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8 Jul 2021#iot#mobile#flutter 1 min read

MQTT spike to robot dashboard in a week

Prove the transport in a throw-away app, then wire the UI.

FromRobot-Cleaner Control (Dynamic Division)

A control app for a fleet of cleaning robots: sign-in, live robot state, commands, plans and reports. Before any of the screens, a throw-away demo app proved the MQTT path to the broker in isolation. Two days later the credentials and the robot-state card landed in the real app. The demo video went out a week after that.

Spike, then integrate

The pattern is boring and it is the reason the week ended with a working demo rather than a debugging session.