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Work in progress. This library and its docs are new and still changing, and some parts are not yet tested on a real robot. Something wrong or unclear?Tell us (a GitHub issue).

FTC-Helper-Lib docs

Shortcuts for programming an FTC robot in Java. These pages match release v0.15.0.

New here? Quick start: a driving robot in 30 minutes, or step by step: Add the library to a project, then the main track: Lesson 1: The robot in five files (./gradlew :sim:newRobot writes the five files from your robot configuration).

Start here

Section titled “Start here”

Tutorials: main track (start here)

Section titled “Tutorials: main track (start here)”

Do these in order. One robot, built up lesson by lesson.

All the ways a button can work (tap, hold, double-tap, pairs, buzzes): The button menu: every way a button can work.

Tutorials: under the hood

Section titled “Tutorials: under the hood”

The same things built by hand, with the library’s building blocks. Do them to learn how it works.

For teams

Section titled “For teams”

Guides

Section titled “Guides”

Modules

Section titled “Modules”

Every class and every function, one page per module. To look one thing up, search the reference.

Contributing to the library

Section titled “Contributing to the library”

For people who change the library itself, not for robot code.