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The last few weeks have been interesting. As we approached the end of the 1st quarter of school, it seemed like the teachers rushed to get as many grades in as possible by assigning hours upon hours of homework and cramming in tests as we the students struggle to keep afloat. Oh well, that’s life and I’m me.

It would seem in football, that we now just got the passion to really play the game with intensity last Friday, October 17. We played Lowell, a team that is a class or two above us and will probably go to play in the state finals in their division. We lost, but we as a team improved our play to a level that I had a doubt that we would ever reach. After a rough week of practice, we played very well and will use the experience of last night’s game to better ourselves and prepare us for sectionals.

In other news, I spent a few more dollars on my robot project, which still remains incomplete. I do intend this weekend to create the main control box. It will house the Arduino controller, the LCD screen, two push buttons, the master power switch, the logic battery, and a status light. It’s a bit much to fit into one small box, but I think it can be done. I need to order 4 more h-bridges to give my robot a full range of motion, until then, I will have it go forwards, and reverse – turning to one side in the backwards direction. When the program receives a signal from one of the bump switches as it is going forward, it will stop and reverse-turn until it hits another object. That is until I can get another set of h-bridges to control the other motors properly.

Good luck,
kevin