[FTC]: Rookie Team Needs Help With Tetrix FTC Kit!

[rjustice4]

Hi everyone!

I'm in the process of starting a rookie FTC team at our local high school and would like to find some kind of plans to build square bots, etc. to get our feet wet. I've found several references on the VEX based FTC kits, but nothing on the TETRIX based kit.

It's a bit frustrating because the FTC training site (hosted by Carnegie Melon) only has a few of its links active, the links in the TETRIX Creator's Guide are not active, and there appears to have been no effort whatsoever on developing any kind of documentation to support the FTC transition, particularly for a rookie team with zero experience with robotics. Why would FIRST make the transition without any of their training material done?

About the only idea I can come up with is to reverse engineer the VEX based documents, such as the ones found here:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/2019

It's hard enough getting a community excited about robotics, but to get into a program with practically no documentation or support is going to make it a lot harder....

Any suggestions are welcome...

Thanks.

Bob

p.s. I'm starting an FLL team as well, and that's going great...a lot of online resources, books, etc.