Stanford has an extremely beautiful campus! It’s full with wildlife- like tiny frogs, geckos and palm trees! It’s also a really giant campus - as I found out after playing The Game. (I’ll blog about The Game later). Apart from enjoying the puns on Bread-First Search (BFS) and Death-First Search (DFS) algorithms, I really enjoyed exploring the campus. Usually I took all of these pictures while going Fountain Hopping, but sometimes I just took them while walking to the class!
Fountain Hopping was an amazing activity. Basically, you find a fountain - and you jump in it! It’s so amazingly fun! One time where we went to the fountain outside of the hospital, we were kicked out. It was pretty awkward!
One of my favourite features of Stanford is the beautiful architecture. You really have to see it in real, but I hope my pictures will better illustrate it! The detail and texture is amazing.
The total GB count of all the photos I took is 9.46! But, I only chose the best and uploaded them, so with all the small versions and thumbnails, it totaled to 2.3GB. 
There will be way more posts with way more photos! Here are 309 - Hope you enjoy them!! Clicking the image will open it in the lightbox (like normal), but if you click the camera, it will open the high res photos. Please don’t use any of the high res photos without my permission first 
Thanks!!
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Archive for July, 2008
Yay! I have access to the internet
After being at Stanford, I really realized that I extremely like AI and robotics. So, I have many robot projects going on all at one time. Here’s a list:
- Line following, maze navigating, AI robot
- Using an Arduino and Processing
- Started this project at Stanford (they funded it!)
- 2 DC motors
- 5 LDRs
- Chassis is a cardboard and plastic beginners robot kit (bought at the ExplOratorium while at Stanford)
- I need a gearbox!
- BubbleBoy
- A robot that has fake emotions determined by the pushes of buttons and the LDR
- Using Arduino and Processing
- 2 Servos
- 1 LDR
- 2 Push buttons
- Chassis is the older BubbleBoy - Pinky one I created
- I need another Arduino - or an RBBB!
- MANOI AT01 -> Arduino
- Transplanting my humanoid to the Arduino board
- I need 2 or 3 Pololu micro serial servo boards - they can be controlled via a TXRX line, making it easy for the Arduino to control many servos
- Will write software to control the servos in Processing (easy GUI!)
- Phoenix
- Basically, my project for the year. *cough*ISEFhopefully*cough*
- Uses much of the knowledge I attain from all projects and the Stanford EPGY Summer Institutes AI Program
- Hospital bedside accompaniment
- I’m purposefully lacking details here.
Some of the parts I need immediately in order to continue building are expensive though 
But hey, there’s always Styrobots in my shop ready to be purchased!!
In the meantime, I’m still annotating and pulling all the details out of these books…
- Building Sociable Robots
- Probablistic Robotics
- AI Textbook from Stanford
- AI journal book from Stanford
- The Emotion Machine
- Intro to AI
I’m also compiling a huge blog post of over 1,000 pictures from Stanford
Soon after that, I’ll post pics of these projects 
Hi there! This post is intended to be extremely short and quick, as it’s 1:23AM in the morning!
I arrived back on Tuesday, and Stanford and the JPL was amazing. DisneyLAND was okay but I prefer EPCOT!
I don’t have internet though, since my Dad didn’t/can’t pay the bill. I hope to buy my own internet soon so I can post all of the stuff that I want to The only internet that works is through his iMac, so it’s really ethernet not wireless internet
Thanks everyone that helped send me there, it was a blast. There was a theme song for EBF - you can check out my remix for it here: http://robotgrrl.com/coke-and-veggies-remix.mp3
More details to come!!