Scouting Database

[Robert Hafner]

Dear FIRST Teams:

For the past couple of weeks, Team 96 has been working to make the scouting process easier for all of the teams. All of the emails flying all over the place, the individual notebooks full of information, it all seemed a little too much for us. Of course, it didn't help when we lost one of our clipboards full of information last year.

So, the Team 96 Scouting Database was born.

Available on our website, http://www.team96.org, the database is viewable by everyone. We ask teams to register, and fill out a simple form, and their information will be posted for everyone to see, however any team can view it regardless of whether they register or not. Your team can even link to their page on out site, or place the links wherever you want.

Please check it out at http://www.team96.org/scouting/ and give us your feedback. Like everything on our website, this database program will continue to grow, with more features and options for all of the teams.

We have put a lot of work into this, so please sign up. I think all of the teams should find this a little more organized than the usual mad-dash through the pit areas, or the pre-competition email frenzy.

Good luck with this years competition from Team 96!


Robert Hafner
Team Programmer, Webmaster

[Solace]

one big problem - it allows you to choose from speeds between 1 and 10. there are robots in first that go much faster than that. i would suggest you set the maximum choice for speed to something like 16 or 17? i do not believe that there is any robot faster than that.

also, you could include an option for gear shifting.

instead of scaling the power from 1 to ten, you could simply have teams enter in the number of foot/pounds their robot can produce (much more definitive - what exactly is a 7 anyways?). you could have two entry zones, for two gears if applicable.

another option is a description of the wheels (this is very important in robot design.) oh, and a check box for being able to climb the platform would be cool too.

other than that, its a good database. seeing that SOAP isn't online yet, its the only one available to this point.

[Robert Hafner]

Thanks. I made a few of the adjustments right now, and will be doing some more tomarrow.

Fixed:

Speed (allowed up to twenty)
Power (allow user entry, instead of menu)




I'll be adding the other fields tomarrow, however its almost midnight and I don't feel like playing with the database structure at the moment.

Thank you for your input. If you have any other suggestions, I'll be happy to hear them.

[Robert Hafner]

I also fixed the entry page show the teams registered menu went in order of number, not order of joining (making my team the top of the list made me seem arrogent ;) )

[Robert Hafner]

Well, i fixed a lot of crap, made it so it couldn't be randomly hijacked (thanks again deltacoder!) and added some more option to some more fields.

There are also a few more teams on it now, which I think it cool.

In other words, check it out.