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Originally posted by Warren Boudreau
Mike S., I am in awe that you got 5-6 software engineers and what seems to be about a dozen students together on such a huge undertaking and pulled it off in 3 months.
If I might ask one question. When did you guys come up with this idea?
I hope that I can use you and your team as an example of teamwork in software development for next years team .
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Thanks Warren, it was quite an undertaking. By by no means was I incharge of the whole program. Steve Tine was in charge of the autonomous system; he kept us on schedule, designed the circuit board, and wrote some of the RC code.
We had 5 software engineers working on all aspects of the system - RC, CC, & WildDraw. We didn't have 12 students though. About 5 or 6 were involved with the RC programming and 1 more helped with the CC, but we did have some spillover and 1 RC student helped with the CC.
I don't really know when we came up with the idea. It's all I remember ever hearing about so I think it was early on. We knew we wanted a really strong autonomous mode that was easy to configure and change on the fly, and was capable of following complex paths. We knew we had the resources and knowledge to get it done so we gave it a try. I think Steve & Raul came up with a lot of the early ideas to use a positioning system.
Feel free to use us as an example. If you need any more info feel free to contact any of us and we'll help you out.
Mike