Project Proposal

Well, our group just finished our proposal to our 8:30am class.

...all 15 people looked too sleepy to care.

The good thing was that the 2 other groups that we saw run through were all aiming way too high for this thing, promising balanced gyroscopic stuff that will fly. Or something that will run off an FPGA with a camera because infrared sensors are just too simplistic.

None of these guys have really looked into how much such projects are going to cost. Answer: Alot of money.

I mean, even for ours with my thriftiness at its finest. Our project will still be 300$ by the end of it. Thats robot, sensors, IC's, Microcontrollers, and all other misc. materials.

Our presentation went well, except I apparently answered "too many" questions according to my groupmates and made them look kinda bad. Whatever...

Looking into the future we need to get the rest of our parts, otherwise we might be in some hot water come December. Off to the left here is all the parts we have as of now. Wheels, motors, wheel encoders, and the Pic. We totally have enough to start working on some stuff in the lab. This week we will be looking at getting most of the IC stuff so I can start EAGLE and making up our uber PCB

Fun times ahead! More stuff to come.

Hello, World

Welcome.

I'm trying this serive out and migrating out of an older pretty much obsolete blogging service. This one seems to be superior in terms of customization. With no tackiness.

We'll see how often I can actually write anything here. I guess as far as introductions are concerned. I'm currently a final year electrical engineering student who has an affinity for anything mechanical. Think I chose the wrong major? Yeah probably; but this gives me a head up on any job that needs some sort of mechanical aptitude.

Job wise, I like to get dirty. Coming home not covered in dirt and sweat is not a day at work! That being said; one day I hope to have a shop that I can work out of on the side. Create things.

Hopefully more information to follow! I'm planning on posting how we build this final year design project of ours. Somehow I am now project leader. Which, is good in a way. Everything shall be done to MY standards. Which are apparently higher then 1/2 of the group. and equal to the other half.

Take care.
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DK