Team Documents

Spartan Robotics team uses a bunch of documents to organize the team and design the robots. Some of these files require membership to the Google FRCTeam971 group to view. Contact Jai or Wyn to be added to this group.

Team Training Documents

• Safety Presentation (PDF) 
• Notes from Evan Morrison's January 4, 2012 Awards Judging Seminar

Organization Documents

• 2012 Team roster and web form to add new members.  Prior seasons: 2011 Logo Moton
• We use two EMail lists to keep the team informed.
• Purchase Request - Fill this form out to request that part(s) be purchased for the robot or team.
• Students use the 971login Google application to log their hours for course credit.
• Everyone attending competitions must take and pass this quiz. The deadline is March 1.  You can take this quiz multiple times, all that matters is that you eventually get 100%.  If you want to practice separately, you can take this practice quiz, it's exactly the same except that one does not require a login.  Teresa
  
• We have a permission slip that we may start using this season.  When it is used, this form should be printed, filled out, and returned to Wyn Schuh before a student can be an active member on the team.
• Friday Dinner signup list - Contact Dorit Perry for details.
• Here is the process for adults to become authorized volunteers (also known as fingerprinted) so that they can supervise our team meetings.  We used to be able to use fingerprinted adults to supervise the team; however, last season, the school made us use school district employees.  Currently, Wyn, Michael, & Austin are the only school district employees that support the team.  We are working on obtaining permission for fingerprinted adults to again supervise without a school district employee being present.  Dec 10, 2011, Michael.
• Adults must complete a MVLA School District Volunteer Driver Application and be approved as a volunteer driver to drive students for team related activities. The application process is described here.
• Directions including a map for how to go with the 971 team to the NASA robotics lab.
• The team programmers use Linux for code development.  Brian Silverman wrote this page that describes how to get started with FRC programming under Linux.
• IT computer system computer list, system logs, and design document.
• IT Routine Updates 

Robot Design Documents

2012

• Game and Season Information from FIRST - has links to the Competition Manual, Team Updates, Kit of Parts, game Q & A, Awards, News and Email Blasts, and more.
  • Getting Started with the 2012 Control System link that walks you through how to set up the control system, wireless router, image the cRIO, and other things.
• Team Updates - FIRST sends out revisions every so often to clarify or edit rules.
• Rules Q&A - read up on how the new Q&A system works here.  It's a nice system that lets you sort by rule number as well as sections of the manual, and see what questions have been posted already.  You can also "follow" questions and be notified by email when a response has been posted by the GDC.  Evan Jan 11.
• BOM - Bill of Materials for the competition.  Jame Kuszmaul is the contact.
• 2012 Game animation and field tour videos are available on this YouTube Channel.  Colbert and Woody Flowers presentation on "why first", creative process, and living in the 2100 century.
• Bill's Blog - News direct from the Director of FRC at FIRST.
• Use this Purchasing form to order parts.  Contact Alex Perry if you have questions or comments about the form.
• The 971 Purchase List is used by the team to track items that need to be purchased and that have been purchased.
• The 2012 software page describes how we set up the programming computers and robot code for the 2012 competition season.
• Photos and videos
  • Evan's Championship promo video 
    
  • Jerry's pictures from the build season, Sacramento regional, and Silicon Valley regional, and Championships.
  • Roy's 2012 photos
  • Craig's Championship Competition photos 
    

2011 Logo Motion

• The FIRST Links page has links to the game documents and other important links.
• The 971 Purchase List is used by the team to track items that need to be purchased and that have been purchased.
• The Robot Parts List is used tracking which drawings need and have been made. The drawings are given to our sponsors to be used to manufacture parts for the robot.
• Notes on how the robot code works and is compiled and downloaded to the robot.
• Here's some calculations on elevator lift speeds using the real weights for this robot. Parker did some detailed work predicting the elevator speed and lifting times. Austin's spreadsheet has some verifying checks of Parker's work.
• Driver Station Notes:
  • Before the 2011 Madtown Throwdown competition, we would loose control of the practice bot.  It would not respond to stick inputs so we would have to disable it.  It appeared that the laptop was loosing communication with the USB devices used for the wheel, throttle, and manipulators.  Perhaps the powered drive wheel was part of the problem.  We replaced the passive USB hub with a powered USB hub and this greatly reduced the problems and may have even eliminated them.  The unit we purchased was a Winstar WS-UH3041 USB3.0/2.0 4-Ports Hub w/ AC Adapter Black 5Gbps for $30 from Central Computers on El Camino Real in Sunnyvale.  Michael & Alex.