There's an old joke, might even be on someone's sig line, I don't recall:
I _have_ to learn from other peoples mistakes. I don't have time to make
them all myself.

Laugh at that or not, I promise you that a couple days digesting some of
the available
information about similar projects will save you more than a couple days in
development
of yours.

A project like MegaSquirt has many thousands of man-hours of development in
it already.
Gleaning just a few nuggets of the underlying "why" can be priceless.

-Denny
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