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Nerd Stuff
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B.C. (Before Coronavirus)
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100

Before moving to the Mission, the SF Office was located in this neighborhood

What is SOMA?

100

The ratio of rotor to stator poles in the original Piyush Desai switched reluctance motor design

What is 6/10?

100

Former astronauts say that space smells like this food

What is seared steak?

100

Before they were known as the "motor controller" and "supervisor", SMC devices went by these names

What is "inverter" and "controller"?

100

This leader reads physics books in his spare time.

Who is Ryan Morris?

200

The brand name of the entirely unused bidet in the SF bathroom

What is Tushy?

200

A communication protocol for building automation that allows third-party devices to read data from an SMC Supervisor

What is BACnet?

200

The unicorn is the national animal of this country

What is Scotland?
200

The name of the first SMC motor product line

What is Vulcan?

200

This colleague had a favorite meal at Vedge

Who is Levi Thornton?

300

The most frequent and personable Forkable driver for the SF office

Who is Mohammed?

300

The rated horsepower of a V01 motor

What is 3?

300

One of two countries, excluding the US, that do not use the metric system as the primary unit of measurement

What is Liberia or Myanmar/Burma?

300

The name of the organization before it was Software Motor Company

What is Software Motor Corporation?
300

This colleague is passionate about riding horses

Who is Patti Larson?

400

The name of the spherical maze toy that sits on the SF lunch table

What is Perplexus?

400
The number of programmable digital inputs on the SMC Motor Controller

What is seven?

400

The number of calories you can burn by banging your head against the wall for one hour

What is 150?

400

The cumulative number of SMC motor systems deployed by the end of 2019 (±20)

What is 314?

(294 — 334)

400

This colleague holds a patent for a smart fishing rod

Who is Spencer Worley?

500

The name of the restaurant that currently shares a wall with the SF office

What is Pubrechu?

500

The number of wires that run between the motor and motor controller for a 'sensorless' installation

What is seven?

500

The US state in which three eagles were found co-parenting three eaglets in April 2019

What is Illinois?

500

The month and year that SMC was founded

What is January 2013?


500

This colleague is passionate about Drum Corps

Who is Mark Bindon?

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