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Re: Position Tracking Devices

Herding cats! I had a professor, senior year at SUNY Buffalo, Dr Schmidt, who shared his Golden Rules of Engineering with us from time to time.

One was: Never design a system unless the requirements are clearly specified. Its better to quit your job than to try to design something if you dont know what its suppose to do.

If you try anyway, in the end the chances that it will happen to do what the customer really wanted are near zero. The odds are the project will be a complete failure, and you will lose your job, and you mind in the process.

Better off only losing your job.

You gotta know the WHY and the WHAT before you can invent the HOW.