Recently my FRC team decided to keep hors duing the build season with punch cards. Well this got annoying fast, so now I have developed at my personal site a time clock system.
Now after a good “test run” durring the 2008 build season. There where things i really did not like about it. I am currently redesigning it and have a tenitive release date of June 22, 2008 This new system works a lot smother and can has a better permission system.
I am still looking for idea’s to add to it but it has come a long way. I thought it’d be a good idea to announce it and see what everyone wanted. A meber of my FRC (1024) said it might be a good idea to announce it on Chief Delfi, so if you have any ideas please reply to them here and I will periodicly check in on it. Also if your FRC team wants to use this system/get a test run of it have the team sponser contact me via e-mail ([email protected]) this is a free service I am just trying to avoid spamers.
Years back our team also used a time clock computer program and a barcode reader (students wore cards with name and barcode). The program was quite cheap and used very little computer power and a cheap barcode reader. All it did was say when the student came in and scanned when they left. If the student didn’t sign out I think we gave them only 1 hour. At that time there were so many students on the team we had to limit the trips to the top 20 students that spent the most time. An effective means to keep students coming if they want to participate at the regional.
The program really only needed the student name, barcode# and the time clock software logging the times in and out. Dont do anything fancy or it would get old and annoying.
I was thinking about doing a speady clock in type thing on the main page, but haven’t messed with it.
Simplicity is great and as far as the 1 hour thing i am not so mean and so i have programed overrides that privliged users can use
I developed a web-based sign-in system for my team in an idea that was conceived in late 2006 and implemented just this January. The system uses a barcode scanner (or, alternatively, simply a student’s ID number) to track hours, similar to systems described above.
As part of a component, we are developing a remote attendance system for field trips (to add convenience to the difficult task of student tracking). The entire system also has other features like tracking contact information and a subteam portal page for each student that lists tasks for that particular subteam. The code is really messy right now, but it works. I may be releasing it for the FIRST community to use later this competition season.