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It's been quite a while since we did a caption contest, so it's time to dust off your funny pants and get ready to be hilarious! First, the rules:
- Leave your funniest clean caption to the photo in the comments section below. We reserve the right to delete captions that we deem inappropriate. We’re not too stingy, but try to keep it moderately PG-13.
- Captions submitted any other way besides in the comment section will not be accepted! That means do not use the feedback form!
- Captions will be accepted from the moment this post goes live until Friday, March 13th at 10 a.m. Mountain Time.
- A crack team of humor experts will pick the winner and we will announce it next week.
Here's your photo:
The winner will receive the new SparkFun Inventor's Kit for Microview. This awesome kit teaches the in's and out's of basic electronics through 11 circuits that go over things like writing code, reading sensors, driving motors and much more. It's all centered around the OLED-toting, Arduino-compatible MicroView.
Alright - feeling good? Feeling funny? Let's hear it in the comments section below!
LSDuino
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's the all new LSDuino!
(too add to your awesome creativity haha)
After months of work, the Red Hoverbot was perfected, just in time to be banned from AVC!
awww, too soon.
A classic case of RTM syndrome.
Warning: Loading beta versions of Redbot code may have unpredictable and/or dangerous results. Sparkfun is not responsible for any injuries/losses sustained during the use of beta code.
The moment we realized Skynet was open source.
Nobody expected the Rise of the Machines to start with a bearded man in Colorado
Oh, some of us may.
It was a little scarier when the makers of the Roomba decided to take on beard trimming...
All right, meatbags, listen up! We're going to play a game called Seven of Nine Says. You, bearded meatbag! Seven of Nine Says PANIC! ... Yes, good!
Oh, classic Nic...
Oh God! First the Daleks and now this!
Robots don't high five, no matter how hard you try.
Drones don't kill people, bad software kills people....
I know the mosquitoes are big around here, but WHAT IS THAT?
Yet another unintended side-effect of Amendment 64.
That awkward moment when you think a transformer is going for a high five. But... TRANSFORM!
Nooooo! It dropped my latte!
Pull over honey, I think I just saw a leprechaun!!
"Roads? Where we're going, we won't need AAAAH KILL IT KILL IT!"
The horrors of Photoshop - they forgot the shadow again. Or is a new monster in training for Doctor Who?
A little too late Roger realizes adding a 30 mega watt laser to a methane source seeking redbot was a bad idea..
My new redbot girl friend and i argue all the time. Just like the real thing!
"No disassemble!"
Do not look into the laser beam with remaining eye
A screen-grab Sparkfun's from first feature film: Karate-Chopping Nic No-talker versus The Red-Bot from Mars.
Space Explorer to mother ship. We've encounter a race of giant hippies. Returning to ship!
Freeze! Give me all your AA batteries and no one gets hertz!
Nick regretted answering "When RedBots fly." to his father's question on when he would get a haircut and a real job.
The dental hygiene droid failed the alpha test due to yet another small, but significant, error in metric unit transformation.
Everyone said it would be squirrels
God, I never knew my mom was so ugly!
RedBot + Red Bull... Don't do it kids.
"NO YELLOW WHEELS ON THE FLYING TRACTOR!" To our shame, we didn't know that Tom still had flashbacks from the Dairy Incident of 2013...
When robots come to life
In the next version of the redbot library we have added a new command. Redbot.fly()
That hover breakout really installs itself!
Karate Chop!
That is quite enough of that! Stop breaking the laws of Physics!
Ewwww! No I will not go home with you!
The high speed sewer inspection system was TOO high speed.
Captain Hook, you thought the crocs were bad - meet my little friend!
James was horrified when he realized that aliens had invaded his latest project and were about to beam it out of there.
Ohm's Law: V = this guy's resistance to the current product line
ATTACK OF THE KILLER REDBOT (in color!)
During an archaeological dig, Red Rover discovers a frozen prehistoric human, from a place once known as "Colorado".
Don't worry robot, humans are more afraid of you than you are of them.
A little too late Roger realizes adding a 30 mega watt laser to a methane source seeking redbot was a bad idea..
And I would have gotten away with it too if it hadn't been for this meddling Redbot!
New Product Friday: Freaky Flying Attack Baby Robots
No Sparkfun employees were harmed in the making of this video
"When pigs fly..", they said. But no one mentioned RedBots...
For every project there's a leap of faith... this time someone had a camera ready!
"Stop" "Drop" "Turn Left" - You'd think basic voice commands would work, right?
My guess is "photoshop"... Hope I'm right!
Redbot speech recognition has certainly come a long way.
"Game over man! Game over!"
The future of 3-D modeling is called into question.
Another "volunteer" is assigned to that Nick Poole project.
Beta code testing advice. If you can't reach the reset button just give it a good slap!
A real quadcopter has stability. There's that...
Hidden wires? Really? It's a Redbot, yo!
Rudolf! Christmas is only in 8 months!
The lack of upward force clearly horrified the engineer as the majestic RedBot disregarded the laws of physics.
Merlin!! stop UPgrading my bots.
Fearing that the RedBot was doing better than he was at the Turing Test, Nick attempts to display normal human emotion.... with limited success.
Wheeeeeeels don't work in air!
Sparkfun's new FatHead stickers. Like What?!?!
AAAAAAAH! What color is that robot?
An engineer is the closest thing to a magician. Engineers should know when to duck.
Those who hope that robots will soon rise and kill us all are saddened by the reality of state of the art.
I'm just that scared to! - shouts the ufo
Caught on film: a practitioner of auto-Redbotica.
Steve learned the hard way why wiring up the IMU with correct polarity is so important.
Drones don't kill people... oh my gosh Drones do kill People! Run!
The patient wasn't sure it would fit, but the dentist insisted that the tooth-cleaning drone prototype was a 'Minimum Viable Product'.
Batteries Not Included 2: Some Assembly Required.
This time, it's personal.
The experiment in biotech was not going well. The new RedBot was out of control and slightly aggressive...
But i would be ok, if the original RedBot not decided to fly around it !
inspired by deadBot1
Don't anybody move...
You forgot your HAT!
See! I told you guys Pete was a witch! He is trying to attack innocent coworkers with flying Redbots!
What color is that Beanie? Is it black and gray? Even the Redbot with a color sensor is confused!
That isn't an Apple Watch! DO NOT WANT!
Maker Nightmare #28: Inadvertently achieving AI singularity.
Sparkfun engineers quietly moved on from their early experiments with AI after an early bot went very, very bad. Some say, this is why Sparkfun needed to change buildings. Some say, that it was this bot that opened up the new building. We may never know.
In Soviet Russia, Redbot programs you to follow lines.
Early Daleks also possessed the power of Flight!
Exterminate!
Sparkfun invents a robotic solution to punish those who do not support net neutrality.
The experiment in biotech was not going well. The new Blood Redbot was out of control and slightly aggressive....
The sneezeBot Detects when someone is about to sneeze, then scares the snot out of them. It has already saved Sparkfun hundreds of dollars in shorted out electronics by preventing sneezes.
The odds-on favorite in the Stair Climbing contest
Nate's new "Judge dRed Bot" in action - "Hands up Goldilocks, you've been stealing your paycheck for far too long around here!"
That moment when the anti-gravity breakout demo goes a little too far...
While attempting to locate the Holy Grail he encountered the killer Redbot of Sparkfun!
Stupid Powerpoint is not showing the labels highlighting the features of my new line follower!
Sparkfun's resident Magician demonstrates his amazing powers of levitation!
The upgraded motors worked all too well during the AVC stunt competition. Far too well.
Cut off a limb and two more shall take it's...what happened to my hexbug!?!?!?
Ahhhhh!!! Ahhhhh!!! The Red Bots are coming, the Red Bots are coming! Ahhhhhh!
In this season of Dr Who we discover the true origin of Daleks and the sonic screwdriver.
Accessing facial recognition algorithm... Exposed upper teeth = smile
Raised hand = friendly greeting
Analysis: escalate current behavior to maximize affection from human.
Not everyone loves our new beard trimming autonomous drone
OMG, THE MAGIC IS REAL!
oh god... since when can robots fart!
And now the magic RedBot even flies without adding wings.
The last words he heard came from the techs at the workbench, saying "Alkalines out, new high powered LIPO's in. Lets see what this bot can do now!"
Chewie howls at the SparkFun mouse droid.
We need better laws protecting us from drones.
Any sufficiently advanced redbot is indistinguishable from cursed levitating magic matter.
Sparkfun Scrooge confronts the Ghosts of Projects Past
Whaaaaaaaat? The batteries go on top?
New Product Friday: Ned Nerd demonstrates the levitation breakout board.
Not everyone was stoked about the debut of the GroomerBot 1.0.
The spec sheet didn't say anything about levitation! All I wanted was the wireless kit.
After the new restrictions on quadcopters, Sparkfun has decided to release two new upgrades for the Redbot: hover mode and attack mode.
Quick, Alice, where's the robot swatter?
Is it a bird? a plane? No! It's a RedBot with the FlyingDeath attachment from KickStarter!
Its Alive; Alive I tell you
"I see the light!"
At this point, physical developments between man and machine should matter; the bearded man should clearly overtake this robot. This is a serious glitch (with the bearded man).
Robot smacking is still legal in the US, apparently...
I thought it was funny in the movie when she told him. "It's Levi-OH-sa" .... ah crap...
If you can dodge a Robot, you can dodge a ball!
While he was completely terrified at seeing a hovering redbot.. The redbot was equally terrified to see a beanie covering the meat-units head-sensors.
When they found inexpensive platinum-plated arduino compatible digital hover wheels, they decided to show the hobo living outside there building that they didn't like him...
Introducing RedBot 2.0 -now available with the new Cyberdyne Systems chip!
It's time for another episode of Redbots and Rednecks!
When an AI unit meets it's maker.
Such a small robot was never thought to be capable of such terror!
Jeremy: What a funny noise it's making!
Caractacus: It's talking to us--all engines talk!
Jemima: What's it saying? It's saying Chitty chitty, chitty chitty, chitty chitty, chitty chitty, chitty chitty, (Bang - Bang) Bang Bang! chitty chitty Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Oh you pretty Chitty Bang Bang, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang We love you.
Oh NO, I created a vampire robot, no shadow.
I said put a gas sensor on it, not a gas output !
Alex fully realizes his doom, when the Redbot warriors of Ardooine track him down outside of Seattle.
Mmmm...brains!
I am Redbot, from planet Sparkfun. What is your name, frightened homeless earthling?
Hit stop, I have an XBee allergy!
Rise of the machines !
It wasn't PhotoShop or an invasion. RedBot only wanted to hang out. In the spotlight. Caught on tape.
ET never achieved the same kind of success again as he did the night he rode the flying bicycle.
WinSparkium LeviRobo
It has been said that dogs look a lot like their owners and visa versa. The same can now be said for a Redbot and its owner.
Programmer: What should the the Z coordinate be? Manager: It's a ground bot, who cares about the Z coordinate. Just initialize it to 5 feet.
Freeze Human! I am looking for the Source of the Open!!!
Disney/Lucasarts send these things out to punish anyone messing with robotics who uses the "D" word without buying written permission to use their trademarked "D" word.
Heck yeah I can fly! Why do you think I've got a Magician Chassis?
Redbot stop pestering me! For the last time, there will be NO aerial class for the 2015 AVC!
I must go, my people need me.
Heyyy Macarena!!!
"EXTERMINATE!" (the newest evolution in the Dalek regime...straight out of Boulder, CO.)
Our new RedBot has a built in anti-theft taser.
Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Our fine arduinoed friend...
Added too many jumper wires again...
The all new Sparkfun Delivery Drone. "Parts so fast you'll freak!"
The all new Sparkfun Delivery Drone. "Parts so fast you'll freak!"
Touch sensor was a huge sucsess!
Police Lieutenant: Well, Denham, the RedBots got him.
Carl Denham: Oh no it wasn't the RedBots. It was beauty killed the beast.
Stay Tune For Attack of the Flying Red Bots!
Exterminate! EXTERMINATE!
Ron Weasley demonstrates his newest ability...techromancy!
Shortly after Bob went ballistic, the robot followed suit.
I warned you, but did you listen to me? Oh, no, you knew, didn't you? Oh, it's just a harmless little robot, isn't it?
Gravity, and our hero's composure, failed in quick succession.
Well that's no ordinary robot...
Hygiene bot?? Nooooo!!!
The latest redbot firmware update is posessed.
On this weeks engineering roundtable. Nic finally masters the force, but is to horrified for it to be of any use.
Nate keeps asking when the next rev will be ready, but my telekinesis keeps flaring up.... its really starting to freak me out!
Trapped under the glass, Mark watched in horror as the RedBot, with his plea for help, slid and got stuck on its side.
Young Vader didn't fasten the hypo to the redbot correctly and it become loose just before he tries to extract the new location Sparkfun from this hapless employee.
Go away! I'm not your mommy!!!
They said his creation was simply too intelligent. He should have listened. His lesson will soon be learned.
Flying BlueBot scares dude wearing Red shirt.
You wouldn’t say that Dave had a great relationship with his proctologists first generation nanobot.
"It doesn't even have wings, HOW IS IT FLYING!?!" ZZZZAAAAPPP!!!!! "WHERE DID IT GET LASERS?!?!"