"Quotes" that were said during build season

[andres_900]

Noah (programmer): "Anyone have pepto-bismol?"

[Aetas]

Thrift Shop reference: I've got the velcro.

Said by a super nice member when cutting the band (unsuccessfully) for our catapult launcher thing: "This is how I use my pent up aggression."

"How many robotics students does it take to screw in a lightbulb?… None because we can't even figure that out."

"Your elbows are ashy… Cinderella."

[RugnarStormBorn]

My new saying when being told to run code.

'I'm waiting on comms!'

[Christopher149]

"I used to have a neatly arranged electrical board, then I took PWM to the sidecar."

"Rigidification"

-Both from a couple days ago.

[Bill_B]

Originally Posted by 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.

Just so you spell pigeon kerrectly.

[Sylphrena]

"According to my calculations, what we just did was mathematically impossible."

(While using the search on CD, not logged in) "How the heck are we supposed to know Dean Kamen's last name?"

me--"Well, we're improving! It's working now."
mentor--"Well, yeah, if by 'working' you mean 'not working'."

[brandon.cottrell]

"Hopefully our Robot will be finished by our 2nd regional"

[Whilst hiding a a tub of licorice from the PR in the build room]
"We can't trust those animals without our commodities"

Oh and here's my favorite personal qoute that luckily was filmed for future generations.

[Chadfrom308]

Non-Programmer: "Where is the PID on the robot?" *all the programmers vaguely point to the robot*

Same non-programmer: "How much does the PID weigh?" Programmers: "Like 5 lbs"

[Zuelu562]

"Really dude? You revolutioned that? Dear lord..."

"Once this part is done CORRECTLY..."

CAD guru berating the absentee designer and his...questionable technique, which, ironically enough, was taught to the designer by the other CAD teacher.

"You go to (Insert Teacher Here) to learn how to use CAD, you come to Rath to learn how to CAD." "I see no inaccuracy in this statement."

[sarah_storer]

[We hammered on a very tightly fitting gear to a CIM shaft...it was pretty solid once it was on there. Afterwards, we realized that our original design was flawed and that we would have to take it off]

Mentor (to build team): "This is gonna have to go"

Builder: "Oh Lord. That took forever to get on there! How are we going to get it off?"

Another Builder: "Prayer, Fasting, and Butter."

Mentor: "That's going on the wall."

[thegeekguy]

mentor: "who left this here?" after pulling out a large piece of aluminum from somewhere it shouldn't have been
me: "The aluminumati!" met with stares of disaproval

[Damiaen_Florian]

"Practice Bot!" (What's yelled any time we mess up a part in manufacturing)


*A few days before nationals in 2013*
Student1: "Our bot doesn't look so good..."
Student2: "Yeah it's currently suffering from a condition known as 'practice-bot Syndrome'"

[MechEng83]

(whilst machining some precision parts on the mill)

S1: Did you machine the part.
S2: Yeah, but the it's not in tolerance.
S1: Well how off is it?
S2: Over nine thousandths....

[Johnnybukkel]

"All I'm saying is: Mechanical systems don't break until electrical and software give them the ability to break..."

[Joseph Franke]

We were testing some Ultra sonics and the circuit started smelling bad, so the programmers turned it off and asked some people to come over and

"Does anybody not have a stuffy nose that can smell our circuit?"