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Hardware/CAD Resources

• Blender
  • Blender Manual: The official guide to getting started with Blender.
  • Blender Guru:Tutorials for a bunch of really cool animations you can do with Blender.
  • Blender Stackexchange: For finding the answers to any problems you're having with animations.
• CAD
  • Autodesk Inventor: Downlaod a student version of Inventor for free.
  • GrabCAD: Analogous to GitHub, this program allows for collaboration and version control of our CAD.
  • Standard screw sizes, a helpful reference when CADing.
• Machining
  • Thingiverse: Great website for finding parts to 3D print.
  • How to cut acrylic with a CNC

Software and Strategy

• GitHub
  • Git Shell Cheat Sheet: More advanced git shell functions.
  • GitHub Pages: A guide to using GitHub to host your website.
• Competition
  • FTC Forums: Dilligently keeping up with rules updates will ensure you don't ever get penalties you didn't know applied.

Scouting

• Data Collection
  • Scouting Template w/ Form: Template for using our scouting platform with an integrated Google Form.
  • Scouting Form: Google form to help get everyone on the team involved in stand scouting. Make copies to use for yourself!
  • Calculating OPR: An overview of how Offensive Power Rating (OPR) works.
• Data Visualization
  • Tableau: If you have a school email you can download this powerful data visualization tool.
  • Tableau for FIRST Teams: A guide on how FIRST teams can use Tableau to improve their scouting.

Project Management

• Team Communication
  • Trello: An online to-do list on steriods that you can divide into "boards" based on subteams, track progress, and more.
  • Slack: For team communication in an official setting, we use it for digital Scrum meetings when we can't all meet.
  • Scrum: A massive, in-depth explanation of what scrum is (daily updates on progress), how to run a meeting, and what you'll get out of it.

Engineering Notebook

Marketing and Judging