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After working pretty much all Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday on Rambot the Robot, I finally have the sensors all mounted and everything cut out. This class will be the death of me, as I've worked a ridiculous number of hours on it already, but the feeling that you get once you finish is pretty cool. So without further ado, here are a few pics of my robot:
Front
Side
Top
The circle thing in the middle is the sonar to measure distance, the top two black things are the IR sensors to detect objects, the thing in the middle is the camera, and there's an LCD and protoboard on top. It's powered by two servo's, and the batteries go in the back. I still have to add a bump switch, and hopefully I can find a nice size castor for the dead wheel in the back.
Now the focus turns more to software, which I'm really looking forward to. Thankfully my robot is pretty simple in design, so I don't have to worry much about the mechanical or electrical properties, which I don't particularly enjoy. Get me some low level C and assembly code, and I'm happy. Once I get it moving and obstacle avoiding, I'll post some video of it in action. Which the "soft" due date is Monday.... but I really don't see that happening. But it'll be another long weekend of wiring and fiddling and cursing. It's amazing how much my mood can swing over this thing, as half the time I just want to drop out of school, and half the time I can't believe I've built something like this and I think the class is awesome.
San Francisco is making news by marrying gay couples in defiance of state law. It's interesting how the entire issue has really started coming into the mainstream in the last few years, as I don't ever recall anything about gay marriage a few years ago. It's nice that people are finally making strides to end this senseless discrimination, and hopefully people will look back on this in a decade or two and realieze how dumb these laws are. Interracial marriage used to be illegal as well, but at least we've seen how stupid that is.
UF Basketball really needs to stop losing.
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