Things to Take to Competitions

TOOLS:

1. crimping tool for PWM cables
2. crimping tool for lugs
3. needle-nosed plier / flat nose
4. wire cutters
5. soldering iron
6. soldering gun (for big wires)
7. solder LEAD FREE
   
8. solder-wick- coppersuckyuppythingy
   
9. solder sucker thing
10. wire stripper for big wires
11. wire stripper for small wires
12. WAGO tool !!!
13. phillips / flathead screwdriver
14. digital multimeters (and spare battery for the multimeter)
15. wrenches to attach battery cables to batteries - pliers, hex wrench (I think it's 3/8 or maybe 5/16)
16. numerous amounts of differently coloured electrical tape!
17. utility knife
18. scissors
19. Battery Chargers
    
20. Heat gun
    
21. SHARPIEZ
22. ZIP TIE GUN

PARTS:

1. PWM pins (male and female)
2. fast-on crimp terminals (yellow, male & female)
3. ring lugs crimp terminals (for speed controllers)
4. PWM cable
5. spare Jaguar speed controller
6. spare Victor speed controller
7. spare Banner photoelectric sensor
8. spare US Digital shaft encoder
9. zip ties, label ones too YAY!
   
10. spare mouse circuit boards
11. nuts & bolts to attach battery cables to batteries
12. spare microswitch
13. Heat shrink wrap
14. 10 AWG, whatever random sized wires sample size to bring

DOCUMENTATION:

1. FIRST rules on robot construction (Section 8)
2. our electrical system summary spreadsheet