FRCNewTab: Random team info & pretty robot photos in your new tab

[ErikBoesen]

For the past few months I've been working on a Chrome extension (FF coming soon) which displays information about a random team, including a nice background photo, on your new tab page. (Alternatively, activate Clock mode in the extension options to display the team whose number corresponds to the current time.) After several months of beta testing, the extension is now available!

View example screenshots, read more information, and download the extension on the Chrome Webstore page.

Or, checkout the extension on GitHub!

[NShep98]

Another way to shove FIRST into all my free time? I'll take it!


Just kidding. What free time?

[WinterPoet]

This is super cool! I love the way the tab has a link to a team's website.

[BrennanB]

Best add on in ages. Does it only filter teams that have robot pictures?

[Hitchhiker 42]

Considering dropping Firefox and moving to Chrome just for this because I want it now

[ErikBoesen]

Originally Posted by BrennanB

Best add on in ages. Does it only filter teams that have robot pictures?

I thought about doing that, but I decided to avoid excluding people, I would instead make teams without pictures automatically fallback to some generic FIRST photos which I pulled (with permission) from the FIRST Georgia Flickr page.

Hopefully tomorrow I'll be adding an option to hide teams without photos. Also, TBA is going to implement a "quality media" system, so once that's out I can create an option to avoid low quality photos.

[ErikBoesen]

Originally Posted by NShep98

Another way to shove FIRST into all my free time? I'll take it!


Just kidding. What free time?

frc_irl

Wait, this isn't reddit.

[Eugene Fang]

Originally Posted by ErikBoesen

Also, TBA is going to implement a "quality media" system, so once that's out I can create an option to avoid low quality photos.

It's live now.

[synth3tk]

I've been using this since it was still in "beta". Took a while to get used to not having my recent sites, but I got used to it. As an aspiring game announcer it's a huge help to learning various team names and numbers.

Plus it's just so darn pretty! Thanks Erik.

[astronautlevel]

Wow, this is amazing! Nice work!

It's just a shame that my team's number will never come up in clock mode

[MARS_James]

Can anyone explain this attached image?

EDIT: Took me about an hour of refreshing to get my team....worth!

[tjf]

Originally Posted by MARS_James

Can anyone explain this attached image?

EDIT: Took me about an hour of refreshing to get my team....worth!

That "randomly attached image" is the first image linked on TBA for that team's 2016 season. Why? Because a meme team didn't exist I guess

https://www.thebluealliance.com/team/2059

[BrennanB]

Originally Posted by ErikBoesen

I thought about doing that, but I decided to avoid excluding people, I would instead make teams without pictures automatically fallback to some generic FIRST photos which I pulled (with permission) from the FIRST Georgia Flickr page.

Hopefully tomorrow I'll be adding an option to hide teams without photos. Also, TBA is going to implement a "quality media" system, so once that's out I can create an option to avoid low quality photos.

Ah I see!

Also why do some of the images link to the team website rather than TBA? eg 1676?

[MARS_James]

Originally Posted by tjf

That "randomly attached image is the first image linked on TBA for that team's 2016 season.

https://www.thebluealliance.com/team/2059

I wasn't asking why I got the image, more so why the image exists

[tjf]

Originally Posted by BrennanB

Ah I see!

Also why do some of the images link to the team website rather than TBA? eg 1676?

The team number and team name link to different things.