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Re: A New Way to Scout

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Originally Posted by DampRobot View Post
I don't know if I would trust data that's gathered by "the community" for more than cursory overviews of robots.
Data sharing will never replace good scouting. I would, however, trust data more than OPR for events I haven't attended in person, or scouted via webcast.

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Originally Posted by Qbot2640 View Post
We have been considering this issue as well. Our team does not universally have smartphones or tablets...but in a one-to-one school they all have chromebooks. Is there any reason why we could not create a six-user WIRED network with a laptop as the "server" and write some html scouting form to use in an intra-net type setup?
You pretty much described our scouting setup, with the caveat that we use paper sheets that are then entered via an HTML form, using node.js.

Let's just say that we found a new purpose for old robot D-Link bridges.
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