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  1. More foosball robots by HAICD · · Score: 1 · on Engineering Students Build Robotic Foosball Players

    Here is a link to some foosball robot videos http://www.foosball.com/forum/index.php?topic=1389.0

  2. Re:Foosball? by $lashdot · · Score: 4, Informative · on Engineering Students Build Robotic Foosball Players

    For the Brits here, Foosball is table football. No idea why it's called that over there. Maybe from the German, Fußball?

    "Foosball" does come from the German word. The game increased in popularity in the USA in the wake of WWII, although the first American patent dates to 1901. One helpful article to read is http://www.foosball.com/learn/knowledge/chp1hist.html from the book The Complete Book Of Foosball (Lott & Brainard, 1980)

    I've never heard an exact explanation for why Foosball (or just Foos) specifically caught on as a name. Maybe "table soccer" is just too awkward. Obviously, Americans couldn't call it "table football," since football is a different sport there.

  3. Re:Maybe time to change attitude a bit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Defense Dept. Memo Explains Open Source Policy
    tries to get FOOS into the corporations

    I'd love to get FOOS into my corporation.

    Hint: It's FOSS (free / open source software)

  4. Re:Amazing Foosball Players by Licensed2Hack · · Score: 1 · on High-Tech Foosball Mod Project

    Or here or buy some tapes from here.

  5. Re:Spinning by Licensed2Hack · · Score: 1 · on High-Tech Foosball Mod Project

    No spinning. There are various rule books about, mostly associated with a specific table. Checkout these sites for more info on foos and foos rules in the USA. Also read the Usenet Newsgroup rec.sport.table-soccer.

    Sorry, don't have links to Euro-foosin' or elsewhere. Anyone?

  6. Re:Not a troll, or an Anti-American post but.... by larien · · Score: 3, Interesting · on High-Tech Foosball Mod Project
    I wondered that myself, and thought it was a type (on Slashdot? Never!). However, from here:
    The original game we know as table soccer probably originated in Germany during the late 20's. early 30's

    ....

    The German word for field soccer is ''football'' spelled FuBball .

    The funny-looking ''B'' is pronounced like two S's. hence the many corruptions of that word still used in many sections to describe the game.

  7. Re:Not a troll, or an Anti-American post but.... by Dammital · · Score: 3, Funny · on High-Tech Foosball Mod Project

    Google for "history of foosball" and you get this.

    Apparently it's a decades-old transliteration of the German word.