Falcon Scouting System Release

Competition Scouting
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I am pleased to announce that we have finished and our now releasing our Scouting System and Sorting System that we made for the 2013 Season. We are also releasing the code for it in case any of you want to play around with the code. In order to use our software, you will need 6 gamepads, SlimDX already installed on your computer, and access to Excel.

This is an update of our old post about our System that was for last years game. It can be found here:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=109510&highlight=falcon

Here is a Google Doc on how to use the System and what you need (This is also included when you download the system as a text file):

The Scouting System looks like this and is what gets all the data from the matches:

http://i.imgur.com/HQzT6PT.png?1

Another program that comes with this is the Sorting Program. This program gathers all the data from the Scouting Program and sorts through it all to get the averages for each team. This is how it looks like:

http://i.imgur.com/HUMt6OG.jpg

Here is how the Excel sheet looks before you sort it using the Sorting program:

http://i.imgur.com/SMEs5HA.jpg

Here is how the Excel sheet looks after sorting it:

http://i.imgur.com/Uuh7R46.jpg

You can download the software and the code for them here (Using WinRar):

http://code.google.com/p/falcon-robotics-scouting-software/

Edit: If you find any errors or improvements that can be made feel free to post them.

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Good Job Serg!

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Team 2512 has been looking forward to using your system at competition since it was first released, and planning on testing it during week 0 and 1 before our week 2 regional. For testing though is there any way that you know of to develop a random match schedule for the system? Also is there any way of getting the match schedules for week 1 online so we can do some testing during week 1? Thanks A LOT for making this open to the public I am sure many will appreciate it.

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Well, in order to use the system you need a previously made text file that contains the matches in it. For testing purposes, you can just input a whole bunch of random matches and use those. That is what I did to test it.

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Sorry, but for some reason my window doesn’t match up with the instructions, for example there is no setup teams button and the event button doesn’t switch to a skip button when pressed. what am I doing wrong?

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Strange. Are you sure you are using the Scouting program and not the sorting one?

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looks great though my only problem with it is it completely ignores defense which will be highly influential this year

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When you click format excel it says “please choose a black excel…” just a heads up haha but great job.

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Do you think that you could make a video of the system being setup for a mock competition? I think that it would be a great help.

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This seems like a great idea. I will see what I can do.

I am aware of this haha. I forgot to change it at the end.

If it is really that necessary for teams to have this, I can put something for it.

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No, I was using the sorting one, sorry about that, however when I try and run the scouting program nothing happens, it pops up with the window that connects to the internet to verify, but after that nothing happens. I ran the program in a virtual machine to see if it was something miss configured in my OS and in the VM it just crashes. Any ideas on how to fix this?

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Do you have Slim DX installed?

Edit: What OS are you using? This has only been tested for Windows 7 and Windows 8.

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Is there a phone version for the iPhone, making it more portable would be very useful at competition.

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Sadly, no. This was made so all the scouters can scout together. I never intended to make an app for it.

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I am running Windows 7 home premium and I have installed slimDX. Is there anything else that I need for the program to run

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Did you download the correct SlimDx? You should have downloaded the SDK one. Here is the download link:
http://code.google.com/p/slimdx/downloads/detail?name=SlimDX%20SDK%20(January%202012).msi

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Thank you sooooo much, that was my problem. I installed the SDK and everything started to work. Is there any way to make the data input screen less cramped, I cannot see all of the team numbers (if the team is 4 digits I can only see three), is there any way to fix this?

Sorry about all of my questions :smiley:

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Hmmm if this is a problem I can make the numbers smaller. I am almost done with an update so once I finish it, I will post it

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That would be awsome, Thanks :slight_smile:
Question: If our team was to use afterglow controllers, do we need the Xbox360 model or the PS3 model

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We are using the PS3 model. I am not sure how it will respond with the Xbox 360 controllers