Welcome to 1757
this set of documents is intended to be both a teaching platform as well as a resource for future generations to learn about how we do programming on this team.
If you want to know "how do I run robot code" just start with installation
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General Resources
| Resource Name | Description |
|---|---|
| How we do game breakdowns | Mandatory watch for every 1757 student this is typically substituted with a more specific walkthrough throughout the season teaching game breakdown |
| FRC.sh | FRC docs quick reference |
| FRCZero | FRC Zero is a knowledge base for students, mentors, and parents of FIRST Robotics Competition teams. It is a single source of information for all things FIRST Robotics Competition. This includes information on the game, the rules, the robot, and the competition and much more. |
| TheBlueAlliance | The Blue Alliance is the best way to scout, watch, and relive the FIRST Robotics Competition. |
| Statbotics | Modernizing FRC Data Analytics, FRC match data analysis |
| Mechanism Encyclopedia | past subsystems/structures/gamepieces and solutions for when they were implemented, best for getting ideas on execution |
| ChiefDelphi | Home of OpenAlliance, FRC Discussion, and everything inbetween. Typically has a low signal to noise ratio, but contains a lot of good collective knowledge. |
| FIRST's own technical resources | might have some bits, mostly about specifics of "how do I..." |
| Competition, Manual, and QA system | will be updated as season progresses, where you can find the game manual |
| FRCManual.com | A better, fuzzy searchable instance of the manual |
| FIRSTUpdatesNow | RC youtube channel, does behind the bumpers, behind the glass, information videos, good for resources |
| JumpStart | Good "getting started" series |
| 1678's helpful video series | good set of videos by a good team, regarding a lot of different FIRST aspects |
Design-Specific resources
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| FRCDesign.org | Teaching and learning platform for CAD that 1757 uses |
| How 1757 does multi-doc onshape projects | How we work with multiple documents to allow multiple collaborators on the same project at once |
| 971's spartan series | bunch of talks by a team who knows what they're talking about |
| 1678's fall workshop series | bunch of talks by a team who knows what they're talking about |
| Workshop: how to design simple, pt1 | By Karthik |
| Workshop: how to design simple, pt2 | by Adam Heard 254/973/a bunch |
| Workshop: how to design simple, pt3 | by Mike Corsetto of 1678 |
| Workshop: how to set good goals | Mike Corsetto 1678 |
| Workshop: how to analyze a game | Mike Corsetto of 1678 |
| "Modern" FRC Games, Strategy, and Design | by 2910 jack in the bot from milcreek, wa 2025 world champions |
| ReCalc | A set of really beneficial calculators, can figure out what gears you need to achieve a certain gear ratio, general timings of mechanisms based on their ratios, has motor profiles to be able to compare intrinsic values of |
Programming-specific resources
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Robotpy ReadTheDocs | Official documentation for everything related to RobotPy |
| RealPython's from-scratch python course | Extra python tutorials, in case this website is insufficient for you |
| 2021 T Shirt Cannon | Pneumatically controlled T Shirt cannon mounted onto a swerve drive chassis |
| 2022 Robot Code | Contains limelight vision system, pneumatic intake with rollers, turret, angle alignment system, swerve drive, and a climber |
| 2023 Robot Code | State-dependent lights, 3 jointed arm with inverse kinematics, simple state-driven intake, swerve drive |
| 2024 Robot Code | Complex intake state system, full field vision system, multi motor shooter with angle alignment, contains first use of profiled motion control on motors, elevator and climber mechanisms |
| 2025 Robot Code | Swerve, elevator, intake, full field vision system, auto alignment to piece, climber |
| Python day 1 video | By Luke, introductory python lesson |
| The Missing Semester of your CS Education | Linux tutorial series |
| Learning Python 4th edition | Complete supplemental python tutorial book |
| Programming session 1 | 2022 introductory programming lessons |
| PathPlanner | The system for automated paths we use |
| Limelight Vision | Limelight vision system's main page |
| PhotonVision | PhotonVision vision system for _pi systems |
| FRC Control system diagram | Explains each electrical component in a typical FRC robot |
| Basic WPIlib software stack | Not super relevant, we use a little bit of it though |
| FRC networking basics | How network systems work on a FRC robot |
| CTRE docs | Cross the Road Electronics documentation page |
| Introductory control theory course | Explains PIDF |
| Carbon NOW | Good looking code snippet generator |
| Cornell Python tutorial series | Fall 2020 python tutorials at Cornell university |
Discord Servers
| Server | Why? |
|---|---|
| Unofficial FRC Discord Server | lots of yap, stuff gets lost easily, but people discussing FRC |
| NEFRC Discord | New England specific FRC server, has good content and coordination between other teams |
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