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AKA: Michael Ray
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Re: Scouting using tablets

One of our programmers had a very cool idea with the Scouting app for our team. Since we are looking into sending match results over bluetooth, a custom app doesn't allow you to interface with the bluetooth connectivity by sending the files we wanted to send. So instead, we are coding our data into pictures, then sending the pictures over, and decompiling our pictures. It is the only way we can think of right now and it seems to be going well so we will continue with it. Last year we used iPads and just stored all the files locally and downloaded them to a master computer 5 matches before our match, in which we ran a macro in excel to analyze the data, then passed to myself and my other driver to go and take around to our alliance to prepare for the match. This year, we hope that the picture files will allow us to be constantly updated and possibly allow the drive team to have a 7th iPad in which we will have automatic data in the pits.
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Driving Record: 93-64-0 Best Finish: Finalist (x4 FiM Districts)
Coaching Record: 16-7-0 Best Finish: Winner (Kettering Invitationa)l

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