Category: Projects
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How Systems Engineering differs from IT Systems Administration
I sometimes get asked about my Masters in Systems Engineering, usually by people who expect it to be more like network administration or similar IT work. I mean, I certainly could be doing IT; it’s how I paid for my undergrad. But compared to the rest of my career experience, that was long enough ago on simpler…
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Hello world!
Site’s been down for a bit while transitioning to a better host. Apologies if you’ve been looking for any of the content here on the WordPress installation; I was placing higher priority on zero downtime for mail instead. Time to go about fixing broken images and links and such… This also seems like a good…
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Robotics & Perception
One of the electives I chose, Introduction to Robotics and Perception, had a semester-long group project of programming a WowWee Rovio (tech specs and api available on linked product support page) to do various tasks:
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Inverse Kinematics and Robot Arms
Towards the very end of my college undergraduate career, one of the courses I chose was “Introduction to Automation and Robotics,” better described as “Playing with robot arms (and matrix math).”
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AmigoBots
In the Digital Design Lab course when I was in college, our final project revolved around a MobileRobots AmigoBot (with a programmable Altera UP2 board strapped to the top; tech specs available in this pdf).