Iggy’s Blog

It seems as though I have been terrible at updating this part of my website, and for good reason. I have been very busy finishing up my BS degree in business and trying to get my wine carrier off the ground. Since my last post I have switched to a Mac. I bought an iPad, even though I think that’s the worst name ever. Come on Apple! My racing hobby has died because of my allocated time. It’s been since replaced by my shooting hobby. I have found it a real challenge to do long range precision shooting.

I have a lot more updates, but I really should have been posting them as they happened. I will try to do a little more this year. No promises!

I haven’t posted in a while because I have been very busy with school. Today I decided to video tape my first robot I built in my robotics class. It’s my first time doing anything in robotics and formally learning a computing language, in this case it’s InteractiveC. Naturally what I’m doing is extremely basic.

In the video the robot is avoiding obsticles by using two infrared sensors and in case it hits something, there are two “bumpers” with switches that make the robot backup. After the bumpers are hit 5 times the 2 LEDs flash and then the robot continues.

Again very basic stuff, but it’s a lot of fun.

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