"Quotes" that were said during build season

[nathanww]

When visiting my old team:

*student is writing sponsorship funds on the board*
Mentor:Wait, what do all those numbers mean?
*Anthony walks in*
Mentor:Anthony, can you tell what these numbers are?
Anthony:Money?
Mentor:How do you know it's money?
Anthony:Because that's all we talk about


"Do you want me to run you over with the robot?"
"Yes, because that would mean the robot's working"

[Radical Pi]

While trying to debug the robot over telephone:

Me: Ok what's the big orange light doing
Other person: It's blinking
Me: what kind of blinking? How fast is it? Are the on and off times the same?
Other person: It's kinda fast but also kinda slow
Me: I need a better description than that
Other person: well it's doing this on off on off on off on off

...

Me: Alright now click on the "Diagnostics" tab on the classmate
Other person: Is that one of the switches?
Me: No, it's on the screen. Click on it with the mouse
Other person: Alright I'm there
Me: Now which of the dots are red and which of the dots are green?
Other person: All of them are green, but some are brighter green than others
Me: *sigh* Not the I/O tab. The Diagnostics tab.

Needless to say the robot didn't get fixed

(in case anyone's wondering the problem was my forgetting to reset the wireless bridge after an offseason competition. I didn't feel like trying to go through all of that with this person)

[Bethie42]

'We're back to square one! and while we're at it, let's redesign square one.'

[demosthenes2k8]

bot190: "I can't find the Calibrated Router Resetting Tool"
me: "Just make a new one!"
bot190: "But that's a waste of paper clips!"
(Yes, it's a straightened paper clip with a label on it)

[libinator]

This was said just a matter of minutes ago...we are working on a prototype chassis to figure out the drive train and electrical components since we are a rookie team.


Talking about adding weight to the chassis to make it more realistic and robust...
Mentor: we will have to have a small child on it...maybe a couple...
Student: I'LL MAKE ONE REAL QUICK!

[216Robochick288]

[coaches talking to students about something or annother]
random student, very loudly: "Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen????"
different student: "He was number one!!!!"
One of the coaches: "Thank you spongebob" -.-"

[= D LOL]

"All the small things you do right always make the biggest difference".

[216Robochick288]

Me: "Nothing like coffee, a Monster, and a few no bake cookies to start your morning off!"
Teammate Izzy: "Whats all the caffine for?"
Me:"I need to be awake for robots chasing me!"

I'm nutritious for being easy to colour track, I wear bright green and maroon almost 100% of the time...

[Radical Pi]

Originally Posted by 216Robochick288

I'm nutritious for being easy to colour track, I wear bright green and maroon almost 100% of the time...

We had someone like that last year, always wore green. In 2009 we got some construction paper and covered half of him in the pinkish color used on the targets. Best target practice ever

[Vermeulen]

"We really try to enforce a sense of community." Me, in our Chairman's video.

[cjackson]

When building our pre-season scrap bot:
"Can't we just cut it?"
Can't we just break it?"

Mentor: "Careful, if you wire this backwards it's about as loud as a gunshot"
student: *looks at the board* "Can we try that?"

[acrease77]

our captain named our robot Megan Fox, so our mentor started telling all of his associates that he had Megan Fox strapped in the back of his truck.

[Norman J]

Originally Posted by J93Wagner

This definitely wasn't said by someone on a FIRST team but I think it sorta sums up the attitude of most FIRSTer's concerning FIRST.

"There is nothing cooler than being proud of the things you love." - Sean "Day[9]" Plott

Day9 is awesome.

[216Robochick288]

Originally Posted by 216Robochick288

I'm nutritious for being easy to colour track.....

Oops, spelling fail, I ment notorious...

Anyhow, next quotes!

"It doesnt care what you sign in as! you could type in 'PicklesMcPiclely_Pants' with the correct password and it will sign in."
"Why does it have the username then?"
"Maybe it makes a log of who signs in so people can laugh at it later. [pretending to read the log]
PicklesMcPiclely_Pants..... Karl... Abby.. Dragons.. Troll under the bridge... Your mum... Chuck Norris.. Rick Astly... wait! who signed in as Rick Astly!"

[later]
"Does the answer 'FIRST' mean anything to you?"

[Bethie42]

Our programming sub-team, while learning C++, misheard 'code' as 'toad', which lead to this bit of wit:

Toad.Release(epicness)

Not sure what we're going to do about making that line up with the WPI lib specs for the parameter....