"Quotes" that were said during build season

[wingnut1705]

What? You don't normally make band-aids out of duct tape and paper towel?

Here is another good one-
Me- "GAHHH my auto mode just tried to kill me"

word to the wise- always make sure that when you type in speed values you dont put 16 in the place of 160.

[TwIsTeD2]

Originally Posted by wingnut1705

What? You don't normally make band-aids out of duct tape and paper towel?

Here is another good one-
Me- "GAHHH my auto mode just tried to kill me"

word to the wise- always make sure that when you type in speed values you dont put 16 in the place of 160.

;p

when you are in the heat of building u use waht you have around you they are lucky to even get a towel

[dtape]

Originally Posted by wingnut1705

What? You don't normally make band-aids out of duct tape and paper towel?

You have obviously never seen our 200 uses of duct tape buttons. one of them is as surgical bandage, another is as band-aids.

[Otaku]

Originally Posted by TwIsTeD2

;p

when you are in the heat of building u use waht you have around you they are lucky to even get a towel

When in the heat of building, you're lucky if you even notice an injury. I cut myself something like 5 times during build season, and didn't notice until the day after I cut myself. At least I still have all my fingers.

[Athleticgirl389]

Originally Posted by dtape

You have obviously never seen our 200 uses of duct tape buttons. one of them is as surgical bandage, another is as band-aids.

duck tape and tissues also works when you twist your ankle by tripping over something at the work site (tissues so the duck tape doesnt rip your skin when you take it off haha). i've used that combo many many times

[MishraArtificer]

Originally Posted by underwood

"you see electrical team? this is why you dont put 12 volts through a pwm cable" *shows*"

Hm...echos of GLR...
Between me and a member of a rookie team after they roasted a PWM...
Me:"Got PWM?"
Him:"Nope."

Also, if I haven't mentioned it before...
"You can build a perfect machine out of imperfect parts."
Plastered to the whiteboard after I read it on the MTG card Coalition Victory. Yay, flavor text!

[Alpha 997]

Originally Posted by buss

From our lead coder, while trying to get the robot working:
"I know the code works, I wrote it! It must be a hardware problem."

To answer a question above about extra code adding weight: I believe that all of the electrons already exist in the flash memory, but they are just disorganized. Writing to the flash memory just consists of organizing electrons, therefore the weight would not increase.

It's never a hardware problem. As long as things don't fall apart, it's always software problem.

[Alpha 997]

“The holes doesn’t match”
“Just make both of them bigger”

“WHERE are my NUTS??? WHO took my NUTS!!!???”

“ Let me see the uh… gripping…thing…”

“ Ummm… are you supposed to hammer that?”
“ Yeah.”
“ Umm… isn’t that our drive train?”
“ Yeah…What!? Hammer fixes everything. Haven’t you seen Armageddon?”

“If someone ask what our robot can’t do, tell them it can’t make toast.”
“If we put a toaster on the robot, we can make toast!”
From then on, the name toaster was a hit and almost became the name of our robot >_< (lost by one vote)

(Pneumatic team let the air out of the tank) us mechanical team screamed: “LEAK!!!!!”

“Where are the scissors?”
“In the tape measure drawer.”
“Why?”
“That’s just where I keep them.”

“It’s only 1/8th off”

Between regional:
“The bumpers got ripped again!?? That’s it; I’m wrapping them with Kevlar.”

“We’ll make our robot hover and get 90 bonus points.”

(To self) “Oh s*&#, It doesn’t fit.”
“What you do this time?”
“Nothing, just prototyping.”

[StephLee]

Sarah: OWWW! *dances in pain holding finger*
Me: Did you just stab yourself with your Safety Captain button??
Sarah: Yes! *dances some more*

[wondoman]

What to say to a female you are trying to pick up at the FIRST robotics competition....

you- Hey you look like a keeper

XD

this came up at dinner with team 675 and non of us had the chance to use this awsome line

[Alpha 997]

During the championship in our hotel at the girls' room.

guy:"Why is there beef jerky on the bed?"
girl:"Oh that's where it went. Ewww."

guy:"You have to put the coffee filter in first."
girl:"Is this the coffee filter?"
me:"That would be the napkin."

[Mike Harrison]

Quotes by our fearless leader: Paul Copioli...

"You are SUCH a tool!"
(what Paul refers to students who he deems incapable of intelligent thought)

"Brass hammer... now."
(what Paul says when something needs fixing)

[Monochron]

"No WOW references in the shop! Time to play catch the hammer."
(We had to enforce a strict "no WOW reference" rule after multiple warnings)

"Oh, great the robot's over weight again?"
"It must be that new programming for the arm."
"Tell them to redo it with less 1s and more 0s"

"Does it taste like a Loogie?!?"
(One fateful night after a meeting I set down my soda on a shop table to clean up a few of the tools. Upon returning I up-ended the rest of the contents of the can into my mouth. Something was different. It wasn't as sweet. And it had a familiar feeling...you know like when you have some phlegm in the back of your throat and you....well you can guess)

[Cuog]

"Hey that was me!" __Andrew Rankin today recalling something funny from build season

[Grant Cox]

Originally Posted by Mike Harrison

Quotes by our fearless leader: Paul Copioli...

Of course you can't forget "you've gotta be KIDDING me" and "what are you doing??!!?!?!"