References¶
External material this process draws from. Read at least the strategy paper before kickoff.
Strategy¶
- Karthik Kanagasabapathy, "Effective FIRST Strategies" (Team 1114) — canonical strategy paper for FRC. https://www.simbotics.org/resources/strategy/
- Simbotics Robot in 3 Days philosophy — https://www.simbotics.org/
Software / Framework¶
- AdvantageKit (Team 6328) — IO abstraction, log replay, sim-first. https://docs.advantagekit.org/
- AdvantageScope — log viewer. https://github.com/Mechanical-Advantage/AdvantageScope
- WPILib — https://docs.wpilib.org/
- PathPlanner — https://pathplanner.dev/
- Choreo — https://choreo.autos/
Team Repos (browse for structure)¶
- Team 254 — https://github.com/Team254
- Team 1678 (Citrus Circuits) — https://github.com/frc1678
- Team 6328 (Mechanical Advantage) — https://github.com/Mechanical-Advantage
- Team 971 — https://github.com/frc971
Team Resources¶
- Team 254 resources hub (part numbering, tutorials) — https://www.team254.com/resources/
- Chief Delphi (community forum) — https://www.chiefdelphi.com/
Vendors¶
- WCP — https://wcproducts.com/
- REV Robotics — https://www.revrobotics.com/
- AndyMark — https://www.andymark.com/
- The Thrifty Bot — https://www.thethriftybot.com/
- VEXpro — https://www.vexrobotics.com/vexpro
- McMaster-Carr — https://www.mcmaster.com/
Ri3D (Robot in 3 Days) — Benchmarks¶
- Snow Problem — https://snowproblem.com/
- Rambots — https://ri3d.rambots.org/
- Rocket City Ri3D — https://rocketcityri3d.com/
Watching Ri3D reveals calibrates "what's achievable in 3 days with COTS." Aim for 5–10x reliability or speed over Ri3D on your priority-1 action.