very neat, any tech details on what’s is going on here?
This is beautiful. Great set up!
Looks like the strategy team has their scouting under control this year?
Which tablets are those? They kind of look like the $50 Kindle tablets?
Answering as many questions as I can with this post:
- The 6 identical tablets are the $50 Kindle Fire HD 7in, running CM 12.1. The other two are some sort of refurb lenovos we bought last year.
- We have an inverter that takes the 12v robot batteries and converts it to 120v AC to charge the tablets if we have no access to an outlet.
- There is an Anker 10 port usb charger, so that we only need one outlet at a time.
- We are running a custom scouting app.
Should be all of the questions. If you have more, feel free to ask.
Very cool, thanks for the rundown.
We have a very similar setup this year. How are you handling the process of data? Are you sending the data from the scouts to a “master” tablet? Are you posting/syncing to the cloud at all?
It is stored locally to a SQL server and then pushed to a GAE NDB server when internet is available. The tablets can also retrieve from this server to get up-to date info on both our alliance partners and opponents. We also use the GAE bulkloader to get info into a .csv that we can analyze in either Tableau or Excel