Outside Information
us in the past so if your team has not seen them before, they can be useful for you as well.
FIRST is the organization that plans the robotics competition that we compete in. On their web site, you can see a detailed list of competitions and the dates on which they are held. You can also find the game descriptions, so you can familiarize yourself with the task that lays before us. Information about FIRST Lego League and FIRST Vex Challenge is located on this page too. If you are looking for any information related to the robotics competition in which we compete, this is the place to look.
This is a great FIRST community forum where many people from all of the teams can talk and have a place to post on various robotics-related topics. One incredibly useful part of this site is the white papers section, where there are tutorials for almost anything that needs to get done in the FIRST Robotics Competition. This is where to post questions about any problems that you may encounter while building your robot.
For any of the teams that are using AutoCad Inventor to help design their robot, this site is one that needs to be bookmarked. It is an archive of various parts that are already drawn and available for you to download and use in your robot's rendering. It has everything from field elements to electronics in many different file formats. Save yourself some time drawing everything and take a look in here.
