time consumed

What up people!?!?! This has been an incredibly crazy week with many a 12+ hour day. The long and short of this was that his week I decided I should probably finish out the semester and get everything done that I need to, and worry less about running. That being said I only went running on monday before I decided to be all dedicated. I spent a lot of time doing homework, labs, and finishing up my robot racer car. There was even a day I didn't get home till after 2 in the morning. Anyway, I've got some videos of my car driving to post up. Also our final competition is tomorrow (wed, April 11th) from 1 to 3 pm. I went home over the weekend, and got to hide all the easter baskets. Guess that's the benefit of 1 o'clock church. Boy did I do a good job coming up with creative spots to hide baskets, ask Jerusha if you don't believe me.

That's all for today!

Robot Racer Car

Hey all, here's one of the awesome video's I referred to in my last post.

So a quick explanation of the video. We're supposed to be making cars that can play capture the flag, or a similar game. The car is completely controlling itself as well. What's going on in this video is there are 2 bases (towers), on on the other team, and one on mine. The truck looks at the color of the lights on the tower to decide what team a tower is on. Then if the tower has the flag the truck will drive up and shoot it to get the flag from the opposing tower. Once it has the flag it then goes into a seeking mode where it tries to find it's own tower to return the flag to. In this video the car approached and tried to pass the flag to the tower, but the tower didn't see it, and I ended up pushing the truck (it was going slow cause the battery on the motors was almost dead) to close to the tower so it couldn't see it anymore. Anyway, It's 2:30 right now and I just wanted to throw up this video real quick before I went to bed. I have another video and I'll try to get some pictures or something to add up later. Stay tuned for more awesome!

(hopefully this all made sense...)

busy week

Alrighty, it's been a pretty busy week, but I've got a little bit of stuff to put up here. Monday and Tuesday were packed with homework. I did all of it for the week in just 2 days. That's cause I still had a bunch of tests and what not for the rest of the week. Wednesday I took a physics test, I feel pretty good about that. I'll find out how it went on Wednesday probably, since it closes Tuesday next week. On Monday I also received Megan Bracken's wedding invitation. That's pretty exciting. For those of you who don't know here she's one of my best friends in the EE department. We had a ton of classes together the last few years and we spent a lot of time working on homework together.
There's the wedding invitation.

So back to the week. Monday and Tuesday combined netted me a total of 27.5 hours on campus... Wednesday was a test, and then Thursday was all work because I needed to get caught up on the work I didn't do that last few days doing homework and stuff. I wasn't feeling great Thursday either so it was a long day, and then Friday I helped my professor fix some bugs for our robot racer competition, hung out with Melissa Boyer for a little and I went home for conference weekend. The point of pointing out my business is the fact that I was going to get some awesome new footage of my car... and I didn't. But here's an old video I never posted. For this it's driving a figure 8. We aren't controlling the car at all, we just hit go and it drives. So it's pretty cool.


OK, so I plugged my watch in to get my running info for the week and BOOM blue screen of death... So after a short reboot, and thank goodness blogger saved drafts like every minute or so, I'm back up in action... So I think I was on to running... So that's where I'll go next.
So, I know the dates are wrong, but that's because I skipped a week before. Also I think I'll still wait to do the final week on it's correct week, so the current plan is basically to redo this weeks work outs. I'll think I'll add a couple miles here and there though, so it should be a little more this week, or that's my hope.

Well, I think that's about all I got for now, I'll talk to y'all later :D