When I was working today I had some brilliant idea that involved screwing a 2 inch screw to my chassis, and I managed to get it 80% screwed in before I realized that the screw was stripped beyond use… so now unfortunately we have a 2 inch screw hanging off out chassis. Later my team came over to help build, and they noticed the screw.
Teammate “whats that screw doing there?”
Me “I really want to take it off”
Teammate “then take it off”
Me “its not going to be taken off”
Teammate “what? But you wanted to”
Me “no, you don’t understand… its not going to be taken off”
Teammate attempts to unscrew dangling screw. Realizes its stripped.
Other teammate walks in
Teammate “hey, go get us one of those circle drive screwdrivers”
“Torque = (mc^2)^2”
“hot lips”
“The incident”
“Lenny the pinata”
“Rambo commando!!! Rambo commando!”
So This will be my 3rd year in robotics this year, but last year (My second year), we had a bunch more kids join the robotics program. Even though we were not what you call extremely experienced, we did not like the new kids because we had to teach them EVERYTHING. Well anyway we had this huge joke throughout the year and we teased the newbies so badly 
(I feel bad now). Well anyway they could never seem to get the names of parts and tools right so our teams biggest quote was:
¨HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SAY IT, KEPS NUT not CAPS NUT!¨
Another quote from our team was:
¨Fat Allen please. Not the Skinny One.¨ (Talking about Allen wrenches)
As I have already said, last year we thought we were amazing and knew everything. Why? We went to our first competition with a clawbot and did pretty good. If you would like to see the video of our team (First Year) and other teams in our area here it is: VEX Competition 2017 - HHS - YouTube
0:50 and 2:55 in the video is us our first time at comp 2 school years ago. We got 23rd Place not bad for us funny story about our team name Team 404 I will post later. Thanks for reading!
making a presentation
“He said we can’t put any stupid pictures or memes”
“But those are the only photos we have!”
the partial field in my room was completely submerged in vex parts yesterday.
teammate: “how are we going to make an auton?”
me: “just like on any other field, but slightly smaller”
teammate: “wait…”
teammate digs a hole in the vex parts, exposing a small portion of tile.
teammate: “woah look we have a field!”
Every time I build something and it doesn’t work:
“There may have been some technical oversights…”
“THIS BOT IS A PIECE OF JUNK” (In all fairness this was the 6th time our robot timed out during a match)
“What have you done to my code”
“If we win this match I get a Sprite”
“no no no no no No No No NONONONONONONONONO” (My friend recorded audio of me freaking out after activated the wrong autonomous)
“I said Sprite, not light”
“DON’T TOUCH MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE”
“wack”
Don’t forget my favorite quote: Give the dollar to Andrew, he’s poor.
“Is that motor controller meant to be on fire?”
Followed by the magic smoke escaping from the MC29.
You know when it’s screwed in when you hear the sound.
Then…
Why are these screws stripped?
It’s for security.
“You got any food?”
“We’re about to get clapped into vex IQ”
I’m confused too. Maybe get a new computer? BTW, hate the 20 character limit thingy.
At a comp:
“Wait you packed the toolbox, right?”
“I thought you did.”
Learned that the hard way. 21 iterations of a design later and realized there was this thing called planning how to construct something, not just what to construct. Still believed after each redesign it would magically function.
Yep, I say this phrase and “Hope is not a project management strategy” about 5 times a week.
Hope all you want, but doing things makes it happen.
Thanks for the shout out.
My favorite picture with the best fabricator I’ve met. If Murph couldn’t make it you didn’t need it,
(File:DB5 Schucker Murphy hope is not 090216 csm.jpg - DEW Robotics)
