"Quotes" that were said during build season

[dmurdz]

During lunch Saturday:

Mark (a mentor): Dan, did you wash your hands before eating?

Me (Dan): No, I don't need to. During the Build Season, I eat enough iron here at Robotics so that I don't need to eat any more spinach at home.

Mark: We are working with mostly aluminum.

Me: Oh, I'm going to wash my hands then.

[StephLee]

One of our mentors is very adamant about not just jumping in with a design unless you've run the numbers, so it's become a sort of saying with us:

"Oh wait, I'm sorry, I haven't 'run the numbers' yet."

"Nope, I'm not listening until you run the numbers. Try again."

"Ookaaay...you run those numbers, then we'll talk."

So now, whenever someone says it, the mentor who started it asks "Alright, what can I throw this time..."



Devynn - "Three doesn't divide equally when dealing with humans, does it?"



Parent - "There's a lot of pizza going into this endeavour, isn't there?"



*after the second slashed tube*
Mr. Phil - "Okay, you're all on official tube tossing restriction..."



*loud obnoxious clanging noise* "Okay, this time, I'll admit that was me. My bad!"



"Is there any pizza left?"
"...no."
"We just got it ten minutes ago!"
"Exactly. It's been ten minutes."
*so that was about three minutes per pizza*

[abrockhoff]

"Let me get my programming tongs."

--Mentor of the drive train team when he goes to get massive tongs to crush my head when something goes wrong in the code. It's scary.

[Libby K]

We were trying to come up with a team motto...we had some serious ones, and then out came...

"Team 1923: a bunch of kids, and one really funny big guy"
[you're welcome, Big Mike.]

more to come if/when I ever remember them. darn you, lack of sleep!

Spending the entire weekend in a small office space with a lot of caffeine makes for some funny memories.

Don'tcha love build season?

[Hiteak]

Student: Its the end of build season, I have the right to loose my mind.

[scottyh2006]

Day before shipping all of the useless people left and our forklift wasn't work and our potentiometer's number kept on getting higher so i said Don't Smoke Our POT. And on our message board one of our topics was Everything we need to know about Pot iometers And here's one from last year that i can't get enough of Tap That Hole best one yet.

[ay2b]

Originally Posted by scottyh2006

Day before shipping all of the useless people left and our forklift wasn't work and our potentiometer's number kept on getting higher so i said Don't Smoke Our POT. And on our message board one of our topics was Everything we need to know about Pot iometers And here's one from last year that i can't get enough of Tap That Hole best one yet.

We've had "don't smoke the pot" written somewhere on our robot (generally near a potentiometer) each year for the last several years.

[Peter Matteson]

EOB: "Why does the fischer always catch fire before we pop the breaker?"

Another mechanical mentor contemplating why we always burn up the Fischers but never seem to pop the circuit breaker like we would expect.

[Qbranch]

Kid: "You think these ball bearings will get rid of a lot of the friction?"

Me: "Yeah.. those igus bearings were never meant for as much weight as we had on them."

Kid: "Ready for me to take the support off the elevator?"

Me: "Yeah... it wont go anywhere..."

Robot: (which had suddenly found a calling to become a guillotine ) SLAM!!! BANG!!! CRASH!!!!

Kid: "Yep... i think we got rid of a lot of friction."

Me: (looking like i've seen a ghost) yeah... yep... never seen a faster going-down elevator in my life.

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Stay safe everybody.... watch out for homicidal robots!!!!!

-q

[Mrtrom]

"If you get hit in the head, STOP STAYING SO CLOSE TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[Zack Briggs]

After carrying the ball from our practice field to our lab in the rain...

"oh no, I got ball juice in my mouth!"


Our team's new slogan:

"Team 360...We go do make robot!"

[Akash Rastogi]

"There's no such thing as friction!"

an oldie (team slogan sort of) that was reiterated today when I was done on the mill
Me:Hey Ed, is this good?
Ed:Its not just good, its good enough.

[TubaMorg]

Student: Mr. Morgan, what parts should we use for the pneumatics?
Me: As much of the new stuff as possible...new compressor, new fittings....everything

Overheard 5 minutes later:

Student talking to other students: NOOO...Mr. Morgan said to use the pneumatics, not the OLDmatics!

[Aren_Hill]

mmm i love the smell of burning WD-40

"hey, toss me the holy water" in reference to wd-40

a man needs two things in life, duct tape for things that don't stick and there supposed to, and wd-40 for things that stick and aren't supposed to.

"yay for garage sale carbide endmills"

"Dad, what kind of garage sales do you go to..." after he bought a lathe at one

[TheDoctor_1]

Our team has quite the knack for "PUNishment" as we refer to it, consequently I hear, "We have a STRONG HOLD on this year's game."

Also:
"I CAN'T CHANGE THE COLOR!" (long story)
and finally,
"ZAP! You're inspired!"

AFS
Team 980
CAD, Mechanical Design, Media