Systemetric
Don't Walk
Do The Robot
Resources
Here we have made available a selection of resources for use by outside organisations, such as the media and other FIRST teams.
Team Information Pack
We provide a team information booklet containing a summary of the team's activities, information about this year's FIRST competition and our previous robot.
Team Overview Presentation
We have a presentation that we show at public events and to organisations to provide information about our team's background, history and the robots we have built over the years.
Download Presentation (PowerPoint 2007 format)
View Presentation Online on Scribd
Team Tutorials and Links
Here are a selection of useful documents that have been created by the team or used by the team to help us produce our robots:
- How To Do A Robot
A basic handbook detailing what is involved in running a FIRST Robotics Competition team each year. Originally written to introduce new team members to Systemetric, it has been adapted and published here for use by other teams. - Omnidirectional Drive Systems
A very useful presentation created by Ian Mackenzie for the 2006 FIRST Robotics Conference, used by the team to help us understand omnidirectional drive systems we have used, in particular Swerve Drive and Mechanum Drive. - Fundraising Ideas
Suggestions for fundraising activities that can be carried out by teams. - Making Robot Bumpers
A tutorial made by the team on how to make bumpers for robots. - Beanstalk
The SVN repository we use, available for free via their trial account.
Website Development Resources
We know that website development can be quite complicated, particularly for teams with little experience in this field. Here are links to software and tools we use to help us develop this site:
- Joomla - Open-source content management system developed in PHP, used to power this website
- Collabtive - Open-source project management system developed in PHP, used internally by the team to track our projects
- Kohana - Open-source PHP Framework to be used for quick development of web applications
- Aptana Studio - Open-source web application IDE, based upon Eclipse
- W3Schools - An excellent site which teaches you how to make websites, from basic pages to advanced server scripted applications
- W3C HTML Validator - Online service to check the markup of your web pages conform to web standards
- W3C CSS Validator - Online service to check your website stylesheets conform to web standards
- Cynthia Says - Online service to check your web pages are fully accessable
- Mozilla Developer Network - An excellent HTML, CSS and JavaScript reference site
