Funniest/Wierdest thing you have done while building your robot

[Andrew Y.]

haha, to many stories for this topic

Santosh
---broke a huge titanium drill bit on PVC.
---broke about 3 more after that
--- was asked to cut a ½ wide and 2 inch long slot, ended up making a 2x2 box

one of our team members broke a HUGE, I MEAN UGE milling bit



One night we slept over at school pulling a all nighter, it happened to be the coldest night of the year (about 20 F). Being us we forgot the school had heating and we all gathered around a spot light to sleep near

[Jacqui]

Speaking of breaking drill bits...I broke one on wood last year...I have it in my room =)

This year, my team moved to a MEDAL workshop (Our team had worked in a wood shop), so there were alot of new "toys" to play with. Well, the first time we worked in there, I got to use this one BIG machine first, and James (a guy on my team) didn't tighten the clamp on it enough, so the long piece of aluminum about 1 foot out of the 10 feet of it jolted out at me. It came close to me, and I almost peed my pants. After the shock wore off, we were all laughing soo hard. I heard that the look on my face when it happened was priceless.

[santosh]

Ofcourse cutting your thumb off is much btter than breaking drill bits right? lol

The big 1 inch mill bit was broken when somone ran a program on the mill without turning on the part that makes the bit spin.

I don't really remember the 2X2 box though. What was that one?

[Andrew Y.]

Originally Posted by Jacqui

This year, my team moved to a MEDAL workshop (Our team had worked in a wood shop), so there were alot of new "toys" to play with. Well, the first time we worked in there, I got to use this one BIG machine first, and James (a guy on my team) didn't tighten the clamp on it enough, so the long piece of aluminum about 1 foot out of the 10 feet of it jolted out at me. It came close to me, and I almost peed my pants. After the shock wore off, we were all laughing soo hard. I heard that the look on my face when it happened was priceless.

haha, something always get thrown out from BIG machines

[NeedMoreEngines]

While testing our bot we capped a ten foot basketball net. Then we were just messing around and tried to see if we could lift up the Goal that we had made. Of course we did.

[Jacqui]

Originally Posted by Andrew Y.

haha, something always get thrown out from BIG machines

That might be why they let me at the machine first...being as I was the only girl on the build team that night..nebbe they are plotting to kill me! AHHH!

[Andrew Y.]

Originally Posted by Jacqui

That might be why they let me at the machine first...being as I was the only girl on the build team that night..nebbe they are plotting to kill me! AHHH!

naw.....Gracious professionalism protects u

[Jacqui]

Originally Posted by Andrew Y.

naw.....Gracious professionalism protects u

Hmm...I forgot about that...::jumps in joy:: Thank goodness for Gracious Professionalism!

[StephLee]

Our team's favorite stories(I'd nearly bet my life they're unanimous) both involve high speeds and a wall.

Story # 1: We had just gotten the robot to the point where we thought it would drive, so we took it out in the hallway to try it out. (To this day, no one has an answer to my question of WHY we went out into the hallway when our room is about 35 feet wide and the hallway is about 5. Espescially since it's not our school[we're two schools], it's at the local college.) Anyway, everyone had a turn driving it. James took his turn, and he didn't realize how sensitive the KoP joysticks were. He went too fast, realized he was going to hit the corner that jutted out, and for some reason let go of the joysticks. They bounced back and forth, the robot kept moving pretty fast, and when it hit the wall, took a chunk out of the corner. The building was brand-new. Even though James and his dad patched it(the people who run the building still don't know where the hole is), it's still visible.

Story # 2: It was our first test of our autonomous mode, and we were at the local ski lodge(after hours; it was the only place with a large enough carpeted area to practice.) We set up people around the robot since we weren't entirely sure what would happen(again, I'm not sure why we didn't put it up on blocks or something) and turned it on. Apparently, the speed was set at full...it zoomed across the room, nearly decapitated our driver and a mentor before it crashed into a wall. If it had turned another few feet to the left, it would have hit an all-glass wall...a few more feet, and it would have hit the younger sibs of several team members and/or my parents and grandparents...

Apparently our robot has anger issues with walls.

[santosh]

The manipulator on our robot fell on one of our drivers when him and another guy were trying to load the robot on our cart. His head was bleeding for a while.