Feedback for 296's Pit Clock

Competition Championship Event
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Hello all,

We at 296 want to thank all the Galileo teams that tried out our pit clock service. Any comments or suggestions or other feedback would be greatly appreciated. Is this something that you’d like to see us keep running next year, and at more regional events?

Also, our apologies to the teams from other divisions who tried to log in and got an error message. Unfortunately, we didn’t have the resources to provide this for any other division but ours.

Thanks,
Pat Fairbank

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We loved the pit clock the only thing we did was adjust the laptop system clock so once that thing hit zero if we weren’t out of the pit we were in deep trouble. We would love to have back so we can you use at any event possible or even make it open source so other teams can host it for other regional.

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Ok, I’ll fix the zero thing so that teams can choose how much warning they want.

I’d be happy to take the time to do this if I can be sure that people will use it at their regionals. Any takers?

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what exactly was this?

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I loved it! sure beat franticly looking through match scedules for alliances and times

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See this thread: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27711

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If I know exactly what was involved in setting it up I bet I could get a small amount of my team to do it at LSR and maybe the other regional we may go to next year.

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Here’s what you need:

  • a webserver with PHP and MySQL installed
  • a wireless access point
  • some flyers to give out to teams
  • someone to constantly update the system with announcements and match starts

If your updater person is someone knowledgeable in networking, you basically only need one person.

Oh, and one more thing - at the Canadian Regional we were lucky enough to have the FIRST guys give us a MySQL dump of the match list, but we couldn’t get the same in Atlanta. So be prepared for the possibility of having to enter each match manually.

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If someone could create a nice easy ZIP of all of the stuff needed (software-wise, at least–I bet wifi cards are pretty hard to zip up), I’d be willing to try it out on any competitions I go to next season…probably Palmetto, maybe the championship. Dunno yet–college screws everything up.

Would a 350 mhz PII work for this purpose, or does a competition-sized amount of traffic need more?

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I’ll put together a easy-to-use package sometime before kickoff next year.

I think that that computer would do just fine, since it would only be handling a request from each client every ten seconds, with the requests spread out over those ten seconds.