FIRST Robotics Information Database

[Hailfire]

Just to inform you, Rob Bayer and I are working on a project that will make scouting easier. This will reduce the risk of losing those scouting papers by doing it electronically! I don't know when it will be done though.

[Cory]

There are numerous numerous threads about this recently in the scouting forum. Maybe your time would best be spent helping with these since it seems as if there is talk of a standard going around.


Cory

[Brandon Martus]

A standard of exporting the data to share with others, if desired. The program itself can be made however people want...

[Jeff Waegelin]

I would talk to Jack on my team. He and a few others (whom I do not recall) are working on a standard system for scouting data.

EDIT: You can find some of his info here: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=15885

[Hailfire]

Well, maybe if we combine our ideas, we can make one big database that works properly. Here is the following of what the main page looks like:

[Jack]

that looks good. I'm guessing that was made in either VB or VC++ (or something like that)

Once again, i'd check out the thread about the standard. It looks like you are off to a good start, but missing a few key things.

First, i'd hate to have to type in each team name. What i would do, is for the regionals you want to go to the list of all teams and what events i compliled in the General FIRST fourm. Insert that data into a table, and whenever a team_number is entered, have it pull the name and location.

Second, a few fields i personally don't think are needed. (# ppl on team) Also, i dought that most teams will know their actual ft/sec. Or they will just pull a value that sounds good to them, or just have a 'well w/o friction' thing

Then, you will also want standart answers to strenghts/weeknesses. Finally, i'd think that you would want to also gather data for each match.

Good Luck!

PS: I know, i'll try to get around to making an Access DB that will be complient with the 'standard' and allow uploading to www.feds201.com However, I need to write code for our 'Team Profiles' first, then the actual uploading/downloading/viewing code, then I need to learn access XP (which is more different from 95 in terms of SQL than i thought ) Another team member is making a Win CE app that teams will be able to use.

[Hailfire]

The last time I edited it was probably 2 weeks ago and I used VC++ to make it. If you have any other suggestions, or additions, please post them. Thanks.