The FIRST Devil's Dictionary

[tjf]

Mid-Atlantic District (n.) -

1. A FIRST District where defense is played as crazily as possible.

Radio (n.) -

1. The main cause of ROBOTS not moving in the 2016 season.
2. The device that takes a long time to boot in recent years.
3. That box with the loose power jack.

Pit (n.) -

1. That place to put as many banners and pins as possible. Occasionally holds a robot.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by tjf

Pit (n.) -

1. That place to put as many banners and pins and tools as possible. Occasionally holds a robot.

Fixed that for you, and way too true.

Practice field (n.): Where the robot is usually found when it's not on the competition field.

Competition field (n.): The place queuing is trying to get you to go to with your robot five minutes ago!

[messer5740]

practice day (n.) the day before the qualification matches which most teams test their robots and prepare for the qual rounds, while other teams take a chassis and a little bit of GP Magic to turn their robot into a competitive machine.

[bdaroz]

rookie (n.) See: Chicken with it's head cut off, running

[frcguy]

Originally Posted by EricH

Fixed that for you, and way too true.

Playoff pit (n.): A test by Championship organizers to see how many people, robots, and tools each alliance can cram into a 10'x20' space.

[The other Gabe]

Originally Posted by EricH

Fixed that for you, and way too true.

Practice field (n.): Where the robot is usually found when it's not on the competition field.

Competition field (n.): The place queuing is trying to get you to go to with your robot five minutes ago!

Queuing team member (n.): see: Rookie


(or at least that's how the job feels to me )

[EricH]

Originally Posted by The other Gabe

Queuing team member (n.): see: Rookie

Uh, no. See: Koko Ed. Also see: Cat herder. Also also see: gopher.

Gopher (n.): designated retriever of just about anything. Gets name from the typical holler of "Hey, you! Go fer ____!"

Koko Ed (n.): Highly experienced queuer and lead queuer who is known to plan his vacation time around FRC competitions.

[dmelcer9]

Pneumatic Programming Wrench (n)- A method for keeping freshmen busy.

Left-Handed Metric Ratcheting Adjustable Pneumatic Programming Wrench (n)- A method for keeping pit admin busy.

Day 1 of a Regional (n)- The time that you are supposed to be practicing. See also Debugging.

Schrödinger's Cat (n)- The method for determining whether the NavX will return values between -180 and 180 or between 0 and 360.

PID Tuning (v)- The period of time in which the robot spins around until the Space Bar is pressed. This mythical creature has driven many sailors programmers insane.

Space Bar (n)- 1. The button that requires the robot to be turned off and on again. Seriously? You couldn't have just disabled it? 2. The result of programming on the same computer that runs the driver station.

[EDesbiens]

Originally Posted by dmelcer9

Space Bar (n)- 1. The button that requires the robot to be turned off and on again. Seriously? You couldn't have just disabled it? 2. The result of programming on the same computer that runs the driver station.

Enter (n)- 1. A button that only disables the robot. Not known by all but praised by a lot. Good replacement for Spacebar
2. A good way to stop the robot during a demonstration. Especially if children are driving and you wan't to make them believe the battery is dead.

[Zebra_Fact_Man]

Originally Posted by EricH

...who is known to plan his vacation time around FRC competitions.

Don't we all do that???

[GreyingJay]

Originally Posted by dmelcer9

Day 1 of a Regional (n)- The time that you are supposed to be practicing. See also Debugging.

Schrödinger's Cat (n)- The method for determining whether the NavX will return values between -180 and 180 or between 0 and 360.

PID Tuning (v)- The period of time in which the robot spins around until the Space Bar is pressed. This mythical creature has driven many sailors programmers insane.

Space Bar (n)- 1. The button that requires the robot to be turned off and on again. Seriously? You couldn't have just disabled it? 2. The result of programming on the same computer that runs the driver station.

You've been spying on my team??

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Zebra_Fact_Man

Don't we all do that???

SSSSHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

And... No. I just happen to take vacation around the time of events. (Actually, that's only true for one event, that I wasn't planning on attending in the first place but ended up going to with no warning.)

Denial (n.): State that many FRC folks are in with respect to the fact that they can't quit easily, and with respect to how much time they actually spend doing this.

[Citrus Dad]

Originally Posted by Caleb Sykes

I think that rewrite applies to MN as well. Let's get this thread back on track though.

Derail a CD thread (v): To mention one or all of the topics: districts vs regionals, 2 champs, student vs mentor drive coaches, student vs mentor-built robots, robot in 3 days or equivalents, proliferation of COTS parts, bag day, east-coast bias, cheesecake, corndogs, mecanum wheels vs any other drive train, validitiy of OPR, referees, sandbagging into #1 pick, validity of CD polls, meaning of gracious professionalism, shouting robot, importance of safety glasses, strategic breaking of rules, referee/judge/inspector/MC bias, java/c++ versus labview, 2 champs, rivets vs bolts, field fault, low bar flaps, minibots, Lunacy, canburglars, robots tipping over, add ones I am missing here, video replay, lying in Chairman's submissions, powerhouse teams, coopertition, FMS, field connection issues, dangerous auto modes, swerve vs tank drive, etc...

Don't forget 2 champs...

[TheBoulderite]

Next person who posts gets to post the 254th post. You're welcome.

[ATannahill]

Originally Posted by TheBoulderite

Next person who posts gets to post the 254th post. You're welcome.

You mean the 254th reply. You took the 254th post.

Also, isn't that a bit off topic for this thread?