Hand me the gear, No the Gear!
 

If robots didnt use gears as often as they did, I'd say a game piece called a "Gear" would have been a great idea. However, I can only assume some of us have already feel victim to the Who's on First? gag when asking team mates to hand them gears.

I propose that we use "Gears" with capital "G"s to reference the game pieces, and go about our gearbox discussions with lowercase "g"s as normal. What do you think?

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"Wow that's an impressive bot on all 1:1 ratios"
...no Smiti...

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What about when you start to call the mechanism that contains your gear the "Gear box" :rolleyes: Been waiting to use that one.

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We had to start calling our fuel storage the "bin" because we can't call it the hopper.

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This is actually why we capitalize all game-specific terms in the 'Snow Problem white papers. Specifically after we had an amusing mix up with our GEAR box and our gearbox, and with the HOPPER and our hopper. Plus this way we match the conventions used in the manual.

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But then if you're shooting into a recycling bin, you can't call that a bin too, it becomes a can. And then can't wire the Talons with CAN, they have to use something else.

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I work at a place called Greenbotics, we use the abbreviation GB for our group.

My robotics team likes to use GB for gearbox in Slack all the time, supplying me with a constant source of confusion.

Re: Hand me the gear, No the Gear!
 

My name is Ty.

"TY" is short for thank you and makes me think someone is yelling my name.

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our fuel is stored on the robot in the "fuel tank", though one student is trying valiantly to make "trough" happen.

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We have an entrance to our shop that is blocked from the rest of the room during the day by a bookshelf and moving cabinet. Last year we called it the "secret passage".

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We have already made a VERY strong point of calling the HOPPER the Hopper and our robot ball storage the Magazine.

Please do not call your robot "hopper" a hopper, call it something else.

Re: Hand me the gear, No the Gear!
 

+1 for "fuel tank."

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I vote ball pit.

Re: Hand me the gear, No the Gear!
 

no, that will be the field about 20 seconds into teleop.

Re: Hand me the gear, No the Gear!
 

I think this is probably best too now that you mention it.