FIRST Acronyms

[Nate Laverdure]

CIM is <edit>NOT</edit> a recursive acronym. It stands for "CCL Industrial Motor," and it is produced by the CCL Industrial Motors company of Hong Kong. "CCL" stands for Chiaphua Components Limited, which is the conglomerate that owns CIM.

A FSU is both a unit of time or money: either the 6-week build season or the cost of the KoP.

[A_Reed]

Originally Posted by EricH

I can never remember what one FSU is...

a FIRST Standard Unit is the determined by the summation of all of the qualities of a Championship Chairmans team added together over the years(n= year)

[Gboehm]

Originally Posted by EricH

I can never remember what one FSU is...

IS IT BIGGER OR SMALLER THAN A CUBIT...?

[Qbranch]

EUSART = Enhanced Universal Serial Reciever/Transmitter
EEPROM = Electrically Eraseable/Programmable Read-Only Memory
ECCP = Enhanced Capture/Compare/PWM
PWM = Pulse Width Modulation
ADC = Analog to Digital Converter
ALU = Arithmetic Logic Unit
SPI = Serial Peripheral Interface
LED = Light Emitting Diode

FUBAR = Fouled up Beyond all Repair
RALFF = Robot Autonomous Language for FIRST (TM FRC#1024, 2006)

-q

p.s. Do I get a cookie for doing them all from memory?

[jimbot]

There should be a spot on chief delphi for all these acronyms, like a n00b link or something... hint hint guys

[whytheheckme]

DOA- Dead On Arrival
IFI Guy - The lifesaving technician on the field who has that spare copy of xxxx on his flash drive (I'm most familiar with the Ricky and Matt brands.)
QM - Queue Master
G22 - Breaking the Plane (This is more commonly used in dialogue than you'd think i.e. NO G22's THIS MATCH, YOU HERE ME???)

Jacob

[bduddy]

Originally Posted by Nate Laverdure

CIM is a recursive acronym. It stands for "CCL Industrial Motor," and it is produced by the CCL Industrial Motors company of Hong Kong. "CCL" stands for Chiaphua Components Limited, which is the conglomerate that owns CIM.
*snip*

I think recursive means it refers to itself, not another acronym. Also, we (840) have an unrelated sponsor called CIM-during my freshman year, I thought they were the same thing >_>

[Stephi Rae]

MSR- Microsoft-Seattle Regional

[Nate Laverdure]

Originally Posted by bduddy

I think recursive means it refers to itself, not another acronym.

Yeah, you're right. What's the correct term then?

[XXShadowXX]

what does PWM stand for?

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by XXShadowXX

what does PWM stand for?

Pulse-width modulation

[joshsmithers]

AM- AndyMark, a business started by Andy Baker and Mark Koors in 2004.
VCU- Shortened form of NASA/VCU regional. VCU stands for Virginia Commonwealth University.

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Nate Laverdure

Yeah, you're right. What's the correct term then?

Nested.

[Stephi Rae]

FART- Foreign Ambassador to Robotics Teams

(a freshman designation)

[kmcclary]

Originally Posted by A_Reed

a FIRST Standard Unit is the determined by the summation of all of the qualities of a Championship Chairmans team added together over the years(n= year)

Actually NO. The FSU (FIRST Standard Unit) is unit of TIME. It is a definition and reference to Dave Lavery's speech (AFAICD first given at the 2008 St. Louis Regional in Week One).

According to Dave: 1 FSU = 6-1/2 (Six and a Half) Weeks. (AKA "one FIRST Build Cycle worth of time".)

This was a part of Dave's commentary on how FIRST has seriously invaded and impacted NASA's way of doing business.

In essence, enough FIRST Alumni have started work at NASA to redefine how projects are done. Entire workgroups have appeared composed totally of FIRST alumni, so they took the initiative. They converted the project management culture into FSU blocks of time.

Amazingly, instead of projects taking quarters or years (as in the past), things are now organized and are getting done in one or more FSUs, because that's how they were trained to work by participating in FIRST contests.

It was a fascinating commentary on how this "little program" has managed to "complete the loop". Instead of just the sponsors impacting our methods, we are now impacting the SPONSORS' work culture.

(Dave, I hope I've summarized this correctly! Please feel free to fix my explanation.)

- Keith
Proud Sponsor of FRC 1502, "Technical Difficulties"