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This is inspirational. Please share more details if you can. I love stories like this.

• spiritplumber 13y ago
  Not much to tell; the person who had put himself in charge of building this Android based sensor for NASA wanted to build a little empire, and kept asking for more funds and personnel and insisting that all communication go through him. There was me and one other person doing all the work, so we just tuned everyone else (four people) out and forged on (to the extent of ordering parts and PCBs on our own dime, etc.) The higher ups were getting two sets of reports, one saying "we are stuck and need more resources", the other showing progress. Eventually the final recipient of the sensor called a meeting, at which we just showed up with three working units from the first production batch (we had gotten the PCBs printed and I had hand assembled them, but it wasn't really fair to call them prototypes anymore). That caused quite a bit of cognitive dissonance :) Mesh management is a WIP.