Quote:
Originally Posted by Clayton E
Well, I am in charge of scouting for our team, so I would love to be able to fully utilize and iPad for scouting. We just took our students to their first iphone app development class, which they really enjoyed and are interested in.
For Rebound Rumble I would have loved students to be able to scout with an app on their iphone to simply press a button for 3 pt shot made, 3 pt shot missed, 2 pt shot made, 2 pt shot missed, solo balance, double balance, coopertition balance, etc. And then be able to pool that info from different phones into one source that is easy to search.
We scouted similarly this year, except for keeping track of every shot, just writing information down and putting it in Excel. We were glad we did when we knew what each robot could do when we played with/against them and especially glad when we were a captain picking our partners. So I guess my dream to scout just as much in the future, only finding a better way to do so.
|
If you look in the Google Play Store (IE the Android Store) you'll find Team 11's app: "Rebound Recorder"
There's a PC server side to the application as well that the database on the phone can transact data with so the scouts can just hand off all their data to a central location.
That's all student written. It's based on SQLite, PostgreSQL, Android and Linux (it don't know if works in Windows I'd have to ask).
Also there's no reason you couldn't control the robots with an iPad outside of competition. Somewhere on YouTube there's a video of someone driving a full size car with a cRIO and some actuators using an iPhone (and yes those were U.S. FIRST parts they got from somewhere). Insert jokes about communications problems and robots crashing made from full size automobiles here.