Saturday, at the end of week 4:
Me: We're running out of time, and we still have to perfect the drive system and write autonomous.
Andrew (programming leader): It's okay, we'll finish teleop and drive this week, then write autonomous next week.
Me: Oh, I didn't realize it was so simple!
Friday night/3:30 Saturday morning, end of week 6:
We have to ship the bot, and the practice bot for a scrimmage:
Me: Okay, the drive
should work, what now?
Andrew: I'm tired, lets go home.
Me: What about autonomous?
Andrew: We don't really need it until Chicago (Midwest Regional). We have two more weeks.
Wednesday, week 8:
The day before we leave for the Midwest Regional:
Me: So, what do we have for autonomous?
Andrew: Nothing, but it's fine, I'll write it on the care ride up.
Thursday morning, 10:00ish, week 8:
We just arrived in Chicago:
Andrew: I fell asleep in the car, could you please write autonomous?
Saturday afternoon, Boilermaker Regional:
Alex (Qbranch): How's the autonomous work? I does something different each time.
Andrew: It's supposed to drive forward for 2 seconds, then drive in circles. I have no idea what's going on, it can't even be weird encoder values, it's based entirely on timers.
Me: IT'S BECOME SENTIENT!
We used LabVIEW this season, despite much of us wishing we were using C.
Mr. Kelly is a teacher Andrew and I have, not at the same time.
Me: So, none of us knew LabVIEW going into the season, but all but 1 of us knew C.
Mr. Kelly: Who, Andrew?
Andrew: One of the biggest things I miss about C is that you look smart doing it. You even look smart typing out "Hello World." In LabVIEW no matter what you do, it's just linking pictures together with lines.
*using aluminum pipe to sword fight with Andrew*
Mentor: Hey, why aren't you coding?
Me: The code's deploying.
Mentor: Carry on then.