Ugh. Last week I was so busy, and now that I'm not, instead of being super-productive about all my personal projects, I just want to nap. No matter how much I sleep, I don't feel awake ( Read more... )

Three day weekend, my schedule looked liked this: Wake up. Shower. Go to robotics. Return past midnight (usually at 2 or 3). Sleep. Repeat.

Richard promised we'd have it done last week. Tonight, at Milken, as I write, Max, Nate, Ryan, and Onur remain, mounting motors, drilling holes, working out structural issues.

I'm at the point where I have no ( Read more... )

My professor doesn't believe I wrote my own paper, because I use big words. This has never happened to me. Usually I get back comment on papers asking me to please cut down on the wordiness, because it detracts from my points (though usually those are the same papers where I'm using wordiness to cover up my lack of good points).

It was a short paper ( Read more... )

Upstairs, either somebody is monotonously learning to play the tuba, or (more probably) a song is playing loudly with the most boring bass line in the world.

For the last twenty or even more minutes, coming from the general direction of the ceiling, two low notes have been playing at even, perfectly alternating intervals. This isn't the first time I ( Read more... )

I was doing a google search that started with the word "large" ("large CIM motor"), and these popped up:

Large Hadron Collider (3,550,000 results)
Large Breasts (2,190,000 results)
Large Intestine (1,850,000 results)

A new year, a new build season. This sums up how robotics is going so far (Week 1 just completed, Weeks 2-6 remaining).

Edit: My official title: Whatever the Team Needs Most. (I've done research, design, team organization, finding sponsors, PR, and construction so far. And all I really wanted to do from the beginning was programming). Though to be ( Read more... )

I recently found out that the dorms close here over winter break, which means I have to go home and pack enough books and clothes to last for three weeks ( Read more... )

I got my Macbook Pro this week and decided to install Linux and Windows in addition to my Mac OS. Of course, since none of the tutorials I found exactly addressed my situation, I had to cobble together a lot of sources to figure this out. Not to mention trial and error which meant I had to install Windows and Linux some four or five times each. BUT ( Read more... )

My friend Allen was the brains behind this. We used this schematic and he added in an LED and a rheostat to control gain.


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