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Unread 05-04-2010, 13:09
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Re: Does your team use Laptops for Scouting?

Our team heavily bases their scouting on the use of laptops. We take all paper scouting we do and enter it into a laptop, and from there we can get customized scouting sheets for our drive team, telling them about each robot's average contribution, balls moved, elevation rate, how they can elevate, and even the percentage of times their human player drops balls. We use other laptops for notes, taking videos from the stands to the pits to show our team, and one for general purposes for our team (ex: printing off schedules, getting agendas, whatever documents our team will need over the course of the weekend).

We've attended Kettering, Ann Arbor, and the MSC, and we've had no problems getting power at any of these. We set up our scouting area in a place close to outlets (wether or not we can see the field), and run a power strip out to plug everything in. At Kettering (the field house), we set up behind the stands, at Ann Arbor (Skyline High School) we set up on the track, and at the MSC, we set up in a handicap section overlooking the side of the field and the pits, and also had no problems getting power.
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