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"I don't know!!!!!"

^We are a rookie team^

"I need 2 nuts. Hahahahaha"

"I know wiring like the back of my palm!"

"I didn't know PWM wires could catch on fire!"

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"But I don't have anything to do...:confused: " ~a few students
"I'll fix it. Give me the hammer.:cool: " ~Charles
"Uh... Charles:yikes: , just don't break the Tap again." ~Daniel (me)

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1: "How much does the battery weigh?"
2: "About 12 pounds."
1: "So each volt weighs one pound?"
2: "Yes. Yes it does."

couple minutes later....

1: "So what about 9-volt batteries? They don't weigh 9 pounds!"

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Said by our teacher during the design phase -
'well, that would work if we had a mongo but we only have a mongette.'

----
--a little history - in the advanced tech/robotics classes he teaches, there is usually a challenge that has to do with an old bowling ball that is called Mongo (yes, Blazing Saddles).
This quote had nothing to do with the bowling ball but the idea translated.

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I need my strippers!
refering to wire strippers of course

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Another one from 1983, Skunkworks.

"Its like saying 'im gunnu hit you in the spear'!" -Robert Steele

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"It's intetionally smaller!" - Kyle about font size.
"I'm just a freshman, I don't know anything." - Ben, a freshman

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I know its not from this season but I would have to say or teams all time greatest quote came from our 2004 build season.

we were descussing diamond plateing and one of or seniors said
"hey daimond plateing is made from crushing peanut butter and diamonds using extreme pressure."
it was great timing considering it was like 12am the day before ship and we still had alot of work to do. it got us pumped for another hour of work. we still talk about it today.

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Me: "Hey! I think I just saved half a pound!"
Todd: "I call shotgun on your half pound."

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Said earlier in the season by one of our mentors describing a computer simulation of our gripper:

"It works pretty well...Until you turn gravity on."

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Quote from my fellow college mentor Justin:

"This is the worst printer in the history of printers!"

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"did you just crash the rc???"

"you see electrical team? this is why you dont put 12 volts through a pwm cable" *shows*

*after watching eurotrip at robotics retreat* "mi scuzi, mi scuzi!"

"it's enrico pallatzo!!1!!!"

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"It took how long to render? Holy crap!"

"Lift the arm up, LIFT THE ARM UP! Now, drive it like you've been driving it for years, DRIVE!"

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Kid: "You think these ball bearings will get rid of a lot of the friction?"

Me: "Yeah.. those igus bearings were never meant for as much weight as we had on them."

Kid: "Ready for me to take the support off the elevator?"

Me: "Yeah... it wont go anywhere..."

Robot: (which had suddenly found a calling to become a guillotine :yikes: ) SLAM!!! BANG!!! CRASH!!!!

Kid: "Yep... i think we got rid of a lot of friction."

Me: (looking like i've seen a ghost) yeah... yep... never seen a faster going-down elevator in my life.

-------------------------

Stay safe everybody.... watch out for homicidal robots!!!!! :ahh:

-q

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"I am sure the atonomous mode works this time"..... (Diden't work)

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*disclaimer: I have no idea what the context was*

"Oh, I would totally run around the parking lot with no pants on....wait...what were you guys talking about?" - Josh

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"autonomous SHOULD work"
"SHOULD? come back here when it WILL work"

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"Are you tappin' the same thing I'm tappin' ?"

"Get the ball fuzz out of the electronics"

"That's ok, a c-clamp will work as a hammer too.... or a wrench"

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Coach : An inch by inch by inch cube piece of aluminum weighs an eighth of a pound.

Frosh : What's the fourth dimension of the aluminum?

--------

Sophmore : In Soviet Russia, robot builds You!

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" cut once, measure 3 times"

"presicion is key"

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"I need my special tool." -Mr. Van Glahn asking for a hammer

Mr. VG: "Speedwrench."
Me: "That's a nutdriver."
Mr. VG: "You need to learn the names for tools that I use."

Mr. O: "Are you sure that's 1/4-28?"
Mike: "I think so."
Mr. O: "How sure?"
Me: "He's just messing with you."
Mr. O: "Yeah I am."

Kevin: "Wow. That's...very successful."
(In reference to some dilapidated machine.)

"Is great success!" Many people, but mostly Marc.

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At Pittsburgh when we where taking down the Pratice field. I was in charge of Collecting the nuts and bolts. This is what little sleep and lots and lots of Mtn Dew does to you..."I want everyones nuts!!"

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"Raise the Titanic initiate..."
- Entire drive team in reference to noises made by our lift

This is now the official unofficial term for our lift maneuver

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Noob: What can I do?

Me: Go stuff the newsletters.

(This after he plugged in the battery backwards.)

This was said during the filming of Team 829's new commercial

Scott: Your coming too fast, slow down when you come.

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M: "Oh....s****." A: "AHHHHHHHHHH!"

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"Don't worry about it."

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Not exactly Build Season, but from a Regional.

-----

(After a support bracket fell off of our bot for no apparent reason)
me:" "Uh, that shouldn't have fallen off."

(Later, in the pits)
me: "So, uh, why did that bracket fall off?"
Weaver: "We had unbolted it but forgot to take it off before the match."
me: "...oh."

-----

668 Member: "How much torque does your bot have?!"
Me: "Too much. We can push another robot and the rack... at the same time."

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"The Curse of Chris is dead!!!" - Colin, our driver, after winning SVR.

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do a barrel roll! - me
are we still in autonomous?

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Me: Did you go full speed that time?
Driver: Yes. If it had hit the rack...bye bye rack!

(Before changing our drive, we had way more speed than we could ever use. We were wondering if the robot could move the rack from sheer inertia.)

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"Don't worry, James will fix it" Just about everyone on the team

James is this really smart kid on the team that can fix anything wrong with the program, anything wrong with the wiring and mechanical stuff. We even made a song, Anything you can do, James can do better, James can do anything better than you, No he can't, Yes he can.

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"You look like a girl laying on the beach." -me to one of the boys on the team during driver testing.

"E. F. did that?"- talking about the rack which broke when he moved it.

I was reading the arena rules about reporting injuries.
"Does that mean I should go submit your name now? -Our drive coach making fun of me.

"Can I see the quote book?"
"No, there's a reason I'm holding it. I say a lot of stupid things."-Me

We have a whole binder of quotes too from build season, but its at the school right now.

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Eric: "Steve, you're omniscient"
Steve: "What does that mean?"

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mentor- "I think we can procrastinate and still be okay"

It was a week before ship date and our the sprocket on the arm was sticking out making it half an inch too high. We wanted to cut the arm down but he thought we were underweight enough to go up to the next height level. But we weren't.

p.s. good thing we cut the arm down later that day anyways

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this is the general guidlines used by our mentors when talking to the drivers...

"Drive it like ya stole it"

in otherwords...don't be afraid to break the robot

another good one from our driver coach, Lynn,

"Steve, Hunter, if Pete[a mentor] ever tells you what you can or cannot do while driving the robot, tell him to shutup from me" - Lynn

later that day

"Hey steve, try to not get our arm stuck in other roboots" - Pete
"Hey pete, 'shutup', from lynn"-me

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"That looks like way too much Tap Magic"

"Too Much Tap MAgic? There's no such thing as too much Tap Magic!"


"Innuendo Levels are reaching Critical Mass! Take Cover!"

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One of my Team Members:"why did our arm fall off?"

Me: "I think somethin' broke"

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"I didn't like the way your robot looked. Namely, nonexistant."

-Tim Baird, in response to 190's query as to why 126 didn't pick us at Boston (190 was not competing at Boston this year, but we went anyways to support our friends)

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Not during Build Season, but at the Davis Regional:

Pit Announcer: "Team 675, stop blowing bubbles in the pit."

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The back of team 696's shirts says "But it worked in Inventor!"

(If anyone knows the genesis of this saying, I would be interested in hearing it, but it's amusing in any case.)

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Heh. I like it.

I was thinking that I should (in off-season), make up a bunch of Robotics T-shirts that aren't team specific (just general FIRST geekyness) or maybe a few that are 675 jokes or rules (like "No politics in the shop", or "I aerated my Amp!")

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"so how many times could this kill us over?"
"I want to see the magic purple smoke"
"Ms so are you coming to are game with a hang over?"

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"FOX!!!(our head coach) LET ME OUT OF THE TRAILER" as i pound my fists on the inside of our trailer

(at about midnight) "Our safety captain is jumping on his bed"

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While smashing some flourescent light tubes in the garbage:

P: "What's that white stuff coming out of the tube?"
M: "Is it light?"
me: "You have to be kidding."

she wasn't kidding.

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this is the best one
"You are a huge Tool"
"1) i cut my self
2) here is duct tape and a papper towel"

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What? You don't normally make band-aids out of duct tape and paper towel?

Here is another good one-
Me- "GAHHH my auto mode just tried to kill me"

word to the wise- always make sure that when you type in speed values you dont put 16 in the place of 160.

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;p

when you are in the heat of building u use waht you have around you they are lucky to even get a towel :P

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You have obviously never seen our 200 uses of duct tape buttons. one of them is as surgical bandage, another is as band-aids.

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When in the heat of building, you're lucky if you even notice an injury. I cut myself something like 5 times during build season, and didn't notice until the day after I cut myself. At least I still have all my fingers.

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duck tape and tissues also works when you twist your ankle by tripping over something at the work site (tissues so the duck tape doesnt rip your skin when you take it off haha). i've used that combo many many times :rolleyes:

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Hm...echos of GLR...
Between me and a member of a rookie team after they roasted a PWM...
Me:"Got PWM?"
Him:"Nope."

Also, if I haven't mentioned it before...
"You can build a perfect machine out of imperfect parts."
Plastered to the whiteboard after I read it on the MTG card Coalition Victory. Yay, flavor text!

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It's never a hardware problem. As long as things don't fall apart, it's always software problem.:D

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“The holes doesn’t match”
“Just make both of them bigger”

“WHERE are my NUTS??? WHO took my NUTS!!!???”

“ Let me see the uh… gripping…thing…”

“ Ummm… are you supposed to hammer that?”
“ Yeah.”
“ Umm… isn’t that our drive train?”
“ Yeah…What!? Hammer fixes everything. Haven’t you seen Armageddon?”

“If someone ask what our robot can’t do, tell them it can’t make toast.”
“If we put a toaster on the robot, we can make toast!”
From then on, the name toaster was a hit and almost became the name of our robot >_< (lost by one vote)

(Pneumatic team let the air out of the tank) us mechanical team screamed: “LEAK!!!!!”

“Where are the scissors?”
“In the tape measure drawer.”
“Why?”
“That’s just where I keep them.”

“It’s only 1/8th off”

Between regional:
“The bumpers got ripped again!?? That’s it; I’m wrapping them with Kevlar.”

“We’ll make our robot hover and get 90 bonus points.”

(To self) “Oh s*&#, It doesn’t fit.”
“What you do this time?”
“Nothing, just prototyping.”

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Sarah: OWWW! *dances in pain holding finger*
Me: Did you just stab yourself with your Safety Captain button??
Sarah: Yes! *dances some more*

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What to say to a female you are trying to pick up at the FIRST robotics competition....

you- Hey you look like a keeper

XD

this came up at dinner with team 675 and non of us had the chance to use this awsome line:)

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During the championship in our hotel at the girls' room.

guy:"Why is there beef jerky on the bed?"
girl:"Oh that's where it went. Ewww."

guy:"You have to put the coffee filter in first."
girl:"Is this the coffee filter?"
me:"That would be the napkin."

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Quotes by our fearless leader: Paul Copioli...

"You are SUCH a tool!"
(what Paul refers to students who he deems incapable of intelligent thought)

"Brass hammer... now."
(what Paul says when something needs fixing)

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"No WOW references in the shop! Time to play catch the hammer."
(We had to enforce a strict "no WOW reference" rule after multiple warnings)

"Oh, great the robot's over weight again?"
"It must be that new programming for the arm."
"Tell them to redo it with less 1s and more 0s"

"Does it taste like a Loogie?!?"
(One fateful night after a meeting I set down my soda on a shop table to clean up a few of the tools. Upon returning I up-ended the rest of the contents of the can into my mouth. Something was different. It wasn't as sweet. And it had a familiar feeling...you know like when you have some phlegm in the back of your throat and you....well you can guess)

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"Hey that was me!" __Andrew Rankin today recalling something funny from build season

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Of course you can't forget "you've gotta be KIDDING me" and "what are you doing??!!?!?!"

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This is one by me, when working with some complex sensors (lovingly nicknamed 'Codename Weasel') in a very noisy environment with lots of programmers.

"Shh... I can't hear the ultrasonic sensors."

And, when they actually worked, the programmers in the stands:
"WEASEL!!! WEASEL!!! WEASEL!!!"

(I imagine we got a lot of strange looks. If you're curious about the nickname, watch Hotshots!)

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It seems to me that our best quotes are said outside of the actual event:


"Wait your from Poway!? Do y'all know Tom DeLonge? Course we do, we know Sally too. YOU KNOW SALLY!?" - A blink 182 fan in the pits

"Matt looks like a Marine. Matt's not wearing Green. Who am I marrying?"

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"Jon Dudas..."

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AAAHHHHH

I swore, if I ever saw that name again...

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"I'm the best male electronician ever..."
"Hey Mr. Steele can I get a tactometer..." (we told our secretary that the calipers was called a tactometer)

"Team 1983 needs a 2ft peice of Robert's Steel." (Our coach is named Robert Steele...this was announced at Vegas)

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That's because the best electronician is a girl... aka me... ya that one was said at about 3 am 2 or 3 days before ship... and in the first week of the build season, I was teaching myself inventor and wanted the (what I now know as) calipers, but the guys told me they were tactometers... our coach looked at me like I was crazy. We also asked for some tactometers at the Portland regional... the pit announcer says, "oh yea, I know what those are!!" and then she announced it. We couldn't stop laughing for half an hour. And then in Vegas after we announced that we needed some Robert's Steel, three teams came over with different types of steel asking if we could use it. That was the best. There's plenty of others, but there on poster board up in our physics classroom, I'll have to go take a look.

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Our team is like obsessed with that name!!

one of the guys coined the term "dodeum" (pronounced dotam) early in the build season, our name for anyone who does something stupid, pretty much everyone... so we are working on making a "dodeum pole," but the most recent quotes seem to be made up of...

"you're such a dodeum! Who's your hero, Jon Dudas??"

and some of our most recent cheers include

Who are we? SKUNKWORKS!
Where are we from? SEATTLE!
What does it do there? RAINRAINRAINRAIN!
What is this? THIS IS MIST! THIS IS MIST!
(the "rain" in atlanta after the "wrap party" on sat.)

and...

Who are we? SKUNKWORKS!
Who's our hero? JOHN DUDAS!
Where does he work? PATENT OFFICE!
PATENT! PATENT! PATENT!

Too little sleep... too much spirit... too late...

we can't get the championships out of our dreams or our thoughts either... and I don't want it to go away! but I can't make it until january!!

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"The fans weren't spinning, so I turned up the voltage..." (a freshman who I mistakenly left with my cruddy $25 inverter and the bench power supply; we were modding it to have fans and he had wired it wrong.)

"Try cutting the ground wire off. It will give me better resolution." <SNIP> "Umm...I'm not getting *any* signal from that pot now..."

As he carelessly flicks the Disable switch off: "OK, let's try this..." The arm starts moving to the (impossible) position the software wants to get to; the other guys in the pits start yelling "STOP STOP STOP DISABLE DISABLE!" as I dance in success--my code moved the arm where I wanted it to! (even though it blew out yet another BaneBots tranny...oops:p )

"The solenoid cracked. It's alright, I can fix it in software!"

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student:I don't get full; I just get less hungry.
(motto on food consumption)

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Andre: Greg, What the hell happened?...
Me: Somethin broke...

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During a pep talk before a match with our other 2 alliance partners:
"This is our house, and nobody comes into our house. Now lets go out there and drive like a bunch of pissed off teenagers!"

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Not to creep anyone out or anything.....but a couple team mates and I (I started the chant above) founded a religion based wholy on Jon Dudas, called Dudianity. You see, it is all a way to keep the bewildered little freshman in line...Teach them the holy ways......(and yes, I am kidding, but we really did talk about this that night...)

I was standing in our pit at the time and someone came up and asked "I know its kinda stupid of me but what is Robert Steele?" I found that pretty funny. I then told him that that was the name of our mentor.

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"Team 675, stop blowing bubbles in the pit"
--admins at Davis

No doubt, you were the most random team at the Davis Regional.:D

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Secret Lovvvveerrrrrsss

Don't ask.:D

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Student (myself): Don't force it honey!
We were bending plastic for the top of our chassis. It was hilarious

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Why when you keep food in the microwave away from ants, you tell people.
--" Why is there tea in the microwave?! "
--" We have tea?! "
-- " Thats where it went!"
-- " ew...."

How 973 members learn why you don't wear rings and work on the lathe.
--"Have you seen Chuck's ring finger?"
-- "No.."
-- "Neither have we. "

"What would you need a two house power blender for, blending babies?"

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Echos of GLR...

Team 280 was burned by the judges for playing their anthem in the pit area the day I missed, apparently.
Their anthem? Aptly, "TNT!"

And I swear this is true, even though no one believes it, but this is something somebody actually announced SOMETIME during the competition...
"No swordplay or dagorhir in the arena."

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me- "No one say pneumatics ever, i mean ever, again...it is now an evil word that should be banned from speech."

I became operator during the latter half of the Las Vegas regional and the Championship. For some reason or another there sprung a leak in the pneumatic system and the mechanical/drive team (drive team is part of mechanical) looked over the entire system 3-5 times and could not find a thing, reconnected every tube, checked ever plug, couldn't find a thing. And during one match someone (most likely me....) forgot to close the pressure valve fully so during that entire match i had virtually no pressure, and thus, our arm was completely useless.

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/off subject
Thats why we dont use pneumatics :)

::Hearing the awards being read off and the descriptions not matching us whatsoever:: *Looking at someone else* "Thats us!"

*It wasnt me! It was the robot!" - Says the operator :)

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Explination<Our coach gave the drive team nicknames from star treck this year...I was scotty.>Explination

Coach:Scotty we need that arm higher
Me in a scottish accent:I'm pushin it as hard as I can Capn' ,it's just a robot, you can't push it's arm any higher than thaaaaaaaat!!!"

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Here's some quotes by the mentors on our team from this season:

Innebriated Mentor Discussion at ~3:00 am January 7th, 2007:
Mentor A "So if we put up a 72 times the square root of two inch wide sheet that's 6 feet tall, and go to the opposing home zone line and drive about 6 feet back and forth in front of the operators, would they call that ungracious professionalism or the best [darn] defense ever?"
Mentor B "Maybe it's gracious if we put a BIG yellow smiley face on it, then at least they'll have to laugh the first time"
Mentor C "We'd be infamous!"
Lead: "We do NOT tell the kids about this strategy."
Me, somewhere in there, flipping through the rules: "Well as long as we don't call it a 'decoration' I think it's technically legal"

During the season:
"If it can't hold a static 200 pound me, there's NO WAY it will hold a 150 pound robot hitting it and driving up it at 10 feet per second!"

The night we got the robot back at the school and uncrated:
"Ok now we're going to let the MENTORS drive and the STUDENTS boss us around!"

"See, this is what John meant when he said it turns itself."

<After spinning the robot as fast as we could in one direction to test quality after competition season>
Lead: "Hey watch where you're spinning that thing, you almost hit something"
Me: "Oh, well it's just a locker and we could repaint it"
Lead: "No, I meant don't hurt the robot"
Me: "That's why we have bumpers" <big grin>

Me: "What genius decided to make a rocking drivetrain and then put all supports for the ramps on the outside of the outer axles?"
Lead: "Joe, Piccione, Duane, Me, and oh yea, You too."
Duane: "Darn this hindsight vision, it's so clear it's making me dizzy"

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"KISS"

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"There is a life outside of F.I.R.S.T.?"

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Mentor: Sleep.
Me: Wha?
...
Me (singing): I like caffeine!
Mentor: Wha?
...
Me, after accidentally swallowing aluminum dust at a saw while cutting a piece for the frame...
"Hm...needs Tabasco."
...
To be continued...

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Mentor-Stupid Freshmen.
Student-I'm not a Freshman! I'm a Sophmore!

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Every body quotes famous people during speechs and stuff!:yikes:

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background info: a wire on our solenoid broke, and i had to replace the whole electronic device. we never used that solenoid, until one broke and we had to. 10 minutes (or 20, i forget) before a qualifying match, after the new solenoid was wired up, we tested out robot. nothing. the solenoid lights were changing, but the pneumatic cylinder wouldn't move.

Mentor: it's not working....
Teacher: [after looking at it for a minute] ahhh....i see the problem!
Teacher: [takes the solenoid away, fixed it, comes back a few minutes later. we're all going crazy because we're going to miss our match]
Teacher: someone put 24 volt contacts. we needed 12 volt contacts
Mentor: [i forget exactly, but something along the lines of: ] what kind of person did that!
Me:[not saying anything....it was me way back during build season...]

ya.....that was kinda funny looking back at it.

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me- "wow....i have a life now....what am i going to do with this much time on my hands.....be social? whats that?"

This was said by many when the season came to a close and we where flying back from Atlanta...i still have no clue what to do.....get a job maybe....

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"Why can't we fix you like a robot?"

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The code leaked!

Let's take an outside break.

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"I hate one eigth"

after messing drilling a whole for a screw on our chasis by 1/8th an inch, it cause a few problems...

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*interviews for our rookie season summary video*

B.G.: "so... tell me about a memorable moment and how FIRST has changed you"

me...: "well this one time John Dudas and I were walking down the street..." (insane laughter)



*more interviews... in front of our robot that has fur on the "claw/jaw"...(skunkworks... go figure)*

"ooooohh fuzzy... (strokes claw) rawr... (cat-like claw motions towards camera...)"

B.G. "I'm so posting that up all around school!!"

(don't ask me how he's going to print out a video... lol)

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A conversation involving Mechanical guys 1 and 2, and the programmer. The programmer and mechanical guy 2 are in the adjacent room. Mechanical guy 1 is playing with the laptop with all of the code on it.

M1: This computer is broken. I'm gonna fix it. By taking out the RAM.
M1 is not actually doing anything
P: Stop making fun of me.
M1: Wheeee!
M2 walks into room with M1, and immediately says:
M2: Dear lord, he's actually doing it.
P curses wildly and runs into room. She sees that nothing is wrong, and then begins to curse more, and no longer lets the laptop out of her sight.

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the old classic:
"That wasn't supposed to happen!!!!!!"

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"Well there's your problem"

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Dinosaurs...Blahblahblah...Big Bang...BlahBlahBlah...Now we're building robots-Kwol

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"You see what's happening is that my rod has a much larger diameter than yours --"
*we all stare at him*
"and by that I really meant NOTHING sexual, look the diameter really is bigger.."

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"What if the robots were controlled..

..through TELEKINESES"

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i you put a balloon on the air release then your release the air it will blow up the balloon

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after the championships, i, as a new programmer, am fiddling with the robot code. shortly after the robot goes completely insane, almost taking out our mentor:
me: "There's apparently a big difference, when making a kill switch, in disabling user control and disabling user control AND the motors"

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By a programmer:
"Metal conducts heat! Metal conducts heat!"
(As he holds square pins to solder them to a PCB.)

May be already mentioned, but this was said by the pit announcer at LVR:
"Team ### as requested a flux capacitor."
(At this point half the pit bursts into laughter, then goes quite as that half explains to the other half why that was funny.)