Good Place to get metal and other materials

Quick Start Guide for Labview. It may be helpful for seeing how they plan to make things work using the labview development system.

One of the update for 2014

Our team will be programming our Robot using the Java Programming language. This topic describs how to get your development environment set-up and points you to some resources that will be helpful in writing our robot programs.

This is our Website

Lots and lots of First Inventory Files of robot components

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.

Everybody on the mechanical team should get an Autodesk login account. With this account we will be able to upload our documents into the Autodesk 360 cloud. Also we can use the cloud computing power to do structural analysis and 3d rendering.

Go to the Autodesk link dedicated for First(FRC) students and click on the link to create an account. http://www.autodesk.com/education/partners/first/recommended-software

They have a section of recommended software. We will be using the Autodesk Inventor Professional software package for the design of our robot. Once you have your account you should download and install this package our your machine.

Do not forget to download the Tutorials. Get them here.

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=21952055

When you press F1 while in Inventor it will open a web page with all the inventor help. They have a very good section of tutorials with references to the materials in the link above. Just download the tutorial files and make it the current project and start going though them. They are about one hour each.

We will use Autodesk 360 for collaboration and the software that is packaged with Inventor does not work very well. You can find out if you need to update 360 here. http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=21520422&linkID=9240698

To test your 360 version which should be running in the system tray, you will want to right click on the little 360 icon and select preferences. This will tell you what version of 360 is running. The link above needs the version information in order for you to make the proper decisions about the update.

If you can not find the 360 icon in the system tray then you will need to start it. Click on the start button and enter 360 in the search box and it should find the application for you to run to get it started.

You will need this to get Inventory to work on Windows 8.

This is the upgrade to autodesk 360. The default 360 product that comes with Inventory is not very good and has lots of problems. This update is very good and makes the 360 product very handy.

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

How to do version control with Netbeans. This page is directly from Oracle and shows how to do version control for Git, Subversion, Mercurialm and CVS.

Pricing info for CloudForge. I think the the free account would work fine.

How to setup subversioning in the cloud.

Download page for the JAVA SDK and Netbeans Bundle. This page also has downloads to the JDK and JRE documentation.

This page describes the process of downloading the Java/Netbeans development enviroment as well as the process to get the FRC Netbeans plugin installed.

This is the E12 Classmate PC page. I think that this is the controller PC that will be used to connect the competition network and used to control our robot. I think that the joy sticks and other control inputs connect to this PC. I am still not sure and this could be all wrong

This page has all the Tutorial data and apps for learning all the features to Inventor. These tutorials are referenced in the official Inventor help system.

These guys provide metal products. They are in Seattle. The have some good documentation on their website and metals

This is a very informative page on the FRC website. It list everything that you will need to know to build our robot. A must read for all team members.