FRC Resources

Prepare for the upcoming FRC season using the below links, and feel free to get in touch with this year's captain at awilliamson@lacanadaengineeringclub.org.

Overview of FRC Robots + Mechanisms

Intro to FRC Mechanisms

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The Unofficial FRC Mechanism Encyclopedia – Project Bucephalus

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additional reference

www.chiefdelphi.com

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THE HOLY GRAIL - most FRC-related questions you will have are probably answered on here - also has a ton of great advice or documented build processes from other powerhouse teams - always a solid reference.

CAD for FRC with Onshape

FRC Design Learning Course | FRCDesign.org

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run through the full course in CAD from frcdesign.org -> excellent resource

Cad and Cookies YouTube Channel

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solid FRC CAD walkthrough videos for additional reference

FRC 3005 RoboChargers Onshape CAD Class

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another team-made Onshape for FRC course - additional reference if you want, but frcdesign should be adequate

CAD Sessions YouTube Channel

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excellent Onshape reference videos from CAD Sessions

FRC Design Challenges

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good practice for FRC build season - complete over the preseason

Featurescripts

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good reference for Onshape featurescripts for FRC

Simplified Models

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various simplified models for FRC CAD - good to reduce rendering times / primitives

Mechanism Examples

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reference for mechanism examples

Best Practices

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good reference for best practices for FRC CAD

KrayonCAD Guide

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concise guide to KrayonCAD

FRC 2023 Design Layout Sketch Thought Process

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example for layout sketching

Master Sketch Example (Team 8177, 2023)

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good robot master sketch example/guide

Design Handbook

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tips on effective design practices (work in progress)

Notes on our Reefscape Robot

Victor Mechanical Breakdown Notes

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notes from Victor and Cory on the Reefscape bot (post season)

Mechanical Reference from Other Good Teams

FRC CAD Collection

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large CAD collection of the robots of a ton of good teams - compiled by Spectrum

Citrus Circuits Past Robots

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Citrus Circuits CAD releases

OP Robotics 2025 Reefscape Technical Binder

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2056 OP Robotics Reefscape technical binder (another cracked team) – 2024 and 2023 bots have really good things to reference as well

Open Alliance (OA)

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Build threads of teams found on Chief Delphi (some of the best examples include 4481 and 6328 but other smaller teams can have good prototyping resources). A good way to get rough ideas on game piece manipulation that would otherwise be difficult to prototype by ourselves.

Electronics

Hardware Component Overview — FIRST Robotics Competition Documentation

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overview of the FRC Robot control system

RoboRIO and Sensors (Citrus Circuits PDF)

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lecture PDF by Citrus Circuits - overview of sensors and the main board (RoboRIO)

Robot Wiring (Citrus Circuits PDF)

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lecture PDF by Citrus Circuits

Citrus Circuits Electronics Folder

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more reference PDFs on electronics from Citrus Circuits - for additional reference

Learn Python (for people with little to no Python experience)

W3Schools Python Tutorial

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Finish everything from the Python tutorial section

Genepy Exercises

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Some exercises if you want extra practice (programming is learned by doing – we will have plenty of doing when we are coding the robot too)

Python for FRC

RobotPy Documentation

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RobotPy official docs

WPILib Documentation

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WPILib docs for the FRC control system

FRC2429 2025 GitHub Repository

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Python code for FRC 2429's 2025 robot(s) – our software for Reefscape – our software for previous years can be found on GitHub! Look through the code on our past robots, and make sure you can understand it – ask questions if you need clarification

Chief Delphi

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THE HOLY GRAIL – most FRC-related questions you will have are probably answered on here – also has a ton of great advice from other powerhouse teams – always a solid reference

Reference for PyQt (the foundation of our GUI stuff)

PyQt5 Tutorial

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PyQt5 Tutorial 2025 – Create Python GUIs with Qt