During last week we were able to get the robot running, although its 12.75 to 1 gearing meant it was very slow roaming the halls. This was a great help during the pep assembly on Friday were we got about 2 minutes, which doesn't sound like much but shows that the school is willing to work with us. We announced a naming competition for the team. The guidelines will be announced soon, but we have stated that the person who gets the best name will win $20. We ordered some extra parts, new gears, battery cables, and chain tensioners. I went over to Franklin to get help from our mentors with programming. Unlike us, they us labview, but with their help and a few phone calls back to Benson, the robot's default code was reloaded and it moved again (it had stopped working because of a program downloading problem that is still unresolved).
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Quotes:
I decided to make a quote section, modeled off team 1432's
"The nut is still moving, the fork isn't wedged enough!" -Nolan (yes, this actually refers to the eating implement kind of fork)
"We could make a video - 'How not to use tools correctly'. " - Kevin
"Thank goodness we aren't normal people, or we'd think this was far too weird." - Nolan, on an interesting method of holding a vise still
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'Where's the lock-things?' (visegrips)
'The what?'
'mnh *highly vague grabby hand gestures*'
'Oh, they're over there.'
" - Danyelle (mentor) and Nolan, on multiple occasions
"Does that mean I better take off the glue before you're here?" - Nolan
"The nut is still moving, the fork isn't wedged enough!" -Nolan (yes, this actually refers to the eating implement kind of fork)
"We could make a video - 'How not to use tools correctly'. " - Kevin
"Thank goodness we aren't normal people, or we'd think this was far too weird." - Nolan, on an interesting method of holding a vise still
"
'Where's the lock-things?' (visegrips)
'The what?'
'mnh *highly vague grabby hand gestures*'
'Oh, they're over there.'
" - Danyelle (mentor) and Nolan, on multiple occasions
"Does that mean I better take off the glue before you're here?" - Nolan
"That's actually pretty stable. You're still idiots for doing it, but you should keep it, it looks like it'll work." - Danyelle
"
Kevin: 'Which size do you need?'
Nolan: 'The one that's not there.'
"
"This works a lot better when we didn't use a hammer first." - Nolan
"
Kevin: 'Get the jeweler's screwdriver from Mr. Diss'
Nolan: 'Diss is on the phone'
Kevin: 'Well is there a way to un-phone the Diss?'
Nolan: 'Well... yeah, but he probably wouldn't like it much'
Kevin :'Or a way to un-Diss the phone'
Nolan: *laughs* (no)
"
"Why did they put this symbol on, then this symbol on? It makes less than sense. They should have turned this symbol so this is down. And put it here.
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Apparently a squiggly triangle stands for cow, and the sideways power symbol stands for e... also I've never understood why Gateway stood for moo" - Kevin, contemplating the front of a computer because... we're not sure why, actually
"They don't need to turn on the heat for us on weekends, we're engineers, we generate our own heat naturally while working!" - Nolan
"Ok, we have paper and a ruler, now we need a pencil. Anyone have a penci-- hey, I wonder if I can cut this paper with the ruler!" - Kevin having some ADD time
"It's the multple redundancy button!" - Kevin
"You've eaten the pizza. You've accepted the contract. You're one of us now." -Nolan (yes, eating the pizza constituting accepting the contract)
"So... apparently this 5/64" wrench is of a different 5/64" than this 5/64" wrench..." - Nolan
"...What you've done is created a section of math that doesn't work." - Kevin
"
Kevin: 'Which size do you need?'
Nolan: 'The one that's not there.'
"
"This works a lot better when we didn't use a hammer first." - Nolan
"
Kevin: 'Get the jeweler's screwdriver from Mr. Diss'
Nolan: 'Diss is on the phone'
Kevin: 'Well is there a way to un-phone the Diss?'
Nolan: 'Well... yeah, but he probably wouldn't like it much'
Kevin :'Or a way to un-Diss the phone'
Nolan: *laughs* (no)
"
"Why did they put this symbol on, then this symbol on? It makes less than sense. They should have turned this symbol so this is down. And put it here.
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Apparently a squiggly triangle stands for cow, and the sideways power symbol stands for e... also I've never understood why Gateway stood for moo" - Kevin, contemplating the front of a computer because... we're not sure why, actually
"They don't need to turn on the heat for us on weekends, we're engineers, we generate our own heat naturally while working!" - Nolan
"Ok, we have paper and a ruler, now we need a pencil. Anyone have a penci-- hey, I wonder if I can cut this paper with the ruler!" - Kevin having some ADD time
"It's the multple redundancy button!" - Kevin
"You've eaten the pizza. You've accepted the contract. You're one of us now." -Nolan (yes, eating the pizza constituting accepting the contract)
"So... apparently this 5/64" wrench is of a different 5/64" than this 5/64" wrench..." - Nolan
"...What you've done is created a section of math that doesn't work." - Kevin
"By definition of if you have two stuff that don't work right with each other, you have to go to the closet until you have a stuff that does work right with the other stuff." - Nolan
"If your music is making a burning smell, press stop!" - Nolan
"I had Mr. Diss for a year yesterday, I know how you... wait, what did i just say???" - Nolan
"I'm trying, but everything I do in my head comes out to five thousand!" - Kyler
"If your music is making a burning smell, press stop!" - Nolan
"I had Mr. Diss for a year yesterday, I know how you... wait, what did i just say???" - Nolan
"I'm trying, but everything I do in my head comes out to five thousand!" - Kyler
"Concentrate from turkey" - An 'organic' apple juice container at Kevin's house
"Well the robot's done, that means I can go crazy now, right?" - Kevin
"...Right, so... now what we need to do is un-do what we just did" - Multiple people, multiple times throughout the build season
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Penelope: 'What would be cool is-- ooh, look at that sign!'
Nolan: 'ok, yeah, you definitely have ADHD, Penelope'
Penelope: ("mwrr" noise) ' Well my mom thought I did, so she gave me some books about ADHD, but I got bored reading them'
Nolan: ...
"
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Nolan: 'Kevin apparently censors himself, but only when it's used as an adjective, not when it's a noun'
Penelope: 'wait, would that be a noun? What is it when you just yell out a cuss word?'
Kevin: 'Expletive?'
Kevin's dad: 'Tourette's.'
"
"No, I do not want any pizz- are you drinking mustard?!?!" - Nolan
"YOU have latrine duty for being a lazy bum, I do not care if that duty does not exist, you have to find a toilet and clean it." - Nolan, after Travis microwaves pizza (from the club's fridge) after doing no work, and runs off somewhere.
---V-2012-V---
Wait, WHO spilled the fire?!?
-Cherilynn
"What is that? I need to put on pants. JUST YOU WAIT PANTS!"
-Penelope
"Well the robot's done, that means I can go crazy now, right?" - Kevin
"...Right, so... now what we need to do is un-do what we just did" - Multiple people, multiple times throughout the build season
"
Penelope: 'What would be cool is-- ooh, look at that sign!'
Nolan: 'ok, yeah, you definitely have ADHD, Penelope'
Penelope: ("mwrr" noise) ' Well my mom thought I did, so she gave me some books about ADHD, but I got bored reading them'
Nolan: ...
"
"
Nolan: 'Kevin apparently censors himself, but only when it's used as an adjective, not when it's a noun'
Penelope: 'wait, would that be a noun? What is it when you just yell out a cuss word?'
Kevin: 'Expletive?'
Kevin's dad: 'Tourette's.'
"
"No, I do not want any pizz- are you drinking mustard?!?!" - Nolan
"YOU have latrine duty for being a lazy bum, I do not care if that duty does not exist, you have to find a toilet and clean it." - Nolan, after Travis microwaves pizza (from the club's fridge) after doing no work, and runs off somewhere.
---V-2012-V---
Wait, WHO spilled the fire?!?
-Cherilynn
"What is that? I need to put on pants. JUST YOU WAIT PANTS!"
-Penelope
---V-2013-V---
"I DO need a coke fix! I literally have an addiction."
-Jessica
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