FTC Robotics for Beginners and Beyond: A Complete Guide to Building, Programming, Testing, and Competing with FIRST Tech Challenge Robots
Language: English
Published by Independently published, 2026
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- Title
- FTC Robotics for Beginners and Beyond: A Complete Guide to Building, Programming, Testing, and Competing with FIRST Tech Challenge Robots
- Author
- Mirel, Jason
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798193665243
FTC Robotics for Beginners and Beyond is a practical, step-by-step guide to building, programming, testing, and competing with FIRST Tech Challenge robots. Whether you are completely new to robotics or ready to take your FTC skills further, this book provides a structured path from foundational concepts to advanced robot development.
Starting with the fundamentals of FTC robotics, readers learn how robots are designed, how motors, mechanisms, sensors, and electronics work together, and how to approach robot development using a practical engineering process. The book then moves into Java programming and the FTC SDK, providing the foundation needed to create real robot programs.
You will learn how to:
- Design and build effective FTC robot mechanisms
- Work with motors, servos, sensors, and electronics
- Program robots with Java and the FTC SDK
- Create reliable TeleOp controls
- Develop autonomous routines
- Use localization, odometry, and trajectories
- Apply computer vision and AprilTags
- Analyze games and develop competitive robot designs
- Prototype and improve mechanisms using CAD
- Test, debug, and optimize robot performance
- Prepare for competitions and develop match strategies
- Use scouting and alliance strategies effectively
- Apply advanced programming and control techniques
- Organize an effective FTC team
- Document engineering decisions and testing results
- Develop a continuous-improvement process
- Build skills that extend beyond FTC into advanced robotics and engineering
Rather than focusing only on how to make a robot move, this book teaches the engineering mindset behind successful robotics. Readers learn how to identify problems, evaluate solutions, prototype ideas, test designs, analyze failures, and continuously improve their systems.
Practical examples, programming concepts, troubleshooting guidance, formulas, testing checklists, technical references, and development resources make this book useful both as a learning guide and as a reference throughout an FTC season.
Whether you are an FTC beginner, student programmer, robot builder, aspiring engineer, robotics mentor, or experienced team member, FTC Robotics for Beginners and Beyond provides the knowledge and practical framework needed to move from building your first robot to developing more capable, reliable, and competition-ready robotic systems.
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