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Re: Electronic scouting using 7 laptops and a little mysql

FRC Team 1741 (Greenwoood, IN) does Scouting using a Raspberry Pi running as a LAMP server;
Linux (Raspbian), Apache, MySQL, and PHP(/Javascript/html).

It has worked out pretty well for us in the 2014 season.

Due to the FIRST rules-restriction of not being able to setup a Wifi hotspot
in the stands, we use an 8-port network switch to connect 7 mini-laptops
to the scouting subnet.

We are in the process of redoing the architecture the underlying MySQL relational database for the
2015 Recycle Rush Challenge.

We have a 'Team Rankings Parameters' MySQL table, which the scouters can
edit (add/edit) a set of 'named' weighting coefficients for computing Team Rankings based on the selected
coefficients 'vector' - and rankings can be computed at any time during scouting. For 2015, the database
has changed to allow any scouter to compute rankings independent of other scouters.

I would be glad to ZIP up and send (or put onto an internet/ftp server) last year's complete code on request.

Jon Cardwell
Red Alert Robotics 1741 Mentor