking for it themselves? That has been the entire build season with the stupid center punch. One day, fed up with this needless question, I proclaimed "If I hear 'where's the center punch' one more time I'll [insert threat I can't remember here]" Needless to say. They found my button, and the question is asked the moment someone needs it. |
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I love this so much:
"Some people just don't understand logic until you've written it on a 2 x 2 piece of plywood and hit them over the head with it. Even then there are those few who still don't get it." Spoken by one of our mentors with whom I was discussing some of the issues with certain teammates. |
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**Conversation said whilst compiling a list for a Home Depot run**
M: What do we need from Home Depot? A:Spray paint. J: Oh...and uh...tell Popham we broke our dremel. M:... A:... J:... A: Nah, I'm not telling her that. J:I'm not telling her either! M:She's gonna kill us, we're dead. And it's not even stop build day yet!! |
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"This years game is a lot like NASCAR. It's only exciting when things go wrong"
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"I guarantee 100% that it will work this time.."
"Theoretically there should be no issues." |
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I don't care if Jesus himself programmed that thing, we're testing that auto mode before we try it on the field.
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"Better would be better."
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By some of our machining people, written on the white board:
"Stop Machinist Abuse Every time you make a machinist do math, God throws 100 kittens into the fires of Mount Doom." |
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Last night while working later than our scheduled meeting time, our lead controls mentor's wife comes in:
Wife: "Hey, just wondering when you were coming home" Mentor: "We're almost finished here" Wife: "Ok, so another hour or two" Me: "So you do speak robot time" right after she left, another programming mentor chimed in with this one: "Mr. M has a watchdog, and it just timed out" |
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During testing and the first fire up of the old robots
" what the hell? Why is it spinning" " oh great now parts are flying off" " can we play bumper cars with the bots?" "OOOHHHHH ITS ANGRY!" As the 2014 robot body slams a student against a wall. "It's not working" " you forgot to turn it on." " how much of the LED do you need?" " all of it" " team 144s robot= epic seizure time" * did anyone see our bot at the Pittsburgh regional? If you did you'd understand " why didn't you go" " stop asking that same stupid question before I smack you" |
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Mechanical student goes to ask programming student a question.
Mentor: "DONT DISTRACT MY PROGRAMMER!" |
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Probably been heard before, but...
Programmer: "It's in the code." Team member: "It's in the code to run into the wall at full speed???" |
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"MERGE!"
We use GitHub on our programming team, and it gets fun when multiple people need to update the repository. A person will make a pull request and yell "MERGE!" to let the other students know that changes are coming (or that someone's changes resulted in a merge conflict). Everyone yells it back in response. It sounds like a herd of mooing cattle. When we took a vote to name our robot, "Merge!" came in second place. And don't ask what happened to me when I was back at work and overheard a coworker say "merge"... |
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This technically wasn't during build season, but on the bus coming back from our first ever regional one of the freshmen said "Yeah, the judges came and asked me a question and I didn't know the answer. So I looked around and saw someone with a big button and figured, 'Oh, he must be important!' so I told them to ask him." The person with the big button was our safety captain, so that strategy worked...
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Testing a new autonomous,
Me: "Yep, it's programmed fine. We can just line the robot up next to the table and try it out." *Robot proceeds to run full-speed into the table, trying its best to push it through my rib cage* "Never mind, it's not fine. The robot isn't happy that we're trying to make it do what we want." |
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"Why is it mad at me?" - students really asking "why did the compiler flag this line of code with a red X"
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While discussing strategy:
"You don't want a dead fish on your plate of scallops." I still don't know where that came from. |
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We like to pawn weight or space issues off to other sub-teams as a running gag.
"She's a little over weight. Add more zeroes to the code!" "But where do the electronics go?" "On a trailer behind the robot, of course." Coincidentally, we've been saying that second one for years, but this year it's actually a valid response. |
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"Hey can you remove the gyro, programmers need to work on it."
"Sure." (Rips it out.) (Tries to drive later on) "Why won't this thing drive? I think the programmers broke it." Silly engineers, just why? :confused: |
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Q: "Hey programmers, why doesn't the robot drive?" Says the driver.
"Have you tried turning it on and off again?" "Did you put a battery in it" "Did you plug in the controller" "Are you using the correct robot?" "Did you press the space bar by mistake?" "Are you on test mode?" "Is it a problem with the driver height difference?" "Has Atlas become sentient?" |
"Wait, our left or their right?"
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" No sleep till robot" (Team members put quote on every white board and water bottles)
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About two weeks before Bayou, our tote stacks weren't level, so we decided to add a few washers behind the "foot" that holds the bottom of the tote away from the robot and therefore level. We were afraid that if we went out too far, we couln't pick up totes at all, so we figured we'd have to tweak it in and out a few times. After the kids tested the best estimate from some measurements, I went back to Jesse (head coach).
Me: Y' know how we were afraid that we couldn't pick up totes if we put those spacers behind the foot? This one is from yesterday, as we were designing upgrades for St. Louis: Me: "We can't use hose clamps to hold it on"And a few one-liners:
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Mechanical: "can we borrow this for 5 minutes?"
Controls: proceeds to start counting to 300 seconds 300 seconds later Controls: They tell lies!!!!!! |
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I was overhearing our programming lead and mentor discussing adjusting our strafe drive control.
Mentor: "What did you tweak the fudge factor on the strafe to?" Programming lead: "Oh, I didn't, I made a separate fudge." Mentor: "...so fudge on top of fudge." Me: "mmmm. ..double fudge..":rolleyes: |
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Team co captain to freshman: "What do you and our robot have in common right now?"
Freshman: "What?" Team co captain to freshman: "Neither of you work" |
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"Oh, that's easy."
- Myself as a programmer |
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These were all chants we used in the mosh pit during eliminations in Colorado:
"My name is Adrian" "We can make a circle too" "Believe in the me that believes in you" And one of my favorites from the entire regional: "Totes my goats, totes totes my goats" |
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"It's like the Placebo Effect, but being an idiot."
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"Drew! The microwave's on fire"
everyone looks towards the smoking microwave "I swear I put water in it" |
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Meanwhile, the robot inspector had us power on the robot to test pneumatics and other things "down below" in the drive frame. I don't really know how or why it happened, but we suspect that when the robot was put into teleop mode to test the compressor, the forklift motor was somehow activated. In any case, the motor became incredibly hot and started to not only send smoke into the air, but began to drip melted winding insulation. Oops. :( |
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"You are a disappointment to your family, your village, and your cow!"
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"Pool Noodles Make Me Nervous"
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Not a quote so much as a conversation that was occurring:
Several boys on my team were discussing hair care products today, while the girls worked on the practice robot... #diversity |
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Miss you guys, working very hard to be able to participate over the summer/1st nine weeks. |
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Scouting meeting:
"Well this isn't right, the ranking algorithm isn't supposed to output negative values" "What's it saying" "Negative 2" "I rate your scouting a negative 2" |
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"Put it in the cuddle position!"
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This was said a couple years ago but it was still funny
"Stephen, you are like a blackhole, you suck all the positive energy out of everyone..your new nickname is now blackhole" |
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Well, it's not quite a quote, but everyone right now on our team is pointing out the irony of their safety captain fracturing her foot right before Worlds... ::ouch::
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Our favorite quote during this season was from our competitions, "Did it work this match?"
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One of my favorite quotes from this build season was "I do the math"
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Before our last final match...
Me : "Coach! I feel like a wheel is broken when I drive" Coach : "Get the hammer" turns out hitting things works sometimes |
Mentor"everyone's got there team shirt on for a picture before wet leave right?"
Me"uhhh... No I've got 811's" |
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Our teams drive coach after every match had two words for the drivers and the human player, whether they put up 20 or 200 points:
"You suck". It was later taped to the practice human player station, so the human player never forgets. |
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"let's not build a 6 and a half foot tall robot!" (ended up making one):D
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"This is popcorn, it tastes like all kinds of nice tasty things"
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This was back in week 4, but my reaction after my team won the regional engineering inspiration award: 'HOLY MOTHER OF PIZZA WE'RE GOING TO WORLDS!!"
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To family member: "Of course I know how to throw a pool noodle, I'm on a robotics team, remember?"
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Quote from an inspector at New York Regional:
"How do you say chainsaw in Chinese?" |
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(Us at the FTC state championship, turning on our robot's alliance-indicating LEDs before a match)
Me- Initiate swag-mode! *Teammate switches to the wrong color* Me- It would seem our swag is the wrong color |
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"Good job, we got it to spin in circles and now there's bolts flying off it. Amazing. "
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"We all about dat Swerve Doe"
"Hey... where's the robot?" "So... forklift?" "Oh look. The robot dinged the wall again..." |
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"I didn't know it was called conduit, I thought it was called doctor octopus!"
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Well... In describing the harpoon system that 900 was installing before EINSTEINS...
I was the guy answering questions about the robot. Someone asked what it actually was... "This is a Hail Mary shotgun approach that borderlines insanity. Any questions?" |
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After having a disaster of a match because we forgot our ramp, we printed signs reading "dont forget the ramp!" and taped them all over the pit.
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Do you have any pneumatic fluid?
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friend on another team: "well, it worked!" (it did in fact work, but we didn't do so well in the match)
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*autonomous starts*
*Robot moves* *Robot Stops moving* Student: "The robot stopped working in Autonomous." Me/Coach: "GO kick it" *Robot starts moving again* (Multiple times, teams would laugh at us when they saw us do it on the practice fields.) (We will be the first to die when the robots take over....) |
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Inspector comes to inspect our robot;
Inspector: And you don't have any sort of extra radio waves or anything that may mess up others right? Teammate: Awww man! Does that mean no EMP'S? |
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One of our mentors, regarding our tote stopper mechanism: "It's almost like it's retarded or something!"
Me: "We can't stack that fast even if we do hack the chute door!" Announcer from a regional: "If they stack those boxes they get HUUUGE bonuses!" Me, after autonomous fails again: "Still more accurate than SpaceX." We also named our stack clamping mechanism the #25fourks and our main elevator forks the #11fourkteens... |
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"We were supposed to queue in two minutes which was one minute ago" -a mentor
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* after auton starts and we run the code that does nothing*
"Hey look the code worked" "Maybe it will break and give us a 3 tote auton" |
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