You know you're a roboteer when.....

[joey_picus]

Re: You know you're a roboteer when.....

...how can you forget you had a Wheely Big Cheese in there?

[anukhet]

Re: You know you're a roboteer when.....

It was in a old box on the shelf?

[widow_twanky]

Re: You know you're a roboteer when.....

It was in a old box on the shelf?

As a matter of fact it was in a 'stuff to do later box' then last week Roger replied to an email I sent him in September last year and shortly after a set of gear boxes turned up.

Paints the wrong yellow, flippers held on with two bits of wood, no electrics, no pneumatics but it looks ok from a distance

[widow_twanky]

Re: You know you're a roboteer when.....

Oh and another one.........

You have a very short attention span and knowing you haven't got any of the robots ready for the event in two weeks time you go and start something else which seems more interesting and then.......................oooh I think I'll have a sandwich.........

[joey_picus]

Re: You know you're a roboteer when.....

Heh, good luck if you're going to try and redo it Andy

My contribution: Spending virtually two hours a night not sleeping but awake thinking about robot construction, coming up with great new ideas for flipper hinges and securing gas bottles at 4 in the morning, and excessive doodling of screw positions when you should be revising...and I won't even be building for another month

[knightrous]

Re: You know you're a roboteer when.....

- When you scour ebay buying aluminium billet for robots you haven't designed yet.
- When your neighbors come out to ask if your robot is working now after hearing a large crash/explosion.
- When you buy a milling machine, but haven't bought a washing machine for the house you've been living in for 2 years.
- You have more hardox in your house then cutlery.
- You use a screw driver as a coffee stirrer.
- Your soldering iron lives on the kitchen table
- You only have a hair dryer for shrink wrapping batteries
- You use the toaster to shrink wrap batteries when you can't find the hair dryer
- You set the smoke alarms off when you next use the toaster because it's set on flamethrower setting for heat shrinking.
- You fix injuries with duct tape.
- You have a set of Hawker SLA's in your car in case you need a jump start.
- You post in all the Your a roboteer when... threads.

[typhoon_driver]

Re: You know you're a roboteer when.....

You have a set of Hawker SLA's in your car in case you need a jump start

Lol this one works surprisingly well on a freezing cold morning when your car battery is acting up

[Marien]

Re: You know you're a roboteer when.....

Or a PBQ as back-up for my motorbike.

[Kenny]

Re: You know you're a roboteer when.....

you know your a roboteer when on the radio it says coming up next is a new tune from PCD's, and you think there talking about gear reduction

[razerdave]

Re: You know you're a roboteer when.....

You know you're a roboteer when:

You clip your nails with wire cutters
you use an antweight to clean the table (Stewie works wonders )
Your bedroom side table is covered in duct tape and solder reminants
When you use Bluetooth and think 'I'm using Spektrum technology'

[teamhunt]

Re: You know you're a roboteer when.....

when you have roboteer contacts in your phone.

when your putting your shoes on and you find a bolt and say So thats where it ended up!

When you look at a piece of metal and think of it as a batting ram on your robot.

[anukhet]

Re: You know you're a roboteer when.....

when you have roboteer contacts in your phone

When nearly all your phone contacts are male

[kevin]

Re: You know you're a roboteer when.....

In Astronomy class, instead of writing Big Dipper/Little Dipper, you write Big Nipper and Little Nipper.