"Quotes" that were said during build season

[J.Warsoff]

Electrical subteam: "Blame the programmers."

[E Dawg]

Originally Posted by J.Warsoff

Electrical subteam: "Blame the programmers."

Programming subteam: "Blame electronics."

Funny how that works.

[Micah Chetrit]

Originally Posted by E Dawg

Programming subteam: "Blame electronics."

Funny how that works.

or have both teams blame mechanical and complain about the delays.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Micah Chetrit

or have both teams blame mechanical and complain about the delays.

Mechanical says it's not our problem, ONE of you get it fixed YESTERDAY so we can install the next new feature. (And we don't care who fixes it.)



Or, the classic sequence when the robot isn't working:

"It's not a mechanical problem, we built it! Programming problem!"
"It's not a code problem, we programmed it! Electrical problem!"
"It's not an electrical problem, we wired it! Mechanical problem!"

[Ginto8]

Originally Posted by Micah Chetrit

or have both teams blame mechanical and complain about the delays.

"SOFTWARE!!!"
-Everyone on my team, from the mechanical guys to the software department.

Especially when it isn't a software problem.

It became especially ironic this year because we pressured the other departments to finish so much that we had some serious code tested and running on the robot by the end of week 4, and spent most of the last week doing software calibration and driver training.

[yash101]

Solution: Programmers should check electrical, Electrical should check mechanical and mechanical should check Programmers.

That's real problem solving

[EricH]

Originally Posted by yash101

Solution: Programmers should check electrical, Electrical should check mechanical and mechanical should check Programmers.

That's real problem solving

You're assuming that mechanical can code. I might be able to understand it if programming commented enough--or to save my life--but not well enough to check it. Try mechanical checking electrical, electrical checking programming, and programming checking mechanical.

[yash101]

It doesn't mean that they can code. I can read over 20 different programming languages and understand what is going on. That doesn't mean that I know that language fluently. Also, Java is taught to most students in our school so there is at least one person in each team that can code, or at least read java.

[E Dawg]

Originally Posted by EricH

You're assuming that mechanical can code. I might be able to understand it if programming commented enough--or to save my life--but not well enough to check it. Try mechanical checking electrical, electrical checking programming, and programming checking mechanical.

Assuming that your programmers can understand mechanical. When I get called in to check mechanical I peer wisely at a random part of the robot and say, "I don't see anything wrong with it."

[BBray_T1296]

"Guys , I am too busy to read a 3,700 post long thread about mid-season quotes. I may have to miss the 2014 season going through these!"

-Me

[yash101]

Go ahead!

[Ajennings8896]

"You cannot see me, I am a camera". - Said by a new member who was at the time taking photos for the team.

[pmangels17]

Oh, so that's what that button does.

[Invictus3593]

"Why would we need a snow-blower motor and 3 pounds of hard banana candy?"

[Qbot2640]

Originally Posted by Invictus3593

"Why would we need a snow-blower motor and 3 pounds of hard banana candy?"

There was no banana candy in our KOP...or was that a FIRST Choice item that sold out before I got logged on?