Posted in school, travel, tagged FTC, machinery on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
It appears that team 420, and I with it, are going to the FIRST nationals! So many teams won first place at multiple competitions that they had a drawing for lowly teams like ours to come as filler. However, the drawing took place eight days before they told us. FIRST also slapped us with a humongous entrance fee in proportion to the notice they gave us.
Despite this all, I’m rather happy to go.
Posted in school, tagged FTC on January 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Building our robot goes reasonably well, but it is strange how something so calculated and mulled over could be so hard to gauge the success of.
Our robot is basically designed to pick up rings and slide them over a stick. That would not seem so hard. It is. We finally got an arm worked up [...]
Posted in school, tagged FTC, machinery on November 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
To my complete and utter happiness, I am now developing ideas for a
robot. Transferring them to an actual metal structure, is sadly a much
different process.
Our first task was brainstorming. Once the rush of ideas had stampeded
past, there was not much left to do, so we wanted to build. Our mentor
(in all his wisdom and machine [...]
Posted in life, rant, school on May 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Hello, besides wanting to kill my math book, things are pretty good here. James is home from college. I’ve joined a robotics team, and things are generally ok.
On the subject of the math book. I’ve just spent four hours correcting tests and trying to see how the book wants me to solve problems before I [...]
Posted in life, school on March 21, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Hello all, Mrfff: schoolwork. Today in math, I did a lesson on exponential equations/functions an compound interest. Everything (or most everything) that I’ve been learning these past months comes together in this lesson–the “h of x” stuff, Logarithms, exponents, variations…..wow. It’s neat but at the same time scary. “It all hooks together!” Of course, that’s [...]
Posted in life, school, tagged writing on February 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I am composing a piano piece; it is called Indiana Sparrow–and already you can guess the theme. I play around on ditties all the time. The only difference is now, I have a worthless, (to everyone else) cool ditty.
Along with that humanities-type accomplishment, I will rave about another composition that I am working on. I [...]
Posted in life, school on February 17, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Biology is a most wonderful thing. Take this example: One moment you are in the pit of despair wondering whether things could get worse (or possibly better) and when that weird albino from The Princess Bride will reappear, when you decide to just get it over with and do Biology. I feel wonderful after [...]
Posted in life, rant, school on October 20, 2006 | 3 Comments »
I am not a very language oriented person. I mean, I love books and I love writing; but I am a slow reader. Not because I have a hard time reading, far from it, but because I like to stop and think about the book and experience it mentally. Because of this, as [...]
Posted in school, tagged history on September 9, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Did a really cool chapter in history today on the great inventors. Newton is interesting. I thought that it was great that they listed the equation for finding the force of gravity for planets according to the distance. Partially because I understood the basic math they were using.
Then we went to Callie’s parents [...]
Posted in life, school on August 15, 2006 | No Comments »
I should really put in a post, but it is really late, so I’ll be brief
Floridia was great; I have a burn, tan, and blisters from kyaking. I started school; it is going to be hard/busy. My brother is leaving for college. Going to my Grandpa’s. I will see everybody eventually, after [...]
