"Quotes" that were said during build season

[nate234]

A student: "The audience will be making three sounds this year: oos, aahs, and oh my God, watch out!"

[Levin571]

One of our engineers when talking about how fast the wheel could spin:

"Have you ever seen a poof ball go through concrete?"

[thecheatdx]

"Don't bleed on the robot!"

Said by the adult team leader after a teamate cut his hand.

[FF_1610_EMT]

builders says: "its the programmers fault"
programmers say: "its the builders fault"
i say: OH SH!T MY THUMB" when i nail it with the hammer while reassembling the crate.
"INCOMING" for when the shooter goes wild and starts shooting all over the place.

[afclsn]

Originally Posted by thecheatdx

"Don't bleed on the robot!"

Said by the adult team leader after a teamate cut his hand.

Is it bad that my team said this daily?

[kristinweiss]

The boys on my team like to make lube jokes a lot...
"Safety FIRST! Use non-toxic plant based lube!"
"Don't touch me with that string! Do know how much lube I put on that thing?"

[BL0X3R]

(after teaching one of the electrical guys the basics of how to program in labview (he really wanted to learn))...

Me - "Ok, do you think you can make a program to add two things together?"
Student X - "Sure, it seems simple enough"
Me - "Well you do that, and I'll make sure I didn't miss anything important from the rest of the programmers"
*Walks away for 5 seconds*
Student X - "Umm... labview isn't responding."
Me - "Let me see that."
*Looks at laptop screen*
Me - "...You crashed labview. I gave you the simplest task EVER and you crashed labview. You were never meant to be a programmer. Go back to electrical."

[Celia]

I plan on printing this quote by Douglas Adams (tHGttG: Mostly Harmless) and posting it in our pits at next weekend's competition:

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."

[AngusFailed]

Originally Posted by Celia

I plan on printing this quote by Douglas Adams (tHGttG: Mostly Harmless) and posting it in our pits at next weekend's competition:

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."

or it can be fixed by using stanley...

[Celia]

Originally Posted by AngusFailed

or it can be fixed by using stanley...

For all non-240 members out there, Stanley is our dead blow hammer

[bristyn_96]

This past weekend my team had our first competition of the season and the pit crew was in the pits and we were talking about a bunch of things we could do to our robot...here were a few ideas that got thrown around...
-confetti cannon, during the matches we shoot confetti and drive around in circles (but said confetti goes poof in thin air so as not to break the rule of leaving things on the ground that fall off the robot)

-a flag that comes out of our robot at the beginning of each match with #notlast on it (#notlast has been a thing circulating through the team)

-putting sparkles on our feeder lexan (which actually happened)

Another thing our team did was on the Thursday for pit setup someone from another team was wondering where Jefferson High School was (the city where it was not the team) and my team members and I all raised our hands...woops

[AngusFailed]

Originally Posted by bristyn_96

This past weekend my team had our first competition of the season and the pit crew was in the pits and we were talking about a bunch of things we could do to our robot...here were a few ideas that got thrown around...
-confetti cannon, during the matches we shoot confetti and drive around in circles (but said confetti goes poof in thin air so as not to break the rule of leaving things on the ground that fall off the robot)

-a flag that comes out of our robot at the beginning of each match with #notlast on it (#notlast has been a thing circulating through the team)

-putting sparkles on our feeder lexan (which actually happened)

Another thing our team did was on the Thursday for pit setup someone from another team was wondering where Jefferson High School was (the city where it was not the team) and my team members and I all raised our hands...woops

we should right on the lexan with sharpie #notlast

[tStano]

Last year at championships, we had just 'fixed' autonomous. We were using bang-bang control on our shooter. The operator(and lead student programmer) ran back to the pit to get the programming laptop frantically yelling; "its bangbanging but not indexing" and the lead programming mentor knew exactly what he meant.

[Jarren Harkema]

"At least it's doing something"

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by Celia

For all non-240 members out there, Stanley is our dead blow hammer

We call ours "Persuasion." We sometimes "persuade" things a little bit more than necessary.