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Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

My classes in Intermediate Robotics for the eighth week of the second term continued with their previous "second" project, which is now the third, the robot that will draw a five by five dot matrix on a piece of paper at least a centimeter apart.

The students are still limited by the thought of using a robot moving on gear teeth along a stationary base, instead of a thinking of using an arm and getting challenged about how to make it move.

Maybe the fact that there are not enough gear teeth in all of the kits combined for all of the robots needed by the groups to use. So at least one group has to make do with no gears in their construction.

This will also not be due next week but probably two weeks from now because this week there are fewer students present due to their families' out of town trips, so the groups are not operating at optimum capacity. Ranking some of the members based on absences that are out or their control would thus be unfair.

As for my Computer Circuit Fundamentals class, finally there was a group that was able to finish the exercise from a few days ago for giving the result of dividing a two digit integer with a one digit integer and showing the value up to nine decimal places.

One of the few little flaws they had with their output though was that even though it's possible to choose zero decimal places the group was still displaying the decimal point even though there was no number on the right, a matter of placing the decimal point in the string only if one to nine decimal places is chosen.

There is also now more than one group who has at least two exercises in back log besides the current one, resulting in deductions on their grade when they finally submit, making it the fault of whoever was delegated the task of finishing the program.

For Integrated Computer Systems, because of the meeting for the quiz contest recently, the number of buzzers that are needed for the finalists has now been brought down to eight from twelve, because of the experience that the previous system was already working perfectly, but had flaws when upgraded to twelve buzzers. Too bad we can't restore the original eight-buzzer system now, so it's up to the students to make a new one.

Session 1385 need to think out of the drawing box. Class dismissed.