The Blue Alliance

Courtesy of Boston University and Boston FIRST, The Blue Alliance is proud to present two more of Boston University’s FIRST workshops online! The first two videos we presented focused on Programming and Fund Raising. These next two are audio-only, and focus on Scholarships and Pneumatics!
Thanks again to Boston University and Boston FIRST for providing us […]

Each year, Boston University and Boston FIRST run a series of workshops for Boston area teams to come and learn about different aspects of running a FIRST Robotics team. These workshops generally consisted of presentations given by FIRST veterans willing to share their knowledge of how to do anything, on topics ranging from wiring an […]

Right before Kickoff this year, we challenged you all to join The Blue Alliance by helping spread the idea of helping others learn through the FIRST community. Hundreds of told your friends about The Blue Alliance, scores of you joined the Facebook group, and thousands of people have seen the TBA userbars you added to […]

Once again, this weekend’s edition of Weekend Projects is a useful tutorial for FIRST teams! This episode shows you how to use all of a multimeter’s functions. You can check out the episode on the MAKE: Blog.
If you’re involved with the electrical side of your team, you’re going to want to know how to use […]

While we try to bring you as much instructional video content as we can, we are busy with school and building our own robots. Sometimes we stumble across other people out there who have made something that we think you might find very helpful. When we do, we post it here so that you can […]