Wiimote Digital Scouting System

[bandducky511]

This system looks amazing! Will it be out for Atlanta?

[TheOtherGuy]

Originally Posted by kreeve

How did this work out in AZ?

Let's just say it won them the Judge's Award on Friday afternoon

I got a chance to talk to Karen, and the things this system can do just blew me away! It is easily the most organized, informative, simplistic system available. Any teams that showed even a slight interest in trying this should definitely do so!

Originally Posted by bandducky511

This system looks amazing! Will it be out for Atlanta?

I was told they were going to release it sometime soon, definitely before Championships; Karen is hoping it will get a lot of mileage in Atlanta.

[pitzoid]

Originally Posted by TheOtherGuy

Let's just say it won them the Judge's Award on Friday afternoon

Well, I'll just say I'm one of the judges that gave 842 the award and I'm the guy that designed the FRC field radio system.

Bluetooth is not an issue to field systems, its a very low power system (<30ft range) and is frequency compliant in working with WIFI systems. So the 842 system is IMHO fine to use at competitions. The way I read the GDC comments are that they are more concerned about phones that have wifi, I have a newer IPhone and it has wifi, leave the wifi off in phones at competitions. The new robot radio system is being characterized for the first time in the field environments this year. There was no other way to test other than just throw it out there. We were trying to reduce the varibles as much as possible. The system is working beyond expectations, there are some issues still with teams that don't understand RF principals, but those will be worked out eventually though shared information outlets such as CD.

And I've mentioned this before, the field uses BOTH 2.4 and 5 GHz radios. 5 GHz is dedicated to the robots.

THX

[PICgnosis]

The analyzer app could use some more stat viewing features, and if it could pull some stuff from the inter net that would be even better.

What did you have in mind? We might be able to throw it in before the Championship.

Also, you can copy data from any of the datatables. Just click and drag over it with your mouse and copy it using ctrl-c then paste it into a text file and open it in Excel.

[Stealth]

Originally Posted by PICgnosis

What did you have in mind? We might be able to throw it in before the Championship.

Also, you can copy data from any of the datatables. Just click and drag over it with your mouse and copy it using ctrl-c then paste it into a text file and open it in Excel.

Integration with the OPR Ranking would be nice. Also stuff like the shooter percentage, and average trailer fill level would be nice. Basically all of the stats viewable per match but in the rankings window and averages.

Too bad other teams didn't use this, Sac Regional definitely could improve on their scouting. I believe we were one of the only teams downloading the OPR data at the end of the qualifying and we were the only one using this program. However what information we gathered we tried to share with other teams and they all said this system was a really good idea.

[Anders Horn]

Wiimotes work great until they run out of batteries. They also have the benefit that you get timing data in addition to plain numerical.

[Joe Ross]

The following Q/A Answer confirms that bluetooth is legal within the stands: http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=12484

[MrForbes]

Thanks for the link Joe, that's a sensible answer from the GDC

[MrForbes]

Originally Posted by kreeve

How did this work out in AZ?

heh...do the math! 842 was the #8 alliance captain, they did their scouting using this system, they were the only alliance to win a match against the #1 alliance....

[falconmaster]

We are very proud of Karen, and we are glad she is on our side! It will be be released before Atlanta for all to use!

[Fe_Will]

Why not release it so teams can use it week 5 & 6?

[falconmaster]

Here is a pdf of how the wii mote is used

http://www.nventivity.com/Scout2_Instr.pdf

Maybe if you guys bug Karen, she might release it from Beta sooner.....Sorry Karen!

[Zach O]

How original. Now I feel outdated. We still use paper scouting and enter our data manually! Nice system. What about misses though?

[falconmaster]

A miss is a miss you move on, But there are no misses!

[Zach O]

Originally Posted by falconmaster

A miss is a miss you move on, But there are no misses!

I mean to create an average accuracy for the shooters and robots. Counting misses vs. makes could be a good thing to have also.