"Quotes" that were said during build season

[jess_17]

"It has bumpers for a reason! I didn't build 16 of them for nothing!" said by me, the driver, after repeatedly running our robot into various objects and people. We were having a few issues with the joysticks so it was virtually impossible for the robot to drive straight and maneuver easily.

[qscgy]

While attaching leads to a battery:
Electronics person: I think this bolt is too long, but I can't unscrew it.
Mechanics person: Why does that matter? We can just Dremel it.

We can't turn on the robot after a few minutes of trying:
Aaron: Well, the battery's charged...Hey! Electronics! Come figure out why our robot won't turn on!
Bronte: (looks at it for a moment, then holds up the wire connecting the PDP to the main breaker, which has pulled loose)
Aaron: That explains a lot.

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by qscgy

Bronte: (looks at it for a moment, then holds up the wire connecting the PDP to the main breaker, which has pulled loose)

Been there, done that. Sometimes words are unnecessary (middle quote).

[SeeleySWS]

*after having gone 1-2

"Alright guys now all we have to do is go 10-2"

(We did!)

[abigailthefox]

Originally Posted by axiomofdarkness

That's me, but with Eclipse.

The most relatable post on this thread

[quigjam]

discussing getting up for breakfast the morning of the Windsor Regional

Kevin- "If you want waffles you better be first in line before we get out the door."

Garret (my mentor) - "Or we could just make one waffle and split it evenly among everyone."

Me- "Now you're thinking like a communist Garret."

[Russell2144]

Not really during build season but it cracked me up.
So I was in English class and my teacher is trying to get a movie to play but the sound wouldn't play through the sound bar in the classroom. And everyone knows that I do robotics..

Class: "Russell! Go help! Go do tech things!"
Me: "I build robots! Not IT!"

[Russell2144]

Me: "QUICK I need the lobotomy stick!" (Hammer)

[NickKerstens]

Originally Posted by fovea1959

not build season, and perhaps not new:

@ Lansing District Competition Alliance Selection
MC: ... and so, what is your choice?
just "promoted" #8 alliance captain: I choose... <rustling of scouting notes> the Jeopardy music.

This is by far the best picking-related one

[sarah_storer]

"You can stop looking....I just bought a high res picture of toast."

-Mom from Team 5332 Toaster Tech

[2521 Robotician]

"Stop trying to zip-tie my ear!!!" - I got bored one day and there were zip ties in arms reach....

"Not good." - Our shooter prototype started flailing around and slammed into the table.

"Where does the ____ go?"

"That's not what that's for."

"There's a limit to how serious you can act while eating animal crackers."

[Van.Augur]

"Close enough for government work"
"Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls"
"Transmission grease doesn't taste good"
"At 300 miles an hour, no one will tell the difference"
"See, Damon smart."
"You need to stop worrying about all your stupid math"
"This is the type of thing I think they'd teach you in engineer school"
"They don't teach you that in engineering school"
"What would Foss do?"

[jjeter]

[A letter found on our white board from our Build Captain]
"Dear Future Self,
Tomorrow you need to..."

[qscgy]

Inspector: Do you guys have a multimeter?
(Person passes him a multimeter)
Inspector: Fantastic. I also need the leads for this.

(While testing our CDF/portcullis wedge mechanism)
Driver: Are you sure the rivets will hold? The wedge is getting slammed around pretty hard.
Me: Should be fine. Those things are pretty strong.
Driver: OK...(does another CDF crossing)
Mentor: Hey, you might want to look at this.
(all eight rivets on the wedge gusset plate have sheared)
Me: OK, we'll switch to 10-32 bolts. And if they fail, bigger bolts. And if those fail, welding. And if that fails, the rest of the robot is probably in pieces and on fire.

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by qscgy

Inspector: Do you guys have a multimeter?
(Person passes him a multimeter)
Inspector: Fantastic. I also need the leads for this.

This reminds me of a story that took place way before my FRC years. IIRC, it was in the fourth year of FRC (1995), though I may be off by a year or so. I had arrived to do an acoustic survey on the USS Littlehales in Brindisi Italy on what was normally a hydrographic survey vessel. This was not a good mix, as acoustics surveys were (and still are) performed with roll-on-roll-off equipment, and the hydro ships were engineered to a single mission, with no spare space; we wound up mounting our equipment to a sheet of plywood strapped to a drafting table. [Edit] And OBTW, laboriously and back-breakingly deploying and recovering an acoustic array in the space beneath a hydro survey launch.[/Edit] As we were securing our equipment (pre survey), one of the ship's E.T.s (electronic technicians, not extraterrestrials) was fussing and fuming at the ship's survey computer station. I politely asked if there was anything I could do to help. He said rather irritably "Not unless you have the printer drivers on disk 5 of windows". I calmly rotated my fanny pack around to my belly, unzipped, pulled out a rubber-banded pack of the 6 Windows 3.1 disks, took off the rubber band, and frisbeed him disk 5. His jaw hit his chest. There were three or four occasions later in the survey when I was asked some really silly "you don't happen to have a ****** in that pouch, do you?" The answer was uniformly no, but I think I gave him some helpful info to find what he needed on a couple of those occasions.