"Quotes" that were said during build season

[Lemonyfresh]

"What do you mean the camera's mounted wrong?"

Me after our team discovers that our camera mount was constantly pressing the reset button on the camera halfway through the Milwaukee Regional...

[Yoel2630]

"is this ok?"
"well, it's not on fire. It must be" =]

was said to me after connecting a few wires several minutes after a fellow team mate closed up a circuit of pure 24V and wires went on fire lol

[FRC4ME]

Originally Posted by Lemonyfresh

"What do you mean the camera's mounted wrong?"

Me after our team discovers that our camera mount was constantly pressing the reset button on the camera halfway through the Milwaukee Regional...

Similarly, in 2007, we spent thre hours each on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday trying to figure out why our camera wasn't working. I couldn't attend the Saturday meeting, and wished the team luck getting the camera to work. The next Tuesday, I walked in:

Me: "So, did you get the camera working?"
Mentor: "Yes."
Me: "What was wrong with it?"
Mentor: "It was mounted upside down."

Yes; when the camera tried to make a slight correction to the left, it actually went right, causing a larger correction to the left, which went even farther right...yeah, that didn't work.


This year, after a match:
Me: "Any problems with the robot?"
Driver: "The drive system was acting weird."
Other Driver: "And the pivoter didn't work."

The build team went to work fixing the pivoter while I checked out the drive system programming. I couldn't help but laugh when I realized I had left the robot in tuning mode, which used the pivoter switch to change a drive system PID constant. No wonder it was acting weird; the more the second driver tried to make the pivoter turn, the worse the drive system got.