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Some food for thought:

1. Always make sure you have an ICE scouting sheet. Just in case the system doesn't work for competition, that sheet will save you.

2. Make it platform specific. If this year you decide to create an app for iOS, then stick with it. Don't try to reinvent the wheel each year by choosing a new platform and programming language.

3. Make sure you have a working prototype, and then refine it, before you try making the program look pretty. You will get caught up in Photoshop instead of Netbeans, Eclipse, or Xcode.

4. If you decide to create a network between the devices, make sure it is legal under the game rules. Team RUSH will be using a Bluetooth PAN, with a short enough radius to not interfere with the field.

5. If the network is just too hard to create, you other option is always pulling the data from the scouters onto a computer, and running some code in Excel. Beware, these sheets can take a very long time to load up and run their macros.

6. Getting the results to your pits: Think about this before you make any decisions. Will you be using a computer to do the main processing, or will you be using another tablet? If you decide to use a computer, you probably just want to print it off. But if you use another tablet, you can eliminate the time taken running down to the pits, and just message it to someone there.

I will be releasing an iOS based system this year, so if you have any questions about such a system, feel free to PM me here.