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 This page is about a checklist for a toolkit of important things to be carried by or available to programmers or drive team members at FRC Competitions.   Some of these things should be considered essential, some are nice to have.   Discuss.
+Note that some of these things might be critical to the rookie team or alliance member team that your team is trying to help out.  So consider having two kits: one stays in your pit or with your drive team, the other can go with your outreach and assistance crew.
 ====== USB Stick ======
-A usb flash memory drive "stick" containing:
+A usb flash memory drive "stick" containing all of the following:
-  * latest FRC Game and Season Manual pdf
-  * Your robot's most recent known good code (download tree or zip from your github the night before the event)
+^ Description     ^ Link      ^
-  * Radio Configuration tool
+| latest FRC Game and Season Manual  | https://firstfrc.blob.core.windows.net/frc2019/Manual/2019FRCGameSeasonManual.pdf    |
-  * Latest WPILIB
+| Your robot's most recent known good code  |  (github)    |
-  * Latest toolkits for all supported robot programming languages
+| Latest NI Suite and RoboRIO image  | http://www.ni.com/download/first-robotics-software-2017/7904/en/   |
-  * Latest CTRE firmware and driver updates
+| FRC Radio Configuration tool  | https://firstfrc.blob.core.windows.net/frc2019/Radio/FRC_Radio_Configuration_19_1_1.zip   |
-  * what else?
+| Java runtime download (required for radio configuration) | https://www.java.com/en/download/  |
+| Latest WPILIB   | https://github.com/wpilibsuite/allwpilib/releases  |
+| Latest CTRE firmware and driver updates  | https://github.com/CrossTheRoadElec/Phoenix-Releases/releases/download/PhoenixFirmware_v5.14.0.0/TalonSrx-Application-4.17-season2019.zip   |
+| Latest SparkMax firmware+driver  | http://www.revrobotics.com/content/sw/max/SPARK-MAX-Software-All-CSATool-1.1.zip   |
+There's a software tool to download all of these and more: https://github.com/JamieSinn/CSA-USB-Tool/blob/master/Software2019.csv .
+It is more likely to be up to date than the other links above.
-TODO: URLs to the latest of all of these
 ====== Cables ======
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   * ethernet switch.  ideally battery powered.
+====== Non-technical Essentials ======
+  * water bottles for drive team.  snacks too
+  * Clipboard, pens/pencils, paper, field diagram, and other strategy-planning tools