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PiWars 2019 Diary - Motors, Brackets and GPIO

2018-11-30

Many apologies for the delayed update, I have been failing at doing detailed blog posts rather badly,

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PiWars 2019 Diary - Mid October update

2018-10-17

It's been a month since our last post and our PiWars build has been chugging along slowly but surely. Unfortunately I am not getting solid chunks of time, instead it is little bits at a time, but I've managed to do it regularly. A few things happened since our last post a month ago:

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PiWars 2018: The Aftermath - 2 (Lessons learnt)

2018-4-25

In the last post I wrote what went right and wrong with the build. However, build is only a small part of the event preparation. Attending PiWars is a full scale project. To be successful you need to manage your team's time well and split the work up correctly for things to line up correctly for success. Work needs to be split up into Software, Hardware, Design, Fabrication and Integration.

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PiWars 2018: The Aftermath - 1

2018-4-24

... and just like that it is all over. PiWars 2018 was a smashing event last Sunday (and we did smash a few things literally :D)

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