The first day of the semester, in disconnecting the battery for charging, my hand slipped and cracked the pcb severing a number of key traces under a few components. I am remanufacturing the pcb and as part of a school project, rewriting the code to be c++ outside the arduino environment. As part of remaking the board, i've made a few traces bigger and also increased the clearence to make pcb etching a little more reliable for this design. Pics of the assembly as well as sourcecode will be uploaded next week. stay tuned.