Archive for February, 2006
Me vs. the Bobcat (part 9 of ?)
Or, “What I want out of my post-secondary environment”
I was hoping to not need to write one of these again, but here we are. Today the school decided to dish out detentions for being late to class like candy (this is a lie, the school has never given me candy for being tardy). Many people […]
Candidates’ Weekend and Number Four
The Candidates’ Weekend at Olin College was super awesome. I got to meet a bunch of really cool kids who maybe will be my classmates next year. Friday was a lot of learning about the college, both in big presentations and getting to talk to students and professors. I listened to a few professors talk […]
Some housekeeping
Using a powersupply graciously lent to me, I have revived my desktop.
On the front page, I have changed a bit of under the hood code to be much cleaner, and upgraded the countdown to now count down (or up) to a random event. Right now I only have about 4, and none of them are […]
Good News Bad News
The good news is that we finally got over to UTC today to test the robot. It’s done (more or less) and we can all relax for the rest of break. I am going to Olin on Friday-Saturday for Candidates’ Weekend and I went to Chris’ LAN party and hung out with Pelan, Rachel, and […]
UTC Scrimmage
After spending about 10 hours at robot yesterday (the engineers pulled an all nighter), we finally had something that resembled a finished robot. We packed everything up and headed off to Suffield for their annual pre-ship scrimmage.
The robot drove like a dream. The 6-wheel drive makes it easy to drive backwards, and I was pushing […]