For those of you that attended the NYC Regional, if you would have walked on over to Team 810's pit area, you would have seen that on a laptop we were running a nice-looking timer that counts down to our next match, making it easy for anyone - team members, scouts, judges - to be able to tell at a glance when our next match is and approximately how much time is left.
Well, the response that I got from making this flash program was extremely positive, so I decided to spice it up a bit and make it available to anyone who wants it.
Basically this program is a Macromedia Flash file that runs full screen and in a neat format, displays the current time, the time of your teams next match, and a count-down to it. When the time left gets to a certain (adjustable) point, the program starts to blink the time left and a warning message to get your attention and cause you to finish your repairs
and get on the queue line.
At the NYC Regional, we ran it on a laptop that we placed on our pit table and voila! Everyone on the team always knew exactly how much time was left until we were back on the field charging into robots and goals.
For now you can get it from our website by clicking
here. Hopefully it will be up on the Whitepages soon. Any feedback?