"Quotes" that were said during build season

[sarah_storer]

Originally Posted by mmcewen

Our mentor sadly remarked that "I never get original ideas, I can only steal from people" and another mentor said "Congratulations! You're the next Thomas Edison!"

This absolutely made my life.

[MechEng83]

(We have a sponsor with a water jet cutter and another sponsor with a laser cutter)

Student: When can the parts be laser jet?

Mentor: A laser jet is a printer. Although, we might be able to 3D print them. Good idea.

[boynton78366]

"Just because you have a bag of chips doesn't mean you are on a permanent lunch break" spoken eloquently by our team captain

[Oblarg]

"Go eat so you can be useful" was a choice one from a few meetings ago. Blood sugar is important for maintaining productivity, folks!

(After finally finding a hex bearing which would actually fit on one of our gearbox shafts) "It's like winning the lottery, sort of, if the lottery jackpot were about $3 and you were forced to buy tickets to make your robot work."

"As best we could tell, this piece of tubing had a demon in it, which we have exorcised."

"Clearly, we forgot the ritual sacrifice to the NI gods. Quick, fetch a goat!"

[Joseph1825]

"Well, it's pretty straight."

[Nirvash]

Team Lead: How'd it get bent?
Me: They hit it with a hammer. (Referring to two people)
Person one: No we didn't!
Person two: Yes... we did.

[Zuelu562]

"When something goes wrong mechanically, we blame Clever."
"When did the word "mechanically" begin meaning "at all"?"

[Ivan_Yuri]

"DARPA called, they want their chemical laser back!"

"Well why don't we use rivets to hold the panels together for a more flush finish?"
*retrieves a prototype piece left over from last year, and flips the two metal pieces right off of the three rivets holding the sheet metal apart*
"Does that answer your question?"

"You know you could just use the driver console, right?"
"... Thank you, Captain Obvious!"
"You're welcome, Sargent Sarcasm!"
".... And now you've been field-demoted to Private Pathetic...."

[Exla357]

*Me explaining electronics to shop junkie Owen*

Me: So when Ethan hits that button all the lights on those fan thingies [indicating Victors and Talons] should stop flashing and stay solid.

*Programmer Ethan hits the button to enable robot*

Owen: Three of them are still flashing

Ethan: That's an electronics problem.

Me: That's a programming problem.


Jokes on them because its ALWAYS a programming problem

[OWilliamson]

"If you liked it, then you should've put a level on it!"

[wesleyac]

"Does [X] work yet?"
"Define 'works'"

Said waaaay too often on the programming team.

[Zuelu562]

Me:"Here's a list of tasks we need to accomplish on the programming team, and my deadlines."
*Other Mentor reads this list*
"Autonomous - "When's the competition?""

[Jade Z]

Our work space has a single door where everyone enters and a double door by the machines. During drive tryouts last year, we would take our robot from Rebound Rumble through the machine doors, which took about four people, and then a few other people each to carry a folding table and a giant trash bag of foam basketballs. Naturally, this five- to ten-minute parade two or three times a week disrupted the machine shop a bit.

So, one day, our lead mechanical student covered a portion of the double doors with duct tape and wrote over it: "No drive team EVER!!!!!" And, if I remember correctly, a frowny face.

We couldn't use the single doors, so we ended up taking random machine students and asking them to open the door for us because we had been asked not to use it. It really just made the problem worse, and the same student just stood watching with her arms crossed, trying to figure out what else she could do to get us out.

I am not sure how much this affected it, but the next year, our robot was small enough to fit a little more easily through the single door.

[Brian C]

Originally Posted by Team3266Spencer

"We should name our robot 'Snap, Crackle, and Pop', since it's going to snap our battery in half, crackle as the acid sets our motors on fire, and pop when our air tanks explode from the heat."

I guess in some ways that's better than Pop, Snackle.....Crap!

[Steven Donow]

I don't normally browse this thread, but today I let out this goodie:

"You need to move it ten more angles"