“Nothing starts until you take action. If you have time to worry, then run.” – Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)
With one week left to finish my controller, the only thing keeping me from panicking was the fact that it was never meant to be a final draft, only a prototype.
Long story short, the gyro stopped working and I never figured out why. Luckily I had recorded footage of it when it was functional, and the controller has enough other components to still play simple platformer games. But it took everything for me to not immediately go back to spending all my time doing gyro troubleshooting.
Instead, I focused on finishing the code for the joystick and the final revision of the shell. It was hard to focus when my mind kept drifting back to the gyro, as a result I didn’t have time to print that final shell. But I did finish the controller, and it plays fireboy and watergirl very well haha.
The hat I made also didn’t work, turns out my pins were upside down so it can’t actually connect to the Arduino. I used a breadboard to make it work, and since I still made the hat I could photograph it for my documentation. But the fact that everything stopped working really threw me off.
I’ve decided to look at it positively because in the end I still got all my work done and had plenty to write about (and I wrote about those new developments very quickly with my new focusing routine).
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