Bluetooth at competitions

[nathanwalters]

Thanks to both of you for your quick replies. I'll talk to Al at kickoff this Saturday (Speaking of kickoff, I can't wait! ) and see what he has to say. Both of your replies line up with what I've seen in the past (not explicitly forbidden, but anecdotally it has been disallowed during competition). As for my teammate, I'm not sure with what authority he says that. I'll check with him later, as he sounded pretty definitive.

On a side note, I did find a workaround for the flash drive issue discussed in the original post. If any teams reading this in the future run into a similar issue, contact me and I can help you out.

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by nathanwalters

On a side note, I did find a workaround for the flash drive issue discussed in the original post. If any teams reading this in the future run into a similar issue, contact me and I can help you out.

Just be sure you check CD every day for the next 15-20 years, because that's how long your post will likely be visible and relevant here on CD.

Or just write it up and post it as a whitepaper, so anyone in the future has their answer, immediately. Maybe?

[BigJ]

"Who were you, nathanwalters? What did you see?!" (http://xkcd.com/979/)

[Wren Hensgen]

Speaking to the issue with FTC, the new FTC controls system does not use bluetooth (Thankfully), so that should not be an issue.

[nathanwalters]

Thank you Wren, that's good to know.

I fully intend on writing up a whitepaper once development of our system is complete, both as a resource for anyone looking to build their own scouting system as well as a resource for future members of my own team so they know how to maintain the system. Who knows, we could even open-souece the code! That last post was simply a stopgap solution until my teammates and I can finish the system and write up a whitepaper.

[Wren Hensgen]

What tablets were you planning on using? I have a rooted nexus 7 (2012), which does allow hot-swap, but only if you root it first, and install an app designed to allow you to access the external storage. There are quite a few of them on Play.

[nathanwalters]

We might want to move this discussion off into another thread about scouting tablets (as if there weren't already enough!) so we can keep the focus of this thread on Bluetooth.