¬Friday Night Robotics

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Friday, November 28th, 2008

During the day I programmed MANOI without testing it, so I’m going to test it today (Saturday).

I’m so exhausted from trying to debug this router thing. I can’t stand networking!!! I mean, you’re pretty much trying to overcome little pieces of chaos all the time. I think it was Cantor who came up with the thought that if you take two rectangles and cut them in three, throw away the middle piece (I think), then repeat the pattern on the new rectangles- you’ll get something infinitely large, yet infinitely sparse. So… you’re basically trying to configure something that will work 80% of the time, while trying to leap over hurdles that you can’t control or see- that will appear from nowhere, PLUS the other random throw offs. This could make someone go crazy!!!!!

I applied to be a BETA tester of the Roboduino on Thursday (I think), but the applications were already closed (it didn’t say that on the website). It’s kind of funny, since I was the first person to mention BETA testing. Hahahaha! I’m really confused about it though :S From what I understand, the applications were open Wednesday morning, then closed Wednesday night. But… if you lived in Australia, wouldn’t that mean you never had a chance? You would only realize the apps were open when you woke up, which would be Wednesday night- so they would be closed, already. Maybe there will be GAMMA (or ALPHA) testers though, so I won’t lose hope!

I guess the highlight of tonight’s FNR was when I stayed up till 11 to watch Daily Planet.

I love the in-depth meteorite coverage they have been giving. It’s so cool how it landed in a place called Lone Rock!! Hahahaha I only hope that it isn’t damaged too much by landing in the pond though >.< I didn’t bother to watch the rest of the show since it seemed only about biology.

OH YEAH! I also made a prototype of a decoration that I’m going to put on the tree. It’s 2 inches wide, 4 inches long… and it has a robot on it. In the middle of the robot, there’s an LED. You can press near the bottom of the decoration to turn it on/off.

I’m thinking of making three and putting them on Etsy for $2.50 (+ $5 shipping) to see if they would sell. All of the profit would be going towards a book that I want that explains Jacobians and Inverse Kinematics and transforms/rotations from frame to frame.

Posted in: Other, Projects.
Tags: christmas, Daily Planet, FNR, friday night robotics, networking, Roboduino

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