Game Manual 0: https://gm0.copperforge.cc/en/stable/ A great comprehensive guide to basic concepts and information you need to know in FTC. Recommended read for everyone involved in the club.
Game Manual 0: https://gm0.copperforge.cc/en/stable/ A great comprehensive guide to basic concepts and information you need to know in FTC. Recommended read for everyone involved in the club.
FIRST Tech Challenge Discord: https://discord.gg/first-tech-challenge Connect with others involved in the FIRST Tech Challenge Competition. This is NOT the CHS FTC Club Discord.
2020-2021 ULTIMATE GOAL SEASON SPECIFIC INFORMATION
REV Kickoff Concepts Overview: https://docs.revrobotics.com/kickoff-concepts/ REV's walkthrough of this year's game and potential solutions to its challenges. Weighs the pros and cons of some design options. Really helpful for strategy and design!
NEVER BUY PARTS WITHOUT COMMUNICATING WITH MS. SMITH AND YOUR TEAM. ALWAYS DOCUMENT EVERY PURCHASE. (This includes marketing purchases too!)
Gobilda: Sells the Gobilda kit of parts, (Includes channels, motors, gears, chain), the kit has pretty much everything you'd want from a building system and it is versatile with sound and robust motion components. It's generally the best overall kit out right now. https://www.gobilda.com/ Servocity: Sells the Actobotics kit of parts, resembles the Gobilda kit of parts, also a very solid choice. Also, as the name suggests, sells lots of servo motors. https://www.servocity.com/ REV: Sells many parts for FTC, mainly the REV building system, which is mainly extrusion based, along with many electronics and sensors. Although their motion and structure parts might not always be the greatest, REV extrusion can be extremely versatile in the right scenarios and REV also sells many other useful products like slides, motors, servos, and v groove bearings. http://www.revrobotics.com/ Andymark: Mainly a FRC vendor although they have a few products that are useful for ftc, mostly their Neverest motors and wheels (Stealth, compliants, and mecanum wheels). https://andymark.com/ VEXPro: Another FRC vendor, but contains many parts that are useful for teams looking to build custom designed robots not using a kit, their hex shaft ecosystem(bearings, pullies, gears, etc),wheels, belt, and Versaplanetary gearboxes are all extremely useful but are hard to adapt to traditional FTC parts without custom manufacturing. https://www.vexrobotics.com/vexpro McMaster-Carr: While not specifically a FIRST vendor, McMaster-Carr has a massive selection of many items (including Swedish fish). Generally useful for raw material like sheets or aluminum box tubing, as well as screws and other hardware. https://www.mcmaster.com/ Amazon: There's a ton of stuff, generally recommend buying tools from here https://amazon.com/
Computer Aided Design (CAD) is the use of computers and programs to help model, create, and analyze a design. Before beginning the building process, it is strongly recommended that you flesh out your CAD first. Planning before building will minimize unnecessary purchases, part-compatibility issues, and generally not knowing what you're doing. When designing your robot, it is crucial to understand how to do create sketches, 3D parts, and especially assemblies in CAD. Not only is a good CAD essential to a well-organized and planned robot, but knowing CAD can open up the doors to creating custom parts with 3D printers, laser cutters, and CNC machines. These programs have many functionalities and may be used to perform stress-analysis, create technical drawings, realistic renders, animations, and more!
The two CAD programs we use most often when designing the robot or custom parts are SolidWorks and Autodesk Inventor (2018). We do not recommend members purchase these licenses out of pocket, as they are very expensive. If you are interested in obtaining a SolidWorks or Inventor license, please contact us directly.
The easiest way to share your CAD with your teammates will be using GrabCAD, a free online cloud-based platform. This will be very useful when CADing collaboratively, especially in FTC.
GrabCAD:https://grabcad.com/ -Download the Workbench Desktop App:https://workbench.grabcad.com/workbench/download A free cloud-based platform used to manage, view, and share CAD files between team members. If you will be designing and working on CAD in FTC, please create a GrabCAD account and download the desktop app onto your computer.
Onshape: https://www.onshape.com/ If you do not have SolidWorks or Inventor and you want to start learning CAD, Onshape is a great platform to do so. Though its capabilities are a bit more limited than SolidWorks or Inventor, Onshape is a free cloud-based and beginner-friendly CAD software and can teach you the basic principles of CAD.
How to use github
CHS FTC GitHub: https://github.com/Centennial-FTC-Robotics GitHub provides hosting for software development and version control using Git. It provides access control and several collaboration features such as bug tracking, feature requests, task management, and wikis for every project. This is crucial to programming collaboratively in teams, especially in FTC. If you are a programmer, please familiarize yourself with GitHub.
CHS FTC GitHub: https://github.com/Centennial-FTC-Robotics GitHub provides hosting for software development and version control using Git. It provides access control and several collaboration features such as bug tracking, feature requests, task management, and wikis for every project. This is crucial to programming collaboratively in teams, especially in FTC. If you are a programmer, please familiarize yourself with GitHub.
FTC SDK for Ultimate Goal (2020-21) Season:https://github.com/FIRST-Tech-Challenge/FtcRobotController This repository contains the public FTC SDK for the Ultimate Goal (2020-2021) competition season. This GitHub repository contains the source code that is used to build an Android app to control a FIRST Tech Challenge competition robot. To use this SDK, download/clone the entire project to your local computer.
MyBot Robot Simulator:https://robotstudiosimulator.com/ A virtual environment in which you can program and test all of your code on a virtual robot. It works with the FTC SDK and serves as a good way to test your program, even before the robot has been built. This could also (tentatively) be used for driver practice.
Club-Specific Marketing resources
Team Logos: All team logos use the Anurati font free to download for personal use: https://befonts.com/anurati-font.html Virus: Exponential: Cypher:
graphic design
Canva: https://www.canva.com/ A great free basic web-based graphic design program, used to design flyers, social media posts, website elements, and basically anything that needs to look nice using images, icons, and/or text. Try not to rely on templates too much - customize!
Image Color Picker: https://imagecolorpicker.com/en/ Similar to Google Color Picker, you can upload an image and find the color codes for a color present in the image. Also provides the dominant color in the image and creates a palette based on the colors found in the image.
Background Remover: https://www.remove.bg/ A very helpful tool to quickly and automatically remove backgrounds when you need a transparent background.