My Story
And the History of EdCar
After graduating from The University of Delaware with BS in Computer Science, I started in with a small
defense contractor writing training software for harpoon missiles and steam plants for carries. After a year, I moved on to
start my own personal training company, but continued to create websites for myself and clients. Over the next few years I started into
mobile app development for Android, as well as some iPhone, helping to create Spiro's Quest and
Drinkmate. I started to then add in electronics and robotics but was not particularly
thrilled with the robotics kits on the market. The idea of EdCar was born.
The biggest issue I was discovering with robotics kits was that
they were mostly just plug and play. What was missing was the core understanding of why it works
and how all the pieces were connecting together and communicating. Because of this, once the project is complete, there
is very little room for advancement towards more complex projects. But this setup is not entirely unreasonable. It keeps the
cost down and allows for a low barrier of entry for beginners. But to really
understand the "why" of how these kits works requires years of study in programming and electronics. But you don't need
to know all of electronics and all of programming to understand the "why" of a kit. You only need to understand the "why"
as it applies to your kit. The goal of EdCar is to not only provide a base knowledge to understand the "why" of how your
kit works, but also to provide enough education to encourage further exploration into more complex projects.
