FIRST Acronyms

[Bill_B]

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80/20 - Company that makes extruded aluminum, deriving their name from their motto,
<Gnn> - rule from the "Game" section, where nn is the number (likewise, <Rnn>, <Snn>, &c.)
ADC - Analog to Digital Converter
ALU - Arithmetic Logic Unit
AM - AndyMark, a business started by Andy Baker and Mark Koors in 2004.
ATL - Atlanta when talking about The Championship Event.
BAE - BAE Systems, usually referring to BAE Granite State Regional, in New Hampshire
BAR - Boston Area Regional
BATB - Bash at the Beach off-season event in Connecticut
BB - Bill's Blog or BaneBots
BIGCIM -- the larger CIM.
BMR - Boilermaker Regional
BOM - Bill Of Materials
CAD - Computer Aided Design
CAN - Controller Area Network (communication mode for Jaguar controller)
CCL - Chiaphua Components Limited, which is the conglomerate that owns CIM.
CD - Chief Delphi
CIM - CCL Industrial Motor,"
CMU Cam - Carnegie-Mellon University [developed] Camera)
COTS - Commercial Off the Shelf
cRIO - Compact Reconfigurable Input Output (YAY Robot Brain!!!)
DAA - Dual-axis accelerometer
DK - Dean Kamen
DL - Dave Lavery
DOA - Dead On Arrival
ECCP - Enhanced Capture/Compare/PWM
EEPROM - Electrically Eraseable/Programmable Read-Only Memory
EI - Engineering Inspiration
EM - pronounced "eem" - could also be a member of NEMO - an engineering mentor
EUSART - Enhanced Universal Serial Reciever/Transmitter
FART- Foreign Ambassador to Robotics Teams
FIRST - For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology
FLL - FIRST Lego League
FLR- Finger Lakes Regional
FP -- Fisher-Price motor
FRC - FIRST Robotics Competition
FRV - FIRST Robotics Vex? (nobody really knows what it stands for, former name for FIRST Tech Challenge)
FSM - FIRST Senior Mentor
FSU (FIRST Standard Unit) is unit of TIME.
FTA - FIRST Technical Advisor; Wears a blue vest with FTA on the back.
FTC - FIRST Tech Challenge
FUBAR - Fouled up Beyond all Repair
FUBAR'd (Effed Up Boyond All Recognition).
FVC - FIRST Vex Challenge (former name for FIRST Tech Challenge)
G22 - Breaking the Plane
GA - Game Announcer
GDC - game design committee
GLR - Great Lakes Regional
GP - Gracious Professionalism
GSR - Granite State Regional, held in New Hampshire
GTR - Greater Toronto Regional
GTS - Gear Tooth Sensor
HOF - Hall of Fame
HQ - Headquarters
IFI - Innovation FIRST Inc., who supplies the control system
IFI Guy - The lifesaving technician on the field who has that spare copy of xxxx on his flash drive
IR Sensor (Infrared Sensor) &
IRI - Indiana Robotics Invitational
JFLL Junior FIRST LEGO League (don't forget the caps on LEGO)
KISS - keep it simple, stupid
KK - Kettering Kickoff
KK - Krispy Kreme...
KOP - Kit of Parts
LED - Light Emitting Diode
LSR - Lone Star Regional
LVR - Las Vegas Regional
M.M.R.A. Mid-Michigan Robotics Alliance
Manch-Vegas - Home of FIRST HQ; Manchester New Hampshire.
MC - Master of Ceremonies
MDL-BDC - Module Brushed DC motor controller AKA Jaguar
MFSO (Milwaukee FIRST Support Organization)
MMVC (Milwaukee Mentor Vex Competition)
MSC - MSC Industrial Supply Company
MSR - Microsoft-Seattle Regional
MVL - Milwaukee Vex League
n.e.r.d. - New England Robotics Division - a group of FIRSTers in New England
NEM - pronounced "neem" - a member of NEMO, a non-engineering mentor
NEMO - (Non-Engineering Mentor Organization )
NEOFRA - North East Ohio FIRST Robotics Alliance
NFG - No $@#$@#$@#$@# Good
NI - National Instruments
OI - Operator Interface (goes in your driver's station)
P^7 - Proper Prior Planning Prevents Pathetically Poor Performance
PFP-Purdue FIRST Programs
PNW - Pacific Northwest Regional (Now the Oregon Regional)
POT - Potentiometer
PSI - pounds per square inch (Pneumatics)
PWM - Pulse Width Modulation
Q&A - the official question and answer forums
QM - Queue Master
RC - Robot Controller (goes on the robot)
RCA - Regional Chairman's Award or an electronics company.
RD - Regional Director
RPM - Revolutions Per Minute (of the shaft coming out of your gearboxes or motors)
RTFM - read the FIRST manual
SCRRF - Southern California Regional Robotics Furom (above for SoCal)
SOAP - SigmaC@T Opponent Analysis Program.
SPI - Serial Peripheral Interface
SVR - Silicon Valley Regional
TBA - The Blue Alliance (thebluealliance.net)
TIMS - Team Information Management System
TLAs - three letter acronyms. (shouldn't this be 3LAs?)
UFH - Unsung FIRST Hero
UTC - former name. Now known as CTR - Connecticut Regional
UTC - United Technologies, usually referring to the UTC Regional in Hartford, CT.
VCU - Shortened form of NASA/VCU regional. VCU stands for Virginia Commonwealth University.
VIMS - Volunteer Information & Matching System
WAI - Who Am I (a regional?)
WF - Woodie Flowers
WFA - Woodie Flowers Award
WFFA - Woodie Flowers Finalist Award
WRRF - Western Robotics Region Forum (NorCal FIRST organization)
WWT - "What was that?" generally said after____occurs on the field.
YRG - Yaw rate gyro