Team 1334 Presents: A new way of doing Scouting

[360skier]

Hi all,

One of the things I've been working on is a computerized scouting system for competitions. Basically the idea is to host a web server on a computer at competition and have other computers connect to it to input data. Here are some features that the system has:

• Customizable data fields (currently supports numerical and true/false data)
• Ability to open multiple input forms at once (in case computing resources are limited)
• Comment system for qualitative data
• Ability to rank teams based on any parameter
• Completely portable - can even be installed to a USB stick

The database system can be downloaded from http://othsrobotics.ca/scouting.html. A guide on how to use it is also available on that page.

Please be advised that there are still some minor bugs in the program so it might behave erratically. I hope to have an update out to fix the bugs before regionals start on Thursday, but if not I will update the guide to include workarounds for the remaining problems

Eric Atkinson,
Lead Programmer, Team 1334