Probably been mentioned but
When you see threads like this …
When a picture of a K’nex model of part of the field makes it into your design book submission, then into the book. (2007) Yes, we do prototype that way sometimes.
Bonus points for doing the same sort of thing with VEX parts.
When…
Anything with a team number you know gets circled with an arrow pointing to the name scribbled along the side… My physics teacher [also a coach for the team] sees ALOT of this!:yikes:
When you and your friends, after throwing a bunch of playpen balls around your room, design a Vex robot to try and accumulate them so you don’t have to clean it up.
Chris, that is just lazy.
When your friends just start conversations with how is robotics cuz they know it will just come around to that in most conversations.
When just about all of your gmail statuses relate to robotics.
I do that with all of my band music…which means that most numbers are circled (my stand partner has just given up on asking what a “Robowranglers” or a “Wildstang” are)
No, it’s not lazy–it’s using technology, which can be defined as getting processes and machines to do our work for us. Historically:
–Man discovered fire, and used it to cook his food so he wouldn’t have to expend so much energy chewing.
–Man invented matches, so he didn’t have to expend so much energy starting the fire.
–Man invented the butane lighter so he didn’t have to burn his fingers lighting the fire.
And now–
–Man invented the robotic vacuum cleaner so woman would not have to exert effort on the sweaty, dusty job of vacuuming. Instead, she can relax while making scientific observations of the family pets as they react to the new “creature” making all that noise and chasing them around the house.
The effort expended by woman getting man to BUY–not merely admire the engineering of–the robotic vacuum cleaner shall not be discussed here.
Disclaimer: This post does not prove that I’m overdosed either on FIRST, or on technology.
Just you wait until all those robots rise up and take over the world!
Until then, i’ll keep making robots.
Oh and Chris, you’re in college so i guess that you have a right to be lazy as your mom isn’t there to tell you to clean your room. LOL:)
EDIT: at karen, when you had to expend effort to get the vacuum, did the male say that it was useless when you could just vacuum the floor and that it was lazyness, or that it was a dumb idea.
The males were too busy looking at the engineering of the robot. Houston 2003: team 330, having arrived kind of early for the Championship, goes to a local mall for a while. The mentors/parents and students split up to explore, and after a while, the parents group stops in front of a store that has a robotic vacuum cleaner. The battery needs changing, and the robot is kind of flipped over during this process. The engineers were apparently commenting on the robot’s design, functionality, etc. The wives were trying to figure out how to get their husbands to get one, or so I hear from one of them;).
WOW! That is really funny. 
Then again what do you expect from males in FIRST, look at the engineering of it.
Must the woman expend effort explaining what “shall not be discussed” means? The point of this thread is to discuss “overdosage;” in this case, not just on FIRST, but perhaps on technology itself.
Who said it was just the males admiring the engineering? I’d love to take one apart…
And, you know you’ve overdosed on FIRST when you’re in college, see that this thread has 2010 replies and the FIRST thing (sorry) that goes through your mind is “Oh! New game, new game!”
I bought one of the robotic vacuums solely for the purposes of convincing my spouse to pick up the floors. That way we’d be able to use the robot. If the floor was covered in parts and wiring, you can’t run the robot very well.
I think he meant to play on the gender concept of “men don’t like to clean” rather than “men love to engineer”.
When you join your college’s battlebots team and accidentally rule out robot designs in your head because of FIRST rules. (“Hmm, a wedge would be nice, oh wait 10 degrees rule…”)
I think that as well; I was poking fun at it. 
…every conversation you have with any engineering (chemical, biomedical, electrical, mechanical, etc.) or programmer/computer science major inevitably dissolves into robots and why they are cool, then moves onto what FIRST is and why it is awesome.
…every conversation you have with anyone, if it goes long enough, dissolves into this…
…you realize that the previous two points were only the most recent in a long line of “Overdosed” comments involving conversations involving FIRST and robotics, and will probably be mentioned many times again
When your team is cleaning up the shop and is about to throw out a bunch of track balls, you take 3 of them home with you.
Track balls or orbit balls? Cuz if it is track balls… how much do you want for one of them?
you take more notes on the robot design, and make more drawings on your robot, then you do notes for the class your in
your robotics notebook has more notes then any of your honor classes combined
anytime the word “first” is mentioned in converation, you think about your robot, and eventually start talking to random people about FIRST
almost everything you hear somehow relates to robotics
you hear the word “pot” from your school resource officer, and think “why is he talking about potentiometers???”
you feel bad for people pulling trailers when you’re driving on the highway
you’re mom tells your dad that she wants to buy a roomba so you can take it apart, when she’s just looking for an excuse not to vaccume
when someone ask’s you what you’re drawing and you reply “nothing” you wind up explaining for 10 minutes whats wrong with your robot
you spend more time posting on chief delphi than you do doing your math homework
chiefdelphi is bookmarked and facebook isn’t
I forgot to take mine out of the car… :rolleyes:
If my team ever throws our ball out, I’m taking it. Wonderful chair if deflated.