The "Can" Proposal

[dubiousSwain]

Originally Posted by Mike Marandola

I can't wait to call them po-nos tomorrow.

po-nos, cancans, and totes ma goats

[IronicDeadBird]

Surprised it wasn't just
Yote
Gota
Bin

[Grim Tuesday]

We've always called TOTES "bins" so it's really tough for our team to wrap our head around BINS being round, and TOTES being what we previously knew as bins. We considered calling BINS cans, but decided that we would just all try as hard as possible to follow the manual.

[dipmeinaluminum]

Originally Posted by dubiousSwain

po-nos, cancans, and totes ma goats

I'll be stealing this tomorrow. Thank you mucho

[tindleroot]

Our team has been referring to the pieces as:

Gray/Yellow totes: "totes"
Recycling container: "bin" or "can"
Litter: "noodle"

[alopex_rex]

Container vs. can or litter vs. pool noodle aren't big deals--it's pretty obvious what's meant.

But can we just all please stop referring to anything, of any color, as a "bin"? This game contains two elements which are equally worthy to be dubbed "bins". Their respective bin-nitudes are precisely equivalent. The term "bin" is completely ambiguous between the two of them. I imagine many teams will adopt the term "bin" to refer solely to one, but as soon as people from multiple teams start talking the term is meaningless. You may as well just say "thing", so at least people don't think they know what you mean when they don't.

[nuclearnerd]

Originally Posted by alopex_rex

can we just all please stop referring to anything, of any color, as a "bin"? This game contains two elements which are equally worthy to be dubbed "bins"... but as soon as people from multiple teams start talking the term is meaningless.

+1 "Bins" were screwing me up all day today.

Although I prefer "can" to container, because "container" is equally ambiguous - both totes and cans are used to contain things.

[SoccerTaco]

Along the lines of what to call things, I would like to build on the Can Proposal and submit the Zone Proposal.

The field drawing shows a Staging Zone, an Auto zone, a Landfill zone, and a fourth zone between the Auto and Landfill zones. As far as I can tell, this fourth zone is never labeled.

So I propose that we call this fourth zone the "Zone That Shall Not Be Named".

[Amar Shah]

We keep on inadvertently calling them trash cans.

[nixiebunny]

I've already instructed my team members that when the word "bin" escapes my mouth, it refers to a rectangular solid. "Can" is a hollow cylinder.

And I can't stop humming the song "Tote Stacking Annie" to myself.

[cglrcng]

When I walked into the Classroom portion of the shop tonight, there were so many Totes on the floor, some empty, some still full that they nearly had half a field set up and all were in the proper order or right side up and upside down....And not a "Golden Tote" in the whole stinking bunch. I think I'll steal one soon and spray paint that thing Yellow w/ some fast drying enamel just for fun. (Luckily, it is a team 60 color!)

(They must have emptied the entire shipping container to find them all yesterday as I thought we had only a few). Now, what to store all those contained items in when we go to practice once the bot is actually built? Ever emptied 20 of those totes/bins into an uncontained pile? It will look like a mountain of junk unless I go buy some temporary cardboard boxes at U-haul I guess.

Tote, bin, crate, or box. (We be stackiiiiin!)
Recyclin' Container, can, trash can. (We be capin' that stack & recyclin' our litter!)
"The GOLDEN TOTE." (We be stackiiiin big!)
Litter, trash, noodle. (Don't you dare lift that anywhere higher than a single tote without that Litter stickin' out now or ever!) But, I'm also stealing your Po-No's too.

[nathannfm]

Originally Posted by cglrcng

When I walked into the Classroom portion of the shop tonight, there were so many Totes on the floor, some empty, some still full that they nearly had half a field set up and all were in the proper order or right side up and upside down....And not a "Golden Tote" in the whole stinking bunch. I think I'll steal one soon and spray paint that thing Yellow w/ some fast drying enamel just for fun. (Luckily, it is a team 60 color!)

(They must have emptied the entire shipping container to find them all yesterday as I thought we had only a few). Now, what to store all those contained items in when we go to practice once the bot is actually built? Ever emptied 20 of those totes/bins into an uncontained pile? It will look like a mountain of junk unless I go buy some temporary cardboard boxes at U-haul I guess.

A word of warning, the blue box on 2.3.1, not all of your totes are going to be exactily the same, some are larger and heavier.

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by SoccerTaco

So I propose that we call this fourth zone the "Zone That Shall Not Be Named".

Zonedemort?

[Richard Wallace]

It's easy to call the stacking elements "totes".

Maybe the green recycling containers should be called "caps", since that is their scoring function -- they score nothing if not placed atop at tote.

Then the green pool noodles can be called "feathers", since they enhance the value of a "cap".

[Nathan Streeter]

It'll be hard to learn (and I've struggled with proper terminology so far), but I think we'll all be better off if we stick close to FIRST's terminology... Totes, Yellow Totes, RCs, and litter/noodles all work just fine.

The 'Noodle Agreement' is quite different, as FIRST never alluded to such a thing and it was quickly identified by many parties indepednetly.

Originally Posted by Richard Wallace

It's easy to call the stacking elements "totes".

Maybe the green recycling containers should be called "caps", since that is their scoring function -- they score nothing if not placed atop at tote.

Then the green pool noodles can be called "feathers", since they enhance the value of a "cap".

That said, this sounds pretty good too... :-)