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Spiria employees are encouraged to spend some time at work on pet projects that support skills development. One of these projects, dreamt up by developer Marc Tesson, was to pilot a radio-controlled boat through an Android application. A team of four developers with no experience with either the Android platform or the single-board Raspberry Pi mini-computer, got together to develop this application that required knowledge in both programming and electronics. It took eight four-hour sessions to finish the project. Marc tells us about the progress of their work over the eight sessions and the hazards they encountered. He also shares their code, in case you’re also interested in piloting a boat (or any radio-controlled toy) with a mobile app: