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One of our mentors (college student) had cut off the end of a Zip-tie leaving a very sharp point. I asked him to cut it off flush with the latch to make it less likely to cut someone. As he was cutting it, I was warning him about the possibility that the pointed end might fly when he cut it and to make sure he was wearing his safety glasses.
His response:
"What good are those? That thing just shot up my nose"!

Sure enough, two hard blows later, out it came.:yikes:

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After any little event in the shop: "ooooh:( , I wanted to see it go boom!:p

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While programming our robot this year:

Me: Ok, I didn't tell it to do that. (Looking back at code) Oh wait ... yes I did. :yikes:

-Sam

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"MMMMMMMM ball ball ball ball!!!!!!!!!!!!" *robot chases after trackball*

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well there are a number of funny things that were said on my team but i think the most reoccurring one was "my god, thats a big ball"

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said by our female mentor
"well, guys do like balls"

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When asked how to hurdle the ball I replied, "We can use a tractor beam."

At recurring pionts throught the six weeks when we ran into mechanical problems I would say "Should have used a tractor beam."

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(after programming spent an hour and a half trying to get the left motor on the robot to work)
"Ummm....did anybody check the cable thingys?"

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whenever we were attaching something to the robot, but everybody was being lazy, one of us would say "use the magic constrain button"

this is because while designing, all of the parts on the inventor bot were just constrained, and didn't have any bolts or things holding it together

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advisor: "did anyone notice what when you stenciled the bumpers they were upside down?"

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"Home, whats home? Is that place we go for food and sleep?" - Shane

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"All progress ceases when food arrives."

This was said by many people nearly every day. Dinner comes, and all work stops!

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"FOWARD! FOWARD!"

The student, at this point, has crashed the robot into the place with the controls, also smashing our teacher into the computer he is working on. She keeps pulling back instead of foward. Chaos...then I manage to push the controls foward, releasing the innocents.

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Um that's funny because I was the one who installed the pot on the robot. I assume you were referring to me...


Kevin: Lets do an omni drive with all traction wheels.
Me: That's not going to be very easy to turn.
Kevin: Yes it will, it will work.

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I never said that, I don't even like the traction wheels. And If you did it right you could do it with traction wheels and it would be easy to turn.

And you only installed the pot after I said I wouldn't tell you how to do it.

"Me: I have several solutions. I just don't feel like telling you."