Scouting app platform

[snoman]

Of those teams who have created one. What development platform did you use? What would you recommend. We have a into to computer science class that gets into MIT app inventor. Thanks

[cjl2625]

The scouting system I created was done in python. Students bubble in scouting data in a scantron-like form, then it gets scanned into the computer and processed by python program. The data are sent to a website, built from a python backend (CherryPy), where scouts can see the database updated live.

[EDesbiens]

I would like to create a platform like that too... But I want it to be offline... Any suggestion?

[saikiranra]

Local WAMP/XAMPP servers with simple HTML forms work well.

[asid61]

Originally Posted by EDesbiens

I would like to create a platform like that too... But I want it to be offline... Any suggestion?

We made something that used QR codes to transfer data. Basically after each slave phone finished taking data like team, score, etc., it would make a big QR code with all the data in it. One master phone would scan each slaves' QR code to get data from each match.

[trumpthero786]

Originally Posted by asid61

We made something that used QR codes to transfer data. Basically after each slave phone finished taking data like team, score, etc., it would make a big QR code with all the data in it. One master phone would scan each slaves' QR code to get data from each match.

That sounds very similar to what my team, Storm 2729 uses, as explained by our Lead Mentor! I hope this helps! It works really well for us and is very organized. It does require Android devices, which might be a turn off. We use Eclipse for development. But good luck on your scouting ventures!

Originally Posted by nlknauss

Up until last year, our team had completed all of our scouting on paper which as you know has its pros and cons. We wanted to develop a scouting app that would simple data acquisition and migration without the need to use networks, bluetooth, and pen drives. Brainstorming happened and we think we've made a simple, user friendly application for all your scouting needs using QR code data transfer! The app works without internet connection, USB drives, and bluetooth - all you need is an Android device with a camera.

This year’s apps (yes there’s two) allows you to save and analyze vital information about other teams such as points scored, tote stacks, container stacks, and noodles. Equipped with a lightning fast QR code scanner and a QR analyzer, this app will simplify scouting.

Here’s how the two app process works:

• The User App generates a QR code which contains match data about other teams
• The Master App scans the QR code
• The Master App sorts teams based on points, coopertitions, tote levels, and all other fields
• The analyzed information from the QR code is converted into a CSV file
• The CSV file can be opened in the app itself or in another spreadsheet application, such as Microsoft Excel

You can access it and check more screen shots out on our website and on the Google Play Store in the next few days. We’ll post a reply when it’s available.

There’s a lot of great scouting apps out there and we hope you’ll give it a try. Feel free to reply to this thread with questions, comments, and thoughts. Our students and team can’t wait to hear your feedback and hope that you enjoy their work!


Enjoy!

[weaversam8]

We built a system using PHP for the backend, and JS/HTML5/CSS on the front end— it worked reasonably well.