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Other programmer:Why do we have a function called "om_nom"?
Me:That's what controls sucking the balls in
Other programmer:And what does "nom_om" do?
Me:That spits the ball out

"I think we should kill whoever designed this system with a brain aneurysm by forcing them to set it up"--said after 4 hours of trying to resolve this bizarre packet loss problem in the wireless system

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one of our mentors: "ok so we've got our scoring strategies down to dumping, shooting, or superdumping."

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we got out a ladder and went on the roof of our school to "borrow a fan from an exhaust unit. after using a rope to get the whole assembely off the building and into the shop one of the students said "did we just commit grand theft air conditioner" (we put the exaust unit back up and assembled and bolted back onto the roof, the fan was not the right kind.)

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This one happened just yesterday.

Sandra (Mentor): OOh right here (in the manual) is says that we are not allowed to put anything on the robot that would intentionally start a fire. Man, I guess that means no fireworks display."
Charles (freshmen): "Or Flamethrower" (looking really disapointed)

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"I swear, this chain is LITERALLY 1/16 of an inch too short!"

M: We have extra parts from the gearboxes.
A: WHY DO WE HAVE EXTRA PARTS???????
M: Um...because the construction is a simple one...

"She doesn't need a hammer, she has strong thumbs!"

"What? Grease? Where does it say 'put grease' in the instructions? Oh...haha...it's a footnote..."

"Lithium is an antidepressant...don't breathe the grease in..."

"THEY HAVE NO RESTRICTIONS ON DUCT TAPE THIS YEAR!!!"

And, of course, the classic "Oops."

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"What do you mean the sweep would intersect itself! Now I remember why I have a love-hate relationship with autodesk"

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"Great. Another error message that doesn't tell me how to fix the error. How am I supposed to learn from THAT?"

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"wait...hold on....HOLY CRAP THE IP ADRESS IS WORNG!!!" said about an hour after trying to figure out why the cRIO wouldn't download code :D

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Scotty: So have we figured out how its going to work yet?
Me: Yes, we are going to use the black magic we got from selling our souls to Satan to make it work.

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haha so it isnt just our team...i hear it happened to us a few years back---> GO "SL9" (675)!

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John choose to give one of his sandwiches to one of our more hefty members.
Just then someone looked up and said: "But I'm skinny."

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We got a kid on our team who is like that.

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*mentor continues to talk to me and our small group, programming*
"... so just let it go straight for 10 seconds..."
*i look at out robot with treads and a maximum of about 2 horsepower and say*
"you know, 10 seconds is an AWFULLY long time for something to go HORRIBLY WRONG....."

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Mentor: *points at the black crate things our kit came with* Lets put these two black boys back in the closet
Students:.......were white.......and were not going in the closet.....
Mentor: I was talking about the crates! I call everything boys you should know by now...

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At the end of the meeting today I had Free Bird playing over our in ceiling speakers, playing guitar on a yard stick.

One of the other students said "Wow you are weird."

so I says "This is robotics club, I'm supposed to be weird."