One thing you learnt this season

[RogerR]

a hammer, a cordless drill, and a belt sander are as indespinsable as a fully functional machine shop

[ThetaDot]

1) Professional help isn't needed
2) We can beat up any other team
3) How to take a hollow aluminum tube, jam a connector on one end and hook it to the exhaust of our pneumatics system, file down a steel rod to a point on one end, place inside aluminum tube, compress 120 psi into the tanks, open exhaust valve. Denting the light in the CAD room.. Shooting it through our pizza boxes.. Creating a lethal weapon (for real) and having our teacher laugh when he sees it shot into wood.

word

[D@ve]

Just making it happen is the best saying to go bye......I tell people if we need somthing fixed made or repaired ..( Just Make it Happen)..and it Does.




D@VE

[trev2023]

hmmm...let's see...

1) Pizza guys aren't used to delivering pizza to schools, ESPECIALLY at 8 o'clock at night (a pizza place actually hung up on us b/c they thought it was a prank call)
1a) mental note for next year: must get a pizza place as a sponsor....
2) make sure you have time for error
3) scissor lifts don't work well for lifting a robot
4) pneumatics work better
5) prepare for the season before it starts

[Jon K.]

Originally Posted by ToMMan b182

dont listen to anyone who is shorter than you

Funny I learned to listen to short people. Or fear the rath of Lisa. Please don't hurt me.

I also learned that aluminum chips shouldn't be pulled out of you sneaker treads with bare fingers, and that cnc cutters can cut flesh too.

On a serious note I learned how to use mastercam and our CNC machine which is so cool.

[generalbrando]

Originally Posted by velocipenguin

-Snickers + Mountain Dew = the true breakfast of champions

I've taught you well my son.

This year I learnt the joys of officially mentoring. Not only do you get to exercise the iron fist of power, but you get to influence the little things in their lives sometimes too. I'm proud to know that he'll never fall asleep in class again as long as he eats his balanced breakfast of dew and snickers.

Hmmmm....I wonder if you could make that into a smoothie?

Oh yeah! I also learnt that if you absolutely need it here tomorrow and you pay extra double super expensive shipping and pray to the UPS gods - you will not get your order until a week later! And if you do get it on time, it's going to be steel instead of aluminum.

[ngreen]

I learned that generalbrando's picture, check it out, might be one of the better funny FIRST pictures I've seen this year. It was my computer background for like 3 weeks.

[Arefin Bari]

i learned how to plug in the battery to power up the robot...

i learned how to turn on the switch off the robot...

and i learned not to get infront of the robot when its flying around 11 ft. per second around the field...

[andy]

Tighten the bolts that hold the 18 inch sanding disk EVERY time you use it.

MAPP gas torch w/o oxygen can be forced to work (with some modifications to the nozzle)

DO NOT try to bend plexi, nylon, Acrylic, polycarb etc w/ a MAPP gas torch without oxygen. If you do try that, do it outside. TOXIC FUMES

Keep your fingers away from things that move quickly and/or are designed to cut things.

Depressurize/power down everthing when working on it

Do not expect classmates to put in estra aftershool hours.

Do not restrict team members to persons in the class.

Do not eat locktite, antifreeze, or buffing compound (kevin and james)

Carbide wood blades cut aluminum in a chop saw (scary)

Table saws cut aluminum (and then throw it across the room)

Tighten the chuck on the lathe

Label every thing

Put everthing away

Take everthing metal and large away from Kevin when he is trying to "caress" a part into a hole. (unless you want the part destroyed and then thrown across the room in anger)

Grinders like to eat Kevin's keystock

You can't drill 10 mm 68 rockwell hardened steel shafts with normal HSS bits. The steel shatters.

T-nuts are annoying
Drop-in T-nuts are AWSOME

Do not let Rasiik tighten stuff you want to get apart again

Good luck this year!!!

-Andy

[jparkteach]

Originally Posted by Pika1579

I learned that it is good to have a science teacher as your mentor when its 11:00, you're still at robotics, and you still haven't even looked at the chapters for a AP Bio test first thing in the morning...

Hey... I do what I can!!

Originally Posted by trev2023

3) scissor lifts don't work well for lifting a robot

Ours works great!!

I learned that 12.5" polyurethane wheels are actually only 11.5" in diameter. And for some odd reason, they don't make 13.5" polyurethane wheels!! Ask Skyway??

I also learned that your kids grow a lot in 6 weeks when they're only 2.5 and 1.5 years-old respectively. But they'll still love ya'!!

And most importantly, I learned that a word of encouragement and a pat on the back from a teacher/mentor means a lot to a FIRST Robotics student and goes a long way...

[Crop-Circles]

Originally Posted by Jon K.

Funny I learned to listen to short people. Or fear the rath of Lisa. Please don't hurt me.

The rath of any female/short person is always a thing to fear. It's an especially bad idea to say...

"You know you like it..." to females.

"Uh oh, are you gonna attack my ankles?" to short people.

[edomus]

When your car catches on fire stand next to it and act like nothing is happening. Then, realize that you should probably call the fire department so that you will still have some way of getting to robotics. (the part about the car catching on fire is true)

[shyra1353]

Originally Posted by Crop-Circles

The rath of any female/short person is always a thing to fear. It's an especially bad idea to say...

"You know you like it..." to females.

"Uh oh, are you gonna attack my ankles?" to short people.

im female and im short ... and apparently the only freshman on our team is a "little" (as he says) scared of me !!! HAHAHA ... i have no idea why lol

[hacksaw692]

Originally Posted by Jessica Boucher

< shyly > that I missed FIRST < /shyly >

I have to agree 100%. FIRST really was life and I miss it so much.

I realized just how much time I have on my hands during the 6 weeks that all you lucky FIRSTies got to build and sweat over your beloved creation. I miss that joy.

College schedules don't help at all for attending regionals.

My experiences from FIRST really has helped me so far through the college classes that I've taken.

Standing back and just watching is so hard. But watching the growth of future/starting teams is fun.

I won't have that joy of driving at regionals anymore

Man, growing up is hard to do...

[Lisa Rodriguez]

Originally Posted by Crop-Circles
The rath of any female/short person is always a thing to fear. It's an especially bad idea to say...

"You know you like it..." to females.

"Uh oh, are you gonna attack my ankles?" to short people.

I'm loud that's why you fear me
Plus i like to stand on things, and i'm nice a lot, its just when i'm mean, i'm really mean (only when i have to be, not a lot)

SHORT PEOPLE ROCK!!! how else you put those screws in tight places and have people under the robot working on it if you didn't have little people with small hands!! You would no doubt be in deep doo doo without us short people!!!