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Me to an extremely bored team member:
Me: What are you doing? Team member: gluing pieces of metal to the ramp Me: And I'm drilling speed holes. Me trying to explain the robot to a non-robotics friend: "It makes a lot more sense if you refer to 3/4ths of the parts as 'that thingy'" "Holy.............Um, about us being here for only 5 more minutes?" Said the day before shipdate after discovering that the wood shop class had converted our crate into storage for projects, and installed shelves. After the first test on our elevator prototype P1: Bad news: the little banebots motor dosen't have enough torque, any suggestions? P2: *holds up minibike motor* eh, just stick a few of these on it. P1: Um, weight limit? |
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Teacher: Now if you would have invested money in Motorola back in the 70's how much money would you have made?
Molly: Wildstang! |
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"WD-40 is NOT a lubricant!"
"Alright, I'm turning it on. Nobody stand in front of the hook or near the wings..." As S is putting lubricant on a rod to hold our hinges together... Me: "Why are you lubing up that rod?" S: "It won't fit in the hole." As the arm starts spinning by itself... Me to the driver: "Look! The robot's waving!" It's an inside joke, but... <Gollum voice> "My preeeeciooouuus!" |
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a few of us were in the hall calling businesses for sponsorships, and we were kinda messing around and then while one of us was calling a business he said "GUYS, no more physical contact!!!!... oh no not you sir!!"
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this happened today...i'm the new programmer, and i'm trying to do everything we didn't do during the actual season like using the camera and auto mode. because of our robot design, we couldn't use the pan-tilt-thing-a-ma-bob for the camera, so we mounted it under our claw (see sig pic). today while programming the tracking code, i said "we should just hook up the servo values to the PWM's controlling the main drive motors....our real programmer says "that'd be fun".....ya...it was funny at the time....knowing my programming history, i can just see the robot going out of control and crazy
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G: "Where are those nibblets?" (In refrence to a modified pair of pliers)
G: "Just move the arm a smidgium." C: "The code isn't working." T: "Compile it until it works." T: "Not bad for a novice, huh?" J: "I'd expect more from a novice." R: "Whats that smell?" J: "Tyler is soldering again, get the extinguisher." J: "I don't know, he isn't picking up the page. They ran in here 10 minutes ago to grab the fire extinguisher and I heard some yelling, so I figured I'd stay out of the way." T: "Why isn't the LED lighting?" P: "Software Error" |
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Last year while taking orders for Pizza everyone was asking for Hawaiian as a topping and the mentor taking it down was conviced it wasn't a topping. After asking everyone in the office area of the shop what they wanted and getting frustrated at the answers he went over to the other side. A few seconds later we hear him shout, " Hawaiian is not a topping! " from about 30ft away. Of course, when going to pick it up we found out it was there all along....
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It was the last day during the championships, and we had seen Jon Dudas's commercial on the big screen so much his name, particularly his last, stuck with us. Dave, our driver, had already come up with a new word and had the ability to make pretty much any word funny. We picked Dudas as our new word to play around with. There where 3 of us that joked around with forming a religion based solely on Jon Dudas, called Dudianity, and it is still in the works. Otherwise, all of 1983's pit crew and drive team have that as an inside joke between the 8 of us ever sense. From an outside point of view it is kinda lame, but within our little drive/pit circle its quite funny. So the posts here about Jon Dudas from anyone on1983 is for our teams personal amusement, and it is not expected that others will get it, simply because they were not there when the whole joke got started. |
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AWW c'mon Brian!! someone else recognizes it!!! This was posted after all zach said was "Jon Dudas..."
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"Real programmers don't comment. It was hard to write, it should be hard to read!"
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"I forgot a semi-colon, didn't I?"
Said by me after 5 failed attempts to compile. Followed by the painstaking work of finding the line with a missing semi-colon. |
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This isn't a Quote, but When I see that there has been new replys on this Thread I always shake my head and wonder "what are Richards and Hoag saying now?"
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"why are youwearing pants?"
"I don't knoow." that was on the bus to VCU |
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"Shutup B.Gee"
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"You should be happy i'm wearing pants today"
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"your face"
"your mom's face" "Aiden's face" (Aiden Browne is one of our mentors. it was very late...everyone thought it was hilarious) |
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On the topic of pants, I actually ripped my pants this season...
While working on Chairmans. I was making a point that our essay jumped from one topic to another (and jumped across the room) and our school's floors are made of smooth concrete. One of my feet slipped and, yeah, my pants ripped straight down the front. I walked around for about an hour with my hoodie tied around the front. I had to make a phone call ("Dad, you should totally drive down here with a pair of pants) and all the other Chairmans people were hiding behind the corner and busted out laughing when I said it. |
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"We don't build the robots, we build the robot builders."
Team 1675 mentors Ultimate Protection Squad |
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When one of my friends was recognized by a member of another team
"Hey! You're a robot, too!":] |
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This was said by Branden Gee (Bee Gee to us, no relation to the band) at the end of year, team picnic
"Lets throw some more fire on the wood!" At the same event, I dont know who it was but they said "Ooo fire in a can!" This reffers to the common pass time of lighting Axe on fire. |
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"Ok so our pit runners are Liz and.....who in the devil is William Leverette??" - Ken Stafford
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"who is team 190?"-my dad (while at battlecry 8)
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the sad thing is, is that he was down on the field during the finals at the championship )= |
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From Battlecry friday night:
"I wish I were the most kissed girl in FIRST" -George Ackley |
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"Well I haven't screwed anything in awhile." - me after making a couple dumb mistakes while screwing some parts together.
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"uh oh, i hope that wasnt important"
"is that supposed to happen?" "that is not what i programed it to do!" |
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Not really build season but still robotics related. Me and my friend(also a robotics member) were driving around outside the movie theater for awhile cause we were waiting for some other guys to show up. So while we are driving this happens.
Him:Sweet, dollar castle. Me: Awesome, a dollar store, let's get some robot parts. We then keep driving. Him: Oh look, Farmer Jack's. Whole store on sale! (Farmer Jacks is a local grocery store that is going under) Me: Awesome, let's get some robot parts... What? We can make the robot biodegradable. We keep on driving and come to a Blockbuster to go in for awhile to look around. As we are pulling up. Me: Alright, Blockbuster. Let's get some robot parts. Yeah, you can get robot parts anywhere. |
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After I made a boo-boo by letting a freshman touch the controls:
Me: "We had a minor mishap in which the code tried to put the arm in an impossible position..." (yes, I do talk like that sometimes) Mentor: "And?" Me: "the motors kept driving and..." Mentor: "What?" Me: "I blew out the elbow." (I turn around and book it back to my corner) "I dub thee 'Gear Muncher'" - after ripping teeth off the shoulder gear for the 50th time... Playing with a new sensor: "Why is this chip getting so hot?" - I had reversed the connections, putting 5v on the signal pin and grounding the 5v pin. Thankfully it still works. "Think of all the poor turkeys in wheelchairs!" - we cook turkey legs at our local Renaissance Festival and the volume is crazy. That is a good point...:ahh: JBot |
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Today, one of the team members was loading 2 of our smaller robots into my vehicle for a demo at a middle school. We were trying to decide if he could load the robots in one seat and climb over to the back seat.
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Well its not durring the FIRST build season but durring this years BEST season(most of the KOP is plywood or PVC)
CAM captain "HOLY SMOKES!!!" note: this is about 2 seconds after the plywood were milling starts smoking . . and about 5 seconds before it catches fire |
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"These holes don't line up. Whoever drilled these holes is a complete and total... wait, I drilled these holes"
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Today at kickoff
Dean Kamen: "...the game which you are about to see..." Dave Lavery: "...the game which you are about to see..." Woodie Flowers: "...the game which you are about to see..." Me: "'About to see' is a relative term!" |
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The curtains are pulled back, revealing the long-awaited game for 2008, and as the audience gasps, one of my teammates says (very loudly)
"They're big balls!" ...we were in the bleachers in the back corner of the room, and literally the whole auditorium turned around and looked in our direction. :yikes: |
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"we're gonna need a big cage for the balls" lol
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"We poke the needle into the ball and inject the hamsters."
I am fairly certain this line has never been, and will never be uttered again. Also "It's so big!!" in reference to the ball. Even after having seen it for 3 hours we would occasionally turn to it in them middle of designing and just be astounded by how big it still is. Heh, like we expect it to shrink. |
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"So basically, this year's FIRST game is NASCAR with balls."
It's funny if you analyze it the right way. Also a lot of other "ball" jokes already. And it's only day two. Not even 24 hours after kickoff. =p |
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"THER MAKIN" "NOTHER LEFT TUURN!!!"
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"Herding, Hurdling...it all sounds kinda like hurling"
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"<nameless student>, is alone in the shop, someone go supervise him"
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"Tighten the graphics!"
(After programmers make the joysticks too sensitive) "Ah... well, the wall was old anyway" Most common: "You are NOT driving! Look at the [insert piece of furniture, computer, wall, whatever here] you just broke." (after stripping out a fourth window motor) "wait? you drove it directly? you didn't gear it down? Are you stupid?" (2 am) Me: Z, why we here? Teacher (not Z): Because I can't go home until you do. |
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After seeing this year's game, I was reminded of an old chestnut:
"We must go forward, not backward. Upward, not forward. And always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!" |
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It's too short, cut it again!
We measured a piece of metal as 15.2", cut it, put it in the ironworker, cut it, took it out, and measured it at 15.4". Since then, it's not uncommon to hear "It's too short! Cut it again!" floating around our shop. :D |
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"We could fit half the team in this thing!" - another joke about how freakin huge the game peices are.
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First words out of my mouth at the unveiling...
"Big.....freakin.....balls!............ who called it." |
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"Wait, what are you guys doing?"
"Sitting in a circle and agreeing vigorously." ---------------- "Sorry, repeat what you said. I was looking at the cheese." |
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"This year's bot looks like Gloria and Cthulhu combined."
"Also looks like Delilah." "It can be Cthlorilaulhu." |
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Me (only 13 helping dad mentor): Wait...does the robot fit within size restrictions
Team member:Andy (me), stand beside the robot <robot shorter than me> Team member and me at the same time: we're good! |
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member repairing under robot
Member 1 (repairing): Ahh...My back Member 2: what!? are you sitting on something? member 1: i don't think so...oh wait...!@#&! im laying on a hanging sprocket from the 'bot member 2: well if you finished repairing quickly it would be on the 'bot and not under your back |
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Yeah, these are defiantly original. (Also you can get these from our team’s website at www.team1980.org under "about 1980" then "team quotes".)
"Safety first! Ummm....where's the first aid kit? "Giving up is for squares" "Don’t do today what you can do tomorrow" "The secret to success is to acknowledge that you have limits, but to never acknowledge that you have reached those limits." "If you make it idiot-proof, someone will build a better idiot." "Just wing it." "He who lives in a glass house should look into a new house." "Less is more." "Idealism takes a backseat to practicality." "Work today, be successful tomorrow." "Don’t blow it up." |
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"Ghaaaa!"
Said by another team member while luricating our gearboxes with white lithium grease... |
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From a teacher on 1135:
"I told my students that if they didn't do their homework, that" (pointing to the trackball, which was on a cabinet in the classroom used as a build area--and happened to be above my head at that point) "would be held over their heads and dropped. If more than one didn't do their homework, I'd roll it at them." Me, in response: "Bowling!" Same meeting: "We need to persuade something." "I'll persuade this..." (reference to the deadblow mallet) "This is doing more damage to the hammer..." (The persuader was having trouble with the rollpin in the tranny) |
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This is sad but fun.
I asked one of our animators if we would enter a safety animation? Animator: no Me: why not!!!????:mad: Animator: (yelling) Because Mr. Thorp's (animation mentor) mother died!!! Me: Oh, ok. I guess thats a good reason:o .................................................. ................. "you have to convince it to go into the hole... this bigger hammer should convince it." "what are the animator's doing out of their closet?" (what we call their work space) |
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"It was the Gnomes."
Said every time something went wrong, or we couldn't find something. It went on the back of out tee shirts. |
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"What happens when you have a 10 pound forklift and an 10 pound ball infront of the robot? Tippie Tippie!"
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I have two
"is there anyway to make our robot tip...........over...........proof?"-newbie and "a 2x4 is NOT 2x4 you idiot" - me |
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Joe, dont let him near the machines, he just hurt himself in the computer lab.
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"Psychics Shot" - Term used to describe shooting the ball into the wall at an angle so track ball makes a turn.
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"That's going on Delphi."
"My blood type is caffeine." "Christ, we're going to spend the next 5 weeks shining the 'bot. NOW LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE, GARTH!" <- Joke about how we were shining the frame with the abrasive pads we got from our 3M mentor, Garth. |
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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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"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... |
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"If it ain't broke don't fix it!"
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*a mentor's phone rings*
Weaver: "bananaphone!" ----- *I write "Notebook of Smiting +8" on my robotics notebook* me: "Here blake, go hit him with this." ----- A mentor: "So, do we have a mentor who's experienced with forklifts, forklife repair, design, etc...?" (It's funny because one of our other mentors, Ken, is a forklift mechanic, and the way that the mentor said it) ----- "We could have prongs on it to make it hold stuff better." "...like a forklift?" ----- *When playing the south park song "What Would Brian Boitano Do?", during the chorus* me: "Now what would Dean Kamen do, if he was here right now? I bet he'd build a 'bot or two, that's what Dean Kamen'd do. |
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"Frick it still freezes."
-A programmer |
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this is one i said... oops
"Just turn the ball sideways to fit it though the door" |
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Devon- "Its only to big if its to big"
Brent - "That Doesnt make sense" Devon - "Mr. Clark said it" Brent- "OOOHHHHH" |
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Mentor: "Baker, do you have a job?"
me: "No, I've got nothing to do." Mentor: "Oh god, that's dangerous. Baker with nothing to do." me: "Hmm. I think I'll go read delphi. =p" |
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"Hey guys? I think this screw just fell off the bot."
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"JON! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" (many times over multiple seasons)
Things Jon was doing when this was said: • making a blowdart gun out of extra PVC pipe, pool noodle and nails • using a can of WD-40 and a match to make a flamethrower ("JON, stop making flamethrowers! You're going to set the floor on fire!") • cutting (expensive) robot parts • making holes/cuts in things with Dremel • setting steel wool on fire • attaching fans together, then stripping the nuts so the contraption could not be taken apart (at regionals) (somebody says something that would've made our lives easier if said about a month ago) *pause* - "WHY?" - "Because we're stupid." - "Oh…" "It's robotics season; we don't have time to study for midterms!" - "PROG!" - "PROG'd!" - "Why didn't you tell us you had a machine shop in your basement?" - "…" - "…" - "I dunno…I never really thought about it…" (Note: I don't really have a machine shop in my basement; it's a wood shop. I did meet a guy who has a machine shop in his basement, though.) "In the absence of Jon, we all become Jon" (said every time someone does something without thinking that results in wasted time or parts and Jon is not present) "Somehow, we got ahold of some good juju." "We had to seal the basement to protect the juju." |
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*I begin to walk towards a table where people are messing around with infrared stuff*
me: "...OH GOD, A SOLDERING IRON!" *I run off* (Soldering irons + me = bad) |
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"its not working because you didnt program it right"
*wheel falls off* "never mind" |
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"Wow, that one broke it..."
"OH MY GOD, IT'S A NINJA!" |
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After a rousing discussion of Mario Kart...
Me: "We should shoot green shells on the track." Person A: "We can't detach mechanisms from the robot." Me: "I don't think a turtle shell is a mechanism!" I proceed to ask everyone whether they think a turtle shell is a mechanism, until person B arrives... Person B: "You don't need to detach it. just tether it to a string and reel it in quick with a motor." Me: "IT CAN BE OUR BUMP TO PASS!" I explain the funny series of events to a few people in the shop... Person C: "Why a green shell, why not the blue one?" Me: "The spikes would be a puncture risk" Person C:" Nah! We'll have Joe file 'em" (Joe hates filing) Looking back, if person C would have said red shell, I would have said "too much autonomous programming." And yes, programmers on 1675... "Program State!" "PROGRAM STATE!" |
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while discussing using sonar to detect trackballs:
"it might just absorb sound. that nylon is very......clothy." :D |
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Mentor:Scott you are mechanical and hardware. JD you are hardware...
JD:Hey i want to have 2 too. Mentor:Fine you are the mechanical and the Team Scapegoat:D Oh yeah almost forgot (We were trying to decide what kind of mechanism to put on the robot to lift the ball) Buschman:Maybe some sort of fork lift Johnny:No...it has to has to be curved to hold the ball...like a spoon! Mentor:...Hey how 'bout a Spork Lift? |
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Mentor: "If your prototype works perfectly, you've been working on it too long."
"The opposite of life isn't death. The opposite of life is robotics!" "No matter how much they say it is, not being plugged in is not a software problem!" |
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Hey kayla this is what is really sad if the robot is TALLER than me it's still legal
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While inflating this years gamepiece with an air compressor:
Me: Hey, whats the PSI on that compressor (it was making airplane sounds)? Student 1: PSI is for schmucks 10 seconds later *boom* |
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Mentor: Attach the gear to the battery.
Student: You mean the sprocket to the transmission? Mentor: That's what I said. ----- Student 1: (while working in CAD) This looks pretty good. Student 2: Ship it. Mentor: Just put a memory key in the box. ----- Student: We've been here since noon. I know we've had more funny things then this. (while typing the first two up) |
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"ah, i love the smell of burning material in the morning"
"it doesnt work" "hit it with a hammer" "wheres a hammer" "anything's a hammer" |
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"AHH I CUT MY PINK OFF!!"
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