Greetings Internets!
You may recall that I used to blog here. I managed to not write anything for the entirety of last semester, and continued that winning streak through winter break. Alas, winter break is now over, and I thought it was about time I wrote something here.
Of course, in order to write something here, I'd have to have something to talk about. I'm not going to do another politics entry, because I think the last three were. Instead, I'm going to write a boring entry about my boring life. Maybe if I stick to such mundane topics as what I ate for lunch I'll be able to update this more than biannually.
Since my last entry back in August, I've managed to build a desktop computer, take several classes, and (finally) get a project for my masters. My masters thesis is going to be in the field of robotics, exploring uses for mobile industrial arms. I will be mounting an ABB IRB-120 industrial robotic arm to an electric wheelchair drivetrain, then working to create a hardware and software framework for that robot. I haven't yet defined the scope of my work on the project, but eventually someone (probably not me, but a successor) will use it to experiment with recognizing and retrieving boxes in a warehouse or inventory setting. I'm just excited that I get to play with a giant FIRST robot.
Speaking of FIRST, yet another season has started -- I started feeling old when I realized that this is my eighth. This year's challenge is essentially a modified version of basketball. Rather than try to explain it, I'll just direct you to go watch this:
I'm already tired of writing, so I'm going to wrap this up.
