Resource Documents

One of our core values as a team is to share what we learn and help other FIRST teams in their journey. Please feel free to use and distribute these documents as you see fit

Design Process & Strategy

This presentation explains our process for designing our robot and determining a game strategy. 

Engineering Notebook

This document goes over our plan for documentation and structure for the Engineering Notebook. By following these steps consistently we recieved the Think award at North Super Regional in 2014 and 2015, as well as being nominated for Think at the World Championship both of those years.

Our Team's Naming and Versioning Conventions

These are the naming and versioning conventions our team has set for our programming. It includes our standards for variable, class, and program nomenclature.

These are the slides from our Android Studio Workshop at the 2016 St. Louis Kickoff event. The slides give an overview of the new electronics, how to make a phone config file, registering an OpMode, and the basics of flow charting.

Android Studio Workshop Slides 2016-17 Kickoff

FTC Phone Update Management 

This is our documentation of how to update the FTC Driver Station and Robot Controller Apps as well as how to revert back to a prior version.

Downloading and Installing Android Studio and FTC SDK

This document is a detailed walkthrough of all the steps for downloading and installing Android Studio, the FTC SDK, and the development packages needed to program for FTC.

G-Code with XCarve and Fusion 360

This document explains the set up and cutting process for when using G-Code with an XCarve and Fusion 360.