Attendance Tracking

[Lili_1868]

We have a scanner system, where our members scan in and out when they come to the lab.

[arpita]

We have a scanner system as well- students swipe their student id cards or enter their id number.
Here's a link to our github with the code. It runs in terminal.

[euhlmann]

Originally Posted by arpita

We have a scanner system as well- students swipe their student id cards or enter their id number.
Here's a link to our github with the code. It runs in terminal.

I'm really impressed, but why shell script?

[arpita]

Originally Posted by euhlmann

I'm really impressed, but why shell script?

It's convenient- on our team, all of software engineering has bash and many other members also have it. And it's easier than other languages like Java, though it's possible to use python (with bash I believe).

shoutout to our webmaster if he's reading this for the help

[rselwyn]

We use a scanner system with a django backend that manages all the data. Our code can be found here.

[Peter Johnson]

This is the sign-in app we use: https://github.com/team294/signinapp. It's written in Python+PyQt, can run with either a CSV backend or with our registration system (https://github.com/team294/roster). We run it on a Raspberry Pi but it works on Windows as well. One nice feature with this is that it integrates photo display so you can visually see who is logged in.

This app is visually inspired by akeisic's Excel-based sign-in system (https://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/2490). If you're looking for something super lightweight without any dependencies other than Excel, that's a great starting point.

[marshall]

This is what we use:

https://github.com/FRC900/timesheet

Other teams are using it as well. It's been a great system for us. It allows students to sign in and out using a barcode scanner attached to a Raspberry Pi.

[Sperkowsky]

We built an app for it last summer but never really had much luck with it. It was used for maybe a week before the novelty wore off and everyone stopped using it.

[jaunvie]

We just started using this http://m.ebay.com/itm/121927230981
It's a bit simplistic, but the kids love scanning their fingerprint. It's quick, easy, and no one can sign in for someone else. (No cheating ha,ha). We call ours BARF. Biometric Attendance Recording Facilitator. The kids also enjoy the name.
No need for a computer just plug it in and download the records on a flash drive. They come out in an excel file.
We haven't used it alot so I'm not sure how well it's really going to work for us, but I'm hopeful.