Standard software suite for team laptops

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