New Low Profile Electronics
So the Raspberry Pi Pico could not handle the flow of interrupts. So it is back to Arduino.
Also, I realized that I can make the electronics slimmer if I solder the pins and remove the plastic bar. So this is basically back to what this looked like long back.
But it is modular now and that will be such a relief. Motors work, but the encoder is misbehaving. Will have to figure that out.