One day our team was eating KFC for dinner. Kate is sitting next to the Mountain Dew.
Matt and Joe are seniors (or were, they have graduated since), Kate is Joe’s younger sister.
Matt: Hey, Kate, is there any Mountain Dew left?
Kate: Yes.
Matt: Hey, Kate, Dew me!!!
At this time the entire team bursts out laughing.
Joe (after a half second): That’s my sister!!!
We were voting on how many wheels the robot should have at the beginning of the build season. Our mentor gave everyone a slip of paper and told them to write how many wheels they thought the robot shoud have on it. After, we were counting votes. This is not exact words.
Mentor - Six, six, four, six, … Apple Pie! What the…!!!
Team starts laughing
J.Z. - that was me.
J.H. - What the ****!!! I voted for that too!!!
Mentor - What the!!! You two were across the room from eachother!!! And who voted for unicycle?
Team laughs even harder
C.G. (my BFF) - raises hand
you forgot the part where a senior looked at me and said
“You… are a genious”
“There’s something you know that I don’t. Which closet did you lock it in?”
This was said a good while ago, just before our last Bayou Regional. Just remembered it. =P
from our about 50 year old engineer: “We pimped it good!” (shortly after we got our articulating chassis working from last year)
Me: “We need to find a girlfriend for Eric.”
Eric: “What? You need to find a drillpress for me?”
Me: “Yeah, lets go with that. We need to find a ‘drillpress’ for him.”
“But that would have required planning ahead”
–answer to any idea that would have made our lives a lot easier if we had thought of it a month ago.
Go to Woooork! - Josh Sjorsma
I dont know how to use the bandsaw… - Student not to be named:]
Lenny: so how heavy are our balls? (Track balls)
Ollie: We have 10 pound balls lenny
John: no. our balls are 8 pounds
Ollie: HE mite have 8 pound balls but we have 10 pound balls
“Anything’s a nail if you have a big enough hammer”
“Whats a Track ball?” asked one of the second year members.
“It didn’t work so i just deleted it.” – rookie programmer(code folder befor: 2mb after:16 kb)
“steerings broke! fix it!” “why you telling me? i program. i can make you a manual of how to fix it though.”
“we need more pot!”–me forgetting to add the “entiometers” at the end.
“let me go! i did your work now let me eat!”–me being ducktaped to a chair to finish the programming(time in chair: 8 hours) now we have 5 programmers instead of one me
Samir, don’t electricute yourself!
we have this freshmen who is constantly breaking things, his name is jon. (now he is a sophmore) so now we rate things around the shop at how many jons they can take. for instance the cieling tiles are 1 jon, the miter saw is 15 jons, the air drills are 8 jons, the microwave is 3 jons, and so on. (yes he somehow broke a cieling tile)
On our team and I’m sure its the same on others, we have lots o failures. And we will always rate things that happen using different levels of fail, like “wait for it, borderline fail, minor fail, fail, epic fail, major epic fail” and soo on. So this year we have created a large poster sized “Failometer”. It is awesome I will try and post the document once I get my hands on it. We will have it up in our shop and have a marker that will mark what level of failure we are currently at, kind of like the fire warnings or the security threat level stuff.
“we’re spreading the gospel of engineering.”
-our team president
“A new scratch a day means a robot will soon be at play”
Goes back to the hands paradox of the build season.
A bit of wood filler and it was as good as new. Referencing when our chain broke and scratch the gym’s floor.
"Me: Chiefdelphi is like facebook, except everyone on it is just as obsessed with robots as me!
other person: oh…"
something we saw taped to the robot a couple of times…
“More purpler”
and
“Work harder on a program that works!”
(more to come as I remember them)