FIRST Open House

The Penguineers

We are The Penguineers, a FIRST Tech Challenge team based out of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Every year, as part of our challenge, we design, build and program a robot that competes in competition. Through the FIRST program, we learn engineering, programming, and machinery skills, as well as the problem solving, public speaking, teamwork and leadership skills essential for any career.

About The FIRST Open House

The FIRST Open House is a resource database for anyone learning or looking into FTC/FIRST. The Website provides tutorials and resources designed to help any new team/FIRST student to succeed in their STEM endeavors. On the website there are engineering, programming and CAD resources from multiple sources along with much more. Overall the mission of this website is to establish and improve knowledge of FIRST worldwide although it is still a work in progress.

Links

OnBot Java Tutorials

This is one of the Penguineers' programming tutorial series. This series goes beyond just normal FTC programming basics and hits the deep nuances of methods and challenging processes in OnBot Java.

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Engineering Tutorials

Here are some of our engineering tutorials for FTC CENTERSTAGE season. These videos cover a variety of concepts helpful in robotics. They are overall a great way to get into learning about FTC engineering, and they are made by us too!

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CAD Tutorials

In these tutorials we will introduce new SolidWorks users to the software, and some good design practices and skills for making good robot models to use in FTC.

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Past Robots

Here are some of our robots from previous seasons. I know it may be confusing to start building a robot in FTC. Hopefully these past examples show you and give you some inspiration for your robot this year.

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