[FRC Blog] Pre-Kickoff Virtual Kit Items

[Ari423]

http://www.firstinspires.org/robotic...tual-kit-items

Pre-Kickoff Virtual Kit Items


Today's post is from the FIRST Robotics Competition Kit of Parts Team.


We’re blogging today to announce the go-live date for pre-Kickoff Virtual Kit items. Items are included as part of the Kit of Parts system and are available to all registered and secured 2016 FIRST Robotics Competition teams. They consist of software licenses/downloads and Product Donation Vouchers (aka “PDVs” or “vouchers”) and will be posted to the Virtual Kit of Parts site tomorrow, December 10, 2015 (noon Eastern).

Vouchers can be redeemed for specific items or a selection of items up to a specific dollar amount (teams pay for shipping), but refer to the Virtual Kit site for details on how to pursue these helpful donations.

Altium: Designer, a PCB design and development tool
American Button Machines: membership to Build-a-Button, button design software
AndyMark: voucher redeemable for $450 (USD) worth of AndyMark items (available to teams who opted out of the KOP Drive System)
AutomationDirect.com: voucher redeemable for $30 (USD) worth of AutomationDirect.com items
Autodesk: software suite including CAD, simulation, and modeling plus a CAD library of the FIRST STRONGHOLD field and 2016 Kickoff Kit items available at Kickoff
CTR Electronics and Innovation First International: voucher redeemable for 2 Talon SRX’s (14-838288 or 217-8080) or 3 Victor SP’s (14-868380 or 217-9090)
DigiKey: voucher redeemable for $50 (USD) worth of DigiKey items
GitHub: Silver Level account with access to software development tools
Inventables: voucher redeemable for $40 (USD) worth of Inventables items
National Instruments: Multisim, Ultiboard, & the NI Developer Statechart Option, integrated circuit simulation, printed circuit board (PCB) prototyping, and a LabVIEW add-on for designing applications using states, transitions, and events
Next Gen: voucher redeemable for a CIM cooler
PTC: software suite including CAD, simulation, and modeling plus a CAD library of the FIRST STRONGHOLD field and 2016 Kickoff Kit items available at Kickoff
SolidProfessor: Online CAD Training Software
Solidworks: software suite including CAD, simulation, and modeling plus a CAD library of the FIRST STRONGHOLD field and 2016 Kickoff Kit items available at Kickoff
Tableau: license for data analysis and visualization software
TE Connectivity: voucher redeemable for $25 (USD) worth of select TE Connectivity products
Wolfram: license for Mathematica and System Modeler, computing and system simulation software
There will be additional items added to the Virtual Kit on Kickoff, so make sure to comb through the paper in the Kickoff Kits and check back to the Virtual Kit site then.

Our thanks to all of our Suppliers who make the Kit of Parts happen each year!

[safiq10]

This list looks much bigger than last years if I'm not mistaken. Thanks to all the great sponsors!

[sanddrag]

Very interested in the SolidProfessor license. Thank you FIRST and sponsors!

[mastachyra]

Checking out the TC Connectivity Website... They offer a "Subsea" line of products.

Come on FIRST, at least TRY to keep the game a secret.

[rsisk]

What is "and will be posted to the Virtual Kit of Parts site "?

Where is this site?

[PayneTrain]

Originally Posted by rsisk

What is "and will be posted to the Virtual Kit of Parts site "?

Where is this site?

Poking around through a couple submenus on http://firstinspires.org eventually got me to a link for the virtual KoP page here. I assume it will be populated by tomorrow.

[Knufire]

In the past, virtual KoP codes were in the sidebar on TIMS. Same location where the FC login password was IIRC.

[Ari423]

Originally Posted by rsisk

What is "and will be posted to the Virtual Kit of Parts site "?

Where is this site?

My apologies. The original post had hyperlinks that didn't get copied into my post. The post has been updated.

[bigbeezy]

CTR Electronics and Innovation First International: voucher redeemable for 2 Talon SRX’s (14-838288 or 217-8080) or 3 Victor SP’s (14-868380 or 217-9090)

[marshall]

Yay! Altium is back again!

[GreyingJay]

Originally Posted by bigbeezy

Pay attention! That was mentioned on the FRC blog months ago

[orangemoore]

Originally Posted by GreyingJay

Pay attention! That was mentioned on the FRC blog months ago

It was? I have only noticed it in the past few weeks.

[GreyingJay]

Originally Posted by orangemoore

It was? I have only noticed it in the past few weeks.

Maybe it just feels like months ago

It was posted in late October: http://archive.usfirst.org/roboticsp...or-controllers

[Qbot2640]

Originally Posted by mastachyra

Checking out the TC Connectivity Website... .

I worked for TE during last year's season and found a connector they make that is virtually identical to Anderson Powerpoles. I haven't confirmed that they fit together with the Anderson product, but we used them on our bot last year with pretty good success. Had a little trouble with the contacts, that we received in a coil-fed form and had to cut apart - but as soon as we mastered the crimp, they were great. I hope these connectors are available with their donation.

[Thad House]

Has anyone ever actually had any luck with working with GitHub? I requested a team repository last spring, and got a 25% off coupon code. I emailed them again multiple times this fall asking if we could get better, as I was hearing from other teams that they were getting silver accounts for free, and they never responded. So we ended up having to pay, as we needed private repositories. Does anyone have a direct email to the people that work with FIRST at GitHub so we can try and get the donated silver account like the virtual kit says we should get?