"Quotes" that were said during build season

[AlexanderTheOK]

"I fixed the code!"

"how?"

"I deleted it."

[al7994]

"Why don't we just build square wheels?"

[thegeekguy]

mentor: "who left this here?" after pulling out a large piece of aluminum from somewhere it shouldn't have been
me: "The aluminumati!" met with stares of disaproval

[Damiaen_Florian]

"Practice Bot!" (What's yelled any time we mess up a part in manufacturing)


*A few days before nationals in 2013*
Student1: "Our bot doesn't look so good..."
Student2: "Yeah it's currently suffering from a condition known as 'practice-bot Syndrome'"

[MechEng83]

(whilst machining some precision parts on the mill)

S1: Did you machine the part.
S2: Yeah, but the it's not in tolerance.
S1: Well how off is it?
S2: Over nine thousandths....

[Johnnybukkel]

"All I'm saying is: Mechanical systems don't break until electrical and software give them the ability to break..."

[Joseph Franke]

We were testing some Ultra sonics and the circuit started smelling bad, so the programmers turned it off and asked some people to come over and

"Does anybody not have a stuffy nose that can smell our circuit?"

[xXhunter47Xx]

"First comes the robot, then food, then safety"

[Kevin Selavko]

'What are you building?'-Kid
"A robot"-Me
'NO YOUR NOT!'

Kid's response to our camera rig of donut boxes

[Kingland093]

When a motor controller wasn't working today, one of the mentors switched the music that was playing to the song "another one bites the dust"

[mman1506]

"If we collect enough dead CIMs we can put them in a pile and call it CIMolia"

[MichelB]

Media Team member: "Who's writing the notes?"
Everyone else: "Not me"
Mentors and media team: groan and sigh

[DJ_AKoostic]

Q:What do human players do?
A:Humane things

Remember Kids, Safety Last-Said our tech teacher with his head in our CNC mill blowing out aluminum shards, while wearing safety glasses, on the top of his head


Q:What does this thingie do? (referring to the digital sidecar)
A:Uhh...Sidecars in a digital manner? (says me, the head of electronics)

[Zuelu562]

"We'll get it done in 30 minutes" - Programmer/Electrical Student
*3 hours later*
"So how about those 30 minutes?" - Mechanical Mentor
"Did I say when the 30 minutes started?" - Student

[om_nom_nom]

Originally Posted by AlexanderTheOK

"I fixed the code!"

"how?"

"I deleted it."

Sounds similar to something that happened to my team:

*My friend walks into room where mechanical people are working*

"He refactored the WPI Library."

"What does that mean?"

"There's no robot code..."