If you want to reboot Charlie's Angels, here's how you can get yourself up and running for more than 4 episodes:
- Build core functionality first! Get your drive train working consistently before integrating other components.
- Physically prototyping several ways to interact with the playing field early on worked very well for us.
- Working circuits on a breadboard, working circuits on a soldered board, and working circuits on a moving platform are not necessarily the same thing!
- Modular construction is a good thing as long as there's room for everything.
- We built motor mounts for the Maxon drive motors early on, and this saved a lot of time as we needed to integrate the motors into several different concepts.
- Building an easily-monitored state machine framework with keys to simulate events helped us a lot. Botsley almost never did something we didn't expect him to.