"Quotes" that were said during build season

[thursam]

One of my teammates was trying to figure out some calculations for our design. After about twenty minutes (for one problem) this is what he said;

'I'm taking a break from math. The more numbers I find, the less numbers I know.'

[rcosborne11]

"Gravity Test!"

This has been said several times as things are dropped.

[Joseph Franke]

"We should probably move the testing outside so that we don't break a sprinkler head and drown all of the testers."

We were testing the prototypes inside the halls.

[Oblarg]

Originally Posted by Joseph Franke

"We should probably move the testing outside so that we don't break a sprinkler head and drown all of the testers."

We were testing the prototypes inside the halls.

We've done this routinely for years on 449, and have yet to bust a sprinkler. I'm sort of amazed at this, really.

[MechEng83]

Originally Posted by Joseph Franke

"We should probably move the testing outside so that we don't break a sprinkler head and drown all of the testers."

We were testing the prototypes inside the halls.

2011, same day as kickoff, our team captain and engineering captain ripped the circle inner tube on the sprinkler head in the hallway...

[Iaquinto.Joe]

"No good sentence can start with 'just' unless you're talking about the law."

"We need more weight." I mean, how often can you say that?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Joseph Franke

"We should probably move the testing outside so that we don't break a sprinkler head and drown all of the testers."

We were testing the prototypes inside the halls.

Reminds me of what I heard in college. I wasn't in the affected dorm, but I did hear about it.

Seems someone was playing soccer inside, or some such activity--and knocked one of the sprinkler heads off. At some point after the dorm was evacuated, it was discovered that all the shutoff stuff was locked up, and the Dean of Students had to be called to open it. Then the whole place had to be dried as much as possible.

A couple days later, I was attending a meeting where the previous Dean of Students--who the dorm was named after--was speaking. One of the first things he said was something to the effect of "I heard there was an incident in [dorm] recently. I just hope I don't get the bill because my name's on the building!"

[CheerlessBear]

one of my favorites is when one of our programming mentors came over to the build guys and asked. "Is the ball punchey-thingy punching balls yet?"

[zsm150]

"Alright guys I think we need a rule about not playing with balls"

After we managed to put a hole in our game ball this year from testing trajectory

[Joseph Franke]

Originally Posted by MechEng83

2011, same day as kickoff, our team captain and engineering captain ripped the circle inner tube on the sprinkler head in the hallway...

One of our mentors who is a volunteer firefighter as well told us to be careful

Our team has a history of displaying ceiling tiles actually.
We had to remove one to fit the minibot pole during logomotion.
We knocked a few up with the frisbees last year, we even knocked one of those light coverings so hard that it went forwards and got stuck in another grid in the ceiling.
We knocked two out of place prototyping this years shooter.

Good stuff.

[BigJ]

"You can either be purple or super sticky, PICK ONE!" - Getting the mechanical team to pick a color of post-its for our task board

[Zuelu562]

"So we'll try both [mechanism option one] and [mechanism option two]. If neither work..." *gets interrupted as student walks into room* "we're screwed."

[Christopher149]

♬ "In the shop... the mighty shop, the Bimba plays tonight" ♬

Last night, found that blowing in one end of a piston, and changing the length is a decent musical instrument. Crazy kids.

[RoboticWombat]

"If dirt-simple works, you're done. You can improve from there." ~The Dominator; AKA Dom. So true...

Chris- "Get me that thingy!"
Me- "The black slidey thing?"
Heather- "The black slidey thing???"
Chris- "Yes, the black slidey thing."
Me- "That's going on Chief Delphi!"

[2789_B_Garcia]

Whilst reviewing our CAD model assembly file in Inventor:

Stella: "I can't believe you broke my chassis..."