Just got back from competing in my last Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition. We had our best performance yet, and only didn't do better because we didn't get the equipment we needed ordered in time to build the new robot, but we still did really well. The software written can complete all the courses, the robot itself just can't drive fast ( Read more... )

Finally making some progress with the stupid robot. I leave Thursday morning at 6am for Michigan and the 14th Annual Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition to compete against 41 other stupid robots. We ran into a snag earlier this week when one pc cards we use to connect to a sensor broke. We went from getting sensor data 72x a second to 3x a ( Read more... )

Please go to the following web site to contact your representatives about Network Neutrality. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, basically, the big telcom companies want to change the way the internet functions so that they can control the how content is delivered to you. This means that websites who do not pay them money will have ( Read more... )

I started watching the new Doctor Who series and it kicks ass. I downloaded most of the 2005 season and it is a really great show. I think Sci-Fi started playing it on Fridays, so if you get a chance to watch it do so, it's very creative. I never watched the original series, but I may have to download a few to see what it was like after watching ( Read more... )

Check out this site and contact your state officials. There are links on the page to web forms too ( Read more... )

New Superman Trailer is Up, Me am Getting Excited...

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/supermanreturns/

I totally crashed and slept for like 14 hours last night. So amazing, I wish I never woke up.

Yay, I am officially done with Spring Semester. I'm so dizzy right now from weeks of no sleep. I can't believe I survived.

Only one more class to finish work for over the next week, then Spring Semester is over. I got some very good feedback from my professor on my genetic algorithm project, "Evolving Image Filter Sequences for Real Time Lane Line Detection in Noisy Environments", and we will try submit it to a conference or journal over the summer. I also only have ( Read more... )

This has been the worst Spring Break I have ever had. I hate my classes, and work, and everything. I have not slept in 3 days, and my homework assignment that is due tomorrow, which was only assigned a week or so ago, is already 40 pages long. I thought I could get ahead of myself this week, but I'm not even caught up yet.