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Me: "Look! Robot eyelashes!" (Me, on something that was reminiscent of the little broom-like things that usually go under a door. We had huge googly eyes on the robot, but one of our teammates was like "no, that isn't professional" and ripped them off when we unbagged the robot...)
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MECHANUM means your priority list should be: lose, break a wheel, make excuses, drive sideways...
This story needs a bit of context so bear with me. Yesterday the students sat down and decided to organize priorities for strategy. While discussing this strategy our school sponsor/coach/mentor/superhero needed to go home and the discussion carried on. After a long talk and discussion we decided on what we thought was a fairly strong strategy and list of priorities. One thing that was clearly established with this strategy before the coach left was that mecanum was not ideal for our strategy. At that point we sent this photo to our school sponsor/coach/mentor/superhero and IMMEDIATELY we got a call from him asking what was going on with the conversation. We pretended there was static, he asked if we were kidding, I asked when did we get kittens, he hung up with a sigh. Then came the update on facebook, I explained that the students decided on what we would call a MecHanum drive base, this drive base consists of four mecanum wheels in the standard layout, and an omni wheel running perpendicular to those wheels in the center of the robot making it a hybrid of an h drive and a mecanum robot. Best of both worlds. After explaining this we got this response about our strategic priorities... "MECHANUM means your priority list should be: lose, break a wheel, make excuses, drive sideways" I then explained the thought process behind it. "Alright, alright hear me out. If we have a mecanum drive and we have an omni wheel in the middle and a gyro when we get pushed sideways we can push back with the omni wheel. It's great for defense. And we cant get stuck on a platform cause the omni wheel can move in any direction. Its perfect." |
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"Time to start drilling holes." said on the Saturday before bag and tag at 8 pm after we weighed the robot for the first time (it weighed 170 lbs).
Now whenever the topic of weight comes up the response is "well we can always drill some more holes." |
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"The rules are perfectly clear and understandable once you apply the 'Don't be a dick' filter to them". "Anything that passes said filter is either there on purpose or is a temporarily exploitable loop hole that might be left alone"
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Background: We're looking at a under the low bar robot with simple systems due to this years decrease in funding, students, and super-mentor availability.
"I want to build a high goal shooter because we've never built an accurate shooter before." We reminded him that we had a decent shooter for Ascent, and this probably wasn't the year to try this experiment during build. |
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"I'm trying to make you not stupid"
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chute door
"SHUT THE #%$%!@% UP!!!!!" |
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"Hey guys, I found a ruler! Oh wait, never mind, it's a broom."
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"Oooooh.... Rhinos!"
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"Wait... our robot has to comply with the rules? Dang it..."
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"I'm pretty sure a thousand drunk monkeys slamming their faces on the keyboard using the CLI in AutoCad could build a better CAD model than this....."
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So we built a model of our robot's frame out of wood. We've also made a couple of the defenses, high goal, and the hanging bar. At our meeting last night, I sat in the frame and was "becoming one with the robot." I recall saying at one point: "To build a good robot, you must become a good robot." This was followed by me trying to cross all the defenses, shoot into the high goal, and climb. I impressed my self by scoring 40 points.:cool:
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"Are Luke and Anakin brothers?"
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"Chicken Butt"
This was originally 3946 for "an idea that is useless or at least very poorly communcated" and has transformed into a question meaning "How does this mechanism accomplish the task?" There's a TL;DR story here: For Aerial Assist (25" diameter ball), we did a brainstorming sessions for ways to acquire and launch the ball. The next session, we were gathering "half baked" ideas to select two or three for further development. A team member drew a picture of a frame perimeter with a ball centered in it as a presentation. Until prompted for details, he gave no indication of how the ball got there, or how it got out of there. A mentor asked if the robot just laid the ball on the carpet like a chicken lays an egg and walked away from it, or what. IIRC, he actually did have answers, but the picture didn't begin to explain the idea. |
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from a student on the build team: "C-Clamps are like marriage counselors. they make 2 things stay together even though they really don't want to."
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"well…drone biowarfare is a topic for another day"
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"See on the Farm"
"I Bet You Kids Haven't Ever Held a Hammer" -Ed Barker Team 1311:] |
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Team: *Yelling about wheel hubs*
Gavin: "So what's all the 'hub'-ub about?" |
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Ray: "I don't care about parameters."
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J: I haven't reached full mass yet!
me: why would you want to reach full mass? me not understanding an inside joke. :cool: |
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After watching a news segment about a girl whose phone's lithium ion battery caught fire when she had her phone under her pillow (it was relevant to our safety lesson at a lunch and learn), I said to my co-captain, "I guess she knows when that hotline blings."
(Serious note: This was right after the news story called the incident a "very close call." I do not make light of fire safety.) |
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"Why do we need a vacuum if we have a spatula?"
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(Student picks up washer and turns to mother)
"Hey mom, I don't need to take a shower, I have a WASHER!" |
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"Now that's a quality breadstick.!"
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Our electrical head just asked "Why are there two different sizes of 18 gauge wire?"
It turns out that one just had more insulation than the other, but still. |
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While trying to figure out if the low bar is possible for our current shooter prototype... "With negative space you can't"
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Programmer A: "what is this... 'Rhea dawnly?'"
Programmer B: "... You mean 'readonly'?" It was a long day. |
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Was yelling to one of the mechanical students and they couldn't hear me. They yelled back:
"I can't hear you over the sound of safety." |
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"Are you Kanye or Tswizzle?"
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When the CoTS was called a BoM
"Someone has set us up the BoM!" "Why is everyone talking about explosives with the refs?" "'Put it in the BoM' 'the Bomb!? I didn't know we were building one' a mentor then explained what the BoM was 'Oh I'll do that, that job sounds like the BoM' |
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Me: "If you touch anything slow enough it generally won't hurt you..."
Mentor: "Try not to apply that to flailing blades..." *shooter hits ceiling "That should do it!" *me trying to attach a mount for a phone on top of a wall "He must have been part squirrel at some point" |
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"We should make this out of Pykrete."
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Me: "Programmers have made miracles don't underestimate them."
Programmer: "Our sorcery knows no bounds. Except for laziness." |
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Student: "I can't go into the shop because I am eating pizza, and there aren't any plates."
*thinks* "It's ok, I can just put the pizza in my pocket!" |
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Every night as we leave at 8, one of the mentors on our team without a doubt will say "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here."
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"Why does it take so long to convert a banana?"
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[as our dynamic CAD falls apart & starts looping the ball around the sides of the screen]
"Woah... matrix much?" "Just... pretend that isn't broken, OK?" |
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Programmers: Wait it works?
It should have errors but not this many errors Pretense: I am a liked freshman. Someone says "your gonna drill next" or "your gonna cut next" Me: "Wait me?" "Yes you" *In shock because they hate most of the freshman* One more event that I found really funny. It is the second meeting of the year, they are giving the freshman a tour of the lab. "This is the lathe, you will never use it" *ten minutes later the adult team captain calls me over and teaches me and lets me use the lathe* |
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these are comments describing our functions in our code:
"unloads robot's balls" "suckysuck" "I'm not sure but i think this gets the balues we need" |
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"This would be awesome!!! If it worked.."
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we need a team song for this year- lead mechanical mentor (low rider in 2014 and uptown funk in 2015)
"do not use without mentor" sign on direct drive CIM shooter prototype that sounds like an industrial fan. "do you think it went high enough when our wheel shooter had 8 in wheels at a 45 degree angle and hit the ceiling of the woodshop that is around 20 feet high. |
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"Quick Question" - something our programmer ALWAYS said when he had a question
"Over rotated" - for our auto "Under rotated" - for our auto "Tune the PID" - for our auto |
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In a battle royale, who would win-- cats or the Curiosity rover?
Pretty obviously cats.... |
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I have code for it. - Every programmer ever (Explanation: we always say that we have code for it but in reality we only have code made, never tested. I.E. "Hey hows that gyro coming?"
"i have code for it" "does it work?" "i dont know" |
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Me every time I was set back trying to organize the pit now that we're in week 3 and can't find anything:
"And then it got worse" Needless to say, I had a few words for the team before we left that night about keeping the place tidy. |
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Who ate the 3/8" shaft collars?
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Being a college student mentor I arrive late sometimes because you know college. One time I showed up around 12 when lunch arrived. I was also the one who at the most my last year as a student member.
"Wow Austin, showing up just for the food huh? Some things just never change." |
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My father has always been interested in Robotics as a whole, though originally for different reasons.
"You know what you should do? Attach knives to the robot and fight with them. You would get so much more money for doing that. I know that I would pay to see that." Now he is a part of our nerdy fold. And still thinks we should make battle bots. |
Just now when talking about how to get our robot working
"It all depends on When the gravity is located" |
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The robot automatically turns off when we flip it. (Torqy & light robot this year)
On Linux - The solution to any linux issue is to reinstall the OS. (Sadly, this works) |
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"I thought you said 'Genghis Khan was a muggle."
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"Im not about to take it apart just to be safe"
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The glory of Photoshop:
"Oh my God, He looks like a troll-face naturally" "He looks like one of my other friends...it's only when you're photoshopping someone when you realize this" "I'm gonna rip a chunk out of his face. Yeah, yeah, your forehead doesn't exist anymore" "Whoops, I didn't mean to erase your eyes" "Now I'm just cutting my face directly out" "Oh God, I cut out my own eyeball" "Sam! Don't kill me man! Don't kill me!!" "-Shawn! Your face is not cooperating! -I'm sorry, my face is too perfect to be touched by machines." "Where's the boulder? -why? -Because I want to smell it. It smells like cherries." |
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Our new team motto "Close enough is good enough"
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"Safety is our #1 Priority!"
Proceeds to eat soup right by computers. dont worry we are safe |
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"Come on lets go. Why are we not amputating my head off yet!?"
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I don't want to go off on a rant here, but one of the beautiful things about switching the runtime off of VxWorks is that the toolchain license never expires. You're free to experiment with last year's robot to your heart's content. Even better, pick up a Raspberry Pi, a BeagleBone, or soon enough, a CHIP, and go exploring. Worst case, you totally bunghole something, so you reimage the flash and start over. The same applies to virtual machines. (Somehow, Oracle gives away VirtualBox for free. And I hear Oracle charges its own employees for air[4].) Google is your friend. When something goes wrong, start searching for answers. If you aren't clearly given an error message, get familiar with /var/log and /bin/dmesg. Toss the message at Google. Someone else has had this problem. Bookmark pages where you find solutions, take notes on what you find. (Have I mentioned that embedded Linux will get you paid in the future? Your efforts pay dividends long past your last FRC match.) Before long, you'll find yourself able to remedy most Linux issues without a reinstall. This is a skill set every team needs, as much as machining, CAD, software development, or driving. [1] Although the behavior of distributions with respect to picking up bug fixes[5] is driving me a bit nuts right now [2] To protect your work, always put /home on a separate partition. For sanity's sake, also split off /var/log. On Debian-based dists (like Ubuntu,) separate /var/apt/cache too. [3] If that's something you HAVE to do, get yourself familiar with WSUS Offline [4] Larry Ellison must pay for his yacht racing habit, natch. [5] No shipping/recent Debian has a git-svn/libsvn-perl/libsurf1[6] that doesn't segfault on a checkin which touches a large number of files. [6] Unless you're an overworked configuration management engineer in El Segundo, or their management, your opinion about source control systems is not relevant. Thank you, drive through. [7] This is the famous recursive footnote[7] Quote:
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Quotes I can get away with only this year, thanks to the kickoff video:
As I'm starting my "pizza and physics" class to go through all of the projectile and catapult calculations, I say "of course, velocity is very important to this year's game, because what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?" After a long pause, finally another mentor gives the correct response. In my questionnaire on survey monkey regarding who is travelling to which competition: 1) "What is your name?" 2) "What is your quest?" |
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We can't have hamburger-like pool noodles! -Me
Hello Chief Delphi community! (It's my FIRST post! Yay!) |
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"I got flour all over my Chromebook!"
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Mentor: "Building a robot is like cooking. Clean as you go"
Student: "Or you could just eat it." |
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Student 1: "So you're worried about Ryan's mating part?"
Student 2: "He hasn't drilled holes in it yet." |
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Programmer:"Deez Nuts!"
Me:"Those are gears..." Programmer:"I'm trying, OK!" Not our proudest moment. |
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Here's one that most teams can relate to in some way:
Student 1:"So the motor isn't working, tell electrical to fix it." Electrical:"No, it's wired correctly." Student 1:"Then it's a programming issue." Programming:"No, the code is right." Student 2:"What's with this key and bearing on the ground?" Student 1:"Oh." 'Fix' gear box and repeat. |
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"Why build a robot when you can become the robot" (this was said because I'm under the weight limt, so my team jokes about disguising me as the robot.)
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Student: "Can't we just cut it in half? Doesn't that make it stronger?"
Mentor: "Cutting something in half doesn't ever make it stronger." |
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We got our new band saw in today:
Lead mentor: This is going to revolutionize robotics! Other mentor: No, its just going to make sketchy engineering faster! |
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"He had the power strip plugged into itself and wondered why it didn't work"
"The problem is that he plugged it in to a dead outlet. You need two strips for that to work." "?" "Plug one of them into the wall to energize its outlets, then plug the second one into that to energize its outlets. Then move the plug from the first strip into an outlet on the second strip, and you'll be good to go.";) :D |
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"Hey guys the Chairman's essay is almost done!" - me
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While we were cutting heat shrink with wire cutters, "Its the wrong tool for the right job."
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The thing needs to go here pointing in this direction but this thing needs to be fixed by that thing so we can put it in this thing.
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"I have bad news. The boulder doesn't smell like anything."
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"It's all fun and games until a small child gets hurt."
"He hurt himself again? Does he still deserve neosporin?" |
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My friend and I were talking and he said
"Hey Kaden check out what I found on the way to the robotics meeting today" He then showed me a picture of a garbage can that somehow got dropped on the side of a hill. |
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"Screwdrivers are not punches except for when they are"
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Mentor: "I need a hammer."
Student: "What kind of hammer?" (in reference to the 3 rules of engineering. for those of you who don't know the 3 rules of engineering: 1. Always use the right tool for the job. 2. The right tool is always a hammer. 3. Anything is a hammer.) Also: "I never truly knew what a love-hate relationship was until i joined robotics." |
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From Captain: "Hey sweatshop, you aren't being very productive. Fix it"
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G2: Hey, Ballio, what kind of wrench do you use to pound a screw into a brick? Ballio2: (slight pause, then delivered deadpan) A big one. |
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"You'll spend a lot of time on Chief Delphi. Think homeschoolers, but ten times worse."
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"Please don't pour your pants honey on me" ;)
My friend had honey packets explode all over his pocket and he tried to stick his hand on my other friend during programming |
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