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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.

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