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\subsection*{If you could do it all over, what would you do differently?}
Hardware wise it would have been easier had we used an ARM CPU based microcontroller instead of AVR, as this would have provided us with much more memory and disk space for our application.
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\section*{Danila Fedorin}
\subsection*{What technical information did you learn?}
I did not learn any technical information this year. I did the sections of the project
that I knew how to do - the Android application and the API server. Our team did a great
job in separating concerns, so that I only needed to be aware of the boundaries between
our parts, and not of the implementation of the hardware.
\subsection*{What non-technical information did you learn?}
I learned that cows are actually surprisingly hard to train - though our project did not
reach the animal testing stage, I did some research, which suggested that fenceless collar
systems will be ineffective with most livestock.
\subsection*{What have you learned about project work?}
I did not learn much about project work, since this is not
at all my first project, and nor is it my biggest one. I find
that our inability to pick our own capstone projects tends to
lead to rather uninspired final products.
\subsection*{What have you learned about project management?}
I learned that having a centralized archive of all files related to the project
is very helpful. This is the first project I was part of
that was not entirely contained within a Git repository, and
had other metadata (images, documents, receipts). With the year
coming to an end, we now find ourselves with a complete
archive of all our data, without any hastle.
\subsection*{What have you learned about working in teams?}
This was the first project I was part of that did not
have a well-defined position of power. Though the client
did effectively tell us what to do, they did not micromanage
the majority of our group work, and the team had to find
its own dynamic to meet deadlines. I learned about the
value of explicitly delegating action items to group members,
who, though willing to help, would not do so without
request. This is likely because, without well-defined
goals, it's hard to know where to start.
\subsection*{If you could do it all over, what would you do differently?}
I would take some time to look into what my teammates are doing.
I did what I knew how to do, and time pressures led me to not stray
far from my own part of the work. However, my team members were
working on some interesting stuff, and I would've learned a lot
from looking over their shoulders.
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