What else do you do besides robotics?

[1094Jacob]

When I'm not doing anything with robotics..I

-Make contacts world wide with my amateur (ham) radios (I wear a my robotics team shirt to almost every meeting of the ham club I am with)

-play the violin.

-read this thread.

and not much other than that, robotics and ham radio are pretty much my life.

[cadandcookies]

Well, historically I've done a variety of things concurrently with robotics...
-I was an editor for two years at my school's literary arts magazine, MUSE (though about 75% of the people on MUSE were robotics kids, so...)
-Play lots of Minecraft (mostly tech mods... robotics)

Probably 90% of my non-school life involves robotics, thinking about robotics, or talking with robotics people. It's not a balanced life, but I wouldn't have it any other way

[Kevin Leonard]

Wrestling, Boy Scouting, Ultimate Frisbee, Lifeguarding, singing.
What's interesting is that during all of these things, I'm still thinking about robots.
Seriously, I'll be singing, wrestling, and thinking about robotics simultaneously. It's an interesting combination.

[thatismytruck]

I like old things:
I am refurbishing my old house built in 1880. (been doing this for 17 years)
I am refurbishing my old Airstream camper built in 1973
I am refurbishing my old Ford built in 1957
I refurbish and use old lawn and garden equipment
I refurbish and customize old bicycles
I just got 2 old go carts that I plan to get running this summer.
In other words, I have too much stuff.

[ktlacrosse433]

Besides robotics...

I play 2 school sports (lax and tennis) and play lacrosse all summer
am an avid runner
play piano and guitar
work at a retirement home and at a fro-yo place
participate in church activities (band/service/mission trips)
volunteer at the variety club
am part of a bunch of other less time-consuming clubs at school other than robotics
and am a student.

Yay for junior year.

[Koko Ed]

Well when I'm not doing hard core procastinating I try to finish writing the scrpit to my Webcomic project Constant Threat.

I also am into herpetology. Those are Poison Dart frogs. In the wild they are one of the world's deadliest creatures. In captivity you can pick them up by had (but I wouldn't recommend it because it stresses them out).

[Luigi]

Outside of robotics, I play varsity soccer, run varsity track (and pole vault), rock climb a lot (outdoors and indoors), lifeguard, and do lots of homework (junior year ). Robotics and soccer are my biggest commitments over the year, though school is pretty big as well

[Foster]

There was a thread about what else do you do from 2012. Check out the amazing spud-guns towards the end of the thread.

I still do the things I mentioned in that thread including ham radio (Hi I'm K3FXS). I'm really not doing robots since I'm off on a year long trip on "Americas Great Loop". You can see the trip on our site. But, I still packed my VEXIQ parts for those rainy parts of the trip

[caboosev11]

I play the saxophone for my school band.
I also game a lot.

I write rap. I'm not usually the one recording it, but I do all the writing.

[StillDefective]

Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence

I write rap. I'm not usually the one recording it, but I do all the writing.

I am not sure how I should feel about me reading that as "I white rap"...

[Wayne C.]

I try to balance my personal interests with my school teaching obligations and of course the coaching of team 25.

In the summers I volunteer/work for the state museum on dinosaur digs out in the Montana frontier. This summer I hope the remainder of the Troodontid skeleton we got pieces of two years ago shows up. Ive been going on various expeditions in paleo and zoology topics since I was 13. (as a kid I would find interested adults and set up the trips- they do the driving and such)

I recently was involved in starting a mineralogical society at the local university and we are looking to make a regional database as to species and occurrences for NJ. Ive been collecting minerals for 40 years and some day I will sit down and photograph them all (about 2000).

I also like to get out in the woods with my camera and binoculars and see what birds and reptiles I can scare up. I used to breed hundreds of colubrid snakes but I passed that on because of the enormous care needed for my rodent colonies. My bio class at school used to raise most of my mice in their genetics projects.

Of course being long term happily married I also enjoy spending time with my wife and family. Grandkids are nice because you send them home when they get messy....

Frankly Ive been looking for something new to discover. My health has been compromised lately and I will soon be retiring and I want to put my brain to good use. There is still a whole lot to learn.

Summer is soon upon us. For the students out there, let me suggest that in the free time you have each summer take some time to try some new interest or topic. Pick something totally different every year and diversify your knowledge. Robotics is great but think of how much power you can develop if you can apply all you have learned to a whole gamut of topics and directions.

WC

[brogan22orange]

Teach people the new FIRST DANCE…sometimes even if they try to run away from me…but then usual they end up liking it..perhaps doing it…Have fun. Brogan from Seattle

[75vs1885]

Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence

I write rap. I'm not usually the one recording it, but I do all the writing.

Lets here it!

topic.....Dean Kamen

[75vs1885]

This year I've dedicated all my time to robotics and school.
When I free I like to relax and hang with friends
also i'm into shooting guns and building AR-15's. If I still lived in New Jersey then i'd be hunting and fishing a lot but I don't sadly.