Resources
The software we use, the guides we wrote, the parts we keep reaching for, and where the team's files live. Most of it is useful whether or not you are on the team.
Four places to look
If you are new and not sure which one you want, Software and Guides is the one to open first — it is where the How to Robot Book lives.
Software and Guides
Every program the team uses, with the download link and a guide for each one. This is also where the How to Robot Book is — an introduction to mobile robotics written by members of the team, as a series of lab exercises.
- How to Robot Book
- Git, ROS and OpenCV
- Fusion 360, SOLIDWORKS, Eagle
- VS Code and Mathcad
Robo Parts
A reference for the parts that turn up in project after project — which motor, which encoder, which motor controller — with the datasheet, the CAD and the library for each. Worth reading before ordering anything.
- Motors and encoders
- Motor controllers
- Radios
- Microcontroller pinouts
Super Robo Time
The annual build event the team runs with UAS and the 3D Print Club: three or four weeks of workdays that end with a robot you built. Everything a team needs during it is on this page.
- Assembly and CAD guides
- Wiring diagram and pinout
- Base code and libraries
- The challenge list
Links
Where the team's own files live — the shared drive, the code, the older archives. Most of these need a Mines account or an invitation from someone on the team.
- Google Drive
- GitLab and GitHub
- The Subversion archive
Not filed under Resources
Three things people often come to this page for that are somewhere else on the site.
The team's code
The Arduino libraries linked from the parts reference, and a good deal else besides, are public on GitHub. Anyone can read them; team members can push to them.
sdsmt-robotics on GitHubHow the robots were built
The write-ups for each robot cover what was tried, what worked and what did not. They are the closest thing the team has to a record of its own mistakes.
See the robotsWhen we are in the lab
Meetings, workdays and competition dates. Nothing on this page needs booking — turn up to a workday and someone will show you where things are.
Open the calendarCannot find what you are after?
If something you needed was not here, it is worth asking — a lot of what the team knows has never been written down, and whoever answers can usually point you at the person who does know.