Dave Cook speculated that each judge could be given a Palm device and scores sent to a computer that would post them real time when we were speaking in, maybe, 2000?
The technology is here...
$400 per tablet (iPad mini), figure you need 16 of them plus some spares, so, 20, $8000, plus someone to write an app and get it into the Apple store, maybe another $2000 by the time you are done.
Lots of things could be done technically, if the money was unlimited.
Brett
$400 per tablet (iPad mini), figure you need 16 of them plus some spares, so, 20, $8000, plus someone to write an app and get it into the Apple store, maybe another $2000 by the time you are done.
Don't over think it. Google Sheets linked to Google Forms for data input. Everybody already has a phone in their pocket and most of us have or have access to a tablet. Set up a wifi hotspot. Done.
Nice to see all these volunteers with money and willing to spend the time integrating it!While a ll it take is a free google account and someone to just set up googe sheets and forms, I still ask why? I am a firm believer of the KISS method. It is a nice novelty but considering the size of the audience and the number of times a year it would be implemented, there is really no appreciable ROI either in time spent and costs (As low as they could be). Pencil, Paper and one person to post the results on a website is all you require. Time and money is better spent on the live video streaming efforts. You could even have mini action cams attached to a baseball cap on select competitors to stream first person perspective of the flight. You know like they do with selected auto racers who let the media mount cams into their cars. Wifi Accesspoints are getting cheap, actually just about every smartphone can act as a mobile data hotspot. Freeware applications like VLC player allow you to imbed streaming video right into web pages. What used to take a broadcast van with $300k worth of equipment can be approximated for pennies on the dollar. I have a HTC M1 and two Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphones lust lying around being unused since I have upgraded to the Samsung Galaxy 7. These days you can prepay mobile data without subscriptions so any cost of using the bandwidth can be only bought at the time of the event. What I am saying is that just by borrowing or getting donated technology no one uses anymore (Plenty on Ebay) because they got the latest toys can more than provide the technology needed to pull this off. It does not need to be broadcast quality as heck it is only a model airplane event.
Brett
Why so many zeros for the second flight? Were people bailing because of nasty weather or something?
In F3J (RC Sailplane precision duration flights) We enter scores on our cell phones to a website that tabulates the scores automatically. It's simple and effective.
R,
Chris
Uh, when I clicked on the link yesterday evening, I got second round scores for everybody but David Fitzgerald. Exactly the same today. Since I know yesterday was Top 20 Day, and know who made Final 5 today, it is strange that David's 2nd round flight score still isn't posted. This may suggest (to some) that computer oversight isn't impossible? D>K SteveSteve if I'm not mistaken David passed on the second round so there was no score. Don't know if they have an icon for that.
Madly clicking buttons trying to navigate outside of some software engineer's* idea of "the right way to do things" would screw up the scores for that flight.
It would be hard to get right. Particularly because people who are good enough to judge Expert but don't fly expert are either cantankerous old men with little patience for techno-whiz, or injured younger men who are cranky because they're not flying that day, etc..
Steve if I'm not mistaken David passed on the second round so there was no score. Don't know if they have an icon for that.
Dave