pic: 254 Presents: Cheesy Scout

[NickE]

Originally Posted by Formerly Famous

Where can you input pit data? I can't seem to find that... I can only see where you can input match data.

My mistake, this system does not support traditional pit scouting other than robot photos.

Originally Posted by EagleEngineer

I talked about this with my team leader, and i said if we could use this at the BAE Granite State Regional. He said that there is not internet at the competition? Is this true?

Most venues will not provide internet for the competition. Instead, this application can be used on smart phones and other devices that access the internet without wifi.

Originally Posted by KevinGoneNuts

Any word on when we will see 254's bot? haha

We're still not sure when we're going to release the robot. At the very latest, it'll be at the San Diego Regional during Week 2. As a hint, this is not the only piece of software that 254 will be releasing this year.

[Rion Atkinson]

Originally Posted by NickE

We're still not sure when we're going to release the robot. At the very latest, it'll be at the San Diego Regional during Week 2. As a hint, this is not the only piece of software that 254 will be releasing this year.

Oh now that's torture. I would rather be water logged.

[Rion Atkinson]

A quick question. Is it possible to go in and edit what team you are apart of? I signed up for it but didn't enter a team number. Is there anyway to change this?

[Michael Corsetto]

Originally Posted by NickE

As a hint, this is not the only piece of software that 254 will be releasing this year.

It's gonna be big.

Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto

It's gonna be big.

So "it" will be coming out later this year! I can't wait! This will help teams tremendously! Team 256 will be waiting for the email!

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by NickE

As a hint, this is not the only piece of software that 254 will be releasing this year.

But does it kick 5 balls, wedge itself in the tunnel, or hang multiple uber tubes in auto?

[KevinGoneNuts]

I wish our team could have come down to the scrimmage days, but we read the rule "only 6 students can come" and since we have over 60 members, it was a little hard to decide who got to go.

Plus we have a kick *** robot this year, and we really want to keep it under wraps this year. Not to sound cocky, but it's gonna turn some heads at competition this year.

[ttldomination]

I'm a little curious here.

You say that we can enter match data and make it publicly available if we wish.

So if I go to Get Team Data and I look up data for team xxxx. Is this data only what my team enters into the system or is there some system that pulls out the numbers from all of the data that is submitted for team xxxx?

- Sunny

[TNT280Staff]

How do we go about adding events?

[martin417]

Apparently, our team doesn't exist?

I can't even sign up because I have to pick my team number from a list that doesn't contain it....

[ttldomination]

Originally Posted by martin417

Apparently, our team doesn't exist?

I can't even sign up because I have to pick my team number from a list that doesn't contain it....

You have to add your team and create and administrative account before you can actually register members.

[NickE]

Originally Posted by ttldomination

I'm a little curious here.

You say that we can enter match data and make it publicly available if we wish.

So if I go to Get Team Data and I look up data for team xxxx. Is this data only what my team enters into the system or is there some system that pulls out the numbers from all of the data that is submitted for team xxxx?

If you look up data for Team XXXX, you are seeing all the data your team scouted on this team, all the data scouted by other teams who choose to make their data public and all the data from users not associated with teams. If another team chooses to make their scouting data private, only that team will be able to view the data.

On a separate note, if any other teams are willing to contribute robot pictures and/or match video to the system, let us know. As far as video goes, we are only interested in high-quality full-field cameras and not recordings of the FIRST feed.

[Stealth]

As others have said internet can be had through smartphones and tethering. However you can easily set up a network at regionals with just one phone and sharing the connection through one computer and then with a switch to a few more. There may be lag present but it will work if your team has only one smartphone available.

Diagram of the setup:
http://tinypic.com/r/2j2jm09/7

Overall, this looks like an amazing solution for scouting and 2073 will definitely be using it at the Sacramento Regional.

[ttldomination]

Originally Posted by NickE

If you look up data for Team XXXX, you are seeing all the data your team scouted on this team, all the data scouted by other teams who choose to make their data public and all the data from users not associated with teams. If another team chooses to make their scouting data private, only that team will be able to view the data.

Oh, that's excellent.

I'm going to be annoying and ask more questions , but how does the system deal with inconsistencies in data? For example, if 30 people made data about team XXXX in match Z public, but some people say that they scored 6 triangle tubes and some people count 7. Is it some sort of average? Likewise, this scenario can be applied to some of the more qualitative responses. Do it take the most popular response?

- Sunny

[Nathan Streeter]

Originally Posted by NickE

If you look up data for Team XXXX, you are seeing all the data your team scouted on this team, all the data scouted by other teams who choose to make their data public and all the data from users not associated with teams. If another team chooses to make their scouting data private, only that team will be able to view the data.

On a separate note, if any other teams are willing to contribute robot pictures and/or match video to the system, let us know. As far as video goes, we are only interested in high-quality full-field cameras and not recordings of the FIRST feed.

Could I have my team (Mechanical Mayhem, #1519) added to the team list? I signed up, but currently have "No Team" association... Thanks a bunch!

We really love our own team's scouting database, but this system provides interesting opportunities... It certainly is high-quality and tracks most of the same data we do!

I like the idea to store video most! I will do my best to take video of all the matches of Granite State this weekend - the only good video in my opinion is full-field high-quality video! Do you think I should try to get the drivers' station (HP, more importantly) in view too? To give you video, should we just separate the video into individual matches? I wish tba would allow users to upload video (or link to youtube)... will you be doing that or having people send video to you? If people do it by themselves there is a concern with uploading spam or linking to random youtube videos... although with an account "misconduct" could be tracked and removed with relative ease.

Great job, 254! I'm sure this will help dozens of team have a good scouting system and likely be as valuable a repository as tba for all teams!

Nathan