Sounds really cool! Do you have a page describing your project with some pictures? It's funny I checked your post history before asking and found that you made the same comment I'm doing today to someone doing something similar one year ago! Is it what got you started?
Not yet! I'm a mechanical engineer by trade, so my C++ is horrendous. I am still in the very early phases of this project, once I get past the hardcoding all of my variables I will share some more.