I’ve seen some funny subsystem nicknames around. Do you have any notable/
comical names that stand out?
For example, we call our manipulator the “McFliplipulator” (spelling varies) or our shooter last year being called the “Outtake”.
Our current FTC robot’s subsystems are: liftinator, grabinator, and flipinator.
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Last year at the end of kickoff we were making some design decisions, and I said that I wasn’t a fan of calling the throat mechanism a throat for the 3rd year in a row, it just sounds weird IMO, and people agreed, so we brainstormed.
Our final name for it is now the “Scotty” because it beams the balls up to a shooter.
Bouns: Now all of our rookies from that year think that’s what all teams call that sort of mechanism. I don’t have the heart to tell them.
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We keep our robot code named nicely, but my favorite prototyping subsystem names are (in no specific order):
theRizzler (arm)
mentorKneecapper (drive train)
speeeeeen (flywheel-based shooter)
stalker (vision)
Bob (???)
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The 2009 ball lift was called Scotty too!
/old
2102’s original 2020 control panel mechanism was called the “snoot” and then the updated one was called the “snot” because it was “not snoot”. I wanted to make a next gen called the “snisn’t” but the kids didn’t find it as funny as I did.
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Y’all poopin?
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A few years ago we named our combination ball intake and internal ball transport the BallomaticSubsystem, later shortened to just the Ballomatic.
it is now!
we have a tendency to name things after bodyparts… tongues, feet, spines, etc.
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Someone’s a fan of phineas and ferb 
Got one from last year, named the intake/outtake after the poltergust 3000. Couldn’t catch ghost’s unfortunately
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I’m scoopin’ what you’re poopin’.
At least I hope it’s what you’re poopin. Otherwise it’s some random stuff that I don’t know where it’s from.
RE: OP - I present Supperstructure.java from 2020. Convenient misspelling or intrusive branding into software? You, my dear reader, are the judge.
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Our 2011 minibot was nicknamed “the kraken” and the method in the code was called “releaseTheKraken”
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TorBot’s 2020 climber was called The Shwingster. I don’t think I need to say anything else.
This year we have the intake, conveyor, claw, arm, and shenanigan.
Our minibot back in the day was called “Candi” with a heart over the i, which I failed to forbid but at least managed to keep them from telling our sponsors.
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the funniest one we have is called “televator”
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While not a Subsystem, the programming team has called our testing robot “Gregory”, our Beelink “Greggy”, and our ZebraSwitch “Greg”. This is then all been watched over by a plastic baby we have called The WiFi Baby because everytime we bring it near a laptop WiFi increases.
We have nicknamed this entire system as Greg³
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we have a single swerve module named “Bort”
the others have names but they’re all much more normal than bort (ex. Front Left, Back Right, etc.)
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We have a naming convention where we have servers ending with -er at a lower level and then stacking -ing systems on top of them. So like shooter, and shooting. This year we have eleveter and fourber which I think are pretty good.
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we have had
seppuku - piston stabbing the robot to stop balls from going, very jank
garggler- was our intake
and we have a super structure named supakoopa
our photonvision pipeline is also “shoutouttomystove”
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