Week 8 Update 🚀 | The Road to Robotics Engineering
Another week, another step toward the dream. I’m 8 weeks into my 200-week journey toward becoming a robotics engineer—and I can feel the momentum growing.
This week I built a distance-measuring device using an ultrasonic sensor, wrote the logic in C++, and felt that timeless rush you only get when an idea turns into a real working circuit. Projects like these remind me why I chose this path.
On the math side, it was a heavy but rewarding climb. I dug deep into:
- End behavior of polynomials
- Zeros of polynomials & graph interpretation
- Rational exponents and exponent properties
- Evaluating exponents & radicals
- Rewriting exponential expressions
- Solving exponential equations using exponent rules
- Building & interpreting exponential models
- Logarithms, the constant e, and natural logs
- Properties of logarithms & the change-of-base formula
- Solving exponential models using logs
It felt like unlocking a whole new layer of mathematical “x-ray vision.”
Beyond that, I explored some fascinating side topics—like how barcodes and QR codes actually encode data, and why the modern world uses UTF encodings instead of ASCII. Tiny details, big insights.
If you’re a fellow learner, I’d love to connect. If you’re ahead of me in robotics or engineering, your guidance would mean a lot—there’s so much to learn, and I’m here for all of it.
Thanks for being part of the journey. 🚀
