The Blue Alliance Blog: FRC Designs + The Blue Alliance

[Starke]

The Blue Alliance Blog Post Announcement

We are excited to announce a new partnership between The Blue Alliance and FRC Designs. The FRC Designs Blog has been a great resource for strategy, statistical analysis, tips, and an in-depth look at robots; and The Blue Alliance is FIRST’s premiere source for all things data. With this partnership, we are excited to announce a combination of the high quality data from The Blue Alliance with the great content from FRC Designs.

Here is what is new:

• FRC Designs is now called The Blue Alliance Blog and its new location is at blog.thebluealliance.com
• Members from The Blue Alliance will be joining the blog and will bring you up to date information from the site.
• We will be rolling out new sections of the blog to be announced in the coming weeks.
• The FRC Designs GrabCAD Library has been changed to the The Blue Alliance Design Hub. You can now submit and find CAD models for you and your favorite teams on The Blue Alliance. Any GrabCAD link (even your own) can now be submitted on TBA just like other team media (photos/videos/etc.).
• The Blue Alliance has updated their robot pages to include GrabCAD Models and we've already imported over 90 robot models dating back to 2009. See the 2016 FRC 148 Page for an example.

Here is what stays the same:

• The Blue Alliance Blog will continue with the same writers to bring you great content.
• The Blue Alliance Blog continues as part of the newly formed The RoboSports Network and will be managed by TBA and RSN members.

We’re excited for the future of this partnership, leveraging the quality blog content and existing CAD library from FRC Designs combined with the extensive data and reach that The Blue Alliance provides.

Matt Starke
Editor-in-Chief
The Blue Alliance Blog

[Taylor]

It's good to see the consolidation of resources. Finding many different types of info in one (hopefully intuitive) place will help us all.

[TheBoulderite]

Yay! Even more in-depth analysis from TBA than we already have!

[Ty Tremblay]

If your team has a robot model hosted on GrabCAD, head over to TBA and add it to your team's page!

[AllenGregoryIV]

This is awesome, we are working on getting more of our robot CAD posted and it's very cool that it can be on TBA now. TBA and FRCDesigns joining forces is going to be a great mix.

[dtengineering]

So many great resources, and awesome community building. I've only watched FRC grow for 14 years... those who were around at the beginning must be amazed at how far it has come!

Jason

[Francis-134]

Cool news! We just published a blog with FRC Director Frank Merrick! Check it out at https://blog.thebluealliance.com/201...tor-interview/.

Well done Matt on working on this, and big thanks to Frank for opening up and answering a few questions!

[Francis-134]

Our last post before kickoff tomorrow, Andrew Schreiber, Ty Tremblay, Allen Gregory and Matt Starke compete in our first Game Design Fantasy Draft!

Check it out before STEAMworks is revealed tomorrow!