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Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

9:27 PM - Bot190 {166}: its basically down to tuning the PID loops
9:27 PM - Bot190 {166}: which is a major problem
9:27 PM - [8Db] Demosthenes {166}: ouch
9:27 PM - [8Db] Demosthenes {166}: good thing I took autonomous
9:27 PM - [8Db] Demosthenes {166}: wait...
9:27 PM - [8Db] Demosthenes {166}: FFF-
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Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

C: Who puts a lock nut on backwards!?

Over the course of a week->
Me: You realize to make that work, it'll have to flip out, right?
R: Yeah.
(Two days later there is a triple jointed hinge mechanism)
C: Wait, how are we going to mount our electrical board? there's no place for it.
Me: We can put it upside down under this main support, the have it flip out on a hinge.
C: That sounds like a good idea. Lets do it.

C: Hey, this board is resting on the frame. Is that good?
Me: No. you should make a support for it. How about one that flips out when you unlatch the board?
C: Fine. What should I use?
Me: (hands him large gate hinge) Here, take this.
C: *Sigh*

G: How are we going to keep the battery in the holder?
Me: With a hinge, of course! And I'll lock it with another hinge! On second thought, let's make our entire robot out of hinges! The we can just unfold it completely and fix everything! It's Brilliant! *laughs insanely*
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Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

Kyoshirin, it sounds like you entire robot design hinges on one central concept...
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Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

-You may have not done much today, but you can tomarrow. Unless its time to ship!
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Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

Everytime at the end of meetings the president or one of the metors will say, " you don't have to go home, but ya can't stay here!"
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Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

"Stupid Lollipop"
- said while trying to find a place for our camera where it won't be blocked by our claw mechanism*, which is a large circle on a stick. Hence "lollipop". The group working on the lollipop is, of course, refered to (at least by me, anyway) as the lollipop guild.

"Excuse me, I want to stick my head in the robot"
- me trying to get a cameras-eye view from a potiential camera spot.

*our claw mechanism grabs outward, so before it was the lollipop, it was called the Walc. It is actually in the code as the Walc, so it's official.
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Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

"Look, if the Mythbusters have taught us anything, it's that an explosion is the best possible outcome."

Me: "Umm, guys, it looks like the software needs at least 40 pounds on the robot"
Mentors: "WHAT?"
Me: "Yeah, look at it! #if, #define, #ifndef, #endif, #s all over the place!"

And my current autonomous code:
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    // Declare victory
    bool victory = true;
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Ironically, I get a compiler warning about an unused variable when I compile that
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Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

The robot's not wrong, your drawing is wrong. - Said multiple times by the building group to the kid who drew the robot in autocad.
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Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

Me: It's so secure you can stand on it!
Advisor: You don't want to stand on that...
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Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

Today I asked one of our rookies to find out how to code springs just to mess with them


I also quizzed one of the rookies on the tools we used. She got bonus points when she referred to the hammer as an "attitude adjuster"
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Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

One of our Rookie Students, who has been extremely helpful this year, working on a minibot deployment method

Him: Is there anyway I can tighten this (talking about a piece of 8020 with an end fastener over another piece of 8020 with an end fastener)
Me: Yes, provided you can make two pieces of matter occupy the same space simultaneously
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"Excuse me, I need to go tell our students to try to be a little quieter, I figured a cinder block wall would keep most of their noise out... guess I was wrong." - Me while talking with a potential future employer who I had been trying to reach for 2 weeks.

On the upside, the person was amused by it. Unrelated to that I now have to set up a day to interview with them

TL;DR - when a mentor is on the phone is NOT a good time to play a team game of "whack each other with the pool noodles" in the room next to it. (Use the hall for that)
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Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

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Me: "Umm, guys, it looks like the software needs at least 40 pounds on the robot"
Mentors: "WHAT?"
Me: "Yeah, look at it! #if, #define, #ifndef, #endif, #s all over the place!"
Of all the "code has mass" jokes in this thread, this one is definitely the best.

While staring at an impressive custom circuit on a 4" x 6" PCB that another group built:
Student 1: "Wow, there are three 10A fuses, two 555 timers, a block of NAND gates, a quartz crystal, a PIC, some power MOSFETS, a wireless USB interface...what could this possibly do?"
Student 2: "Well, it could be a light."

(It was actually a motor controller.)
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Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

Programming to Mechanical: "The code has been ready for days, where's the robot?!"

Three days later:

Mechanical: "Okay, download the code."
Programming: "It's not ready yet."
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