Chapter l: I was obviously nervous going into this project because it was my first time doing anything remotely like this. I asked a kid named Sam next to me if he wanted to work on the project together with me and he said yes. Me and Sam start working together on building a car that we would code into driving throughout a course later on. I pulled up the images and because Sam is better at building things, I let him build the car while I tweaked a little bit of mistakes. It took Sam a week or two to finish the car and I did the wiring on the raspberry pi pico W. After Me and Sam finished putting together the car, I wrote simple code for it to run, but we ran into many problems with the wires and the motors which set us back a week. 

Chapter ll: After me and Sam have finally finished every little tweak and twitch of the car, I finally worked on the final code. I have worked on the code until the last minute. The code that I used is Python, and the program I used is called Thonny. I spent every single minute and every single second revising and revising and revising the code, making sure each and every single millisecond was on point. Sometimes Raf said “it’s fine”, but I wanted to make the code as close to perfection as possible. When I tell you this took every second…. It did. I am very proud of myself for getting through this because I had to redo the code numerous times, and I had to tweak it over a hundred times just to make a small minor change in the way the car moved. For example, the code controls how much power and time the motors run for. The function “motor” takes in the amount for 4 inputs and controls the wheels direction, like forward and back. Once I finished the code mainly which should have worked, I ran into a big big problem. The Car. The car was fine, the build was correct, but the wheels were being iffy. Same with the code, Sam and (Nef on the last day), they have continuously worked on every minor detail, every minor wire mishap, and every single atom of the car that needed to be fixed. If this is fixed, then the car will work the way we want it and you’ll be seeing it on the website. After all of this, I have learned a very valuable lesson from Raf. Work. Instead of calling it “annoying, tedious, or stupid” I will call it “Work”. All of the retries and reruns of the code and running the robot, I have learned what “Work” really means. As I grow up I will forever keep this message in my head (if my ADHD doesn't want to forget it). Please have a great day and I hope you can see Mine (Nick), Sam, And Joey’s very hard work on this very important project. 

— Nick & Sam