"Quotes" that were said during build season

[Oblarg]

"Go eat so you can be useful" was a choice one from a few meetings ago. Blood sugar is important for maintaining productivity, folks!

(After finally finding a hex bearing which would actually fit on one of our gearbox shafts) "It's like winning the lottery, sort of, if the lottery jackpot were about $3 and you were forced to buy tickets to make your robot work."

"As best we could tell, this piece of tubing had a demon in it, which we have exorcised."

"Clearly, we forgot the ritual sacrifice to the NI gods. Quick, fetch a goat!"

[bbradf44]

New team motto "It doesn't work..." Said many times when trying to drive and noticing a jag was fried, then after the second attempt noticing our DSC was DOA, then again for the third time when we ran the code and only 1 wheel decided to spin.. This has not been a very good year for us so far hopefully we can turn it around in the next 2 weeks

[zsm150]

"It cant be my fault, I never even touched the robot!"-Programming lead

[reid.elliott]

"Ehhh...close enough."

"GRAVITY CHECK!" preceded by something clanging to the floor

"Tom, can you go find a shaft stretcher?"

"Chris, drink this." (Chris drinks slightly soapy water)

A:"But this *insert improvement here* could make it better!"
B:"The question is, is it good enough?"


"Joe! What did you do!?"(He didn't actually do anything but is always present when something breaks.)

[Joseph1825]

"Well, it's pretty straight."

[Nirvash]

Team Lead: How'd it get bent?
Me: They hit it with a hammer. (Referring to two people)
Person one: No we didn't!
Person two: Yes... we did.

[Zuelu562]

"When something goes wrong mechanically, we blame Clever."
"When did the word "mechanically" begin meaning "at all"?"

[riverdrake250]

1: Is that lexan?
2: That's cardboard.

[Bewizardment]

During the 2014 season, we have decided (because of a mispronunciation by a student) to refer to the winch mechanism on our robot as a "wench."

It's been decided that we need to use air quotes every time we talk about our wench around a referee.

[boynton78366]

Person 1: "why is this metal hot?"
Person 2: "because we just welded it..."
Person 1: "oh well that explains everything"

[Team3324]

Should I wire that?
-Electrical Team Lead

[Jacob Bendicksen]

"Who said we couldn't do that?"
"Reality."

"It's not dodging the problem if it's a solution."

[NWChen]

"What should we name our crimpers?"

[calvinstence]

"Giving the robot to the electronics team is like watching a child go off to school for the first time" -- a fellow mechanical team member

"The sprocket doesn't fit through the hole!"
"Well, take it off the shaft."
"That's not going to happen- I put a pin through all of it, epoxied it, and put in the set screw."
"...Oh."
"Time for some fine adjustment."

[Peregrinus]

Originally Posted by Team3324

Should I wire that?
-Electrical Team Lead

This is my most used phrase along with, "It's not the electrical, it's the programming"