Another little video after we put it the components on a ‘frame’ and got some decent motors for it. There’s no mixing on the remote (so up-down controls one motor, left-right controls the other), so it’s really hard to drive. This is also filmed on Joe’s awesome camera he got for his graduation present, so [...]
It’s been a long time since my last update, and I figure I should post something. Hopefully updates will be more regular. I’ve had a few things I wanted to post on my blog, but I didn’t want to do it without posting a more comprehensive update, and didn’t really want to post a comprehensive [...]
Woot!
I went to Marin Ant Wars V yesterday and got first place in the antweight division. I went undefeated, thoroughly defeating (and destroying) some the best bots in the competition. We even saw a rainbow on the way back. After I got home, I laid down and got a full night’s sleep, which I haven’t [...]
This won’t affect most of you, but I have disabled trackbacks on my blog. I’d like to give a big EFF YOU to all the spammers that spam my web page trying to get google pagerank (you won’t, since the trackback links don’t link to you), and spam my email with “new trackback received.” Off [...]
I created a new fighting robot thanks to my dad and my friend Joe. It’s called Emsee Fry Pants, which is an homage to the robot MC Pee Pants since they’re similar and was part of the reason that the robot ended up as it did. If you don’t know, MC Pee Pants is also [...]
