Advice for a hapless rookie?

[Sila741]

Thank you all for your good advice and tips. As it happens, we do have a partner team, team 254. But i have to ask, how do you use stamp? I can't figure it out.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Sila741

Thank you all for your good advice and tips. As it happens, we do have a partner team, team 254. But i have to ask, how do you use stamp? I can't figure it out.

After seeing the STAMP interface a couple days ago, I'd say it's a network thing. You enter the match number and the sytem will automatically keep track of team number. You click on the little boxes with plus signs to add balls to the goals. You enter the other information, then hit submit. We'd have used it, but the boxes are too small for us to find and click during a match.

[Ethulin]

Originally Posted by Sila741

Thank you all for your good advice and tips. As it happens, we do have a partner team, team 254. But i have to ask, how do you use stamp? I can't figure it out.

STAMP works as such:

You set up a "server computer". This computer must have some sort of web server, PHP, and mySQL installed. We recomend XAMPP for people not too sure what they are doing. After setting up XAMPP you drop the extracted files from the stamp dir into your htdocs dir of XAMPP. You then start up XAMPP, run the database setup with the config of sqluser=root and sqlpass="" (''" meaning nothing) and you are good to go!

STAMP does require a pretty good scouting team, it functions best with 6 people. I find that many teams hawe this many people meandering the croweds. Just pick up your meanderers and get them to work!