FIRST Terminology!

[Jessica Boucher]

Ok, Im really bored, and this has been talked about for a while....

There are some terms only a FIRST-er would understand...and I feel it needs to be compiled.

Please post your submissions in to this thread, and maybe I'll get a list/book out for Nats or something.

Heres a start:

*FIRST Purist - back to the early day's of FIRST corn, hexagonal fields, one on one.
*FIRST Puritan - defend the real FIRST rules, game, etc.
*FIRST Activist - any FIRST-er who will not keep their mouth shut about FIRST to others, or a FIRST-er who is very vocal in the FIRST community.
*Virginia Balance - method of balancing seen most frequently at the VCU regional in 2001, where if a judge could stick their hand/piece of paper underneath the low side of the balanced bridge, it was accepted as balanced.

Please submit terms that can be regionally/nationally accepted and understood, not some obscure term that only your team used (trust me, I have a bunch of them, too...but Im refraining). And feel free to bring in terms from past years.

Also, PLEASE, this is NOT the place to rekindle the bar-lok/tie-wrap war. Ok? Go take it to another thread, I want none of that here

[Pamela]

We need to break out the names we've given to different robot types over the years, most memorable being the Monkeybots of last year and the lowriders of this year.... I'm tryign to think back further but I'm having brain frying b/c of our all-day demo yesterday.....

[David Kelly]

more from this year were balancers (on bridge), balancers (off bridge), big ballers (us) , small ballers

[Tom Fairchild]

I personally like the term Limbo bot from this year. Just creates a good mental picture. Oh, and for the record, I don't know about the rest of the Virginians, but my team personally liked to call it the "Cheesey Balance," not the Virginia balance. Since we never used (or tried to use) that we'd prefer not to have the title.

~Tom~, a very proud Virginian (although never was until now)

[EddieMcD]

flipper (n)- a device that postitions itself underneath an opponent and lifts at a high torque & speed, sending the opponent on its side.

tread (v)- to constantly take offensive measures against an opponent within the rules, but cause damage.

T5 (n)- The rule in the 1997 rulebook that legalized flipping over opponents.

[Lora Knepper]

Ok, I don't know how you all missed this one, but whatever

FIRST-a-holic - (n.) A person who's life has become so incredibly wrapped up in the FIRST Robotics Compeition that to separate them would be worse than amputating a limb.

I've yet to see anyone fully understand my FAH pin - though it has allowed me to explain FIRST to many people when the ask

~ lora
FIRST-a-holic 4 Life
(Team Tie Wrap!!!) *ducks and runs from the thread with Jess on her heels*

[Jessica Boucher]

Originally posted by Tom Fairchild
Oh, and for the record, I don't know about the rest of the Virginians, but my team personally liked to call it the "Cheesey Balance," not the Virginia balance. Since we never used (or tried to use) that we'd prefer not to have the title.

~Tom~, a very proud Virginian (although never was until now)

Ok, Tom, I hear ya there......I'll add in both terms, if you dont mind.

Plus, it would be great if, instead of just listing terms to be defined, that you define them as well (so Im not as clueless on how to define them) Thanks!

Later, everyone....::starts to run after Lora::

[EddieMcD]

Floppy (n): A bunch of packing peanuts inside a flat piece of cloth with velcro on its sides; the main scoring item of the 1999 competition (I hope someone can explain it better than I can).

goal (n): any part of the playing field used to hold objects for scoring.

I-Bot (n): Electric wheelchair invented by Dean Kamen with 6 gyros enabling it to maneuver on 2 wheels.

6 feet sitting (adj): used to describe Dean Kamen in the I-Bot.

[Ameya]

heh, last year, the team elders (mainly seniors) compiled a dictionary about team 293's season. I'll give a link, but be warned: it may offend you, it contains some jabs at Chief Delphi (and other Delphi-sponsored teams). Needless to say, the opinions expressed in the dictionary do not reflect my own personal opinions, nor the opinions of our team as a whole or our sponsors.

The link: click here

[mike o'leary]

how about ninny?

[Jessica Boucher]

Give me an official definition for ninny, and it goes in

[EddieMcD]

ninny (n) - FOOL, SIMPLETON (got that from Mirriam-Webster)

[mike o'leary]

definition for ninny...hmmm
what is a ninny...
a ninny just is i think, but anyone whos been around the forums for a while has a pretty good idea of what exactly being a ninny implies...
of course, give the ninny a powertool and youve got a rambot

[Carolyn Duncan]

Besides a Rambot with a power tool is a person who posseses the ability to construt and operate a robot, with full knowledge and ability, with little to no help from professional engineers. Add in that Anton is the head ninny. Does that cover everything or did I leave something out?
C~ya,
Carolyn who thinks someone should email these last few posts to Anton.

[David Kelly]

When you're in weight reduction time and you have to resort to drilling holes, we call it "swiss cheesin'" or "speed holes." When we went to demo's and people asked about it, we said that they gave us an advantage because it lets air pass thorogh more freely. They just laughed. Here is an example.


/edit i changed the picture