When setting up new laptops for the team, Triple Helix installs the following suite of programs.

All laptops

• Clean install of Windows 10 or higher
• Google Chrome

FRC driver station laptops

Triple Helix strongly endorses WPILib’s Driver Station Best Practices guide for driver station laptops.

• NI Game Tools
• WPILib

FRC software development laptops

All software required for an FRC driver station laptop, plus:

• Development environment essentials
  • Git
  • Clang, ClangD, and ClangD extension for VSCode
  • Visual Studio Community for C++ simulation
  • HelixNavigator
• Networking utilities
  • FRC Radio Configuration Utility for configuring robot radios for home use
  • Angry IP Scanner
  • PuTTY (example usage: networking with Beelink Mini PC)
• FRC vendor hardware clients
  • REV Hardware Client
  • CTRE Phoenix Framework and Phoenix Tuner
• Miscellaneous
  • CBA battery analysis software
  • Etcher (example usage: burning flash drives for Beelink Mini PC)

FRC mechanical design / CAD laptops

• PTC Creo
• Lightburn
• PrusaSlicer

TORC development laptops

• Open-TX
• Betaflight Configurator
• PrusaSlicer