"Quotes" that were said during build season

[demosthenes2k8]

Mentor: "I've heard when you sprinkle a zero with foo-foo dust, it works as a denominator"

I'm never talking about math/magical sparkle dust this early in the morning again.

A coder is making a random program with 6-7 nested do{}while loops:
Coder: "We need to go deeper."

[Phyrxes]

Students working on chain run: "We didn't screw up, its just chains hate us!"

[JaneYoung]

A friend of a student on the team sees a candid team photo of us in our new team shirts and comments, " So dorky. So vivid."

[MAldridge]

STOP!!! We can't afford any more ceiling tiles!!!

We have a collection of tiles that have been speared by our forklift as it goes up higher than the drop ceiling.

[J93Wagner]

"It feels like an alien ray gun!" - Lead Mechanical Student

"In autonomous mode, Jonathan (That's me folks!) goes straight for the ice cream (It was delicious too!)." - Mr. Kloes, our Business Mentor

And I have a feeling I'm missing another quote from today...

Maybe I'll remember it later and put it in as an edit.

[The Zevling]

*refering to a oscilloscope*
Mentor: I'm not sure it works
Me: If it doesn't work, we have another.

No, I have no idea why we have two (or even one) oscilloscope.

[KleinKid]

Me - "Would it be overzealous of us to name our robot Watson?"
Rest of the team after staring at each other thinking about it - "Probably."


Student - "Stop moving the robot my wiring is to fragile for the robot to move"


"Picking up that chair with the robot wasn't such a good idea." (The aluminum rod we were using to support our arm nearly gave out)

Team captain - "Our funding is over 9000!!!!"

[nikeairmancurry]

Originally Posted by MAldridge

STOP!!! We can't afford any more ceiling tiles!!!

We have a collection of tiles that have been speared by our forklift as it goes up higher than the drop ceiling.

We've learned to just move them before hand...lol

[h1n1is4pigs]

today our winch broke on us during testing and caused our lift to drop like a guillotine, we have now decided to refer to our robot as robotspierre after maximillian robespierre

[orisenak]

We said we should post this online...
this is our minibot, it goes up with deployment in less then 3 seconds!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVMd8sCR7gA

-Team 1056 (aka 2024)

[MisterL]

Me: How about we move our heads out of the way before the robot decapitates us all with its arm?
Everybody else get in way of robot arm
Everybody: Like this?

[demosthenes2k8]

Ben: "Matt, can you look at my code to see if it's wrong?"
Me (joking): "Of course it's wrong, you wrote it."
Pokey: "OHHHHHHHH."
Me (looking over): "Actually, should both of those be 'true'?"
Ben: "$@#$@#$@#$@#."

[216Robochick288]

"So Abby, robotics 1-10, when do you want to go?"
"1:05."
"1:05?"
"Mr.Hepfer said we couldnt be there all 10 hours."

heeheehee

[kmcclary]

"Robot Diet" - Getting your robot back down to 120 lbs during Week Six of the build... -kmcclary

Student: "Hey, making weight is easy... if we just Swiss Cheese the Accumulator, we lose 120 Pounds of pressure right away!!"

(The Student immediately gets hit with a shower of Pool Noodle scraps...)

- Keith

[Mageofdancingdr]

Our programming/OI Mentor:

"This team is going to innovate if I have to drag them into the future kicking and screaming!"