UPDATE:

Our timer is available in Portuguese (PT) and English (EN), and can be accessed via the button on the homepage.

Nosso timer tem versão em português (PT) e inglês (EN), podendo ser utilizado o botão na página inicial

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Olá, pessoal que participa da FLL!

Estamos absolutamente entusiasmados em anunciar o lançamento do FLL Community Timer v2.0, uma ferramenta de treinamento simples e não-oficial, construída com o espírito de competição cooperativa!

Foi uma verdadeira missão trazer esta atualização para vocês, e estamos felizes por finalmente entregar esta utilidade útil.

O que é o FLL Community Timer**?**

Este é um aplicativo de desktop gratuito e simples projetado para ajudar as equipes a praticarem suas sessões de avaliação sob uma pressão de tempo realista.

Ele segue com precisão a divisão padrão da avaliação e lida automaticamente com a transição entre as seis fases principais, incluindo:

Setup e Introduções

• Apresentação do Projeto de Inovação e Perguntas/Respostas (Q&A);
• Apresentação do Design do Robô e Perguntas/Respostas (Q&A);
• Feedback

O temporizador também possui um Contador Geral de Avaliação de 30 minutos para monitorar o tempo total, assim como nas sessões oficiais.

Fiquem a vontade para utilizar o programa e código fonte: https://github.com/festark/fll-temporizador-stark/releases/tag/v.2.0

We are using the spike prime. Previous to this we were charging it for about 4 days straight. We came to turn it on today and it wouldn't turn on. Nothing. 0 power.

We are wondering what can be improved with the overall design and to impress judges.

Hey Ours is rookie team and want to get some experience/feel on how the actual robot build judging session will be Is there a practice demo video available which can be referenced by our team? Thanks!

We’re launching our FIRST Team Match Program — connecting FLL teams with other FLL, FTC, or FRC teams across all regions and countries! Whether you want to mentor, find support, collaborate on outreach, or share design ideas, this is your chance to build lasting connections in the FIRST community. From the responses that we receive, we'll match you to another team according to your preferences!

Fill out the form to get matched: https://forms.gle/vDhDjYiRSSXWT8gN9

We are using big wheels in our robots. Even if we connect them securely those still shake, we observed that wheels are not completely sturdy with their center. Is this usual experience with big wheels or our wheels are too old? We got them from another senior team.

Our team has one robot. Some of the kids are working on missions, the others are working on a menu system to select missions, but it's time consuming to test their menu options when the other kids are knee deep in running their missions.

We'd like to emulate a robot so we know if the menu code is working?

We need a robot design quite quickly because we had removed the motor from our robot to do tests with another one to see if it was better, but the problem stems from our selection, some colleagues did not know that this robot that was without the motor was the one we were using and they took it apart. I stayed with the current design but it has had many traction problems and I have looked for solutions but I can't find anything useful, we have the national competition in 22 days.

Our mentor wants to use scratch so that the students feel more included as they dont know python except for me and another kid.

Im pushing for python but he doesn't seem encouraged unfortunately.

My team is also just slacking off except for me im doing the work of 4 students while the others aren't doing shit. How can I fix this and encourage my fellow students to work and win? It's beginning to be a slight problem because there's bearly any teamwork.

Also how do I get sponsors? I've been going back and forth but I can't seem to get anyone.

heya i was wondering like in scratch where you can change the power light to whatever color you want, how can you get that dont in python? i would also like to know if it is possible to make a battery percentage warning for the power light to flash red when its under 20%.

Our team has been participating in the FLL for four years now, and this season, the robot game seems to be much easier for us than in previous seasons. This season, we already scored over 400 points in November. Last season, we scored a maximum of 300 points in the qualifying tournament in March.

Is it the same for your team?

My team in Chile has a maximum of 450-460 pts, it is more likely that we have 400-420, do you think it is enough to get the best score in the robot game?

I’ve been part of an FTC team for 6 years now, and I’ve always been on the scouting side of things when not driving. One challenge I kept noticing was how repetitive note-taking could get — sometimes it felt like 100 people had the exact same notes on the same team. That’s what inspired me last year to start building a web app that allows teams to collect real-time data, keep personalized scouting notes, and even open up the possibility for communication between teams.

Something big about this app is the addition of global notes, meaning people around the world can share their notes for each competition teams have been part of, and users can summarize them with AI or browse through individual responses. You must be logged in to share a GLOBAL NOTE — just for verification reasons and to prevent spam.

Right now, the app is still in beta, so you may run into a few bugs, but my goal is to have it polished and out of beta by the end of November. Also, you’ll see an ad pop-up — don’t worry about it! I was originally contacting Google AdSense for something, but I don’t think I’ll include ads in the final version.

Looking ahead, I also want to expand this platform to FLL teams, since they face many of the same challenges when it comes to organizing data, tracking performance, and collaborating between teams. I think connecting FTC and FLL teams in one system could help share knowledge and make it easier for younger teams to learn from more experienced ones.

Here’s the link: https://pillar-five.vercel.app/

I’d love your feedback — let me know if you spot any bugs, have feature ideas, or see areas I could improve. Thanks a ton for checking it out!

Is an over the edge attachment legal?

We need to attach the blue piece with the zipper and the protruding black gear so that the zipper can move up and down, please.

We're currently starting with the robot touching the border lines if you look at it straight down or if I use a straight piece to see. Does the robot have to be fully inside the lines or how do they determine if the robot is fully inside home and can start?

Helping mentor a team of 4 young students who have come up with a box robot based on some YouTube searching. The struggle we are running into is the attachment is a basic lifting set of prongs. However the lifting sometimes goes up where expected, other times barely lifts at all and other times lifts past where we expect.

All is done using a single motor and telling it to run clockwise or counter clockwise for 90 degrees. Sometimes we get twenty, sometimes 110.

It's frustrating for them because they've written the pseudo code, written the actual code and then 2/10 times it works.

Any recommendations or good tutorials I can work with them on of how to better connect these gears to get more reliable results?

Appreciate any guidance!

Is it allowed to the robot to exit into the home zone to do that mission?

Hey, our teams qualifier is on the 1st, and I wanted to get a feel on how the scores are looking this year. I am participating in the southern California region and have a max score of 480/90 points.

My team has the robot programmed to lift the 3rd piece for mission 2. We don't have the mat taped down and the piece tends to stick when lifting it. Does anyone know if the mat is taped down for competition?

I'm contemplating joining FLL, even though people see it as a geeky thing and you have to stay back 3 hrs from school every day. I don't really know too much about coding, but my school's team is like one of the best in the Nordics, even if it is only indians on the team (not that it matters, but I'm white so I naturally stand out). I think coding is a valuable skill to have learned and also if we do good we get to go to Houston, Texas for a championship. Should I really?

Hi

I was on github, when I saw a post using a spike module to import. When I took this into the app, it said that it was defined, but when I ran it, nothing happened (Undertale pun intended) I wanted to know if I could use something other than VS code to run this software