Coding & Robot Resources
Where to learn robot design, and where to find a build to start from.
Tools
Start here — where you write the code, and where to ask when you get stuck.
Helpful Videos
General ideas that work in any season — funnels, one-way doors, and the habits that make a run repeatable. Learn these once and reuse them every year.
Master FIRST LEGO League: Top Robot Design Strategies!
What makes a competition robot fast, accurate, and repeatable — chassis, attachments, and the design tradeoffs behind them.
Watch on YouTube →How to build Funnels for FLL
Funnels guide a mission model into place even when the robot arrives slightly off — the single biggest win for consistency.
Watch on YouTube →AWESOME One-Way Door Designs for your FLL Robot
Passive attachments that let a model in but not back out, so you can collect on the way past without stopping.
Watch on YouTube →FLL Consistency Cheat Code
Why a run that works four times out of five loses to a slower one that works every time, and how to get there.
Watch on YouTube →FLL Robot Building Instructions & Tutorials (Step-by-Step)
A full playlist of builds you can follow along with, brick by brick.
Watch on YouTube →Team Showcases
Real robots from real teams, built for a specific season’s missions. Watch for how they solved a problem — borrow the mechanism, then design your own robot around this year’s missions.
Our World Record Robot (680 points!)
A full design walkthrough of a world-record robot — how the team chose attachments and sequenced their runs.
FLL Unearthed Max Point Solutions
A whole season of mission solutions built around simple passive attachments — start with the 545-point run.
Design Libraries
Proven base robots and attachments with full build instructions. Pick one as a starting point, then modify it for your team’s mission strategy.
PrimeLessons
Droids RoboticsBuild instructions and code for training robots — Coop Bot, the Droid Bot family, and modular bases for SPIKE Prime.
Creative Commons — cite the source if you use a design in competition.
FLLTutorials
FLLTutorials.comTen base robot designs plus 20+ lessons on navigation, line following, gyro turns, gearing, and mission strategy.
FLLCasts
fllcasts.comHundreds of step-by-step robot designs, attachments, and programming courses.
Jahn has a team subscription — sign in with the team login to watch.
MiniMAX on BuildIn3D
buildin3d.comInteractive 3D build instructions for MiniMAX — a compact competition robot that fits in a single SPIKE Prime set. Rotate and zoom each step.
Preview is free; full steps need the FLLCasts subscription.