FTC
Where was this year's world championship?
Houston, Texas
Which direction does a threaded nut move if rotated counterclockwise?
Out (also accepted: loosy)
When was 3888's rookie year?
2009
If the velocity of a "monek" is a constant 2 meters per second, what is the distance travelled (in meters) in 1.375 seconds on that same axis of movement.
2.75 meters
What programming language is commonly used in FTC?
Java
Which colors were used in this year's game for sleeve detection?
Cyan, Yellow, Magenta ("Blue" or "Pink" not accepted)
What does PLA in "PLA filament" stand for?
Polylactic acid (No credit given if misspelled)
What's the name of last year's club president?
Juliana Bernal (also accepted: "jules")
What are the units of torque
Newton-Meters (any other equivalent unit accepted)
Name a well-known FTC augmented reality software development kit (SDK) that enables the creation of augmented reality applications
Vuforia
Unofficial name of FTC strategy wherein a player cycles by pushing cones to the corner
Bingus (Big Chungus) or push-bot
M3 screws (also allowed: "not M4")
What is the FTC team's favorite dining spot?
Steak and Shake
What is the infamous closed-loop control algorithm used in robotics?
PID (Proportional, Integral, Derivative)
What is the output of the following code:
public class UwU {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(Math.min(Double.MIN_VALUE, 0.0d));
}
}
0.0 (0)
Maximum Theoretical score for this year's game.
314 (Debated. Anything > 310 is accepted).
What's the name of the mechanism in which 4 links are connected such that any two of them move in parallel? (Hint: Arm)
Four-bar linkage
What's the number of the last portable robotics was in?
Portable 34C
If February is a month that contains Friday the 13th, what day of the week is February 1?
Sunday
What's the maximum recursion depth in Python?
1000
What's the diameter (in mm) of the GoBilda holes
4 mm
What's the name of the mechanical linkage which creates a roughly straight line?
Watt's linkage, Robert's linkage, or Chebychev's linkage (all accepted)
Who founded the robotics club/FTC team? (Hint: Two people)
Robby Gitten and Katie Gandomi (first names accepted, and either name also accepted)
As defined in physics, work is (in terms of integration)
The (line) integral of force with respect to displacement (also accepted: area under curve of force-displacement graph)
You are given two sorted arrays of names of size A and size B respectively, and an algorithm of optimal time complexity to find the number of names common to both arrays. What is the maximum number of comparisons (worst case) the algorithm can make, when A = 26 and B = 12?
37