So Mary Ann and I have been in California for many months now and the only post I’ve made is about the move out here. My friend from the Gallery project recently moved out here to work for SugarCRM and he happened to get an apartment in the same complex as us. He updates his site jpmullan.com very frequently and I thought I would give it a try. For everyone out there that is keeping an eye on my site and is disappointed in the lack of updates, here we go!
I recently started messing around with my Vex Robotics stuff again. I went as far as purchasing the RobotC compiler which is much nicer than EasyC which it came with (and would have cost $50 to upgrade to the latest EasyC). I wrote a couple simple programs to learn it and started building various chassis. It turns out, Jesse likes to play with robots too. It started out innocently enough, but then I ordered some new parts and we picked up a wireless video camera as well.
It is strapped to the robot on a turret that can rotate left and right as well as elevate up and down. I need some longer wires so that it can rotate 360 degrees, but it works reasonably well now. The best feature can be seen below though!
Perfectly normal robot with the addition of an aim-able camera
STEALTH ROBOT!!1!one!1eleven!exclamation point!