[mpgmike]

Back in 2008 when I was recruited to help out on the X-Prize project, I didn't know a whole lot about electronics. I stumbled to learn about LM555 Timers, LM339 Comparators, LM358 Op Amps, transistors, and so forth. The controller that made it to Roush testing used very simplistic analog components.




Soon I had grasped the basics and moved on to microcontrollers. We then created a series of Controllers that used board-mounted pots to adjust parameters.



As my skill sets improved, so did our Controllers. Towards the end we were interfacing a laptop for USB tuning, and tapping into the OBD II to see how the ECU liked our "tweaks".