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Re: Complete scouting overhaul - where to start?

Before you jump feet first into a technology solution make sure you can get power to it for the entire event, at the events my team attends power in the stands is nonexistent and I haven't been willing to dump the money into power inverter(s) and batteries to go along with a technology solution.

Technology wise I've seen the following implemented in some form or another:
DS, Smartphone, Tablet, and Laptops.

If tablets get cheap enough before this build season we might consider it but I wonder what kind of battery life we are looking at under heavy usage.

Speaking of "cheap" tablets rumor has it you can boot a nook color from and SD card to run a ROM and if you take the SD card out its a normal nook color again.

All that said we still use paper forms, clipboards, notebooks, and the magic white board!
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