Inventors
FRC Big Names
Robotics
Engineering
Technology
100
He is an American inventor famously known for flying a kite with a key attached in a lightning storm which helped him learn about electricity, but is also well known for inventing bifocals.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
100
For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology.
What is FIRST?
100
It is the blue and white helper robot in Star wars.
What is R2-D2?
100
It is the most popular format for creative collaborating together in a group to generate as many ideas as possible for a problem.
What is a brainstorming session?
100
It's acronym is "LED".
What is a light emitting diode?
200
He is known for his invention of the automobile and innovation in assembly line manufacturing.
Who is Henry Ford?
200
They are the the most consistently dominant team in FRC for the past several years and are based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Who are the Cheesy Poofs (team 254)?
200
It is an American provider of industrial automation and has been a primary sponsor of FIRST for several years.
What is Rockwell Automation?
200
It is the Tallest building in the world, located in Dubai.
What is the Burj khalifa? (or Burj Dubai)
200
It is a technology company known for revolutionizing the mobile phone and the personal computer by focusing on user friendly interactions.
What is Apple?
300
He is known as the father of the industrial revolution for his invention of the Steam Engine.
Who is James Watt?
300
They are the team known for being nearly exclusively sponsored by NASA with their build space on the NASA campus and having a gold and white robot each year.
Who are The Robonauts? (team 118)
300
It is a robotics engineering company in Massachusetts formerly owned by Google's parent company, Alphabet.
What is Boston Dynamics?
300
It is the discipline of engineering that focuses on the processes of how something is made physically.
What is manufacturing engineering?
300
It was originally created for rapid prototyping in industry, but now is most popular for hobbyists to easily make plastic objects by uploading a 3D model.
What is a 3D printer? (FDM, SLA, etc.)
400
He is known for his invention of the alternating current induction motor and for many other alternating current patents.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
400
He is the inventor of the Segway and founder of FIRST.
Who is Dean Kamen?
400
It is a technique for controlling and varying motion for something like a motor by pulsing the voltage.
What is pulse width modulation? (or PWM)
400
Today it is the largest elctro-mechanical system engineering company in the world and was created from Thomas Edison's electric power company.
What is General Electric (GE)?
400
It is a large technology company known for revolutionizing the computer by the use of punched cards.
What is IBM?
500
He is known as the inventor of the general-purpose computer during WWII.
Who is Alan Turing?
500
They were the best team in the world in 2019. Based out of Madera California, they ended their official 2019 season in Houston with a total record of 51-5.
Who is MadTown Robotics? (team 1323)
500
It is the most popular form of motion control in robotics and uses a feedback loop with 3 intermediate values.
What is a PID? (or Proportional Integral Derivative control)
500
They are microscopic devices typically with moving parts. Examples are accelerometers in integrated circuits and digital projector micromirrors.
What are MEMS? (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems)
500
It is a semiconductor device that is the building block of integrated circuits, such as in computer processors where there are billions.
What is a transistor? (or MOSFET)