Introducing the Driver Strategy Database's Online Database

[impulse3D]

As a member of the FIRST community, I am proud to introduce the beta for the never-before-seen Online Database component of the Driver Strategy Database.

The Driver Strategy Database (DSD) is software that my friend Raivo and I developed last year to help promote team data organization and competition strategy management. This year, we've worked hard on the DSD (as well as other aspects of FIRST Robotics) and are introducing, just in time for the first Regional events tomorrow, the Online Database component to the software.

The Online Database operates in a Wiki fashion and allows teams to share basic, yet essential, information concerning their Robotics team. Information currently ranges from areas of basic information to robot details and even a custom field for team profiles.

Within a week, the DSD local application will be released in beta, which will allow teams to download the existing online database and view it locally. Repercussions of such capabilities would be to bring the database to a regional event and quickly see the robot capabilities of those with whom you're partnered in an alliance--and those with whom you're against. Essentially, we're trying to create a one-stop location for all of the information you'll need for communicating with other teams and quickly being able to find the data you'd need for whatever tasks you may need to complete.

I'm open to any suggestions, and you may email me at dsdadmin@impulse3d.com (or IM me at AIM: TriArkSoftware) with any ideas you may have. Our goal is to make FIRST a more collaborative, information-exchanging community. We (the DSD Development Team) find the Driver Strategy Database and its Online Database component to be the primary means for meeting this goal.

DSD Online Database: http://dsd-database.impulse3d.com

Best Regards,
Noah
Online Database Site Admin