Benson FRC Team 2951: Progress as of week 1:

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Progress as of week 1:

The robot is almost to the point of basic mobility. The chassis has been built, control system mounted to a (temporary) wooden platform attached to the chassis, and all that is left is to attach the sprockets and hook up the chain.

We have been having some issues updating the firmware for the driver's station, in that none of the flash drives that we try work, but hopefully we will have that fixed by the time we need to put in a program. If anyone has any solutions or ideas (although I don't know if anyone but Kevin and I actually check this site...), leave a comment on this post.

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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

"That's actually pretty stable. You're still idiots for doing it, but you should keep it, it looks like it'll work." - Danyelle

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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

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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

"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

"
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

---V-2013-V---

"I DO need a coke fix! I literally have an addiction."

-Jessica

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