"Quotes" that were said during build season

[GreyingJay]

"Why is it mad at me?" - students really asking "why did the compiler flag this line of code with a red X"

[IronicDeadBird]

While discussing strategy:
"You don't want a dead fish on your plate of scallops."
I still don't know where that came from.

[BigJack]

We like to pawn weight or space issues off to other sub-teams as a running gag.

"She's a little over weight. Add more zeroes to the code!"

"But where do the electronics go?"
"On a trailer behind the robot, of course."

Coincidentally, we've been saying that second one for years, but this year it's actually a valid response.

[Jacob4564]

"Hey can you remove the gyro, programmers need to work on it."

"Sure." (Rips it out.)

(Tries to drive later on) "Why won't this thing drive?

I think the programmers broke it."

Silly engineers, just why?

[UnknownFactor]

Q: "Hey programmers, why doesn't the robot drive?" Says the driver.

"Have you tried turning it on and off again?"

"Did you put a battery in it"

"Did you plug in the controller"

"Are you using the correct robot?"

"Did you press the space bar by mistake?"

"Are you on test mode?"

"Is it a problem with the driver height difference?"

"Has Atlas become sentient?"

[riverdrake250]

"Wait, our left or their right?"

[silver505]

" No sleep till robot" (Team members put quote on every white board and water bottles)

[GeeTwo]

About two weeks before Bayou, our tote stacks weren't level, so we decided to add a few washers behind the "foot" that holds the bottom of the tote away from the robot and therefore level. We were afraid that if we went out too far, we couln't pick up totes at all, so we figured we'd have to tweak it in and out a few times. After the kids tested the best estimate from some measurements, I went back to Jesse (head coach).

Me: Y' know how we were afraid that we couldn't pick up totes if we put those spacers behind the foot?
Jesse: Yes.
Me: Well, build added 3/8 of an inch, and the drivers say it picks up better than ever.
Jesse: (shrugs) Better is better.

This one is from yesterday, as we were designing upgrades for St. Louis:

Me: "We can't use hose clamps to hold it on"
Jim: "Why not?"
Me: <make wrapping horizontal motion with finger and pull the lift plate up and down>
Jim: "You're crushing my dreams."

And a few one-liners:

• (At Bayou, while the robot was in the queue) "Don't throw the pointed noodles in the pit" (a mitered bumper piece)
  
• (Said many times to many people): "That's using your noodle, <name>"
  
• "Do the thing!"

[killer_rabbit3]

Mechanical: "can we borrow this for 5 minutes?"

Controls: proceeds to start counting to 300 seconds

300 seconds later

Controls: They tell lies!!!!!!

[Jarren Harkema]

I was overhearing our programming lead and mentor discussing adjusting our strafe drive control.

Mentor: "What did you tweak the fudge factor on the strafe to?"
Programming lead: "Oh, I didn't, I made a separate fudge."
Mentor: "...so fudge on top of fudge."
Me: "mmmm. ..double fudge.."

[Ichlieberoboter]

Team co captain to freshman: "What do you and our robot have in common right now?"
Freshman: "What?"
Team co captain to freshman: "Neither of you work"

[Skyehawk]

"Oh, that's easy."
- Myself as a programmer

[CaptainKirby]

These were all chants we used in the mosh pit during eliminations in Colorado:

"My name is Adrian"
"We can make a circle too"
"Believe in the me that believes in you"

And one of my favorites from the entire regional:

"Totes my goats, totes totes my goats"

[rainbowbear998]

"It's like the Placebo Effect, but being an idiot."

[killer_rabbit3]

"Drew! The microwave's on fire"
everyone looks towards the smoking microwave
"I swear I put water in it"