pic: #TeamTablet

[kmodos]

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[Stephen Kowski]

very neat, any tech details on what's is going on here?

[dag0620]

This is beautiful. Great set up!

[Josh Goodman]

Looks like the strategy team has their scouting under control this year?

[jojoguy10]

Which tablets are those? They kind of look like the $50 Kindle tablets?

[kmodos]

Answering as many questions as I can with this post:

- The 6 identical tablets are the $50 Kindle Fire HD 7in, running CM 12.1. The other two are some sort of refurb lenovos we bought last year.
- We have an inverter that takes the 12v robot batteries and converts it to 120v AC to charge the tablets if we have no access to an outlet.
- There is an Anker 10 port usb charger, so that we only need one outlet at a time.
- We are running a custom scouting app.

Should be all of the questions. If you have more, feel free to ask.

[Stephen Kowski]

Originally Posted by kmodos

Answering as many questions as I can with this post:

- The 6 identical tablets are the $50 Kindle Fire HD 7in, running CM 12.1. The other two are some sort of refurb lenovos we bought last year.
- We have an inverter that takes the 12v robot batteries and converts it to 120v AC to charge the tablets if we have no access to an outlet.
- There is an Anker 10 port usb charger, so that we only need one outlet at a time.
- We are running a custom scouting app.

Should be all of the questions. If you have more, feel free to ask.

Very cool, thanks for the rundown.

[bhsrobotics1671]

We have a very similar setup this year. How are you handling the process of data? Are you sending the data from the scouts to a "master" tablet? Are you posting/syncing to the cloud at all?

[kmodos]

Originally Posted by bhsrobotics1671

We have a very similar setup this year. How are you handling the process of data? Are you sending the data from the scouts to a "master" tablet? Are you posting/syncing to the cloud at all?

It is stored locally to a SQL server and then pushed to a GAE NDB server when internet is available. The tablets can also retrieve from this server to get up-to date info on both our alliance partners and opponents. We also use the GAE bulkloader to get info into a .csv that we can analyze in either Tableau or Excel