CD's Unofficial Caption Contest #34

[nehalita]

The robot was big,
The robot was bad,
It made all others jealous
It made all others mad

The robot was challenged to dunk
And we wished it the best of luck
The robot surely did it
But now it's just stuck....

[Bcahn836]

After taking on the top teams in the world of FIRST Robotics Team 237 thought it would be a great idea to challenge the local high school basketball team. WoW look at that hang time

[Rich Wong]

"In your face Shaq O'Neil!"

(no hasketball was damage in this demo)

[Travis Hoffman]

What happens when "Guido", Team 237's well-meaning but colorblind and shape-recognition-challenged autonomous robot programmer, mistakenly calibrates his robot's vision camera to track orange circles instead of yellow triangles? You get this result. Now that's some relentless programming!

Guido now makes $10,000,000 a year building robot player replacements for the NBA. See if you ever make fun of another colorblind person again! HA!

[Koko Ed]

Team 237 celebrated wildly as their robot had dunked in the winning shot but did not notice that the basket was waved off and the team was called for a technical foul because the robot was hanging on the rim.

[Joe Matt]

Team mentor: "I'm not mad, I'm just amazed how you got it up there with the arm fully extended..."

[Dorienne]

Announcer: Wow, not only did that robot slam dunk it, but it gave 50 extra points to their alliance! Sheesh, Bob, I can't believe it...this robot knows how to score and score well!

[Jay H 237]

Hmmmm, I wonder if I'm exempt since I was there and took part in said photo.


<now for my entry>

Having realized the arm 237 designed was somewhat weak the braintrust (ie. engineers) of 237 decided to have it do 100 pull-ups everyday for a week to strengthen those arm cylinders.

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by T. Hoffman

What happens when "Guido", Team 237's well-meaning but colorblind and shape-recognition-challenged autonomous robot programmer, mistakenly calibrates his robot's vision camera to track orange circles instead of yellow triangles? You get this result. Now that's some relentless programming!

Guido now makes $10,000,000 a year building robot player replacements for the NBA. See if you ever make fun of another colorblind person again! HA!

<not an entry>
The funny thing is that we DO have a mentor we nicknamed Guido - Well, actually he gave himself that nickname, but it still is funny.
It would be even more funny if he were a mentor on the programming team, and not the mechanical team.
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Also, the funny thing about that day, was that we did this at a D.A.R.E. day event, and the kids enjoyed it this sight so much, the 4 cops that were standing in the vicinity, and also watching from a distance, had grins on their faces. I was expecting them to yell at us, but they were cool about it.
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[killerofkiller]

"team 237's original design was to make a robot that could bowl. they where sucessful, but the idea of bowling balls going 200 ft/s did not appleal to the team after 5 members lost their legs"
"now sucessful with basket ball, a DDR robot is in the planning phase

[richardp]

Ah well...as always, Midnight Saturday. (I feel like I should give richardp the Price Is Right Award for coming the closest to the deadline without going over. Seriously, go look--it was exactly midnight on Saturday.)

<NOT ENTRY>
I also agree since that would help my average score and hopefully make me as funny as Gary Dillard. As close as that was I still think that 116's chairmans award was more impressive, with only 10 seconds to spare. (I am only waiting to think of something funny before I post an entry)
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[Kevin Kolodziej]

And at the end of the day, the 237 robot was left hanging, still waiting for the alli-oupe from Dave Lavery. His excuse - he heard there was a new Krispy Kreme store opening.

[Shu Song]

It's FIRST's version of Yao Ming

[Jay Trzaskos]

Me :Is that JVN by those cars?
Aaron :I don't think so. Well actually...
Me :Oh my god theres a robot hanging on the rim!! Where the heck did that come from?
Aaron :Yeah, well now that you mention it i think it is JVN....

[Eugenia Gabrielov]

Team 237 takes a tip from the best, and gets their robot set to pick up some ladies.

Girl: That's a miiiighty fine robot you've got there.
Robot: Go back to Indiana, shorty.