"Quotes" that were said during build season

[Phoenix Spud]

Originally Posted by The Megan 2207

My team has named EVERYTHING this year. The chassis frame, gearboxes, wheels, wheel brackets, bumpers, camera, battery cart, and most of the team members' stomachs all have names. The best part of that is all of the mentors know all of the names and refer to the pieces by name.

Our team has Frankenstein, Bruce, Saturn V5 rocket, and a shell, all of which make up Wombot!!!

[nathanww]

We've named our mallets "the fine-tuner"(it's this giant sledgehammer), and "the hand of Rag"(whch used to be the Hand of Rage until the E got smudged off.

See also:hackersaw

Also:
"Kick the kicker!!!"
--said while testing the pot that measures the position of the kicker

"I need more robot bait!"
The robot bait is the person who moves the target around, so named for the occasional tendency of the robot to just attack them

"Our robot is done sucking balls. It's going to kick balls now"

[The Zevling]

Originally Posted by third2102

"Stop messing around over there!"
"My codes compiling."
"Oh, ok then...carry on"

Our code takes far to short a time to compile. It's quite annoying.

(Alright, I lie. It's nice not having to wait around for the code to compile)

Rebooting the robot, on the other hand...

[NoQuestions]

My team's got a couple. Slightly paraphrased in some cases.

Head Mentor: *While collecting lunch money* Jeeze. You guys need to carry more ones around with you. Go to more strip-clubs. *Pause* Wait. No.

Noah (The team's Freshman): Robotics is kind of like a zombie video-game. Fun, but hard. And when you run out of ammo you die.

Someone: Well, the good news is the arm will work. The bad news is we need a very small person inside the robot to make it work. So... Any volunteers below 40 lbs?

Noah *After making his first Human model in 3ds Max* Wow! It looks better then the graphics in Runescape!

[scottydoh]

Originally Posted by Egg 3141592654

"Wow this is a really nice joystick, it's a pain to code (all axis are really messed up) and it doesn't center well, but who cares, IMMA FIGHTER PILOT PEW PEW!" *robot drives into wall*

Its alright Eric, we have pizza! haha

[sami9145]

There hasnt really been that many good ones but I do have one...

JRO - "Why isnt this... Oh... A battery might help..." (While trying to work on programming the joysticks)

I will post more later

[mayde]

..."haha, i would totally laugh if you knocked that over with my face!"

[Phoenix Spud]

Our team has come up with a plan just in case our robot doesn't clear customs in time. (After all, we are attending a week 1 regional...) We are going to take pictures of the robot from every side, print them out big, and put them on a cardboard box. Then we will take the two youngest kids going to the USA--they are 6 and 7 years old--put them inside the box. One will be called the "kicker/ball control" the other will be the "lifter." We aren't sure if this would be a legal robot, but in a pinch we think it might be OK.

[onecoolc]

Two from this morning:

Programmer: Why is everyone gathering around the robot?
Head Mentor: Gee, I dunno why. Maybe because we're building it?

Build Team: Dude! It actually fits!
Head Mentor: That's what happens when you design it first.

[Karibou]

"Hey, do you have any Tylenol?"
"No, but I can go get some..." (leaves the room; returns 5 minutes later)
"Here, you go, I found some in Kara's purse"
"HEY!"

[hurtzmyhead]

"Those who cannot play soccer build a robot to play it for them" - My Brother After the unveiling
"Those who cannot build a robot play soccer" - Me

[apalrd]

Week 2-3 ish:

(Jim is busy folding the first piece of sheet metal for the chassis)
Tim (founding mentor):Jim, we need to discuss a bot beautification plan
Jim (lead mentor): Look out in the hallway and tell me what you see
Tim: I see robots from 2002 to 2009 with clear plastic and honeycomb on them. What should we do this year?
Jim: Why don't we do what we always do?


Two Saturdays ago:
"Mom" (Carolyn): Hey, Jim, look at this!
(Mom motions to large bee-hive shaped 8-sided display board, roughly 4 feet by 4 feet square)
Jim: That isn't going in the pits is it?
Mom: No, its for Chairmans.
(Mom wheels bee-hive to cad room)
Eric: That isn't going in the pits, is it?
(everyone assumes it will go in the pits)


This Saturday:
"We tested the lifter. We estimate it can lift 1 yharmatter. (Eric)"
"Wow. That's alot."


Norman: You post on that quotes thread way to much.


"I had an idea for chairmans. Since we are over on words, lets remove some spaces and combine words. We could make the whole essay one big German word."


Mom: "If anyone isn't doing anything, they can come with me and make antennas."
(everyone asks mentors if there is anything to do)

[cbudrecki]

One of our junior female members picked up a tool wondering what it was. We gave her a hint that it was the opposite of a tap (which she had become very familiar with). Her next clue was "It's something you do when you get very, very old.". Her response was then "diarreah?"

[Michael Ogden]

Talking about a tape measure...
Me: It's a 10-footer.
Charles: That's what she said.

[cbudrecki]

We were discussing music one night and the previously mentioned junior member claimed to like classic rock. So one of our mentors started rattling off names of bands, none of which she was recognizing. Then the artist Stevie Nicks came up, and our junior member pipes up, "I know him!"




If you need to Google the artist before getting the joke then I guess I'm getting old.