Famous Last Words

[santosh]

"OH MY GOD YOU ARE ABOUT TO HIT THE SCHOOL BOARD SUPERINTENDANT WITHT THE ROBOT, DISABLE"

[jparkteach]

"We would have definitely won that match if the battery hadn't fallen out!!"

[John Gutmann]

Originally Posted by jparkteach

"We would have definitely won that match if the battery hadn't fallen out!!"

"This one little change NOT change the robot. It will work perfectly after this."

"We totally would have won if the robot was on"

[Athleticgirl389]

"So we can't get the door open. Jon, grab the smallest freshman you can and let's throw em through the window!"

Shockingly enough, the smallest freshman raised his hand and throught we were serious

[taylort]

"Hey, you, catch!"

"That's not my camera, is it?"

Just a few from the pre-season.

[Éowyn]

Asking a mentor to do something X 5 times in < 30 minutes = instant death.

[=Martin=Taylor=]

"Of course an AC motor will run off of DC..."

That was the last thing that motor heard

[JBotAlan]

Me as a freshman - "Oh, I forgot to zero out those PWM outputs. Let me do that real quick" followed by "Okay, reset it" followed by ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzz and a bunch of screams--the first time my program ever bruised anyone...

"Heads up" - our captain (when I was on 1140) was shaking the tether cable, which was faulty because it got caught in a chain. We got power to the OI but no signal. After shaking it for a few seconds, we got signal, and our joysticks were so far out of calibration that the arm came to life and our claw swiped a scratch right across the back of the safety judge's hand. "There goes our safety award"

"Let's see if this works"

"It should work"

Our team leader "What will this autonomous do?" followed by me "Umm....I think....no wait....ummm...let's see"

"This auton will be sweet" ten seconds before the bot flies at 12ft/sec into the opposite end of the field, literally throwing the main battery out onto the field. It was supposed to shift down.

"Yeah, I charged up the pneumatics!"

JBot

[team1852]

"why won't it move?"

- followed by -

"details ... details"

[Travis Covington]

"Eh, good enough!"

[Pavan Dave]

"PAVAN@@@@!!!!!!"

"PAAAAAA-VAAAAAA-NNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"I wonder who that was?"


Those are common to our robotics team. I am Pavan. Although I can break anything on our robot, I can fix everything on it as well, because if I couldn't, I would be in a lot of pain.

-Pavan

[Gabe]

"It seemed like a good idea at the time..."

Classic!

[Viper37]

"Yeah we beat last years Hotel Jacuzzi record by 1 person!"
"Maximum occupancy 4..."
"Guys, why is the bottom of the Jacuzzi feel like its bending?"
"Because we have 11 too many people in this thing!"