One thing you learnt this season

[jacob_dilles]

true that. with a hammer, a cordless drill, some pliars and some motivation, you can do anything

Originally Posted by RogerR

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

lol thers some great storys about the table saw and a certin piece of alumnum...... and whats wrong with cutting aluminum with a chop saw???

Originally Posted by andy

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

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

[Jon K.]

Originally Posted by Keiko173

Don't get sick, they WILL ban you from the shop the rest of them don't want to be sick.......
Fevers make you delierious, espcially when looking @ robot pictures on CD and thinking they're yours
Building is FUN, when ur really into it
The back gate gets locked at 1030, alarms turned on at 11
Then janitors like us because we're nice, and stay away from thier stuff
The CNC machine has a constant high pitched noise when on
The old shop teacher ( a team mentor) is in the wood shop and has more stuffin the wood shop that the new shop teacher (he's gonna help next year, he's a little busy with getting his masters)
You can't have drive practice unless you have a functioning robot
Freshman are never to be left alone with 40+ red bouncy balls
Modern Theater makes robotics problems go away
Computer Tech Independent Study is a GREAT time to get robotics work done

Cough Cough thanks Lisa. Oh and another thing I learned is that the janitors get mad when you set the alarms off in the building, and cops show up.

[ngreen]

It is way easier to put something on the robot than to take it off.

[jacob_dilles]

Originally Posted by Keiko173

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!!!

... with an rachet extention?

[Wayne C.]

Originally Posted by TeknoBramha

Tell us one important thing you learnt this season

that a good team can do almost anything

wc

[henryBsick]

I learned that...
-CNC is good
-You can make 7 tooth engagement sprockets
-You get what is given and you have to do your best.
--Good thing what was given is great!

[tenfour]

I got to be a mentor this year and I loved it. Really, there is so much to learn, I still haven't stopped!

1. Castor wheels aren't as bad as our team once thought
2. Gearboxes are cool compared to chains
3. Really funny things happen at the shop after 1 am.
4. Each trip to the hardware store is like a trip to disneyland.
5. Rookies keep me young.....

[Adam Y.]

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!!!

Dam it drove me crazy trying to screw in hex heads through the wheel hub. I learned that being involved in FIRST lends to the creation of poetry about serpentine belts.

[generalbrando]

Originally Posted by 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.

One thing I learnt in the preseason - posting interesting pictures of oneself or antagonizing someone into pasting your head on a famous person's body (coughbillgatescough) is just good fun on CD. If you got a laugh out of my picture, don't feel bad - it means you're normal.

[RiotingNerd]

How easy it is for one of your teammates to set the controller on fire

[Aignam]

That teams pull together when things get rough.

[white_ChocOlat8]

I learned that you could scrap a whole mechanism two nights before ship, and still have it work like you did it 6 weeks ago. And also don’t let freshman use power tools.

[Jonathan M.]

One thing I learned this season is that no matter what, if a team sets it's differences aside, sits together and gives democracy a shot, you can accomplish a lot. You get great results that make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

[Arefin Bari]

NEVER give up no matter what happens...

[David the bomb]

I learned not to conect both battery termanals, on the robot battery, with a peice of metal.....I mean....uh..I did no such thing. I just accedentally held a peice of metal which kinda touched both termanals, which sent sparks flying everywhere. lol, it was awesome