"Quotes" that were said during build season

Originally Posted by pwnageNick

"You know you're a robotics kid when you sit on Chief Delphi and hit refresh over and over again waiting for new pictures and videos of other teams"

Story of my life!!! LOL

[kmcclary]

Originally Posted by Zuelu562

"Anyone know the actors name who does the 'I pick things up and put them down' [Planet Fitness] commercial? We're going to name our robot after him."

I can't find a definitive answer, but a lot on the net believe it is body builder Silvio Kersten, aka "Chris Wide" (who actually trains at Gold's Hollywood, not Planet Fitness...)

I'm not totally convinced it is him, though...

But I love the quote. I'll try to remember to use it when we're allowed to take the bot out for practice on competition week...
Thanks!

- Keith

[Zuelu562]

"Why do programmers seem to always be procrastinators?" Me to Matt from Chop Shop

[142165]

kevin: still no robot comms...
caleb: ohh would you like me to turn the robot on?

[demosthenes2k8]

Originally Posted by 142165

kevin: still no robot comms...
caleb: ohh would you like me to turn the robot on?

Sounds like my team.
"WHY CAN'T I CONNECT?"
"Let me check...you know it's off, right?"

Pokey: "Can we use the oven? Like, is there anything you don't want us to do?"
Mentor: "Well, you've been working with the chop saw. But...I've seen people burn themselves on the soldering irons."
Pokey: "HEY!"

[wazcodez]

Principle : "What's name of the robot ?"
Megh (Me) : "Johnson, and it's 9 ft. long."

everyone laughing, (got it ?)

[Zuelu562]

Saturday Morning, BAE/GSR: Signs stood up welcoming Dr. Flowers read "Morning Woody".

[demosthenes2k8]

Brian giving a speech at GSR: "Yeah, there are a lot of other important things, like Minecraft and diamond pickaxes..."

[KleinKid]

Student asks teacher - "Whats wrong with this school laptop i can't find any of my files."

Teacher - "For Some reason it fried last week and we had to reset it."

Student - " . . . ."

Team Captain starts hitting his head against wall

Student - "We officially just lost all of our robot code. I mean all of it no one bothered to make a backup."


Sufficient to say i was rather frustrated today. Lesson learned BACK UP YOUR CODE on more than one machine.

[ATannahill]

Originally Posted by KleinKid

Student asks teacher - "Whats wrong with this school laptop i can't find any of my files."

Teacher - "For Some reason it fried last week and we had to reset it."

Student - " . . . ."

Team Captain starts hitting his head against wall

Student - "We officially just lost all of our robot code. I mean all of it no one bothered to make a backup."


Sufficient to say i was rather frustrated today. Lesson learned BACK UP YOUR CODE on more than one machine.

Revision control?

[TJ92]

I've got a great dialog sequence from the final day of build:

*Final build day, school locks up at 9:30, it's 8:30. Just me(Trevor), my Co-Captain(Garrett), and one mentor(Mr. Ketron) are left in the building. We thought we were all wrapped up and were ready to do some autonomous testing. The bot goes crazy and our the shoulder on our scoring mechanism has been stripped. Some of it is ad-lib, but the point still comes across. *

Trevor: (Looking at bot) Well at least I was able to drive it a little.

Mr. Ketron: (Trying to figure out how we set up the components of the shoulder 3 weeks earlier) How were we able to get this chain on here so tightly the first time? Garrett come over here and see if your hands can fit in here.

Garrett: (Staring at his netbook trying to figure out what went wrong in his code) I'm coming, one second, I can't figure out what went wrong. Trevor this logic makes sense right? *phone rings* Hello. Hey, Trevor, Mr. Ketron, the school paper just called and they want a quote about the Finger Lakes Regional.

Trevor: Yea, I've got one, we're S.O.L..

Garrett and Mr. Ketron: *laughter*

[demosthenes2k8]

Originally Posted by rtfgnow

Revision control?

Simpler version control?

[Kyoshirin]

*our CAD-er (R) is drawing up our robot post-build*

R: This just isn't working. All the twisting we have must put an insane amount of strain on the robot. I'm suprised it hasn't broken yet.

Me: Oh, yes! we base all of our robots on the counterforce principal. We put our robot under a huge amount of stress to keep it in shape so that we can put loads on it that a normal robot would be incapable of handling. Like our arm. All the stress is in the other direction so that it acts as counter stress and evens itself out.



Me: Why is that gap there? It's not like that on our robot. Can't you just loft that shape along a line?

R: Yeah, I tried that. It said "Object cannot exist along this path"

[JaneYoung]

"I can't draw..." as one of my favorite students (they are all my favorites) took the white board marker away from me and proceeded to finish the rough sketch I was making of the robot - the one I had asked her to draw in the first place.

[Kyoshirin]

*Post-build CADing, episode two*
R: What size is the electrical board, in length?
Me: 28"
R:would you bet your life on that?
Me: Give or take a foot.

Later
R: 36 sounds like a number we may have used.

R: I've run out of dimensions of things on our robot.
Me: I can come up with some dimensions if you want.
R: That's what I'm afraid of.

C: Why are those piecves 3-3/4" apart? They are exactly 4" apart on the robot!
R: I used a laser measuring-thingy. it's 3-3/4
Me: Wait, C, was it 4" when you build it or when you last measured it?