FIRST Acronyms

[sishu7]

Originally Posted by jtdowney

Extra bonus if they are recursive and a backronym. Such as the PHP Hypertext Preprocessor.

I don't even want to think about that... it's far too confusing for poor me!

I'll just stick with recursives OR backronyms, not both... (Why would anyone even make up a recursive backronym? It's beyond me...)

[Guy Davidson]

SVR - Silicon Valley Regional
LVR - Las Vegas Regional
WRRF - Western Robotics Region Forum (NorCal FIRST organization)
SCRRF - Southern California Regional Robotics Furom (above for SoCal)

[efoote868]

RTFM read the FIRST manual

[fabalafae]

DAA
Dual-axis accelerometer

YRG
Yaw rate gyro

GTS
Gear tooth sensor

POT
Potentiometer

[matt91]

I cant believe we forgot this one: PWM- Pulse Width Modulation : These are used to control motors and such.

Another that not every one may know: BAR- Boston Area Regional

[jacob07]

Its name is getting a little bit bigger each year, founded by 397's head mentor and helped by many many other teams is M.M.R.A. Mid-Michigan Robotics Alliance

[Racer26]

Of course, for dead parts:

NFG. - No ******* Good

[A_Reed]

NEOFRA: North East Ohio FIRST Robotics Alliance

[Arefin Bari]

SOAP - SigmaC@T Opponent Analysis Program.

[Boydean]

GDC - Game Design Committee
FSU - FIRST Standard Unit

[Nate Laverdure]

RCA - Regional Chairman's Award or an electronics company.

[AndyB]

I use this quite a bit:

MVL - Milwaukee Vex League

You'll here this one in the pits a decent amount:

X part got FUBAR'd! (Effed Up Boyond All Recognition).

[Rick TYler]

I can't believe you FRCheads missed these:

CIMs -- who knows what it stands for? All we know is that they are motors at the core of FRC.

BIGCIM -- the larger CIM.

FP -- Fisher-Price motor

<Gnn> - rule from the "Game" section, where nn is the number (likewise, <Rnn>, <Snn>, &c.)

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Boydean

FSU - FIRST Standard Unit

I can never remember what one FSU is...