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"Oh my God, this thing is sexy"

One of our mentors said that when he saw the painted (yellow and black, duh) mule chassis.

"Please refrain from the throwing of hats"
--Warning from the janitor after we played frisbee in the CAD lab with someone's hat one day after the meeting ended :D

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"the holes don't line up"
"holes don't ever line up"

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"ooh, let's make a drivetrain with 7 CVTs, a differential for each wheel and..."

"let's make mecanum wheels where the rollers are actually omniwheels. we'll call them pan-directional wheels because they can move in 3 dimensions."

"uhh...good luck with that."

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Me: "Hey, what's the probability of this flying out and coming crashing down, killing or injuring us?"
Other team member: "Very likely. That's what it's supposed to do."
Me: "Oh Dear."

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said while assembling mechanum wheels

"oh crap I think I just dropped a nut"

"shouldn't that have happened a couple years ago?"

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"No, not the surgical tube, PLEASE, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"

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QFT.

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actually water and electricity mix exceptionally well that is the problem

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"Okay, that drive train is out." "Why?" "Cause it would have cost $1200!"

"Here, catch!" (Said before tossing a trackball)

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URGH, I left my notebook at school. The one with most of the good quotes. Well, I'll be there tomorrow anyways so =p

Although one of my favorites is:

"An Arm is not a Hand." - Blake Hooper, Manufacturing Leader.

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Andy: So, you like krimping more then stripping?
Jill: oh god yes!
Andy's dad: Never say that one to your dad

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my personal motto
"theoretically it will work"

my following statement after it has been tested.
"I said it was theoretical"

Applies to all my programming.

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During pizza ordering in one room.

1: "Is that everyone's order?"
2: "Did you get the programmer's in the other room"
1: "No, I just planned on throwing sardines into the tank. They'll be fine."


"I don't understand why he's a vegan, it doesn't offset anything. Besides, you know how many tomatoes get killed for one pizza?"

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Me, looking at 2008 build schedule "We have to go into FIRST overdrive!" Because Co-President says our robot will be professionally welded if we don't have time to weld it ourselves.

Me: Ah! I'm going nuts!
Tamara: No, you're going washers...

We were sorting washers and slightly nostalgic about freshman year, and sophomore year. We're now both juniors. That's three years we've been doing this freshman's sorting thing...