There’s an unintentional side effect when taking on a project with a partner: Compromise. That dirty little ten letter word which promises to make everybody happy but proves to be nothing but a huge pain in the ass.
I had my brush with compromise the other day. It seems that while I presumed that our autonomous vehicle would run solely on the power of microcontrollers, my partner was under the impression that we would be using a PC as as the brains of the operation. And to make matters worse, he insisted that the PC run Windows.
I did my best to argue against the Windows PC, but in the end my friend proved to be doggedly relentless. Over time, I’ve actually grown to appreciate the unexpected change however; the beauty of compromise. Obviously a PC will provide us with a much more powerful platform on which to build.
In the end, we agreed to use a Dual Core 1.8GHz Dell laptop that has been lying around my apartment unused for over a year. This is proving to be an excellent experience on working in a group setting where the goals of the individual members of the group vary widely.
