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MARSLib Documentation

Impact & Community Sharing

Impact is how we truly measure our success. While winning matches is nice, the real goal of MARS 2614—and FIRST Robotics as a whole—is changing our culture for the better.

The 2017 Chairman’s Legacy

Section titled “The 2017 Chairman’s Legacy”

As the 2017 FIRST Championship Impact Award winners and Hall of Fame members, MARS operates on “The MARS Plan”: Engage, Inspire, Sustain, Progression of Programs, and Creating Leaders.

MARSLib is a huge piece of that plan. By packaging our entire robot software into an open, well-documented, and student-friendly tool, we are reaching teams around the whole world.

Raising the Floor

Section titled “Raising the Floor”

We don’t want MARSLib to just be a fancy tool for the top 1% of teams. Our Impact strategy focuses on “raising the floor” so that every team has a chance:

  • We release Zero-to-MARS tutorials that walk beginners through hard setups step-by-step.
  • We release special warning tools (like “ProjectDoctors”) that act like an automated mentor to find wiring or code issues for teams out there who might not have an adult software coach.
  • We share our IO Abstraction (hardware splitting) so that teams with no money can still learn and write awesome logic in a free computer simulation before they ever buy a motor.

When you help write for MARSLib, you are taking part in a global effort to make advanced computer science free and powerful for thousands of students everywhere.