well, somebody had to be first

[Tom Fairchild]

What software did you guys use on your Palm OS handhelds last year? Team 122 (me!) used PenDragon Forms, with great success. Did a great job of throwing all of our data into one Access (Yes, I know. I don't like Microsoft much either) database and was also really easy for people to get training on. Team members just had to follow on screen questions and instructions to get good, quality data. We also had Eye Module 2 cameras for each of our Visors which mean that we could take decent quality pics after collecting all the data. Let me tell you - a picture really is worth a thousand words. It can sum up a lot of ideas that take forever to explain through jestures.

Speaking of which (sorry, I know the post is running long...), is there some way that "we" could collect at least one picture of every robot before the first competition? Right before VCU last year, I hopped online and found as many pictures as I could of the teams that were going to be there. Being able to recognize them and then do follow-up research helped a bundle.


~Tom Fairchild~, who headed up scouting last year and discovered just how extreme it can get!