Team Blast - 09-13-12

FTC Team E-Blast!

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Contents:

  1. 2012-2013 FTC game Ring It Up! released
  2. FTC Forum Game Q&A open date
  3. New location for Field Drawings
  4. FTC Toolbox is excellent resource 
  5. 2012-13 Ask an Expert calls
Ring It Up!

1.  The 2012-2013 FTC game is Ring It Up!  Season materials were released Saturday, Sept. 8 at 3PM EST.  The game animation, manuals and build guides are located at www.usfirst.org/ftc/game

Ring It Up!

Game Q&A

2.  THE FTC Forum Game Q&A opens Sept. 18.

Read this FTC Blog post for 5 questions to ask yourself before posting to the Q&A forum. Also review the Game Q & A instructions page.

3. Ring It Up! Field drawings are now located on the last pages of the Field Setup Guide

Field Setup Guide

Tools

4.  Having a problem designing, building or programming your robot?  Trying to figure out Samantha and the Field Control System? The FTC Toolbox is a great place to start troubleshooting.  It contains useful resources from FIRST as well as links to resources from TETRIX,  PTC, ROBOTC and LabVIEW.

5.  Check out the Ask an Expert section of the website for helpful trainings conducted by FTC subject matter experts.  Two calls have already happened.  If you missed them, don't worry.  The recordings are posted on the page.  The full call schedule for the season will be posted soon.  Recordings from last seasons Ask an Expert calls are also posted.  These recordings are a great resource for rookie and veteran teams.  

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