Wow! It’s been a whirlwind three days…so much time, and yet it seems, so little has been done…but we’re getting there, slowly. To recap: Monday was the start of our epic journey. The five of us met up at YEG (that’s Edmonton International Airport for those who don’t know) bright and early to make our […]
[custom_frame_left shadow="on"] [/custom_frame_left] Day 3 and the mood is more optimistic, the robot is now buoyant and we have power to the thrusters but recurring issues with the compass have been slowing progress down. The electronics issues and exploding components that have been plauging us are now resolved and the hull is now full of electronics and […]
Day 2 on the road to victory! We are trying hard to get all the stuff together, our motor controllers are still having some problems with the logic, so we are going to bypass the controller logic so that we can run the thrusters and do testing on the other components. The passive ballast system that we implemented was a […]
Well it looks like team ARVP has made it to the hotel in San Diego, it was a rough trip, we almost did not make the transfer from the Edmonton Flight to the Calgary flight. On top of it all, we got to the hotel and could not find the robot that we had shipped out earlier in […]
Well, here we are. The past week has been a lot of fun, but all good things must come to an end. Although we didn’t do as well as we hoped (thanks to numerous failures on our components) we still managed to score a weight bonus and we did qualify once! I’m sure we will […]
7 am waking up in the morning. gotta be fresh gotta go downstairs. can’t have a bowl – can’t have cereal seein’ everyone they’re so tired tick’in on and on everybody’s rushin’ gotta get down to the TRANSDEC gotta catch the van, I see my “friends…” Sleeping in the front seat, sleeping in the back […]
Well, it’s day 5 and it’s been a lot of highs and lows, mostly with us ending on a low note. We arrived at the TRANSDEC bright and early and eagerly unloaded our equipment and set to work. We were trying to remain optimistic that today was the day we were going to get through […]
Day 4 has come and passed. What went on today? Well my friends, let’s turn the clock back now shall we? 12 am: everybody is working on a few adjustments. Chris, Veselin, Mike and Meaghan were working on getting our motorcontrollers to behave, while Aassem, Lee, Kris and I were fashioning up a new lid […]
So while the breakfast club (driving team) was having fun finding out just how much calories their bodies could take at the IHOP, Veselin, Kris and I awoke to the wee hours of daylight and took to the skies for San Diego. The flights were fine despite Kris complaining about the emergency exit seats that […]
Well, we got started a little later than planned. It seems someone (*cough*Chris*cough*) forgot to turn on the alarm clock, and we didn’t wake until I awoke to Meaghan knocking on our door at 5:30. We showered and dressed quickly, then loaded RoboVan and headed off to the hotel lobby for our complimentary breakfast (more […]
Well, it’s been a great day overall…we got off to a great start, with me (Mike) picking up Lee and Meaghan at only a couple minutes after 5am. Then it was off to Chris’ place to pick him up. We were a little concerned when he wasn’t waiting for us at the door, but he […]
