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Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

Oh yeah, I forgot about labels!

"BACKWARDS"
"until we fix it"
-Two labels, one above the other, on a sensor cable that we had soldered backwards and didn't want to spend the time fixing.

"maybe bad"
-Written on any battery that fails to hold a charge. Or, more accurately, any battery that we think cannot hold a charge because we think its charged when its not and try to use it.

"(really) (really) stupid light"
-Label on the yellow diagnostic light on our robot. Every time we have to spend two hours tearing apart our wiring to fix said nearly useless component, it gets an additional "(really)". We actually refer to this as the Stupid Light in general conversation now, capitalizing and pronouncing it as if that is its proper name.

"this is not a toy"
-Label on the disable dongle after someone broke it by toggling it back and forth all day out of boredom.

"Auto Brake: Arm/Disable"
-Label on a military-style switch on our custom control box, meant to imitate an actual switch found on a Boeing 747. We also have flight simulator joysticks, so this is appropriate.

"magic/more magic"
-XKCD switch labels on our teleop/autonomous switch. We wanted to use "order/chaos", but the programmers and drivers couldn't agree on which mode got which label.
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Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

Told to our programmers on a daily basis during build;

MAKE MORE TYPINGS.


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Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

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"(really) (really) stupid light"
-Label on the yellow diagnostic light on our robot. Every time we have to spend two hours tearing apart our wiring to fix said nearly useless component, it gets an additional "(really)". We actually refer to this as the Stupid Light in general conversation now, capitalizing and pronouncing it as if that is its proper name.
We call ours the "Doofy yellow light".
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Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

We have a similar switch, only it has one label and one of those epic protection thingys on it...don't ask me to describe, I'm software.

"Win Button" even though it's a switch. I don't know why.

Both this year and last year at awards banquet: "THE CAKE IS NOT A LIE!"

And some old ones:
"Do you think we'll get extra points if we have it do a barrel roll?"
"The output of the one shot is the clock for the flip-flop."
"Those cheerleaders have to die!" //I fear for them...
"I know what's wrong" //Followed by panic
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Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

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Our coach to new drivers: "You need to shake the robot to shoot more balls, so remember to shake it."

Our coach now singing out loud: "Shake, shake, shake, senora, shake your body line."

I started cracking up when he said that.
im seriously glad i never went to that drive team meeting. just imagining coach k saying that is slightly disturbing, but not quite as shocking as it should be.
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Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

Mentor: "Here, let me show you the really irresponsible way to do that."
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Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

Our FTC team place 49th out of 50 at Atlanta, 2009 (FRC fared better, BTW). We lost all six of our matches. The 48th seed was 5-1.

Student: "Hey, at least we weren't the worst. We seeded higher than one team who also lost all six matches."
Mentor: "That's because we let our opponents score more during our six losses."

We all thought about this for a second, realized he was right (rank by RP fails when you have more losses than wins) and that we were the worst performers on the field that day.
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Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

"You don't need food"

"We have plenty of time before ship date, all of Sunday"

"Our radio just got snapped in half"

"Well we took apart the CIMs, and ever since, one always seems to be hotter after driving practice."

"OK we need thirteen sprockets, and a ten foot length of chain, don't worry, it's not what you think."
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Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

Team 93's 7 points for a successful build season.

1. Build

2. Eat food

1. Back to build

3. Drink soda

1. Back to build again

4. Sleep

1. Build

This was done as a spoof for the team banquet and nice pictures and video clips accompanied them.
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Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

I think you're missing a few "build" steps.
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Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

Brandon: I know how to drill holes, I don't drill holes!
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Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

Heard at various times during the season:

"What's the difference between a pit bull and a robo mom ??? - safety glasses"
(from a Robo Mom ...)

"I don't know what you're talking about ... everything below the belt is works
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Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

Code:
void build(){
    WorkOnRobot();
    Eat();
    WorkOnRobot();
    Sleep();
    build();
}
Yes, build season is recursive. Why? Because we do the above repeatedly and never seem to stop!
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Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

" We should all become programmers and make our robot self-aware; at least then we wouldn't need to worry about fitting in driver practice, which we don't fit in anyway"
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Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

Me: I WANT CRAB DRIVE
A kid from another team: Its not worth it. It breaks a lot. We lost GTR in 2004 because of it.
Programmer: We don't need crab. We have ze awesome mecanum algorithms.
Kid from other team: >_>
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I retract my statement. Go crab.
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