Scouting!
We’ll be scouting at Week 0 both so we can make educated selections come alliance selections and so we can test out our scouting system in preparation for GSD.
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We have 6 scouting tablets loaded with a custom configuration for QRScout (Thanks 2713!).
- If you’d like to download the config to your own device, it can be found here and uploaded to your QRScout page with the “Upload config” button at the bottom of the page
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Tablets are very much not necessary to run the system, as it can be run on any device with a web browser. We’ve run it on student’s phones before. The key is making sure everyone has the same configuration downloaded.
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6 scouts will each watch a separate robot every match, noting every scoring action they take on the QRScout webpage on the tablet.
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The Head Scout will scan the QR code with a wireless barcode scanner hooked up to a computer via a dongle, entering the data into a Google Sheet
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If possible, the laptop that is taking down data will be connected to wifi to allow the data to be updated on-the-fly. If not possible, the laptop taking data will host an offline google sheet and the data will be uploaded later. Many NE events have Wifi for public use, but this wasn’t possible at the World Championship last year, so we had to run the system offline.
Some fun stuff in the scouting system:
- Sparkline trend graphs in the averages sheet
- Match quick reference:
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