"Quotes" that were said during build season

[Whippet]

Originally Posted by bbradf44

Good to know were not the only ones who use it regularly. Many of our components are "ghetto rigged"

Our robot last year was nicknamed "Ghettobot" due to the fact that the climbing mechanism relied on the destruction of zip ties every time in order for it to work, so we only had one shot at a 10 point climb.

[DanielPlotas]

Originally Posted by bbradf44

Good to know were not the only ones who use it regularly. Many of our components are "ghetto rigged"

last year our robot was called Ghetto Bhott

[DanielPlotas]

if you can find it, its not what youre looking for.

[starbound1332]

From Team 564:
When in doubt hit it with a hammer! 🔨

[FilthyArgonian]

Originally Posted by starbound1332

From Team 564:
When in doubt hit it with a hammer! 🔨

Percussive maintenance.

[Fielding S.]

"Trust me, I'm an engineer!"

Programmers: "Am I hardware-ing correctly?"

Builders: "Am I software-ing correctly?"

After something goes wrong: "Did you remember to download more RAM?"

Machinists: "...This part isn't important, is it?"

[Oblarg]

Originally Posted by FilthyArgonian

Percussive maintenance.

Our team has formalized this further:

The First Law of Mallets: A mallet is the right tool for every job, unless otherwise specified.

The Second Law of Mallets: Every tool is a mallet, though some are better mallets than others.

[killer_rabbit3]

"Google is your friend "

Nonprogrammer: "will f5 fix this?"

Nonprogrammer: "cant we do some type of super code? programmers stare him down."

"What is the robot doing? Stop it STOP IT!!"

Programmer:"Out of the programmer overlord chair!!" nonprogrammer:

"I'am not touching that code for another hour!!" :after repeating computer fails

"Stop the dashboard.... wait, WAIT!!

[kiddoatthedisco]

Alexander: Hey, Andrew, does the camera work?
Andrew: It works harder than you.

[rwkling1]

"I guarantee it"

[Whippet]

Originally Posted by rwkling1

"I guarantee it"

"New Oxi-Clean detergent! I guarantee it!"

[TheeTimatahee]

"What is your deal, Mr. Giraffe?"
-Tim Kilmer

[LostWolf]

Had a great quote from one of our mentors who was trying to explain field orientation for driving.

"Field orientation is like a homing pidgeon that can fly backwards."

Needless to say, this is going on our team's shirt.

[Aetas]

Members about other members: "I'll ship that."

When tired: "Sit/sleep on the headbutt pillow." (We have a pillow, made from leftover bumper material, that has a head side and a butt side.)

Me, speaking about not having time for reading, not actually being able to read: "I wish I could read."

Everyone: "Where is the duct tape; I can't believe we used ALL the duct tape-again."

[kylelanman]

Electrical Engineer Mentor: While reading the data sheet on an I2C Compass. “Your sidecar isn’t fast enough. It won’t work.”

[a day passes]

Software Engineer Mentor: “We got the compass working. It’s funny we read the data sheet and found out we were using the wrong address. You read the data sheet and concluded it wouldn’t work.”

Electrical Engineer Mentor: "I only said that because I was too tired to read and I knew you would prove me wrong."