Today, I planned out my gameplan and started with my 1st phase of the project. This is the (temporary) components list:

• 4 wheeled robot chassis kit
• wireless gamepad
• Raspberry Pi Zero W
• Logic Level Convertor
• Diodes
• Arduino Mega
• Arduino Motor Shield(v1)
• Power source

So for today's work, I revisited an old blog about interfacing gamepads with linux(raspbian) systems. This covers the workings really well and for today I only tried out the controller interfacing with my Raspberry Pi Zero. i am using a Redgear wireless controller with lots of inputs which give a lot of options for future additions.

Tomorrow I plan on building the python code for the movement commands and start with the phase 2 of my project.