"Quotes" that were said during build season

[Christopher149]

Originally Posted by Oblarg

Ours dates from 2007, I think. It was briefly used in 2008 on a very large arm design, until it was realized that the amount of air required to actuate the thing was completely ridiculous.

857 got its enormous cylinder for 2011 for the minibot - then we got it and realized it was ridiculous and didn't use it. 2586 borrowed it (or a slightly smaller one of ours) for a 10-point lift in 2013.

[Exla357]

Our team likes to randomly burst into song:

Checking the voltage output from an old PD board:
Electricity Padawan: "What's the voltage read?"
Me: NINE!
*everybody else in the room sings the chorus of Du Hast*

Mech specialist reassembling gearbox car mechanic style underneath the elevated drive train:
Him: "Man, there's a lot of blood in my head. Feels trippy."
Other Mech: "Is this the real life?"
*Entire electrical, programming, and design team sings Bohemian Rhapsody in it's entirety*

[JagCode]

Our programming department has a weird fascination with communism that isn't easily explained. Needless to say, this happened during Build.

Builder 1: "Okay, who is playing the Soviet Anthem?"
Builder 2: "I think it's the programming team."

They both turn around to see us wearing various iconic communist clothing. I was in a full Red Guard outfit, and the rest of us wore things ranging from Ushankas to T-Shirts sporting Hammers and Sickles. We all had our Little Red Books out and we were just glaring at those two.

The Program-letariat Revolution has just begun, friends.

[Whippet]

Originally Posted by JagCode

Our programming department has a weird fascination with communism that isn't easily explained. Needless to say, this happened during Build.

Builder 1: "Okay, who is playing the Soviet Anthem?"
Builder 2: "I think it's the programming team."

They both turn around to see us wearing various iconic communist clothing. I was in a full Red Guard outfit, and the rest of us wore things ranging from Ushankas to T-Shirts sporting Hammers and Sickles. We all had our Little Red Books out and we were just glaring at those two.

The Program-letariat Revolution has just begun, friends.

This seems oddly appropriate since we just finished our unit on Animal Farm in school.

[Zuelu562]

Clever, our only senior on the team this year, was well known during his years on the team for unintentionally screwing things up. Well...

"The window motor can't overcome that torque..." *mentors and builders staring at robot figuring out solution*
*Freshman swoops in grabbing something another team requested*"Blame Clever!"

[lamk]

Originally Posted by evanperryg

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(whenever we needed to make something) "Let's just 3d print it"

That's what we use to say a lot too.
Problem it causes us at least 4 matches cause 3D parts can't handle a 60 pound feet torque catapult. Everything got CNC before we come to St. Louis.
Now the latest quote is " Let's just CNC it"

[Akolbi]

Not exactly a quote, but one of our teammates labeled EVERYTHING, none of it was really useful, but it included one label that I find really amusing

"ball"-the label for our game ball

"it would be orders of magnitude easier"
"What!?"
which then became
"ORDERS...OF MAGNITUDE...EASIER"---this was our coach, It's now written on the whiteboard in his classroom.

My personal favorite:
"our team could be a sitcom"

on CD trying to start a thread, our head programmer:
"alex....what day is it?"
"...I DON'T KNOW!"
also in response to "what's Dean Kamen's last name?"
"how should I know, I don't know the guy!?"

and 4607's classic:
"you CAN, but you SHOULDN'T"

[BBray_T1296]

My senior year (last year) After we had the "AP Test form filling out day" where they sit everybody down (at once omg) and register everyone for the AP tests they will be taking that year. They give you a booklet that contains about 16 barcode stickers with your info on it, to stick to all of your scantrons for IDing them easily.

Since most people on our team are the kind of people who take AP tests, we all had these little booklets, and since nobody (in FRC) could possibly hope to take more than a couple of AP tests, we each had 12-14 of these stickers on us at one time.

Needless to say, we were high-school kids. These stickers ended up EVERYWHERE in our lab

In the fridge, microwave, on the saw blades, grinding wheels, toolboxes, cabinets, robot cart, past robots, scrap metal, power tools, robot batteries, in the light fixtures, probably 100 stickers are scattered throughout the lab.

While they technically have some way of tracing who each sticker belongs to, it wouldn't be easy.

[Akolbi]

"how do we X?"

there are 2 possible responces on our team

"you're an X"
OR
"we build a giant wooden badger!"

[TheHolyHades1]

"Grab the drill and the one inch bit, we need to swiss cheese this ..." Repeated many times during the build season 2 years ago when we were slightly over weight.

[DEacho]

Disney music took over the lab this year. Whenever I was too busy building to change it back to quality country, that is.

Long story short:
Do you want to build a robot?
It doesn't have to be a good one...


I don't remember the full song, but it was written.

[AngelsWings]

"The code never bothered us anyways" But in reality it really did.
"Why aren't you tape?!" You can never have enough tape.
"You brought a flashlight for dumpster diving?" At least the spirit sub-team recycles!

[adammiller3122]

"I think our robot is suicidal!"

~JM after our robot almost went down the stairs for the 2nd time!

[JustPlyZ]

"MORE ZIP TIES" -Electrical
"WHERE ARE THE ZIPTIES" -Electrical
"RIVETS!" -Build
"WHERES THE RIVET GUN" -Build
"Dont you dare touch it" -Programming
"ANDREW WHERE IS ANDREW" -Mentors
"Oh you jacka**" (obviously joking)-Lead Mentor

[Calvin Hartley]

Everyone in the car (as we are riding home as I type) is starting to get quite delirious after 7-8 hours on the road. Almost home. One member just started swinging his torso around in circles and shouted "I WANNA BE A BLENDER WHEN I GROW UP!"