The FIRST Devil's Dictionary

[Abhishek R]

Originally Posted by Michael Hill

Safety Captain (n.) - The role given to a non-drive team member in the pit. Usually given to someone thrown under the bus, but gets to wear a badge of honor. Generally has no authority or knowledge of safety. See Safety.

Wait, I can't find Safety in the book.

Arms race (n.): the era from 1947 to 2015 in which FRC was in a state of tension as teams began to stockpile nuclear weapons, in fear that the other alliance may declare a "can war" on them. See 1678.

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by Abhishek R

Wait, I can't find Safety in the book.

How about:

Safety (n):

1. Conditions and/or procedures which reduce the likelihood of injuring personnel or damaging equipment.
2. An award at FRC events which some teams think will go to teams who put up posters with lots of yellow and orange, have mascots wearing hard hats and orange vests, and yell Robot! a lot. Sometimes the judges think so, too.
3. A means of scoring defensive points in the mythical upcoming American football-based game.
4. A robot assigned a defensive role in the aforementioned game.

[pabeekm]

I apologize for any excess snark below.

RI3D (n): Robot In 3 Days. An annual reminder that we are all just slackers. See cheat sheet.

Spirit award (n): When FIRST congratulates the team who most enthusiastically blocks everyone’s view in the stands. See participation ribbon.

Kit of parts drivetrain (n): Antithesis to mecanum; A simple, sensible drivetrain configuration that you can actually win with.

LabVIEW (n): That language you always thought was too geeky for you until you realized how great it looked without those braces and big ugly classes.

[randantor]

RoboRIO (n.) A device used to store metal shavings from elsewhere on the robot.

Drive Practice (n.) A time set aside for the drive team to watch the programmers debug code.

Tether (n.) An Ethernet cable noted for its ability to tangle itself when left unsupervised.

Zip tie (n.) The standard fastener used on FRC robots.

[EDesbiens]

Originally Posted by pabeekm

LabVIEW (n): That language you always thought was too geeky for you until you realized how great it looked without those braces and big ugly classes.

But then you realized it compiled way to slowly and could easily overload the CPU...

[efoote868]

Originally Posted by Abhishek R

Wait, I can't find Safety in the book.

Safety - (verb) 1. To shout ROBOT! ROBOT! ROBOT! when transporting a carted robot through the pits regardless of the noise or number of pedestrians around.
Did he really have to safety in my ear? I'm going to go deaf.
2. To create litter by plastering homemade signs on every surface that fits an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
They really safety'd all over this place. I doubt we'll be able to clean up these Wear your glasses signs in less than a day.
3. To remind people to wear Personal Protective Equipment correctly.
I had to safety those freshmen when I saw their forehead protectors.

[Taylor]

Battery (n): An energy storing device that features black and red wire handles.

Butterfly Drive (n): A clever way of combining the scrub of treads with the sloppiness of omniwheels.

Masking Tape (n): The preferred method of displaying a rookie team's number on its bumpers.

Master of Ceremonies (n): An individual whose prime objective is to determine different ways to create feedback using a wireless microphone.

Red Dots (n): A method of ensuring a rookie will never again post on www.chiefdelphi.com

Red 2 (n): The drive station that never connects properly at IRI.

Seventh Alliance Captain (n): The individual who announces the numbers of teams who (1)have already been selected, (2)are not at the current event, or (3)do not actually exist. Not necessarily in that order.

Stand Scouting (v): The action of taking copious notes about the bottom half of an event's teams before covering the papers with a spilled beverage, pizza sauce, and/or chocolate.

[TheBoulderite]

Coopertition (n.) A concept that you should work with the opposing alliance to score extra points. Generally is thrown out the window when elimination rounds begin.

[MysterE]

Bayou Regional (n): The regional in which a random Texas team will lead penitent Louisiana or Mississippi teams to World Championship.

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by MysterE

Bayou Regional (n): The regional in which a random Texas team will lead penitent Louisiana or Mississippi teams to World Championship.

Actually, this year it was an Arkansas team that picked two Louisiana teams.

[EmileH]

LabVIEW (n.): A programming environment designed to give rookie programmers the illusion of an easy method to program the robot. In reality is highly illogical. See Java

Java (n.): The programming environment that seems daunting at first, and takes 3 years to learn to full potential. See Seniors

C++ (n.): An older, less logical, more confusing relative of Java.

UNH District Event (n.): 1. Home to elimination ronds that never goes off smoothly. 2. In 2015 a human players button falls off getting lodged inside a stack in Finals 2, plus the lights go out halfway through Finals 1. 3. In 2014 was home to the most replays due to one failure (exit gate lexan entering the field).

[TheBoulderite]

Utah Regional (n.) A regional that some random out-of-state team decides to attend and wins.

[Jalerre]

Water Game (n.) next year's FRC game

[RoboChair]

Originally Posted by Taylor

Butterfly Drive (n): A clever way of combining the scrub of a 4wd with the sloppiness of mecanums.

The proper term is Octocanum.
Butterfly is the one with onmi wheels.

[cjl2625]

Mechanical (n.): A wrench-swinging monkey who will never be as cool as a programmer.
"Can't those mechanicals work any faster? I wanna test the code already!"