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One of my white whales as an engineer who is obsessed with designing robust systems is achieving true modularity. It’s actually pretty funny, since I don’t even come from a systems engineering background, I’m more of a circuits guy. Nonetheless, when I joined CWRU Motorsports my first year of college, I saw a system made out of Arduinos and speaker wire and figured these guys don’t know that I don’t know what I’m doing this is a perfect place for a distributed system!...

As the hardware systems lead for Case Western Reserve University’s Baja SAE team, CWRU Motorsports, I’ve learned a ton about hardware development, and especially how to create a lean, efficient team out of people who may not have experience in the field of engineering. There are a few tricks to this that I thought I would share, and that might prove useful to others. First, Baja is a resource constrained scenario....