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Micro-Blogging
I didn’t want to bring out my just repaired camera in the rain at my high school’s football game since there was on and off rain. After I left the house it ended up being dry for the entire night. Oh well.
I went to the game anyways because it was #4 vs. my [...]
New Phone
A few weeks ago I finally parted with my Motorola E815 and moved up to a smartphone, a Motorola Q9c. I really didn’t want to get rid of the old phone. I had it hacked to my liking, getting back all the stuff that Verizon locks out, but battery and charging issues were [...]
Photography
It’s been a while since I’ve written here. Last time I was talking about my senior project, which was a success. The autonomous driving algorithm was a bit tricky to work out, but I don’t mind a challenge. It drew quite a bit of attention when I was testing it in Police [...]
New Photos
I’ve been working hard to update my web site with a new photo gallery. The gallery is ready to go, you can see it at photos.netbymatt.com, but I still need to upload a years worth of photos to it.
Senior Project Update 2
We strapped a camera to the back of the truck and shot some videos. Here’s a clip from one. You can see our mounting mechanism below.
Senior Project Update
Here’s an update on how my senior project is going. Remember, there’s no one driving the truck, it’s doing everything on its own.
You can also see more photos and videos of the truck at truck.netbymatt.com.
Last semester
Let me update you on last semester to start. Overall it went quite well. The chemistry TA problem was resolved when the department reassigned all of the TAs, and that class was a lot like high school chemistry. Once I got started with it again, it all came back to me.
My mass [...]
First Few Classes
I’ve had all of my classes now, and I don’t think that any of them are going to be too challenging. Right now, I’d say that my toughest course will probably be chemistry as neither my TA nor the professor speak very good English. Hopefully, I’ll remember enough from high school chemistry and [...]
All summer
Between finals, work and vacation, I have really fallen behind on this. I left off talking about grades for last semester. They all turned out just fine. The finals weren�t all that bad either. I took two days off before starting work this summer to take care of some things that [...]
Three More Weeks
I can finally say that I’m not as busy… with class work. The senior project proposal is done, and it was done about two weeks before they were due. I’m glad to have that out of the way. I got quite a bit of extra credit on it for handing it in [...]
Still busy
I guess I’ve let a little bit of time pass since I’ve updated this. Well, the title of the last entry still fits this one. I’ve been incredibly busy. Last time I updated this, I had just finished writing the proposal for the project in one of my classes, now I’ve just [...]
Busy, Busy, Busy
What’s been going on? Quite a bit. Let me start where I left off. Grades are all in, and I got all A’s, but it was close in a few classes. I’m back to class now, and those are going alright, but more on that later.
Last time I updated this was [...]
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It’s all over
Well, for the semester anyways. The grades aren’t all in yet, but I have a good feeling about all of them. A few are going to be close, but I think they’ll work out.
I had a lot of fun getting some of those grades. In one of my ECET courses, we had [...]
A football curse?
Well, it’s been about a month since I last updated this but a lot has happened. Going home for Octoberbreak was nice, but I was unable to make it to my high school for the homecoming football game. I’ll blame that on the traffic that I encountered going home. I didn’t [...]
Almost half way there
A lot has happened in the last month. Purdue’s football team is 4-0, with two of those on the road, and one of those road games being a big win over Notre Dame. We still have to wait about 2 weeks for the next home game, but I think I’ll survive. In [...]
Game one, or game won take your pick
Today was the first football game. The game was great. We ended up shutting out Syracuse 51-0. It looks like we’ll be going places at the end of this football season. I was shocked to see just how many people were at the game considering that it was on a Sunday [...]
One week down
Wow, it seems like it’s been forever, but the first week of class is finally over. It was quite confusing for me, I couldn’t keep straight what was going on in my ECET courses, 304, 307 and 309. All of them have labs and homework. Each one has different requirements for how [...]
That’s the end of that
Well, the summer is over. I’ve only got a few hours left before my first class, but I don’t want to think about that right now. Between seeing friends, going on vacation, and even to some degree working, this summer was great.
I wasn’t sure how I would like doing maintenance at work this [...]
One month of summer
Yeah, I know, it’s not summer yet, but I’m out of school so it’s close enough for me. For the first two week of summer, I didn’t do much. I did go to a Sox game, but that wasn’t all that great (they lost), the fireworks show afterwords was good, though.
Just before I [...]
