For those of you who frequent ##FRC, I made a bot for you that scans the RSS feed and alerts the channel when there is a new thread. It also has a few other functions (some useful, some not). Here's a list of them:
.google [search] - Googles [search] and outputs the link and the title
.test - outputs "test received"
.ping [url] - pings [url] and outputs the response code and whether or not the ping was successful.
There are a few others, though. You can look at the source for the rest of the commands:
https://github.com/pimathbrainiac/CDPostBot
EDIT: It didn't detect this post. It is a work in progress, after all :/