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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.

USB Stick

A usb flash memory drive “stick” containing:

  • 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)
  • Radio Configuration tool
  • Latest WPILIB
  • Latest toolkits for all supported robot programming languages
  • Latest CTRE firmware and driver updates
  • what else?

TODO: URLs to the latest of all of these

Cables

  • USB type A to (standard) B for roborio imaging and arduino programming
  • USB type A to C for Spark Max configuration
  • 6 foot ethernet cable for pit testing
  • 25 or 50 foot ethernet cable for practice field use

Other Hardware

  • USB Hub
  • USB type C to A (female) adaptor for portless laptops
  • USB to ethernet adaptor
  • Extra joystick or gamepad?
  • ethernet switch. ideally battery powered.
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