First of all, I apologize for not updating for a really long time. I was sick ( yes, the flu caught up with half of the school population as well as many members of MVRT ), and it took us a while to get back on track.
Second, Thanks to Anindya who spent his valuable time ( he could've been studying for physics!! ) writing the previous entry. I was at Barnes and Nobles, and he had to finish it up. And his colorful, and yet, very true illustration of the last day of build was very well written. So THANKS!
I just wanted to add a few more details, because Anindo wasn't here till the "crating of the robot". haha. So, everyone finally had enough at about 12 20 and they crated the robot into the big purple box. Everything was set and done at about 12 30, and I headed home right then. My dad has such good timing :)
BYE BYE ROBOT! See you in a month at SVR!!
And finally, A GIGANTIC thankyou to all the mentors who have come, and given us great advice on what to do to/with El Toro 12! ( but who's counting? ) And a GINORMOUS thankyou to all the members who have come and built/coded the robot or given mental support to the members. AND! A HUMONGOUS thankyou to all the seniors of MVRT. I hope you all had a great time with the team, and I hope all of you will keep coming back as well, to help us out, and give us advice for future Toros.
AND THANKYOU! TO ALL THE READERS OF THIS BLOG, thankyou for reading our many eccentricities, and our accomplishments throughout the Build Season 2009.
Until next year,
Devaki, Keerthana, ( and partly ) Anindya.
bye!
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
LAST DAY OF BUILD!
So here it is guys! a neat [well not so much..] little run down of what we did during the LAST DAY of build for the 2008-2009 season!
heres a little narrative of how the first part of my day went
the morning came. -cue dramatic music here- Monday morning. the LAST morning of build. I remember waking up and thinking, "my first last-day-of-build day." [I was in hawaii last year swimming with some sea turtles and trying to run away from the free hula lessons that our hotel was offering to all 14 year olds...] I grabbed a piece of toast, a glass of milk, a banana, and my laptop [yes, my laptop IS a main part of my breakfast] and signed onto my email. The first thing i saw was our dear head of engineering, Ashwin Mathur [the one who makes puns all the time], online and his status said, "MVRT MEETS AT 10 AM TODAY!"
A shocked silence followed. A very short shocked silence however. 10 seconds later, I was up and about flapping like a frantic chicken trying to finish the mounds of homework I had promised I would do before the end of the day, in the mere one hour that I had before I had to go. I had heard about the notorious MVRT last night, where people worked worked worked, and generous parents brought wonderful food for the kids who worked worked worked. Oh and worked. Did I mention that? Well I didn't quite manage to finish my work quite as fast as I had hoped, so I arrived at around 1oclock ish. Already there was a flurry of activity as once again, the drive crew prepared to make its daily, and last, trip to NASA to practice. There was a moshpit of people around the robot and a moshpit of people around laptops looking at code. In fact, there were so many people around the robot that I actually tapped one of my programming friends and asked, "where's the robot?" She just pointed at what looked like a swarm of teenage kids around food, and after I nudged a few people aside, there it was! Wow. who knew about 12 kids could completly hide a robot from sight? or am I just blind? Anyways, I joined in all the hustle [it wasn't too hard, I assure you...It was sort of like being thrown head first over the top of niagra falls. you don't have a lot of choice there. and just to clarify, I have not actually gone over the Niagra falls, but in my AP physics textbook, there was a guy who did and apparently, he the force of impact was quite large and "rude", so I imagine it was painful as well] and soon enough it was 2:30 and yet no signs of going to NASA. Our officers noticed this too I suppose because they hollered out to everybody that they were going in about 30 minutes, robot or not. Now this got people serious and in 31 minutes and about 23 seconds, the robot was ready to go. [yes they waited. why would they go to NASA without the robot for heavens sake...?] So they marched [or actually drove] off and we all had our assigned tasks. Electrical was to find/work on the compressor code, PR/Media was working on their video for Chairman's and mech was cleaning up, working on the crate, and bumpers. Well I'm happy to say we got in about 1 hour of work. [me being the highly competitive person I am, just had to beat everybody and got in about 2 more minutes... ;) ] and then it was back to playing games/eating our hearts out/watching movies. Actually the PR/Media division was on tract till about 5! CONGRATULATIONS! Rohan, Aravindh, and Prashanth plowed through that video like...erm...a cow ploughs a field [well of course. not one of those lazy cows that eats all day...just clarifying]. Anyways, at 5 me and devaki decided to go to grooveshark [the new website that many of the robotics members use to listen to music on] random disney songs. Namely the madagascar hit: "I like to move it move it" and some Aladdin favorites too like: "A Whole New World" Instantly, a group of guys who were doing wierd things while shooting, decided to karoke to Jasmine's voice in Aladdin. [For those of you who think Disney is too cool for High School, allow me to refresh your memory. Remember that princess who was always dressed shades of blue/purple and went with aladdin on that carpet ride? the one who sang in ridiculously high pitched voices as they zoomed to totally random countries like china, nearly getting killed hundreds of times along the way? yep. its her.] They were quite good, so we secretly rechristened the main singer [we have no idea what his real name is] jasmine even though he was a guy and secretly promised ourselves we would NEVER become that wierd in senior year. Or maybe we already were that wierd. But oh well, thats why we dream, right?
So here's kind of what our time table was like a few hours before midnight on monday.
6:00 - most of electrical playing games on laptops
PR/Media TRYING to work, but being distracted by Madagascar music on full blast
Random members across rooms - listening to music/chatting
7:00 - electrical still playing games...
PR/Media gives up on trying to work on video and decides to watch "Jasmine" sing in those freaky high pitched tones I've told you about
Random members - either watching "Jasmine" sing, or still chatting/listening to music
7:30 - Drive crew returns from NASA and looks around room in total shock and disbelief
7:31 - work resumes and people are sprinting all over the place like olympic sprinters racing for gold
So we all got back to work. After that...what was it, almost 3 hour break? Well...yeah. Oops! We started programming once more and finally got that compressor code working and got everything done. Phew that was tiring! Well not really. It was like 8:15. But Ryan's mom and Somebody else's mom brought us dinner! [I AM SO SORRY FOR NOT KNOWING WHO WAS THE OTHER MOM. AS SOON AS I FIND OUT, I WILL SPRINT TO THE NEAREST COMPUTER AND CHANGE THIS] It was this amazing spread of salad with tangerines, avacados, and [i think] italian dressing, spaghetti with a creamy tomato and cheese sauce, and some delicious garlic bread! To wash it all down we had various types of soda, although I prefered a bottle of water. [I know, I make it all sound so mouth watering, right? haha I'm a chef so I guess that's why :D] After chowing down, they whipped out some wonderfull cookies and all that was left to do was the final editing of code, some wiring, and a good polish of the wheels. Devaki, Keerthana, Jeet, and Patricia spent a good while working on those, aided by Mr. Kikla who demonstrated the power of Windex and the marvels it can work on low friction wheels. Who knew? Windex really does solve many problems. Anyways, then we watched all said our goodbye's and watched it be boxed tearfully. Fine. I was quite tearfull. Most others were as stoic as the laptops around them.
As my parents drove me home, convinced that I had spent more time in the robotics room than at home this long weekend, I decided that even though I was dead tired and I needed at least 50 hours of sleep before I would recover from this harrowing experience, I can't wait to do it again next year!!
I'll post up all the stuff about SVR and Davis soon you guys, so stay tuned! geez. who says that these days?! 'stay tuned'?! that was so when we still used radios. How about, subscribe to this page and come back when its updated! hmm...not quite as catchy, but it'll have to do
yours truly
-Anindya
P.S. Hey mvrt members, mentors, or anybody else from other teams! post your own stories about the last few days of build, by leaving us a comment!
heres a little narrative of how the first part of my day went
the morning came. -cue dramatic music here- Monday morning. the LAST morning of build. I remember waking up and thinking, "my first last-day-of-build day." [I was in hawaii last year swimming with some sea turtles and trying to run away from the free hula lessons that our hotel was offering to all 14 year olds...] I grabbed a piece of toast, a glass of milk, a banana, and my laptop [yes, my laptop IS a main part of my breakfast] and signed onto my email. The first thing i saw was our dear head of engineering, Ashwin Mathur [the one who makes puns all the time], online and his status said, "MVRT MEETS AT 10 AM TODAY!"
A shocked silence followed. A very short shocked silence however. 10 seconds later, I was up and about flapping like a frantic chicken trying to finish the mounds of homework I had promised I would do before the end of the day, in the mere one hour that I had before I had to go. I had heard about the notorious MVRT last night, where people worked worked worked, and generous parents brought wonderful food for the kids who worked worked worked. Oh and worked. Did I mention that? Well I didn't quite manage to finish my work quite as fast as I had hoped, so I arrived at around 1oclock ish. Already there was a flurry of activity as once again, the drive crew prepared to make its daily, and last, trip to NASA to practice. There was a moshpit of people around the robot and a moshpit of people around laptops looking at code. In fact, there were so many people around the robot that I actually tapped one of my programming friends and asked, "where's the robot?" She just pointed at what looked like a swarm of teenage kids around food, and after I nudged a few people aside, there it was! Wow. who knew about 12 kids could completly hide a robot from sight? or am I just blind? Anyways, I joined in all the hustle [it wasn't too hard, I assure you...It was sort of like being thrown head first over the top of niagra falls. you don't have a lot of choice there. and just to clarify, I have not actually gone over the Niagra falls, but in my AP physics textbook, there was a guy who did and apparently, he the force of impact was quite large and "rude", so I imagine it was painful as well] and soon enough it was 2:30 and yet no signs of going to NASA. Our officers noticed this too I suppose because they hollered out to everybody that they were going in about 30 minutes, robot or not. Now this got people serious and in 31 minutes and about 23 seconds, the robot was ready to go. [yes they waited. why would they go to NASA without the robot for heavens sake...?] So they marched [or actually drove] off and we all had our assigned tasks. Electrical was to find/work on the compressor code, PR/Media was working on their video for Chairman's and mech was cleaning up, working on the crate, and bumpers. Well I'm happy to say we got in about 1 hour of work. [me being the highly competitive person I am, just had to beat everybody and got in about 2 more minutes... ;) ] and then it was back to playing games/eating our hearts out/watching movies. Actually the PR/Media division was on tract till about 5! CONGRATULATIONS! Rohan, Aravindh, and Prashanth plowed through that video like...erm...a cow ploughs a field [well of course. not one of those lazy cows that eats all day...just clarifying]. Anyways, at 5 me and devaki decided to go to grooveshark [the new website that many of the robotics members use to listen to music on] random disney songs. Namely the madagascar hit: "I like to move it move it" and some Aladdin favorites too like: "A Whole New World" Instantly, a group of guys who were doing wierd things while shooting, decided to karoke to Jasmine's voice in Aladdin. [For those of you who think Disney is too cool for High School, allow me to refresh your memory. Remember that princess who was always dressed shades of blue/purple and went with aladdin on that carpet ride? the one who sang in ridiculously high pitched voices as they zoomed to totally random countries like china, nearly getting killed hundreds of times along the way? yep. its her.] They were quite good, so we secretly rechristened the main singer [we have no idea what his real name is] jasmine even though he was a guy and secretly promised ourselves we would NEVER become that wierd in senior year. Or maybe we already were that wierd. But oh well, thats why we dream, right?
So here's kind of what our time table was like a few hours before midnight on monday.
6:00 - most of electrical playing games on laptops
PR/Media TRYING to work, but being distracted by Madagascar music on full blast
Random members across rooms - listening to music/chatting
7:00 - electrical still playing games...
PR/Media gives up on trying to work on video and decides to watch "Jasmine" sing in those freaky high pitched tones I've told you about
Random members - either watching "Jasmine" sing, or still chatting/listening to music
7:30 - Drive crew returns from NASA and looks around room in total shock and disbelief
7:31 - work resumes and people are sprinting all over the place like olympic sprinters racing for gold
So we all got back to work. After that...what was it, almost 3 hour break? Well...yeah. Oops! We started programming once more and finally got that compressor code working and got everything done. Phew that was tiring! Well not really. It was like 8:15. But Ryan's mom and Somebody else's mom brought us dinner! [I AM SO SORRY FOR NOT KNOWING WHO WAS THE OTHER MOM. AS SOON AS I FIND OUT, I WILL SPRINT TO THE NEAREST COMPUTER AND CHANGE THIS] It was this amazing spread of salad with tangerines, avacados, and [i think] italian dressing, spaghetti with a creamy tomato and cheese sauce, and some delicious garlic bread! To wash it all down we had various types of soda, although I prefered a bottle of water. [I know, I make it all sound so mouth watering, right? haha I'm a chef so I guess that's why :D] After chowing down, they whipped out some wonderfull cookies and all that was left to do was the final editing of code, some wiring, and a good polish of the wheels. Devaki, Keerthana, Jeet, and Patricia spent a good while working on those, aided by Mr. Kikla who demonstrated the power of Windex and the marvels it can work on low friction wheels. Who knew? Windex really does solve many problems. Anyways, then we watched all said our goodbye's and watched it be boxed tearfully. Fine. I was quite tearfull. Most others were as stoic as the laptops around them.
As my parents drove me home, convinced that I had spent more time in the robotics room than at home this long weekend, I decided that even though I was dead tired and I needed at least 50 hours of sleep before I would recover from this harrowing experience, I can't wait to do it again next year!!
I'll post up all the stuff about SVR and Davis soon you guys, so stay tuned! geez. who says that these days?! 'stay tuned'?! that was so when we still used radios. How about, subscribe to this page and come back when its updated! hmm...not quite as catchy, but it'll have to do
yours truly
-Anindya
P.S. Hey mvrt members, mentors, or anybody else from other teams! post your own stories about the last few days of build, by leaving us a comment!
Time warp!
Hey guys!
whoa I know, its been AGES since we posted, and we're sorry! we all went a bit loony during build and got carried away with the awesomeness of our robot :) haha get it? loony? yeah. sorry. bad pun...ANYWAYS.
I'll try to go through everything that's happened since we last left off. We got TONS of programming and machining done as well as perfect the robot. We had a flip block on friday so most of our members just FLIPPED out and stayed at build for an extra three hours! [sorry...another bad pun...i must be channeling ashwin's spirit] By the friday before the robot was due, the team handed over the robot to the electrical crew and code was tested, edited, tested, and what else..? oh yeah! tested some more :) The drive crew and some other lucky members also got to go to NASA to test out our robots and check out robots from some other teams, and from what I've been hearing, our robot might not be the only awesome one! A completly expected piece of news, but still a piece of news. Saturday was mainly spent working on autonomous code and the electrical division did have a small problem [sorry. did i say small? it took about 2.5 hours to fix, so maybe a tad more than small] with IP adresses and not being able to load code onto the robot, but with the help of our awesome mentor, Mr. Laitnen WE GOT IT FIXED! the power of positive thinking, and adults! I hope some day I can save the world of some wannabe enginner kid with my awesome IP adress fixing skills! :D So Sunday was spent pretty much doing the same thing in electrical, and mech spent some time dotting the i's and crossing the t's on the robots and making last minute changes.
whoa I know, its been AGES since we posted, and we're sorry! we all went a bit loony during build and got carried away with the awesomeness of our robot :) haha get it? loony? yeah. sorry. bad pun...ANYWAYS.
I'll try to go through everything that's happened since we last left off. We got TONS of programming and machining done as well as perfect the robot. We had a flip block on friday so most of our members just FLIPPED out and stayed at build for an extra three hours! [sorry...another bad pun...i must be channeling ashwin's spirit] By the friday before the robot was due, the team handed over the robot to the electrical crew and code was tested, edited, tested, and what else..? oh yeah! tested some more :) The drive crew and some other lucky members also got to go to NASA to test out our robots and check out robots from some other teams, and from what I've been hearing, our robot might not be the only awesome one! A completly expected piece of news, but still a piece of news. Saturday was mainly spent working on autonomous code and the electrical division did have a small problem [sorry. did i say small? it took about 2.5 hours to fix, so maybe a tad more than small] with IP adresses and not being able to load code onto the robot, but with the help of our awesome mentor, Mr. Laitnen WE GOT IT FIXED! the power of positive thinking, and adults! I hope some day I can save the world of some wannabe enginner kid with my awesome IP adress fixing skills! :D So Sunday was spent pretty much doing the same thing in electrical, and mech spent some time dotting the i's and crossing the t's on the robots and making last minute changes.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Thursday, February 5th 2009
yo! what's happenin our fellow members of mvrt?
A LOT is happening actually but we still need help!
with a litlle less than 2 weeks of build left, we need people so we can get stuff done faster!
However, the robot is coming along nicely and should be ready to go in a few days.
today, mechanical got the pneumatics together adn are ready to mount all the parts of the conveyor/wall on the robot.
there's a few more things left to do but the big part of the work is done adn the robot can be used to practice with, almost full weight.
Some of our electrical members continued to work on PID functions ( but no testing was done because the someone else was using the chassis ) So Mike, our electrical lead called us over and aksed us to crimp more wires ( yes, Devaki still can't do her chemistry stuff, or type on the keyboard ) and also fix some panels
over and out, Devaki and Keerthana
A LOT is happening actually but we still need help!
with a litlle less than 2 weeks of build left, we need people so we can get stuff done faster!
However, the robot is coming along nicely and should be ready to go in a few days.
today, mechanical got the pneumatics together adn are ready to mount all the parts of the conveyor/wall on the robot.
there's a few more things left to do but the big part of the work is done adn the robot can be used to practice with, almost full weight.
Some of our electrical members continued to work on PID functions ( but no testing was done because the someone else was using the chassis ) So Mike, our electrical lead called us over and aksed us to crimp more wires ( yes, Devaki still can't do her chemistry stuff, or type on the keyboard ) and also fix some panels
over and out, Devaki and Keerthana
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2009
Hello People of Robotics!
Yes, its us. Keerthana, and Devaki.
And we must say, today was quite the experience. We have decided that people who join electrical join it for a reason ( the impatience and inability to deal with various, miscellaneous little screws and parts that are always lying around. For instance, Devaki had to strip and crimp wires again ( she is unable to do her chemistry homework right now, her fingers hurt too much to punch numbers into the calcualator. )
We have taken apart the chassis and decided to rebuild it for some reason; ( the reason was not made public, but thats alright ) Also, the conveyor was ''made prettier'' and keerthana is unable to do her math homework because she's also nursing her fingers from ( in her words ) "stapling the conveyor thing on the v-belt was painful"
Aah, our wonderful technical language. "thing", "painful"
With a few other insanity encounters, and also discovery that people saved the pretzel bag that Devaki bought a few weeks ago for personal gain. This is the reason she asked her dad to buy two more bags. So people can stop being less stingy.
Electrical worked on PID, funnily enough, that is a calculus function, that stands for "proportional integral derivative". None of the people working on that had a clue about what that meant, until yesterday, Mr. Laitnen helped us think the code out, and mentor Andrew helped us understand as well. However, as far as the authors were updated, both Sanath and his cronies, Nupur, Helena and (partly Devaki) , don't know how to send the one input from the PID vi into the both the left speed and the right speed for the motors.vi.
We'll figure something out.
Our goal right now, is to get the new robot moving. Hopefully, Chris's code will work the first time, and we will have no troubles. Then again, that is asking for a bit much.
So once again,
Goodbye everyone!
Keerthana and Devaki
Once again, please come to build!
Yes, its us. Keerthana, and Devaki.
And we must say, today was quite the experience. We have decided that people who join electrical join it for a reason ( the impatience and inability to deal with various, miscellaneous little screws and parts that are always lying around. For instance, Devaki had to strip and crimp wires again ( she is unable to do her chemistry homework right now, her fingers hurt too much to punch numbers into the calcualator. )
We have taken apart the chassis and decided to rebuild it for some reason; ( the reason was not made public, but thats alright ) Also, the conveyor was ''made prettier'' and keerthana is unable to do her math homework because she's also nursing her fingers from ( in her words ) "stapling the conveyor thing on the v-belt was painful"
Aah, our wonderful technical language. "thing", "painful"
With a few other insanity encounters, and also discovery that people saved the pretzel bag that Devaki bought a few weeks ago for personal gain. This is the reason she asked her dad to buy two more bags. So people can stop being less stingy.
Electrical worked on PID, funnily enough, that is a calculus function, that stands for "proportional integral derivative". None of the people working on that had a clue about what that meant, until yesterday, Mr. Laitnen helped us think the code out, and mentor Andrew helped us understand as well. However, as far as the authors were updated, both Sanath and his cronies, Nupur, Helena and (partly Devaki) , don't know how to send the one input from the PID vi into the both the left speed and the right speed for the motors.vi.
We'll figure something out.
Our goal right now, is to get the new robot moving. Hopefully, Chris's code will work the first time, and we will have no troubles. Then again, that is asking for a bit much.
So once again,
Goodbye everyone!
Keerthana and Devaki
Once again, please come to build!
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Heelloo everyone!
The countdown is 14 days to shipping day.
Not including today.
And we are going NO WHERE!
Alright, we were exaggerating. We are going somewhere; and its is productive-ish. People aren't picking up the pace! ( if there were people coming to build anyway)
Well, alright. Not too many people show up TO THE BUILD!!! ( yes, we are having build right now, in case some people don't know ). And the people who do show up are either hard at work or have nothing to do because of nothing happening!!
And we can't seem to decide on anything!
So we passionately request everyone to come to build. Get things moving. Come to build. We are part of the robotics team to learn many life skills, and possibly pursue a career in engineering. ( Not to mention winning the regionals and championships ) So, this is a special post for everyone to come.
PLEEEEAAASSSSSSEE COME!
If no one comes now, we are going to die at the end of build. Well, we were going to die anyway, but hopefully we won't pull an all-nighter.
Thankyou
Keerthana and Devaki
Once again,
PLEASE COME!!
The countdown is 14 days to shipping day.
Not including today.
And we are going NO WHERE!
Alright, we were exaggerating. We are going somewhere; and its is productive-ish. People aren't picking up the pace! ( if there were people coming to build anyway)
Well, alright. Not too many people show up TO THE BUILD!!! ( yes, we are having build right now, in case some people don't know ). And the people who do show up are either hard at work or have nothing to do because of nothing happening!!
And we can't seem to decide on anything!
So we passionately request everyone to come to build. Get things moving. Come to build. We are part of the robotics team to learn many life skills, and possibly pursue a career in engineering. ( Not to mention winning the regionals and championships ) So, this is a special post for everyone to come.
PLEEEEAAASSSSSSEE COME!
If no one comes now, we are going to die at the end of build. Well, we were going to die anyway, but hopefully we won't pull an all-nighter.
Thankyou
Keerthana and Devaki
Once again,
PLEASE COME!!
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Hello dear avid readers:
Keerthana and I decided that we would do something "out of the norm" today :)Today was a very coincidential day: we did some researching and snooping to find out what people really say when Build and pressure gets to them.
We must say: we got some satisfying results.
Quote 1:
Devaki: Do you wanna help her while she's screwing the screws on?
Madhav: No... course not. We're cool.
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This is going on while Madhav is standing there and Jene is killing her hands while trying to hold the conveyor in place and screwing on at the same time.
Quote 2:
This is from Mike, so of course we all know that something is definetely involved.
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Mike: I like getting on top of elephants. Elephants are soft.
Quote 3:
This is a quote usually used by Mike, though unfortunately, it's been spreading:
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Mike and others: "That's what she said."
Kinda got annoying after the 20th time.
Quote 3:
This quote is happening while Jene is working on the conveyor belt design. She's trying to screw the gusset down into the bosh, but its proving to be quite difficult. So of course, she's going, "No, no no!" And our dear Mike, sensing the perfect opportunity, says, "Are you sane?" While she's screaming "no!" at the conveyor belt. Aahh. Gotta love Mike. Actually, not really =). Watch him hunt us down tomorrow :)
Quote 4:
Mr. Shinta, Rohan, and Mr. Latnen are talking about the Austrailian Outback, with all the kangaroos and Finding Nemo came up in that conversation as well :)
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Mr. Shinta: Yeah, we were driving around there, and we found kangaroo roadkill like every 15 seconds. Others witnessing: "Eeewwww!!"
and the Finding Nemo one:
"Is there really a P. Sherman. 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney?"
This author actually bothered to research that: and yes there is a Wallaby Way, but not in Sydney. Its in some other random smaller cities.
Quote 5:
We don't remember where exactly this happened but its very true
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"You fail"
Quote 6:
Nupur's :
"Jeet looks like he's a fencing captain with that long rod. He's carrying it like one too."
Quote 7:
We don't remember who said this:
"Lets go whack someone on the head with the pub mix box!!"
Quote 8:
Mike is famous again:
"WE FINISHED THE JELLY BEANS THAT WAS 2/3 WAY FULL AND THE PUB MIX BOX IN ONE DAY?!!!"
And looking back on that, that is pretty amazing.
Quote 9:\
The electrical gyro/autonomous team is looking at the code; and they need help. So, they ask Chris.
"Hey Chris! You wanna help us out?"
Chris: "uuuhhh. That seems like a good idea, actually."
Quote 10:
Devaki is updating Labview to a more recent version. She uses Mike's thumb drive and opens Windows Explorer to copy the updates onto the individual laptops. And she finds out the name of the thumb drive is Mike's USB. And she asks Mike why out loud.
Mike's reply: "Mike's USB. You know why its called that ? because if you kill it, mike will get to you and you will not be happy after that meeting."
Quote 11:
Its from Jeet. Its the last one, because these authors think that he's annoying :) AND HE WENT TO A LINKIN PARK CONCERT WITH JAY-Z featured on it too!!!But it closes off our spiel nicely.
Jeet: "Alright everyone! LET'S GET THIS ROBOT DONE!!"
Well, we've done a bit of snooping, and digging. We might even do one next week, as build comes to a close in two weeks.
Thankyou!
Over and out,
Keerthana and Devaki.
Keerthana and I decided that we would do something "out of the norm" today :)Today was a very coincidential day: we did some researching and snooping to find out what people really say when Build and pressure gets to them.
We must say: we got some satisfying results.
Quote 1:
Devaki: Do you wanna help her while she's screwing the screws on?
Madhav: No... course not. We're cool.
--------
This is going on while Madhav is standing there and Jene is killing her hands while trying to hold the conveyor in place and screwing on at the same time.
Quote 2:
This is from Mike, so of course we all know that something is definetely involved.
-------
Mike: I like getting on top of elephants. Elephants are soft.
Quote 3:
This is a quote usually used by Mike, though unfortunately, it's been spreading:
---------
Mike and others: "That's what she said."
Kinda got annoying after the 20th time.
Quote 3:
This quote is happening while Jene is working on the conveyor belt design. She's trying to screw the gusset down into the bosh, but its proving to be quite difficult. So of course, she's going, "No, no no!" And our dear Mike, sensing the perfect opportunity, says, "Are you sane?" While she's screaming "no!" at the conveyor belt. Aahh. Gotta love Mike. Actually, not really =). Watch him hunt us down tomorrow :)
Quote 4:
Mr. Shinta, Rohan, and Mr. Latnen are talking about the Austrailian Outback, with all the kangaroos and Finding Nemo came up in that conversation as well :)
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Mr. Shinta: Yeah, we were driving around there, and we found kangaroo roadkill like every 15 seconds. Others witnessing: "Eeewwww!!"
and the Finding Nemo one:
"Is there really a P. Sherman. 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney?"
This author actually bothered to research that: and yes there is a Wallaby Way, but not in Sydney. Its in some other random smaller cities.
Quote 5:
We don't remember where exactly this happened but its very true
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"You fail"
Quote 6:
Nupur's :
"Jeet looks like he's a fencing captain with that long rod. He's carrying it like one too."
Quote 7:
We don't remember who said this:
"Lets go whack someone on the head with the pub mix box!!"
Quote 8:
Mike is famous again:
"WE FINISHED THE JELLY BEANS THAT WAS 2/3 WAY FULL AND THE PUB MIX BOX IN ONE DAY?!!!"
And looking back on that, that is pretty amazing.
Quote 9:\
The electrical gyro/autonomous team is looking at the code; and they need help. So, they ask Chris.
"Hey Chris! You wanna help us out?"
Chris: "uuuhhh. That seems like a good idea, actually."
Quote 10:
Devaki is updating Labview to a more recent version. She uses Mike's thumb drive and opens Windows Explorer to copy the updates onto the individual laptops. And she finds out the name of the thumb drive is Mike's USB. And she asks Mike why out loud.
Mike's reply: "Mike's USB. You know why its called that ? because if you kill it, mike will get to you and you will not be happy after that meeting."
Quote 11:
Its from Jeet. Its the last one, because these authors think that he's annoying :) AND HE WENT TO A LINKIN PARK CONCERT WITH JAY-Z featured on it too!!!But it closes off our spiel nicely.
Jeet: "Alright everyone! LET'S GET THIS ROBOT DONE!!"
Well, we've done a bit of snooping, and digging. We might even do one next week, as build comes to a close in two weeks.
Thankyou!
Over and out,
Keerthana and Devaki.
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