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"So we can't get the door open. Jon, grab the smallest freshman you can and let's throw em through the window!"

Shockingly enough, the smallest freshman raised his hand and throught we were serious :D

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"Hey, you, catch!"

"That's not my camera, is it?"

Just a few from the pre-season. :]

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Asking a mentor to do something X 5 times in < 30 minutes = instant death. :D

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"Of course an AC motor will run off of DC..."

That was the last thing that motor heard :(

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Me as a freshman - "Oh, I forgot to zero out those PWM outputs. Let me do that real quick" followed by "Okay, reset it" followed by ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzz and a bunch of screams--the first time my program ever bruised anyone...

"Heads up" - our captain (when I was on 1140) was shaking the tether cable, which was faulty because it got caught in a chain. We got power to the OI but no signal. After shaking it for a few seconds, we got signal, and our joysticks were so far out of calibration that the arm came to life and our claw swiped a scratch right across the back of the safety judge's hand. "There goes our safety award"

"Let's see if this works"

"It should work"

Our team leader "What will this autonomous do?" followed by me "Umm....I think....no wait....ummm...let's see"

"This auton will be sweet" ten seconds before the bot flies at 12ft/sec into the opposite end of the field, literally throwing the main battery out onto the field. It was supposed to shift down.

"Yeah, I charged up the pneumatics!"

JBot

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"why won't it move?"

- followed by -

"details ... details"

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"Eh, good enough!"

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"PAVAN@@@@!!!!!!"

"PAAAAAA-VAAAAAA-NNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"I wonder who that was?"


Those are common to our robotics team. I am Pavan. Although I can break anything on our robot, I can fix everything on it as well, because if I couldn't, I would be in a lot of pain. ;)

-Pavan

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"It seemed like a good idea at the time..."

Classic!

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"Yeah we beat last years Hotel Jacuzzi record by 1 person!"
"Maximum occupancy 4..."
"Guys, why is the bottom of the Jacuzzi feel like its bending?"
"Because we have 11 too many people in this thing!"

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and my favorite:

"Matt you've gotta push that thing out of the way!"
"$@#$@#$@#$@# THE TORPEDO'S, FULL SPEED AHEAD!"
15 seconds later - "Michelle why isnt the camera working?"
"Because the camera is busy tracking something.."
"What is it tracking Michelle...?"
"The robot that just ran it over..."

I stare at Michelle then turn back to the match. "Hey that was my camera.. RAMMING SPEED!"


too much fun.

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of course I fixed the code! It'll work now!

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(This happened while queued for a practice match at Palmetto this year)

1293's programmer: "Quick, connect this up to the program port!" (He tosses a program cable from the laptop over the arena floor's wall)
Me: "What's this?"
Programmer: "It's the camera code so we can shoot."
Me: "We're about to go out for a match!"
Programmer: "Just connect it up!"

(We connect the cable and download the new program, then angle the robot so the camera's not pointing directly at the center goal just to be sure it's doing what it's supposed to do. As the match begins, the drive team watches with horror as Chomp speeds off full tilt in a straight line, ramming 1618's robot that happened to be there. The damage was minimal to both robots, thankfully. We ran the second match with the robot pointed at the field barrier behind us for autonomous.)

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'leave the drivetrain, its fine!'
'wait, I was supposed to use steel rivets?!?'

surprisingly, one that didnt end badly:
'meh, close enough.'
(i'm a precision engineer :yikes: )

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"ok I fixed the problem"