It’s been a while since I wrote here. I’ve been INCREDIBLY busy over last month or so… 4th year and Midnight Sun all coming together…
Anyway, today was fun. Class in the morning, then we drove the solar car to Economical Insurance. We finally have lots of new blood coming in to the team, so it’s a lot of fun. Then more classes, followed by dinner at an interesting (and pretty decent) sea food restaurant and work on our fourth year project.
So, me and Phil were sitting around, developing code on the robocup robots. Since the DiskOnChip we use on them are only 8MB big, we usually develop the software on harddrives that we manually mount. Problem, though, is that we only have one backplane, so we can develop and compile the software on only one of the robots. So, to actually be able to copy the new builds of the programs, we have to turn everything off, swap the harddrives, turn everything back on, copy the required file to DiskOnChip, then turn everything off again, then swap the harddrives back into the original configuration. Needless to say, it’s pretty tedious. Then Phil comes up with brilliant idea - We’re working on building wireless network! Why not just make a program that allows us to send files wireless between the robots? After 30 minutes of hacking, we ended up with a program that allowed us to easily distribute and copy files around just using BlueTooth… Ah… that made my week. 
Heck, I’m so happy that I could even overlook the fact that I’m happy about coding a neat piece of code on a Friday night. 
