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I don't even want to think about that... it's far too confusing for poor me!

I'll just stick with recursives OR backronyms, not both... (Why would anyone even make up a recursive backronym? It's beyond me...)

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SVR - Silicon Valley Regional
LVR - Las Vegas Regional
WRRF - Western Robotics Region Forum (NorCal FIRST organization)
SCRRF - Southern California Regional Robotics Furom (above for SoCal)

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RTFM :D read the FIRST manual

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DAA
Dual-axis accelerometer

YRG
Yaw rate gyro

GTS
Gear tooth sensor

POT
Potentiometer

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I cant believe we forgot this one: PWM- Pulse Width Modulation : These are used to control motors and such.

Another that not every one may know: BAR- Boston Area Regional

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Its name is getting a little bit bigger each year, founded by 397's head mentor and helped by many many other teams is M.M.R.A. Mid-Michigan Robotics Alliance

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Of course, for dead parts:

NFG. - No ******* Good

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NEOFRA: North East Ohio FIRST Robotics Alliance

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SOAP - SigmaC@T Opponent Analysis Program.

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GDC - Game Design Committee
FSU - FIRST Standard Unit

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RCA - Regional Chairman's Award or an electronics company.

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I use this quite a bit:

MVL - Milwaukee Vex League

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You'll here this one in the pits a decent amount:

X part got FUBAR'd! (Effed Up Boyond All Recognition).

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I can't believe you FRCheads missed these:

CIMs -- who knows what it stands for? All we know is that they are motors at the core of FRC.

BIGCIM -- the larger CIM.

FP -- Fisher-Price motor

<Gnn> - rule from the "Game" section, where nn is the number (likewise, <Rnn>, <Snn>, &c.)

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I can never remember what one FSU is...