"Quotes" that were said during build season

[GreyingJay]

Originally Posted by killer_rabbit3

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

Water can superheat and explode when heated up in a microwave. If you've ever seen video or had it happen to you, it's scary! Check out YouTube for plenty of examples.

Never actually seen a microwave on fire though...

Speaking of... here's a quote that was unfortunately said of our team at the North Bay regional this past weekend:

"Hey, um... isn't that your robot over there that's smoking?"

(We let the magic smoke out of a CIM motor)

[RoboChair]

Originally Posted by GreyingJay

(We let the magic smoke out of a CIM motor)

You actually KILLED a CIM motor? I thought they were indestructible....

[MishraArtificer]

Originally Posted by GreyingJay

Speaking of... here's a quote that was unfortunately said of our team at the North Bay regional this past weekend:

"Hey, um... isn't that your robot over there that's smoking?"

(We let the magic smoke out of a CIM motor)

That does not seem physically possible...

[GreyingJay]

Originally Posted by RoboChair

You actually KILLED a CIM motor? I thought they were indestructible....

Originally Posted by MishraArtificer

That does not seem physically possible...

The motor drives our forklift by way of a pair of belts. In bagged configuration we completely removed the forklift carriage and fork assembly as well as the belts. So on Thursday, we assembled the carriage and clamped it securely to the frame while reinstalling and tensioning the belts. The next step was to assemble the rest of the fork while everything was still clamped.

Meanwhile, the robot inspector had us power on the robot to test pneumatics and other things "down below" in the drive frame. I don't really know how or why it happened, but we suspect that when the robot was put into teleop mode to test the compressor, the forklift motor was somehow activated. In any case, the motor became incredibly hot and started to not only send smoke into the air, but began to drip melted winding insulation.

Oops.

[Tytus Gerrish]

[ey206208]

"You are a disappointment to your family, your village, and your cow!"
Don't ask about that one...

[3175leheh]

"Pool Noodles Make Me Nervous"

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by ey206208

"You are a disappointment to your family, your village, and your cow!"
Don't ask about that one...

What's to ask? Disappointing your family is all too common. Disappointing your village is two or three sigmas out. Disappointing your cow takes special talent.

[GeeTwo]

Actually this one was during driver practice:

Silly drive coach, totes are for 'bots!

[MechEng83]

Not a quote so much as a conversation that was occurring:

Several boys on my team were discussing hair care products today, while the girls worked on the practice robot...

#diversity

[carpedav000]

Originally Posted by MechEng83

Not a quote so much as a conversation that was occurring:

Several boys on my team were discussing hair care products today, while the girls worked on the practice robot...

#diversity

I bet I know who

Miss you guys, working very hard to be able to participate over the summer/1st nine weeks.

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by daniel_dsouza

Our safety manager isn't allowed to use the power tools, because he used a drill as a pointing device.

Originally Posted by Aroki

So 1787 isn't the only team that made the least-safe person on the team safety captain?

Originally Posted by MARS_James

On 1523 ours is safe she just forgets to wear closed toed shoes, bring hair ties, and she sometimes doesn't pay attention when walking into a room. Sadly she isn't the most unsafe person on the team............ that belongs to a mentor

Originally Posted by Spectare

That would be a resounding "no".

Same here at 3946. In addition to the safety captain, we have a safety officer in each department (programming, controls, drive, manipulators). The captain is usually a sophomore or junior whom we're grooming to lead a department. Most of the safety officers are selected from the least safe team members. We also purchased some safety orange bandanas from Hobby Lobby, and the safety officers toss them sort of like NFL penalty flags when they observe an unsafe activity taking place (or increasingly, about to take place). It's worked well this year, and in all but one case in our short four year history.

Originally Posted by math311

"Karl stuck the multimeter in the wall, and it's smoking."

Yeah, I did that, too -- at the house when I was about three years old. (Dad was an electronics technician/engineer and ham extra class operator.) The smoke stain persisted for about twelve or fifteen years (mostly behind a stereo system) as a reminder before finally being painted over. If FRC had been around in the late '70's, I would have assigned my high school self to safety as well. Undergrad lab courses and a few trips to sea were my biggest safety instruction.

[evanperryg]

Scouting meeting:
"Well this isn't right, the ranking algorithm isn't supposed to output negative values"
"What's it saying"
"Negative 2"
"I rate your scouting a negative 2"

[zsnow]

"Put it in the cuddle position!"

[75vs1885]

This was said a couple years ago but it was still funny
"Stephen, you are like a blackhole, you suck all the positive energy out of everyone..your new nickname is now blackhole"