"Quotes" that were said during build season

[James Juncker]

Just now when talking about how to get our robot working

"It all depends on When the gravity is located"

[dieDoktor]

Originally Posted by James Juncker

Just now when talking about how to get our robot working

"It all depends on When the gravity is located"

The robot only works well on tuesday's when the sun's gravity lines up with Mars'

[adciv]

The robot automatically turns off when we flip it. (Torqy & light robot this year)

On Linux - The solution to any linux issue is to reinstall the OS. (Sadly, this works)

[IronicDeadBird]

"I thought you said 'Genghis Khan was a muggle."

[Mythheart]

The glory of Photoshop:
"Oh my God, He looks like a troll-face naturally"
"He looks like one of my other friends...it's only when you're photoshopping someone when you realize this"
"I'm gonna rip a chunk out of his face. Yeah, yeah, your forehead doesn't exist anymore"
"Whoops, I didn't mean to erase your eyes"
"Now I'm just cutting my face directly out"
"Oh God, I cut out my own eyeball"
"Sam! Don't kill me man! Don't kill me!!"
"-Shawn! Your face is not cooperating!
-I'm sorry, my face is too perfect to be touched by machines."
"Where's the boulder?
-why?
-Because I want to smell it. It smells like cherries."

[vala]

Our new team motto "Close enough is good enough"

[MikLast]

"Safety is our #1 Priority!"

Proceeds to eat soup right by computers.
dont worry we are safe

[Jarren Harkema]

Mentor: "Building a robot is like cooking. Clean as you go"
Student: "Or you could just eat it."

[jlindquist74]

Student 1: "So you're worried about Ryan's mating part?"
Student 2: "He hasn't drilled holes in it yet."

[jlindquist74]

Originally Posted by adciv

On Linux - The solution to any linux issue is to reinstall the OS. (Sadly, this works)

You misspelled "Windows". Hope this helps.[1] (At least Linux reinstalls[2] are vastly faster than Windows[3].

I don't want to go off on a rant here, but one of the beautiful things about switching the runtime off of VxWorks is that the toolchain license never expires. You're free to experiment with last year's robot to your heart's content. Even better, pick up a Raspberry Pi, a BeagleBone, or soon enough, a CHIP, and go exploring. Worst case, you totally bunghole something, so you reimage the flash and start over.

The same applies to virtual machines. (Somehow, Oracle gives away VirtualBox for free. And I hear Oracle charges its own employees for air[4].)

Google is your friend. When something goes wrong, start searching for answers. If you aren't clearly given an error message, get familiar with /var/log and /bin/dmesg. Toss the message at Google. Someone else has had this problem. Bookmark pages where you find solutions, take notes on what you find.

(Have I mentioned that embedded Linux will get you paid in the future? Your efforts pay dividends long past your last FRC match.)

Before long, you'll find yourself able to remedy most Linux issues without a reinstall. This is a skill set every team needs, as much as machining, CAD, software development, or driving.

[1] Although the behavior of distributions with respect to picking up bug fixes[5] is driving me a bit nuts right now

[2] To protect your work, always put /home on a separate partition. For sanity's sake, also split off /var/log. On Debian-based dists (like Ubuntu,) separate /var/apt/cache too.

[3] If that's something you HAVE to do, get yourself familiar with WSUS Offline

[4] Larry Ellison must pay for his yacht racing habit, natch.

[5] No shipping/recent Debian has a git-svn/libsvn-perl/libsurf1[6] that doesn't segfault on a checkin which touches a large number of files.

[6] Unless you're an overworked configuration management engineer in El Segundo, or their management, your opinion about source control systems is not relevant. Thank you, drive through.

[7] This is the famous recursive footnote[7]

Originally Posted by MikLast

"Safety is our #1 Priority!"

Proceeds to eat soup right by computers.
dont worry we are safe

As long as you wear safety glasses while doing that, it's safe. Right? (This is also preparation for work in professional software development. Our office manager went out on medical leave. Her substitute neglected to include Cup of Noodles in the weekly Costco order. It was almost anarchy when she returned.)

[Gary Dillard]

Quotes I can get away with only this year, thanks to the kickoff video:

As I'm starting my "pizza and physics" class to go through all of the projectile and catapult calculations, I say "of course, velocity is very important to this year's game, because what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?" After a long pause, finally another mentor gives the correct response.

In my questionnaire on survey monkey regarding who is travelling to which competition:

1) "What is your name?"
2) "What is your quest?"