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Unread 19-05-2016, 14:25
GreyingJay GreyingJay is offline
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Re: Pit monitor idea

I had plans to put something together like this (or give it to a student as a project). I would use either the FIRST event API or The Blue Alliance, then reformat the data as needed, like show only our upcoming matches and highlight our team number.

The issues I thought about were:
- live internet access for updates - would require tethering to a phone for connectivity, unless the venue had reliable WiFi in the pits
- match delays, as they add up, would make the upcoming match times less and less useful. I guess you could put in an interface to manually advance the "Next Matches" screen, or just always show everything.

At minimum you could just open up a PDF of the match schedule as provided to teams the day before the event.

(In the end this was left undone as, you can well imagine, we were very busy with other things, like getting our robot running)
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