Introducing Electronic Scouting: Tablets

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Our team bought Nexus 7s last year, and they worked incredibly well. If you can't program them, these tablets can handle all of the open source scouting apps for Android so you can pick your favorites, or it can use an online scouting solution like frcscout.com.

The reasons our team loved them follows:

1. They are the perfect size to hold. Not to big, but large enough to easily enter data and scout

2. Camera helps with pit scouting

3. MASSIVE battery means that you don't have to bring an inverter to recharge the tablets in the stands.

4a. Optional, but we solved the WiFi problem by getting a mobile data Sim card for the tablets. If you are interested, we found a free plan for small data usage (which if you only use it for scouting apps, you will almost never reach it)

4b. As lead data, I used the devices tethering capabilities to sync to our online database from the pits to give our coach the freshest data. Also useful at team scouting meetings where being able to look up stuff without WiFi is important.

5. If your team wants to start programming, it is easier to do on a tablet because it uses Java, a language some of your programmers should know. Apple uses less common languages.

Also, about the same price as a mini. (At least it was at the time we bought them).

PM me if you have specific questions.