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YouTube videos for the 2014 challenge arena as well as the kick-off videos.

This is the video with the bouncing balls animation. Talks about the process of creating a short video.

Series of YouTube videos created by other students on how to use Autodesk Inventor for creating robot parts.

Series of videos showing how to program the robot using the labview programming language.

Introduction to LabView. This is a series of videos and documents to learn how to use labview.

Lots of help, videos and tutorials for the 2014 Autodesk Inventor Application. This is the page that is accessed when you press the F1 key while in Inventor.

This is the complete playlist for the built by design video series.

Customer Showcases. Videos showing companies that have used the tools and the kind of work they are doing.

10 Part Maya Video Series. Modeling a Ninja Warrior. Part 1

Video series for learning Maya

One of Three videos showing how to design a printed circuit board and to create the files needed to have the board built. Price to get a custom board are pretty reasonable. between 5.00 and 50.00.

Autodesk is a big supporter lf first(FRC). They are a diamond member. ie 200k to 500k per year. They offer free CAD design software for the students. Be sure to watch the main video. It shows one of the guys from MythBusters showing how CAD works for designing our robot. This page also has links to other important resources. Go to this page and create an account. With this account you will be able to access the Autodesk 360 cloud services. With these services we can share our design and collaborate with other people using tablets, browsers, cell phones, etc.

Nice series of videos showing you how to get started using the robot builder Java Code Generator

Official learning resource for using Maya. It is an organized learning plan for creating a 30 second animation. The videos feature a teacher from the Seattle Art Institute. There is a complete learning plan for both the teacher and the student.

AnimationMethods home page. They sell books and they provide tons of free videos to learn animation. It is well organized and is a great way to learn how to use maya and how to create animations.

Youtube Playlist from AnimationMethods. They have many learning series on how to model characters and use the maya animation tool. You can spend a lot of time here and learn a lot about modeling.

Build Blitz of building two bots.