I learned a lot about collaborating with my peers in this project. Although I had different ideas of what we should be working on, as I thought working on a controllable model would be a lot more important than a chain drive system, we ended up compromising and making both. I think I also learned a lot about engage and persist, as during the process of building the remote control model I ran into a lot of problems and had to figure out how to fix them. One example is that the arduino was the only board we could reliably get to access the motor controller, but the ESP is the only board with access to WiFi. It seems like a simple issue, connect the arduino to the ESP and you're done; but the ESP and arduino use different voltage levels (how much power they use). I tried making some different types of voltage dividers, but eventually found that the ESP has a regulated input for the arduino's power level, which was extremely helpful. In doing all of my work with building the vehicle, I learned a lot about coding (obviously) and the importance of prototyping. I had many iterations of my remote-controlled vehicle, so I realize now how important getting a good prototype down can be.
