What went well

• Everyone was engaged
• Willing to put in the work to get everything done
• Everyone was contributing
• Had a good time, good energy
• We were a good team
• Enjoying the competition

What did not go well / what can we improve

• Getting stuff on the hardware was really hard
  • We need a better plan before water tests / time slots
  • Merge window with defined deadline ahead of time slot
• Simulation really hard to use
  • Make it easier to sim
  • Reduce computation
• Fix / validate the simulation to real topic mismatch
• Make sure that it’s clear which terminal is on which machine
  • Terminal colors?
• Everyone going to the water needs to know what we are doing
• Reduce people who need to carry things to the water
  • Streamline the base station setup
• People talking in the tent
  • We need radio comms procedures
• FPV for the boat?
• When doing software
  • We didn’t plan very well
  • We should have an architectural plan to communicate
  • Specify the topics we expect
  • Decide what we should not change, what we can alter
  • Hard to learn under pressure
    • With a plan, it’s much easier to do under pressure
  • For RobotX, there is stuff software-wise we have not done yet
  • Better definitions for inputs and outputs we expect
    • Also documentation for this
  • We were writing fundamental code while we were there
    • We shouldn’t have to do the fundamentals and implementation while we are there