Getting Started

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.

Autodesk Inventor: Download 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.

Thingiverse: Great website for finding parts to 3d print.

Autodesk Instructible: How to cut acrylic with a CNC.

Git Shell Cheat Sheet: More advanced git shell functions.

GitHub Pages: A guide to using GitHub to host your website.

FTC Forums: Diligently keeping up with rules and updates will ensure you don't ever get penalties you didn't know applied.

Scouting Template w/ Form: Template for using our scouting platform with an integrated Google Form.

Scouting Form: Google from to help get everyone on the team involved in stand scouting. Make copies to use yourself!

Calculating OPR: An overview of how Offensive Power Rating (OPR) works.

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.

Trello: An online to-do list on steroids 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 cant 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.