"Quotes" that were said during build season

[April McShorty]

(Talking about pneumatics for the tower scaling portion)
"I don't think 60 FPS will lift a robot." (A build team member)
"I don't think any FPS would lift anything. I believe you mean PSI." (Myself)

[Simplify]

"I'm telling you guys, we should build a monster truck!"

[MikLast]

Originally Posted by April McShorty

(Talking about pneumatics for the tower scaling portion)
"I don't think 60 FPS will lift a robot." (A build team member)
"I don't think any FPS would lift anything. I believe you mean PSI." (Myself)

I found the PCMasterRace guy!

[Daria Wing]

"Honestly, we could just stick some electronics on a 2 by 4, add wheels, and have a robot that could compete relatively well..."

[He-manChiluka]

"make a bracket"
"Robotics yeah"
"Put the trash in the trash, obviously"
"Rank 38!! "
"jackson"
"johny broke the robot"
"the robot broke"
"just configure the d link"
"Ill put you in the trash can"
"Ill finish it on my lunch break"
"The greatest strength of a team is the ability to work as a team"
"Here begins our legacy"

[Toatekua]

Me: "Look! Robot eyelashes!" (Me, on something that was reminiscent of the little broom-like things that usually go under a door. We had huge googly eyes on the robot, but one of our teammates was like "no, that isn't professional" and ripped them off when we unbagged the robot...)

[conrbanana]

Originally Posted by CurlyFries

"There's either six wheels or eight wheels. Three on one side and four on the other."

This year's strategy - 7 wheel drive train.

Hey... Its a legitimate strategy...

[IronicDeadBird]

MECHANUM means your priority list should be: lose, break a wheel, make excuses, drive sideways...


This story needs a bit of context so bear with me.
Yesterday the students sat down and decided to organize priorities for strategy. While discussing this strategy our school sponsor/coach/mentor/superhero needed to go home and the discussion carried on. After a long talk and discussion we decided on what we thought was a fairly strong strategy and list of priorities. One thing that was clearly established with this strategy before the coach left was that mecanum was not ideal for our strategy.
At that point we sent this photo to our school sponsor/coach/mentor/superhero and IMMEDIATELY we got a call from him asking what was going on with the conversation. We pretended there was static, he asked if we were kidding, I asked when did we get kittens, he hung up with a sigh.
Then came the update on facebook, I explained that the students decided on what we would call a MecHanum drive base, this drive base consists of four mecanum wheels in the standard layout, and an omni wheel running perpendicular to those wheels in the center of the robot making it a hybrid of an h drive and a mecanum robot. Best of both worlds.
After explaining this we got this response about our strategic priorities...
"MECHANUM means your priority list should be: lose, break a wheel, make excuses, drive sideways"
I then explained the thought process behind it.
"Alright, alright hear me out. If we have a mecanum drive and we have an omni wheel in the middle and a gyro when we get pushed sideways we can push back with the omni wheel. It's great for defense. And we cant get stuck on a platform cause the omni wheel can move in any direction. Its perfect."

[hank2247]

"Time to start drilling holes." said on the Saturday before bag and tag at 8 pm after we weighed the robot for the first time (it weighed 170 lbs).

Now whenever the topic of weight comes up the response is "well we can always drill some more holes."

[RoboChair]

"The rules are perfectly clear and understandable once you apply the 'Don't be a dick' filter to them". "Anything that passes said filter is either there on purpose or is a temporarily exploitable loop hole that might be left alone"

Said by me.

[Kevin Sevcik]

Background: We're looking at a under the low bar robot with simple systems due to this years decrease in funding, students, and super-mentor availability.

"I want to build a high goal shooter because we've never built an accurate shooter before."

We reminded him that we had a decent shooter for Ascent, and this probably wasn't the year to try this experiment during build.

[Type]

"I'm trying to make you not stupid"

[BariSaxGuy]

chute door



"SHUT THE #%$%!@% UP!!!!!"

[frcguy]

"Hey guys, I found a ruler! Oh wait, never mind, it's a broom."

[MrJohnston]

"Oooooh.... Rhinos!"