Famous Last Words

[Matt Krass]

"It's alright, the dongle's set to disable"
followed by
"What do you mean the labels reversed?"

and my favorite:
"You got the camera to track my what?!"

[Hiteak]

"I bet it will be underweight when we weigh it"

"What do you mean its 40 pounds overweight!!!!!!"

[Jeremiah Johnson]

"We ran out of places to put holes??!!"

"Have no fear, Budda's here!"

[Timmyd]

TIM! SHUT UP AND CAD!
(i got that one wayyyy too many times)

"see this is why you cannt have a girlfreind , and if any of you think of getting one next year forget about it"

"yeah im sure it will work"..."if it doesnt you're fixng it"...(a long while later) "good job Donnelly"

[Arkorobotics]

"Are you sure it's unplugged?" ZZZZZ!!!!!

[miketwalker]

"Don't worry about putting it on blocks, I only changed a minor line in the code."

RJ at the 2004 design meeting on ComBBAT: "I've got an idea, let's have large flaps open to catch all the balls."

[NoodleKnight]

"Hey guys, watch this!"

-or-

"Woah, that was weird... let's do it again!"

[KenWittlief]

"Dont worry, we can fix that in SW"

or

"Dont worry, we can fix that at the regional!"

[Tazlikesrobots]

"Don't worry. I know what I am doing!"

"Hey y'all watch this!" followed by "Is his hair supposed to smoke like that?"

[Cuog]

"oops" need I say more?

[ChucKZiM]

i guess this one is the most used
"it wasn't me, i swear"

[Rosiebotboss]

"You can't fix everything with a keystroke." --John Burns

[Qbranch]

. . "the hopper weighs 15lbs? thats ok, we'll build a new one out of cardboard"


and

. . "the camera's tracking!! oh no. there it goes looking at the floor again."


and, at nationals, after the robot was at the floor:

. . "WHAT?! you didnt put the set screw back in the shooter wheel?!


and, from the off season repair of last year's robot:

. . "we don't need the target light anymore... let's put the cathode lights under the robot!!! "

great thread idea whoever started this

-Q

[irishninja]

Yeah it works. Well, at least, it should work. I programmed/built/designed it to work. It works.

[Billfred]

(This happened while queued for a practice match at Palmetto this year)

1293's programmer: "Quick, connect this up to the program port!" (He tosses a program cable from the laptop over the arena floor's wall)
Me: "What's this?"
Programmer: "It's the camera code so we can shoot."
Me: "We're about to go out for a match!"
Programmer: "Just connect it up!"

(We connect the cable and download the new program, then angle the robot so the camera's not pointing directly at the center goal just to be sure it's doing what it's supposed to do. As the match begins, the drive team watches with horror as Chomp speeds off full tilt in a straight line, ramming 1618's robot that happened to be there. The damage was minimal to both robots, thankfully. We ran the second match with the robot pointed at the field barrier behind us for autonomous.)