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New product naming contest: the quadcopter!

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  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2011-09-22 09:31
    Matt Gilliland wrote:
    NEW DEADLINE for Submissions is 2:30pm Parallax Standard Time Today!
    So 3:30pm Parallax Daylight Time, then?

    -Phil
  • sylvie369sylvie369 Posts: 1,622
    edited 2011-09-22 09:37
    Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) wrote: »
    So 3:30pm Parallax Daylight Time, then?

    -Phil

    It's a good thing he didn't mention "Parallax Daylight Time" while we were still guessing about the Mystery Project". That would have certainly pointed in a dramatic direction.
  • schillschill Posts: 741
    edited 2011-09-22 10:10
    Oldbitcollector (Jeff) wrote: »
    Meh.. Call it now.. I can't come up with anything better than IcarUS.

    OBC

    I think I prefer DaedalUS to IcarUS (to avoid the whole crashing reference - these things never crash, do they? :) ).
  • NikosGNikosG Posts: 705
    edited 2011-09-22 10:15
    [size=+2]I[/size]ntelligent
    [size=+2]c[/size]og
    [size=+2]a[/size]ircraft
    [size=+2]r[/size]esource
    [size=+2]U[/size]nited
    [size=+2]S[/size]tates

    Is the above acronym correct?

    I also love the “OpenFLY”

    I don’t know what will be Matt’s decision about quadcopter’s name but I’m sure that “Daedalus” is the most suitable nickname for Ken!
  • User NameUser Name Posts: 1,451
    edited 2011-09-22 11:34
    Ken, did I understand correctly that Parallax is selling the Hoverfly Sport right now...until the Open becomes available?

    Contest names:
    Propter Copter
    Propter Hoc (it's a Latin thing)...
    which leads to... Propter Hawk
  • SapiehaSapieha Posts: 2,964
    edited 2011-09-22 12:53
    Contest name:

    SkyProp
  • PropabilityPropability Posts: 142
    edited 2011-09-22 13:09
    Didn't look thru all the pages to see if any have been propossed yet :

    PropsRus

    Propsforus

    Quadacity

    Quatrefoil
  • Matt GillilandMatt Gilliland Posts: 1,406
    edited 2011-09-22 14:05
    T-MINUS TWENTY-FIVE MINUTES,
    and counting...
    -Matt
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2011-09-22 14:25
    spin-up
    spin-a-colada
  • Matt GillilandMatt Gilliland Posts: 1,406
    edited 2011-09-22 14:26
    Five...
    -Matt
  • Matt GillilandMatt Gilliland Posts: 1,406
    edited 2011-09-22 14:26
    Four...
    -Matt
  • Matt GillilandMatt Gilliland Posts: 1,406
    edited 2011-09-22 14:28
    Threeeeeee.......

    -Matt
  • Matt GillilandMatt Gilliland Posts: 1,406
    edited 2011-09-22 14:29
    Two...
    -Matt
  • Matt GillilandMatt Gilliland Posts: 1,406
    edited 2011-09-22 14:29
    One!
    -Matt
  • Matt GillilandMatt Gilliland Posts: 1,406
    edited 2011-09-22 14:30
    Case Closed - jury is in deliberation...
    -Matt
  • Matt GillilandMatt Gilliland Posts: 1,406
    edited 2011-09-22 17:52
    After several agonizing minutes, er, I mean hours-yeah, hours, we have come up with the following top (Five) choices...

    You may notice that some of the more "colorful" suggestions aren't in the "Top Five" list - not that they weren't great - they just didn't have that "squeaky clean" connotation that we strive for.

    Every suggestion was appreciated, laughed at, or cast off as "not a snow-ball's chance under our watch".

    So with that being said - Cast your vote!

    (Poll in next post)

    Edit: Apparently you can't create a Poll except when Starting a thread?
    So go to here, and Vote!
    -Matt
  • TheBobScottTheBobScott Posts: 1
    edited 2011-09-23 04:56
    Since the Propeller has 8 cogs and this had 4 'propellers'
    I thought that "Tesseract" was a good name

    The Parallax Tesseract

    From wiki;
    In geometry, the tesseract, also called an 8-cell or regular octachoron or cubic prism, is the four-dimensional analog of the cube
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2011-09-23 05:27
    I think you have a winner...if you meant to spell 'tesseract' like 'ELEV8'!

    (see the voting thread)
  • JeffaJeffa Posts: 80
    edited 2011-09-26 19:07
    QuadPropter
  • Matt GillilandMatt Gilliland Posts: 1,406
    edited 2011-09-26 20:21
    lanternfish!
    Still waiting for a PM from you!?
    -Matt
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2011-10-25 16:04
    Oh sure, ELEV-8 is nice. But no one suggested Proptology?

    Can we do a re-count?
  • doggiedocdoggiedoc Posts: 2,245
    edited 2011-10-25 16:14
    erco wrote: »
    Oh sure, ELEV-8 is nice. But no one suggested Proptology?

    Can we do a re-count?
    I came this |----| close to being a Proptologist, but that's another story entirely.

    How about the Proptopter?

    Just sayin'.

    Paul
  • lanternfishlanternfish Posts: 366
    edited 2011-10-27 00:27
    A big thanks to the Parallax team for choosing my ELEV8 entry. And with so many fantastic products to choose from it took a while to make my prize selections. And they arrived very quickly. So now I am GPS'ing, accelerating, Gyro'ing, VGA'ing, Pinging and Proto Boarding my way to a better understanding of the Prop, Spin and PASM.
  • Ken GraceyKen Gracey Posts: 7,401
    edited 2011-10-27 10:18
    lanternfish wrote: »
    A big thanks to the Parallax team for choosing my ELEV8 entry. And with so many fantastic products to choose from it took a while to make my prize selections. And they arrived very quickly. So now I am GPS'ing, accelerating, Gyro'ing, VGA'ing, Pinging and Proto Boarding my way to a better understanding of the Prop, Spin and PASM.

    Great, excellent choice of products sent all the way down to Dunedin, too! In 1999 I ran a BASIC Stamp Educator's Course in Dunedin in concert with Electroflash - you've got a healthy tech community in that far-out corner of the world.

    Ken Gracey
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