I'm really interested in this now. Personally, I own a DS and would like to put it to good use.
I downloaded an emulator and took a look at the 07 program and the 08 program you have so far.
It looks really good but here's my dilemma: My team has already made a scouting sheet. We document the match-by-match performance of each robot very well. When it comes to alliance selection though, its difficult for us to slog through the mountain of papers and messy handwriting right before its time to select our teammates.
If we had one DS on our team, our head scout could select maybe 20 of the top robots we're looking at and summarize their performance, strategy, and general information. The information would be transferred from the paper, to the DS. Information could be quickly scrolled through by our coach who is picking alliances on the field.
Ultimately, my point is this: Match-by-match robot documentation on the DS requires six of them. I wish the DS was used more as a tool to streamline summary information about top robots. Maybe something like this:
TEAM#: 1351 (dial)
NAME: (dial) (color chooser to highlight?) Mitty Robotics
Grade: A / B / C / D / F
Seed: (dial)
Wins/Losses: (dial)
Average Points: (dial)
Hybrid Strategy (circle all that apply): Rabbit / De-Cap / Herder / Hurdler
Tele-Op Strategy (circle all that apply): Rabbit / De-Cap / Herder / Hurdler
Place on Overpass? Y / N
Hurdle Mechanism: (keyboard input)
Herder Mechanism: (keyboard input)
This is just an idea. I'm not a programmer so I wouldn't have the best ideas on how one would go about doing this. I might run this by one of our guys to see what they think (and to see if they can do it in two weeks)
I will, however, also introduce your program to my team when it's finished
to see if we can do something similar for next year.
thanks for your work
Sam