Showing posts with label life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label life. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

General update

A lot has happened since the last post, hopefully I'll be posting on here more in the future. Major happenings:

  • I graduated college and got a job
     
  • My senior design project won the The Outstanding ECE Senior Design Project Award. (Somewhat related to the previous post)
     
  • I did a major portion of the electronics design and construction for the Rocketry Club at GMU Battle of the Rockets entries in 2018 and 2019 (sounding rocket and mars rover) Turned out pretty well. http://www.rocketbattle.org/winners.html
     
  • I did an engine swap and a lot of upgrades to my truck, got much better at automotive work, and learned quite a bit in the process.

 I'll probably be posting quite a bit about the truck modifications as I've spent the past month working on it, and it's pretty neat.
All for now, hopefully more soon.

Monday, February 9, 2015

Blog update

Well, college has started back up, and I'm busier than ever. (literally!)
I'm trying to keep something of a balance between social life and hobbies and studies and work.

Some of my friends may be interested to know that I'm taking a communications class. It's pretty easy so far, (unlike my other classes!) we'll see how it goes. It's also more fun so far.
I'm really busy this semester (so why am I posting on here?) I know, but at a certain point my brain tells me it's had enough math for a while, and if I want to stay sane I should do something else for a few minutes. So I'll take an opportunity to breath a little life back into my severely neglected blog.

Anyway, the blog broke 5000 views, yay!

Per request, stats, all time:





Clearly, looking at the pageview popularity, and then at what I'm posting, I'm not chasing pageviews enough ;) Anyway, I think it's interesting, and this is mostly just something I can look back at.

What's slightly interesting is that the Project Redwall blog has only been up for about a year, (wow, it's been a year already!?) and it has more views than this blog. It is updated a bit more regularly though, so that helps, and if you're interested in CG there's some useful / interesting stuff there.
We're getting some large-scale mock-ups that are starting to look pretty decent. Grass is a problem right now, but other parts are coming along, if slowly, and we have new ideas to test for grass too.

Quick speaker update: both sides are on, with handles, now the main thing to do is get the tweeter module built. I have some photos, but they're not accessible right now. I may insert those here later.
It sounds pretty good at this stage of construction. I've been running it with one tweeter while I've been working on it, and with a sub and EQ it's doing pretty well. Looking forward to getting it finished and giving it a workout outdoors. Now I just need to find people to pay me to use them...

In other news, I'm running the sound for CRU this semester! By the end of the semester I should have enough practice to be pretty decent. I'm also going to be overhauling my church's audio system soon, so that will be fun. Those are both volunteer positions / jobs though. I wish I had some photos from CRU to post here. I have some from an event last semester, but CRU already posted those. I'll have to see if I can start taking some at the general meetings.

That's all for who knows how long.