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Unread 20-01-2016, 15:00
Alex Webber Alex Webber is offline
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FRC #1810 (Jaguar Robotics)
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Re: So Glad That Scouting Has A Place This Year

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Originally Posted by alextried View Post
Can you elaborate on this? I'm so curious to see how this was implemented.
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Originally Posted by TheSousaLife View Post
How does one scout with Xbox controllers?
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Originally Posted by Peyton Yeung View Post
I think one of the AZ teams used wii controllers for scouting.
Our programming team wrote our own ranking program using our own data last year. I had the responsibility of taking input from xbox controllers and transferring it to the computer, writing it entirely by myself.

We wrote a program with a display of each variable we wanted to track, and there were 6 little panels for each team. Each controller represented a panel, and when you pressed certain buttons, the variable would increase.

It had many disadvantages, and our match scooters (everyone) weren't very impressed, but the data was spot on.
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Jaguar Robotics FRC 1810
2015 | Greater Kansas City Regional 16/54
2016 | Greater Kansas City Imagery Award
2016 | Iowa Regional
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