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Workshops - Textbook For Success

The experienced mentors from Simbotics have created the following workshops for the benefit of all FIRST teams. We hope that they will be able to help others to become even more successful in the coming season.

These documents have been converted into the Adobe document format, so you'll need Adobe Reader to open them (it's free).

• Robot Design covers the entire robot design process, discussing FIRST robots and games in general, design priorities and decisions, and design principles and techniques
• Running a Team discusses team organization, both during the January-February 'build season' and through the rest of the year
• Strategy deals with the strategic decisions to be made while designing a robot, as well as competition strategy (scouting, match planning, alliance selection, etc.)
• Mobility describes the different types of FIRST Robotics drive systems, some of the theory of designing a drive system, and some construction techniques and principles
• Pneumatics introduces the pneumatic components used in FIRST Robotics and some typical pneumatic mechanisms
• Omnidirectional Drive Systems dives into the advanced topic of drive systems which can move in any direction
• Mechanical Design covers a range of mechanical design principles and techniques
• Programming FRC Robots: CMU Camera goes into the details of using the provided CMU2 camera to track objects
• Programming FRC Robots: PID Control discusses how to use Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) control to achieve fast and accurate autonomous motion