Possibly the worst acronym ever...

[ffutures]

...for something that sounds quite cool - the title may go to the Free Universal Construction Kit, a set of 3D printing templates for components to link e.g. Lego and K'Nex and Fischertechnik

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-03/20/free-universal-construction-kit

Supports Lego, Duplo, Fischertechnik, Gears! Gears! Gears!, K'Nex, Krinkles (Bristle Blocks or Stickle Bricks), Lincoln Logs, Tinkertoys, Zome, and Zoob.

Comments

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

That would be an oops, then...

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I think it may be deliberate but stupid. Since it ensures that a lot of people won't point kids at it.

[ggreig]

This quote from that article suggests you're right: "the Kit encourages totally new forms of intercourse between otherwise closed systems".

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

It's clearly deliberate, and rather silly given that they're trying to make toys more fun for kids.

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

It is deliberate. Becuase I'm cited on their website, I wrote to them to comment about a couple of legal misconceptions and in the course of doing so I mentioned that I agreed with other people leaving comments that the name they'd chosen was rather peurile. I got a response thanking me for my interest but telling me that the name was part of their attention-getting marketing strategy. I replied to that to point out that rather a lot of female geeks might find it offensive on the basis that they often heard such language used in less than welcome circumstances; I got no reply to that.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I suspect that they will languish in obscurity until someone (probably another designer) relaunches the idea without this baggage.

Forgot to add that this isn't only my opinion - it's shared by people I know in the hobby games industry, who might otherwise be giving it publicity.