Microcontroller project

So I haven't posted in a while due to being extremely busy. However I felt like talking about this one project going on now. Right now, iFoundry's class has a microcontroller project nearing completion. My team chose to make a hovercraft. Unfortunately, We've been having problems with the electrical work of the hovercraft. First we couldn't draw enough juice from the microcontroller with the breadboard, so we made a motor shield. Now the motor shield doesn't even work properly. We're at a complete loss of how to use the motor shield but hopefully we'll figure things out tomorrow ...... actually today!