Every Tool Is A Weapon - 3 Weeks Down

The JeffTech Robotics team has moved into the building stage this week. We're cutting, drilling, polishing, soldering, and so far everyone still has all their fingers. We also did some programming, concentrating on translating the joystick's XY coordinate system to polar coordinates - a crash course reviewing trigonometry for me as I totally forgot about arc-cosine. This is needed for the type of driving control for 1 joystick required by our current design. Everyone is much happier now that we're doing something real. Somehow the design and strategy and even mock fabrication of a model does not feel as real as handling an angry, noise-making miter saw...