To UTC New England Regional Teams

[Uki]

Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank

Greetings,

296 will be hosting a service we call “Sundial” at the UTC New England Regional. This service is basically a computerized, enhanced version of the match list printout that is distributed by FIRST – besides displaying the match numbers, times, and alliance and opposition teams for your team's matches, it counts down to your next match and shows the match's call status, all while synchronizing its clock with the playing field every ten seconds (see this screenshot for more details).

Those who wish to use the service can simply connect to our wireless network and navigate to a Flash application - which leads to the purpose of this message: please remember to bring a computer with wireless capabilities (802.11b or g) if you would like to try this out, and watch out for our handout with instructions on how to connect.

Thanks on behalf of team 296.


P.S. If any other teams are planning on having a WiFi network at UTC, would it be possible for you to stay away from channel 6 (2.437 GHz)? One of our access points is somehow stuck on channel 6, and we therefore can't use any other channel.

Not to be a damper on things, I was just curious how you planned on syncing your stuff with FIRST's software, because as far as i've seen, there is no such part of the software available.

I would also be very careful with running wireless networks at this years event, after the incident last year with clear channel's in house wireless network being messed with, and with the kid still in court. I would recommend that you ask for permission from FIRST, not just the organizers of the regional. Just don't want to see the same thing happen again this year.