Dear Diary,

It's been rather slow going these past couple weeks. It has been quite some time since I last did anything robotic-ey, and it shows. My code is rusty at best. I've thrown away 5 times what I've kept... Still, I have some things working, including my first ever attempt at I2C stuff (tested with a Bus Pirate). As proof I offer the following photograph:

See? Bus Pirate! Woohoo! Everything is awesome!

Seriously though, that ATMega1284 on there successfully received test commands over I2C and wrote the appropriate debug text to the serial monitor. Hey, don't laugh, I was stoked! I also pounded a bit of "git for the compleat idiot" into my head and have successfully pushed my Arduino code to my GitHub account.

Next up: some standoffs and the second deck to hold the BeagleBoneBlack so I can dust off my Python... um... skills... and get this thing driving.