Maximizing On Your Name

[Adam Shapiro]

I can't believe our team still hasn't come up with an official name in 6 years. We're known either as 555 or Montclair Robotics, but I'm sure someone could come up with something more creative if they put some thought into it. Sadly, nobody has, at least not much. Every year we say "hey, we should make a name" and every year we end up remaining Montclair Robotics (technically we're the Montclair Mounties - the name of our football team).

If anyone has any ideas as to a nice, creative name for 555 I'd love to hear them! (And I'm sure many of you do!)

We could always be "The Dominos Pizza 555 Deal Team"...

[MrForbes]

duh....the 555 timer chip has to be in there somehow!

[Adam Shapiro]

Originally Posted by squirrel

duh....the 555 timer chip has to be in there somehow!

Hah! "The Timin' ICs!"

[Nita]

My team, 1190, was M^3 our rookie year, SPAM the year after that, and Anonobots from the year after that to now. Basically, my chemistry teacher came up with the name and no one bothered to come up with any other names so we are sticking with it.

[Gene F]

Well we've played around with our number. If you take our name, Metal in Motion and shorten it to MIM, rotate it 90 degrees to the right and it almost looks like 343 written vertially. Purely an accident though. We have had more discussion about the fact that 343 is 7 cubed. We have had that name in the running for a robot name several times but never used it. The other interesting bit of trivia about our number is that the balls this year have a 7 inch diameter. Therefore a rectangular box to hold one would have a volume of 343 cubic inches. We would love to play a match some day with teams 7 and 49 as our alliance partners. (Team 1 would be a good alternate! Maybe next year there will be a team 2401)

[Pat Fairbank]

Originally Posted by InfernoX14

I'm jealous of team 314.

I'm not sure if their name involves Pi but I can remember one team's name being the Pi-oneers. I can't remember who. GAH!

It's team 1676, The Pasack PI-oneers.

[Arkorobotics]

What about 666?

[Kyle Love]

Originally Posted by Arkorobotics

What about 666?

Doesn't exsist

[Arkorobotics]

Originally Posted by Kyle Love

Doesn't exsist

Was it purposely? or did they not make it to competition?

[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by squirrel

duh....the 555 timer chip has to be in there somehow!

The Monostable Mounties?

[Adam Shapiro]

Originally Posted by kayla13

I think 931 was cool, on their shirts they had a math equation(no I don't have it on me) that ended up adding up to 931. I just thought it was neat.

Couldn't you just come up with a math equation adding to any number though? For instance, I could have 500+50+5=555!!! on my shirt, but I don't know that it would be regarded as very clever... I haven't seen 931's shirt that I can remember though, I'm sure it is much better than what I came up with

[Qbranch]

I know you all already know this, but our team uses our number for our name.

1024 = 2^10 = 1 Kilobyte

Then, we got the name kil-a-bytes out of kilobyte. See Signature:

[Adam Shapiro]

Originally Posted by Qbranch

I know you all already know this, but our team uses our number for our name.

1024 = 2^10 = 1 Kilobyte

Then, we got the name kil-a-bytes out of kilobyte. See Signature:

Now that is a clever name-related math equation!

[Tetraman]

lets see...174 is a number thats easy to cheer.

I find that when I play Smash Brothers, I always make a knock out at 174%.

I can also buy a hambergur at my college for $1.74....seriously...

Other than that, 174 isn't that big of a number to do something with. We do however play with our Arctic Warrior name. One of our robots was named Ice^3 (Ice Cubed).

[Qbranch]

Originally Posted by Adam Shapiro

Now that is a clever name-related math equation!

You have to do something with the 555 timer chip. That's way too big a coincidence that you got that team number... although i have no idea what you can do with it...