So last week, right, I was primarily focused on finding a way to remotely control the conveyor belt, and to my surprise, it worked. Thanks for the help from the experienced professor and my TA, without expert knowledge, we would waste a lot of resources in testing different design method, and probably we wouldn’t be able to finish the design on time.
Surprisingly this is the first hardware engineering project I made from scratch. Some of the important things I learned from last week, and the semester, was that in the future, if I want to do certain project. I need to
- Spend more time design than implement.
- Network and find the people who specializes in this field(sometimes an expert idea is worth millions of dollars, if money is the easiest understand metrics of impact).
- Always document what I did, and write a journal of the engineering process.
- Always try to work in person with teammates. Work from home works for solo projects, but it never works for a team, no matter how easy the project seems to be.