Team 4272 Resources
Build threads, CAD guides, tutorials, and tools from Maverick Boiler Robotics.
Build Blog CAD Robot & Mechanical Programming Imagery & Awards Miscellaneous
Build Blog
“Open Alliance is an organization created to help teams easily share their information and statistics with a wider audience.”
CAD
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Onshape
Program our team uses to CAD
Onshape Resources
A Google Document full of links to slideshows, training videos, and other online sources of information for learning to CAD with Onshape.
Videos
What CAD is, what Onshape is, Extruding, Filleting, MKCAD, Importing, how to make basic parts, and the importance of naming conventions
Covers pocketing, Onshape files, getting files ready for the laser cutter, going more in-depth with Part Studios and Assemblies. Reviews concepts covered in the CAD I lesson.
Gives an introduction to the Featurescript tool in Onshape.
Covers the basics of making easily configurable parts and assemblies.
A mini-lesson about how to edit in context in Onshape, as well as uses and some basic troubleshooting.
Robot & Mechanical
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Custom Printed Circuit Boards
We share our designs on GitHub
KiCad EDA
Electronics CAD software
Videos
How the Engineering Design Process works and its importance, as well as how it works on the team.
Where and why to use 3D printing, where it’s used in industry, additive manufacturing, slicing software, and public CAD repositories.
Electrical design, power and signals, methods, crimping, wiring basics including insertion and pull testing, integration onto the robot, and troubleshooting.
Programming
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Codecademy
“Learn to code in Java — a robust programming language used to create software, web and mobile apps, and more.”
Swerve Simulator
One of our mentors created this for programmers to practice with. If you get stuck and have questions, his email is bobobalink@gmail.com.
Writing commit messages
One great post about writing good commit messages.
WPILib documentation
Helpful documentation on the FIRST Robotics Competition Control System.
GitHub
Our open-source bot code.
Video
You’ll learn about the basics of Java, including classes, variables, and naming conventions. We’ll also show you how to use Codecademy so you can practice on your own.
Marketing
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Adobe Photoshop
Subscription-based photo editing/graphic design tool.
Photopea
Free-to-use online photo editing/graphic design tool.
Canva
Free-to-use online graphic design tool.
FIRST Awards
Current list of FRC awards and their descriptions.
Cricut Design Space
Design space we use for cutting out stickers and more.
Videos
Organizing information and writing compelling presentations.
How to use Adobe Photoshop
Miscellaneous
The Compass Alliance
This website is full of FIRST resources. They have sub-team-specific documents under Pathways.
Chief Delphi
An online forum for everything FIRST related.
Reddit FRC
A non-technical resource for FIRST memes and other fun.