Electronic scouting using 7 laptops and a little mysql

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Originally Posted by saikiranra

That is especially important. More often than not, some other scouting management needs to be done, like reporting data or editing previous false data. A 7th computer is vital to keep electronic scouting seamless.

Our team used to run our scouting system on laptops. We would borrow 7 laptops from people on the team and give them back at the end of each day. Our problem with that setup, other than that laptops take a lot of power and our inverter went thru batteries very quickly, was that laptops are big and expensive. At each competition some scout would get tired or distracted and either drop the laptop or yank the cable out of the Ethernet port resulting in broken laptops. In 2014 we switched to nexus 7s, that we borrowed from the computer science teacher at school, on a USB network. Tablets are cheeper and less cumbersome and none of them broke.

As the drive coach I was given a tablet with updated data after every match.