AURGH!

June is almost done with now also. Lots of 4-H went down and I just got a job this week working in a computer lab at WVU. So, here are some highlights from camp:


Three of eight.


Man love.






Mad dancing. Mad.


Angry bubble blowing.

May Didn't Have a Post

I've covered all the other months since I made this Insider, so heres to covering May before it's gone. Not much to report on; all I've been doing is running around.

So here is a picture of my signature move, the Manatee.



I'll probably be doing a lot more of that...

Senior Design Fair

Here are some pictures from our booth at the Senior Design fair. My advisor and a couple other professors took pics and I asked Klink if he could email them to me. Klink is our professor; the short guy... We got a lot of attention at the fair, apparently Klink has a reputation for that.


Tim working the crowd.





An older version of the maze



This is the entire class.

Now that the fair is out of the way, we're responsible for writing a comprehensive report on the maze-bot :: covering hardware and software(my section). I'll definitely throw it up on here.

We also had another program due last week, but it really didn't do anything terribly interesting. It just created a circular data structure (A list, but that's not exciting enough), that ordered items either alphabetically or numerically depending on your templated parameter. It doesn't sound complicated but each item in the list has to point to a unique predecessor and successor (since the list is basically a circle -- it has no end) and you have to be able to cut those ties and re-point them to be able to insert or remove items. And it has to be so general that it can loop and work in every case necessary. Saavy?

Current Tasks

This is the follow-up to the previous post. So, in Robotics we've kind of been taking a break from the maze-bots since Tim and I have been done with it for the past 3 or so weeks. Instead, we've been doing simulated wiring and programming with labview. It's kind of cool, because you can actually pull information from hardware in the class and use the data in the programs you write and it throws it all together with an interface. Last week and seemingly this week, we're making dashboards for a car. Mine's a tank, it only gets about 2 miles to the gallon. But it's a groovy pimp tank - notice the coloring.





It's not quite done yet, but whatever.

I told you guys a little bit about the bank program that we're working on in CS. It's actually 10 programs that all work together to simulate the bank - not too complicated but very thick. It has to have several different types of accounts, and customer types based on age, all with different interest values that we're responsible for making up... you know the spiel. That's gonna consume my weekend.

WOLFMOZA!!!1

I know I already told you guys about Cleveland and the Wolfmother concerto but...
Here's some more crap to enjoy:

Erin and I at the concert.

We couldn't have cameras but we took this with her phone.




This is a picture of the venue which was really small. We were here:
(Hope you can see the enlightening circle)



Close up of the MASHPIT:



Bangin' fun... You guys should probably make Sam play some of their music for you. Expect more soon about the different things I'm working on at the moment.

Engineering Formal Shots

Here's some shots from t3h Engineering formal and the subsequent IHOP visit (I know this is high quality photographic material):

Argh!

Classes have been really busy. I told Dad about the sodoku program and physics/math tests/quizes on a weekly basis. Although, the biggest time eater is the robots that are due every Friday.

This is our maze robot. It's supposed to able to make it's way out of a maze our professor has set up using light sensors and bumper switches. Tim and I probably spent a total of 8-10 hours in the lab working on its programming. What can I say? We're kind of a big deal.




I also need a hair cut really bad.

Snow! Argh!

Snow pictures.