What's the score?

[Jared Russell]

As FiM and MAR and future district model implementations push FRC fields into more and more non-standard arena layouts, I would love to see the score incorporated into the field itself.

[JesseK]

Displaying it on the FMS might be more useful and less costly than displaying it on screens off to the side. It's also less like to interfere with someone's view of the field. It's also highly unlikely to screw with camera targetting like gigantic screens do.

For this year, it seems like a coaching adjustment is needed. One of the hardest things to do as a coach is not focus on your robot during the match. Watching the clock and score is pretty easy once you get into that habit. Do it like pilots do -- periodic sweeping views of every bot on the field and then the score. The clock is already displayed in an easy-to-view place.

[Colin P]

At IRI in 2010 there was a large monitor on the side of the field in front of the tech table. Also at nationals in 2010, the screens were huge and just to the side of the fields which made it very easy to see.
I wouldn't advocate putting the scores down near the drivers station because I always hate looking down at the controls when there's all kinds of stuff going on out on the field. I think above the clocks, a spot that is already aimed at being visible to every alliance, would be a great spot.

[Jeffy]

At every regional I have been to, you can see the video feed from both driver stations. However, many times the video hasn't had scores listed on it. To me, that's unacceptable. I support any route of action you choose to mitigate this problem.

[cgmv123]

At the very least there needs to be DriverStation.getAllianceScore() and DriverStation.getOppositionScore() methods, which could be used to feed dashboard.

[Grim Tuesday]

Time remaining would be a nice variable to feed to the robot and driver station as well.

[cgmv123]

Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday

Time remaining would be a nice variable to feed to the robot and driver station as well.

There is getMatchTime(), but it is "unofficial". The DriverStation class does have some pretty useful functions. One I'm hoping to implement for our shooter is getBatteryVoltage().