I'll never forget when our 2018 robot started shaking violently and uncontrollably on the practice field and the programmer exclaimed "That's the PID working!"

The beginner programmer when he causes the entire arm of the robot to snap off because he put a == instead of

Build Team spending 3 weeks debating what chassis to use:

“Safety First” 💀💀💀

the mechanical team going to the hotel to finish building the robot (the robot is in the bag)

hardware try not to finish building the robot 0.00001 seconds before competition (impossible)

It’s about time FRC memes showed up on my youtube recommendation feed

Ooh I felt the CAD babysitting CNC in my soul.

254 on their way to win their 100th championship

I’ll never forget when we went to a week zero event excited to try out our robot and it violently rips apart because we chose the wrong auto in the first test match.

I’m from 2974 the swerve vs tank is so accurate. Our driver is insanely talented.

Every single one of these is accurate that it's scary

i am gona try to join the frc team at my school so i will be back in November when i understand this

Once upon a time another team asked for help programming their autonomous mode and I responded. They told me to program it to move forward at full speed for a certain time. I did. During the match, the robot immediately popped a wheelie, held it for a substantial distance, and slammed down exactly where it was supposed to stop.

As a member of TitanBot 2543, I can humbly say that this is pretty accurate.

Programmers when they get told “you can code the auto on the ride to comp”

my programming mentor casually programming all of the bindings for our gamepad under 5 minutes:

Robonauts demonstrating how their robot this year is able to land on the moon

As a member of 1257 we do not talk about the Allen key incident

Bruuuhhhh this is so good, I need to see more 😂

In true fashion, business is forgotten

alum of 3255 and almost all of these hit home

Coders reading documentation for 3 hour to find an exact value instead of taking a single measurement

As a programmer and a member of the drive team on 9271 I can relate to all of these

"What is a safety?"-RJ 6434 2023

me when i when

That one metal bar someone over sanded 🔥🔥🔥

every one of these is relatable

Electrical staring at there mentor after they say the wire is .0001 millimeters off for the 5th time

Build team when the bolts don't fit right: "Alright get me a drill and a hammer"

as an alumni of team 6825, This is accurate 😂

my 2018 bot was liteally called ttr (duct)tape tierap(zipties) rope our firsts regional banner was hung on the wall with a broken piece of rope, zipties and rope for atleast 3 years

Watched this after just finishing the drivetrain of a new robot code project! I love programming under a time crunch!

Media team when they’re told to edit the comp footage by the next day: ☠️☠️

Me an VRC programmer when the code works the 15 times I tested it alone, but fails the first time my team sees it at comp (fails so hard it breaks the bot)

Stand proud. You're strong.

Bro I just had my first frc and this is accurate Literally the controls were jacked up and then they just randomly fixed themselves on the field

As an FTC team member, a lot of this is definitely still accurate. Especially the driver station only having crazy logs during comps

Love the music choice

I hope some random person finds that in pure confusion

I’m the designer for my team, Team 6317, I have been the ONLY designer for three years, and I am in my junior year. I’m also the one with the most experience running the machinery, if something needs to be machined I put it on the CNC and grab the first person I see that isn’t busy, doesn’t matter who it is, tell them to put on a pair of safety glasses and to only smack the big red button if they sparks or if the tool is clearly broken.

pov: the mechanical team explaining why there is thirty different head size bolts on the bot

Double sided tape, zip ties and super glue solves everything

Wpilib is god saving 😭😭😭

Me when I forget to put the key into the motor after the entire chassis is finished: 😱💀🤬

the merge conflict 💀

8223 I wish our mechanical department looked like that.. Currently our tolerance is ±4 mm

This is so real I'm a mechanic and i had to spend 30 minutes sanding a metal beam so it would fit.

very accurate

I felt that 😭😂

Vex U team members when they take an ftc or frc member's advice and their robot ends up 40lbs

Chains finding every way to screw over our robot:

You forgot one thing Electrical reworking the robot like 10 times

Nice

as a 2630 member, I can approve those memes as correct

i wish we had a cnc :(

im team 8729, we forgot our side panel one time and had to put a garage sale sign on the side of our robot :D

What about when it is two weeks into build season and the design team still hasn't finished designing (I'm programming captain and have already finished coding the entire robot before design even finished designing)

traumas

as always business is forgotten

And Strategy, overloading google sheets

real.

Brov this is what programmers up to?

😂

I hate how true this is

You know I’m the best guy on the team I think because last year I did code and mechanical and I tried out for drive team but got pit crew instead this year I’m doing mechanical electrical and cad so I know how everyone feels also you forgot the guy who almost kills a judge my friend on the drive team almost did that we still make fun of him FRC 6344 by the way

Me watching my bot wondering why our driver is making certain plays when i know damn well that if i was driver we wouldnt make it past alliance selection Also literally every finals backup bot bowed out. Not even halfway through lunch one of them had already packed and left

you forgot the bit where the UK doesn't even compete in FRC 😭

Ex team 4525 (now defunct sadly, we do VRC now). Yeah seems accurate lol. Never trust the programmers

I went to my first FIRST competition this year in North Bay, and I can confirm everyone treated me with racist professionalism 😎

I should not be able to sympathize with so many of these...

water game not mentioned

340

They are called machinists not mechanics💀

getting called out mfw

Hey whats FRC?

My most gracious slander towards first was that the mentor(s) pretty much saw "ooh, science project that incompetent kids can't/won't build", and then proceeded to build the entire thing -_+ I know it's hard/tough for after-school programs to gain any noterieriety whatsoever, but the incel environment is not conducive to what teenagers generally look for in a "high-school experience." Also, no where is a robot like the ones built used in any general engineering professional-setting. I'd rather work on my homework

WHEN FTC SLANDER (we all know FTC is superior to FRC)