Conclusion Although the project fell slightly behind, the overall accomplishments of the team should give our spring descendants a good head start for the next competition. The delay was due in part to waiting for components to arrive in the mail, and also by the learning curve involved with mechanical engineers attempting to get re-acquainted with programming. At the end of the day, we still managed to complete most of our goals and bring the rest close to completion. Because of this, next semester's team will be able to focus on more mechanically oriented problems, and they will only have to complete the navigation portion which would have to be altered anyways depending on their design changes. The lesson learned from this project and one we are passing on to our successors is to break apart every aspect of the project into small, almost seemingly mundane pieces and attack each problem piece by piece. At the end of the day our team's ASV stands a much better chance of completing the navigation course of next year's competition.
Conclusion Although the project fell slightly behind, the overall accomplishments of the team should give our spring descendants a good head start for the next competition. The delay was due in part to waiting for components to arrive in the mail, and also by the learning curve involved with mechanical engineers attempting to get re-acquainted with programming. At the end of the day, we still managed to complete most of our goals and bring the rest close to completion. Because of this, next semester's team will be able to focus on more mechanically oriented problems, and they will only have to complete the navigation portion which would have to be altered anyways depending on their design changes. The lesson learned from this project and one we are passing on to our successors is to break apart every aspect of the project into small, almost seemingly mundane pieces and attack each problem piece by piece. At the end of the day our team's ASV stands a much better chance of completing the navigation course of next year's competition.
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