Exploring Stanford

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Sunday, July 27th, 2008

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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Moving On…

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

As said yesterday- I was playing with my Arduino today!

However, that really only began after supper. I went to buy some tiny wire jumpers and a big bread board (I like big boards and I can not lie) … and a squishy button. Plus, I saw they had vibrating motors, so I bought one! I’m going to implement it into this pink snowman as a bristlebot. So- imagine this – a pink snowman that can bob its head forwards and backwards, move side to side, and navigate around by means of a bristlebot

Sounds fun to me! The only thing I don’t get is how I will connect it all together…

Here are some technology as art pictures of what I did today…

This morning, as I now remember it, I wanted to make stuff via the terminal. I hit a roadblock when my gcc compiler didn’t work! I’ll have to figure out that one later – I think I need to install it again.

Another interesting thing that happened today was somehow I glitched one of Ty.com’s Beanie Baby 2.0 games- it gave me SO much free stuff. It was amazing! My big book of Beanies is looking pretty fab!

Tomorrow I’ll buy the squishy parts for the pink snowman as the hobby shop was closed, even though it was only 11 minutes after 6:00. Who would leave their store exactly when it is closed? Wouldn’t you have to take inventory, clear the till?! Gwaaaah! And who closes at 6:00 anyway…

Arrrg- I really want some BOOKS about AI & NLP! All I was hoping for was just 1 bursary @ MRSTF to buy books…

Posted in: Projects, Robot.