Lingo

[Vin211]

Anyone have any engineering lingo or robotics lingo?

So far I have heard TOAST is a pretty good one. Anyone else?

[Kevin Sevcik]

You will hear speedholing an awful lot around here. Especially on Thursdays.

[ahecht]

Don't forget KISS

[Dorienne]

*FIRST is one for our team, considering no one knows what it is outside of robotics...HAHAHA. It's fun to do that.
*Chippie = Chippahua (sp?) motor.
*My buddy Joey and I came up with Star Wars labels for people in FIRST:
~Rookies: Luke Skywalker
~Second Year: Han Solo
~Third Year: Obi Wan
~Four Years and Up: Yoda
They are amusing, 'cause we have tons of alumni that come back. One is in his 6th year of being involved! Man he's ancient.

That's it for now, of what I can think of...I'll come back with more.

[Wetzel]

Originally Posted by Dorienne Plait

They are amusing, 'cause we have tons of alumni that come back. One is in his 6th year of being involved! Man he's ancient.

Six? Bah! Seven is so much cooler!


One blue top, blue owns. Two red top, three blue top, 1 blue bottom, red owns. One blue top, one red top, red owns. No penalties.

But I must ask... TOAST?

Wetzel

[Rombus]

My Two favs:
"Magic Smoke" - the stuff you cant let out of electronic components to keep them functional

"S.W.A.G." - Scientific Wild $@#$@#$@# Guess, When you make a wild guess with some scientific merit

[Katy]

Origionally posted by Rombus
"S.W.A.G." - Scientific Wild $@#$@#$@# Guess, When you make a wild guess with some scientific merit

Actually a swag is a tool too...

Lightening holes are speed holes...

We have had previous robots with parts named "baby feet." They were individual tread pieces for tank treads. They bolted to tabs on the chain and each "foot" was made of a plate with rubber glued on. It didn't go well for PR though when people ask what is inside the oven and you tell them baby feet.

I think Gracious Professionalism counts as robot slang...that and all the shorthand used here on Chief Delphi...which is CD...we also have the CA (Chairman's Award) and Gracious Professionalism is gp...

[Vin211]

Well I have heard toast from team 237. Ask them. It is something new they came up with, I have no idea what it means!

Possibly something from Mission Impossible?

[John Gutmann]

"wutchamacallit"- any thing on the robot
thing-a-magig
thing-a-mabob

the last 2 are in websters dictionary, if you dont believe me just look them up!

[psquared89]

All around the country, coast to coast,
people always ask me, what I like most?
Now I don't wanna brag, I don't wanna boast,
I always tell them, I like toast!

YEAH TOAST!
YEAH TOAST!

Wake up in the morning about 5 am,
have a little jelly, have a little jam.
Take two slices, put 'em in the slots,
you push down the lever and the wire's get hot!

Y'get TOAST!
YEAH TOAST!

There are lots more verses, but I don't feel like typing them right now. I worked at a Boy Scout camp last summer, I could go on for awhile. Anyway, that's the significance of "Toast".

[Collin Fultz]

TOAST, if i'm not mistaken was debuted (sp?) on Bob and Tom and featured on one of their early cd's

For the record...Bob and Tom...strait outta nap-town.

[Beth Sweet]

Personally, I find all of the abbreviations that we use to be lingo. I talk about GLR, WMR, and BMR and my friends look at me like I'm nuts. Luckily, they've caught on to the phrase "robo" now. (Words such as robo-geek etc typically come from my mouth...)

[Warren Boudreau]

We use BLT.

[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by Warren Boudreau

We use BLT.

I picked that one up. We had a BLT@PNW.

By the by, I've been meaning to post this about your sig:

"...what do you get when you multiply six by .... six by nine..."
"Six by nine. Forty-two."
"That's it. That's all there is."

Douglas Adams, "The Restaurant at the end of the Universe"

You do realize that 6 x 9 = 42 in base 13?

IRAG (I are a geek) I suppose.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Rombus

My Two favs:
"Magic Smoke" - the stuff you cant let out of electronic components to keep them functional

Actually, there are two kinds of magic smoke. Magic white smoke for the electronics, possibly followed by magic black smoke from something mechanical -- if the E-stop (that big red button in the control station - Emergency stop) isn't hit first.