"Quotes" that were said during build season

[I_AM_Clayton]

"Hey!, why is there a glove in the robot?"

Said by a mentor as we were putting away our 2014 robot yesterday.

[GeeTwo]

We had a movie night tonight in the classroom (former build space), Men In Black followed by The Goonies.

During the scene in The Goonies where they're about to be hauled out of the wishing well on a bucket: "Hey, who's doing physics problems up front?" Yes, a couple of the kids were trying to estimate how much force on the handle it would take to lift someone.

[Mythheart]

Did you just pull a bottle of maple syrup from your pocket?

[Zac Schofield]

(At competition) "Why is it that every time Darude-Sandstorm plays we do twice as well as we did in our previous match, and do you think we can get the DJ to play it for the next 4 hours?"

[JustinCAD]

"How do I derive this part?"
"Figure it out!"

That was a common phrase heard on the CAD subteam.

Another phrase that was heard throughout the team was "SHIA SUPRISE!"

At competitions, we would hear "Guys, Cotten-eye Joe is on! Let's dance!"

[BenGuy]

"Let's not forget the bumpers this time!"

Yes we did that one time...

[CurlyFries]

"There's either six wheels or eight wheels. Three on one side and four on the other."

This year's strategy - 7 wheel drive train.

[Jay Burnett]

Upon recieving a 1400 psi gauge in our bag from Automation Direct our head mentor said,

"With that sort of pressure we can just bounce over the defenses!"

Team mom: It says you can't go over the low bar...

Mentor: Yeah, but it doesn't say anything about the Porticullis!"

[IronicDeadBird]

The 5 foot 6 student said something along the lines of...
"Some of the defenses could be problematic for line of sight, for you guys at least."

[conrbanana]

Originally Posted by CurlyFries

"There's either six wheels or eight wheels. Three on one side and four on the other."

This year's strategy - 7 wheel drive train.

Hey... Its a legitimate strategy...

[IronicDeadBird]

MECHANUM means your priority list should be: lose, break a wheel, make excuses, drive sideways...


This story needs a bit of context so bear with me.
Yesterday the students sat down and decided to organize priorities for strategy. While discussing this strategy our school sponsor/coach/mentor/superhero needed to go home and the discussion carried on. After a long talk and discussion we decided on what we thought was a fairly strong strategy and list of priorities. One thing that was clearly established with this strategy before the coach left was that mecanum was not ideal for our strategy.
At that point we sent this photo to our school sponsor/coach/mentor/superhero and IMMEDIATELY we got a call from him asking what was going on with the conversation. We pretended there was static, he asked if we were kidding, I asked when did we get kittens, he hung up with a sigh.
Then came the update on facebook, I explained that the students decided on what we would call a MecHanum drive base, this drive base consists of four mecanum wheels in the standard layout, and an omni wheel running perpendicular to those wheels in the center of the robot making it a hybrid of an h drive and a mecanum robot. Best of both worlds.
After explaining this we got this response about our strategic priorities...
"MECHANUM means your priority list should be: lose, break a wheel, make excuses, drive sideways"
I then explained the thought process behind it.
"Alright, alright hear me out. If we have a mecanum drive and we have an omni wheel in the middle and a gyro when we get pushed sideways we can push back with the omni wheel. It's great for defense. And we cant get stuck on a platform cause the omni wheel can move in any direction. Its perfect."

[hank2247]

"Time to start drilling holes." said on the Saturday before bag and tag at 8 pm after we weighed the robot for the first time (it weighed 170 lbs).

Now whenever the topic of weight comes up the response is "well we can always drill some more holes."

[RoboChair]

"The rules are perfectly clear and understandable once you apply the 'Don't be a dick' filter to them". "Anything that passes said filter is either there on purpose or is a temporarily exploitable loop hole that might be left alone"

Said by me.

[Kevin Sevcik]

Background: We're looking at a under the low bar robot with simple systems due to this years decrease in funding, students, and super-mentor availability.

"I want to build a high goal shooter because we've never built an accurate shooter before."

We reminded him that we had a decent shooter for Ascent, and this probably wasn't the year to try this experiment during build.

[crowbarthegreat]

"Eh, close enough" -The entire team