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Unread 28-03-2009, 04:54
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Re: [FTC]: Email Blast: FIELD MANAGEMENT FORMAT FOR FTC WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

I was at the Florida Regional and they already implemented this "each team uses their own computer" rule.
I'll comment that it ran very smoothly. The amount of delay per match was down to just putting the robots down and that was something to marvel.
In all my matches, i never saw one person push the start button too early or too late. While this won't necessarily be the case in all situations, i'm just noting that people's reaction speed and honesty are to be trusted.

As for the bluetooth dongle thing. I've already figured out that it comes down to simply the bluetooth stack. I noted that the bluetooth dongle they provide us uses the Generic Microsoft Bluetooth stack. I was basically sick of using the dongle they provided us with and wanted to simply used the built in bluetooth in my laptop. (even though a laptop comes with a different stack, it's very easy to convert the stack it uses with a system ini file, yell if you need this process. It should be possible to use the microsoft stack with any dongle. *should* but not guaranteed)

But looking at that linksys dongle they used. Yeah, i'm very sure that thing looks much better than the one they gave us..and for good reason. They're managing 4 robots on one computer.

I've had pretty good results with a $4 bluetooth dongle i found on dealextreme. So I'm not exactly positive if the linksys dongle would be "better" for our purposes.
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