HeatWave - Scouting made EASY

[JasonS]

Well Its that time of year again! Team HeatWave has been working diligently on its handheld scouting application for release to the public.

This year, we switched development environments from Sat. Forms to App Forge Mobile VB, and we are very pleased with the new abilities of our software. As of tonight (Tues March 4) we have the handheld beta version a few hours away from completion. In the end, the software will have handheld, desktop, and web interfacing components. What we will be releasing tomorrow on our web site (www.heatwave312.com) is the first beta release of the handheld software only. This software will work on both palm powered pda's as well as pocket pc.

The handheld software has the ability to view all the teams according to their corresponding regionals and then collect and save robot and match information on each team. There is also a search form which allows the user to find specific teams that fit any of the given criteria (according to what is saved for each team in their robot info page). The last two main features of the software are a strategy recorder, where you can draw on an image of the field and save up to ten different strategies, and a scoring calculator.

Once again, this is simply a beta version of the software, there will be much more to come!! And we are more than open to any and all constructive criticism. Our goal is to make this the most efficient and simple way for everyone to obtain info on all the teams. Check under the strategy link on our website tomorrow throughout the day, for the first release. Any questions please feel free to ask, we want this software to be used as much as possible so download it, put it in our pda, give it a try this weekend at the regionals and let us know what you think!!