The Reefscape Scouting App (our Github repository) was forked from another team (their Github repository).
Their original README contains lots and lots of information about how they developed the application.
Github allows us to host a live version of the application
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The Blue Alliance is an organization that consumes all the match data published by FIRST and makes this data available to developers via an API.
The URL for this API is
The Blue Alliance API v3. You will
need an API key which can be copied from ./resources/js/TBAInterface.js.
When a scouting session is completed, the application displays a QR Code encoding the results and provides the option to view the raw data.
We also want the application to store these results somewhere. Although we ca CAN have someone ready to scan each scouter's device, we don't want to rely on this.
Here are the options we need to consider:
- How to store the data? Do we do this with a cookie, localStorage, an image of the QR Code?
- Do we store individual results or do we appened results into a single document? If we store in a single document, this might make it easier to scan later.
We will need to consider what software will we need to author or configure to receive the QR Code data once scouting matches have completed.
QR Code scanners can be connected to computers and act as a keyboard. When we scan or playback stored scans, the scanner will emit keystrokes.
We could use something like a spreadsheet to receive the results.
Jacob Wyrozebski would like to limit the silliness that happens when we allow scouters to enter their own names or initials.
His idea is to construct a list of all team members and assign each a unique, four-digit PIN. When they first start using the Scouting App, they would enter their PIN and we would look up their name or initials.
- How do we construct this document (probably JSON or csv)?
- How do we consume it from the source code?
We might want to make Scouting more fun by offering "Coins" or some other virtual collectible which can be redeemed later for snacks or prizes.
We can also come up with awards for intreresting things that might happen during competitions. Some examples include:
- Loser: This award goes to the student who achieved the lowest score.
- Winner: This award goes to the student who scouted the robot who achieved the highest score.
- Breakdown: This award goes to the student who scouted the robot which stopped working earliset in the match. Note that in order to figure this out, we'd need to add capturing this to the app.
- TBD