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Coronavirus update 

Today we got some really sad news as PiWars was decided to be postponed to a later date. Despite this being unfortunate, it was definitely a well thought out choice and was made for good reasons. 

However......

This could also be pretty useful as well because this means that I get (a lot) more time to work on my robot and further develop it. Below is a to-do list of my new ideas:

- Get the flywheel mechanism working ASAP
- Tweak all my code and do further testing
- Work on further autonomous code (to gain more points)

I am very excited to accomplish these goals!

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