It’s Winsday all. There’s got to be some cool stuff that happened to people this week.
My win - is related to work, buttoned up a few more long running tasks and got some excellent feedback including help aligning my work to career goals. I also keep being reminded of just how awesome my manager is.
The first semester of school is over and i can finally relax for a few weeks and enjoy the holiday’s with friends and family. Its not often i get time to just decompress and try to have some fun nowadays. Im looking forward to build season as always but its always good to just chill out before the chaos commences.
Another win is seeing 3512’s OA plans come into reality for 2023. My friend Adan and I have been really looking forward to being apart of OA for the 23’ season alongside Kremer and a few others. We are hoping and praying to be a featured team cause there are so many things we would love to do for the next season.
I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season and a happy new year. Please enjoy your time.
I finished the rest of my finals! My school semester is over!
Stuff moving at work, including a customer liking what they saw for progress, that’s a win.
Making it up to the train club with my dad, and running–hey, it’s a small win. Now let’s see about tomorrow’s bike ride…gonna be a “cold” one (look, I’m in SoCal–50 F is cold by our standards, and that’s about ride start temp).
First semester of school is also finished! Finally get some down time before the Kickoff and build season craze comes upon me in January. I have some friends and family visiting from out of town, so that will be fun to catch up and spend time with them.
A huge W would be getting teleop control working on our 2019 elevator, with progress on closed loop.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18o0jRQ240z7oPAil1uowL5kq56sxOBxK/view?usp=sharing
I’ve never had real experience working with elevators until now, so I’ve learned a lot working on this project.
Another win is getting a vision camera connected to our 2023 swerve chassis for AprilTag/pose estimation. I’m excited to work on it. This will likely result in a long post in our OA 2023 build thread sometime this month.
Anyways, have a great holiday season everyone. Rest up!
Officially accepted my final summer internship with BAE Systems before graduation!
I received confirmation of my 2 HR positions in FiM districts.
And I found out that Troy #1 and Troy #2 both have all refs assigned! That’s never happened prior to Kickoff before.
It’s a brisk 43° upon my arrival to the SoCal FLL Championship this morning.
Mine is kinda neutral. I got into a car accident last week (nobody was hurt thankfully) and I was definitely at fault. The good part is that I got a significant year end bonus from work so that is gonna cover a majority of the damages. Most likely won’t have to dig on o my emergency fund.
Weathered a storm of students being out with various respiratory illnesses (some confirmed COVID) and then returning to the classroom.
Win (after loss): the antibiotics I am on for the infection I got from a stingray sting are working great. Two more days of pills left!
We finally got around to designing a replacing our ~10 year old robot cart.
Got our test fit (about) finished this week. Plan to send out the aluminum parts for anodizing with the rest of the 2023 robot parts. Having a proper robot cart is long overdue for us. Thanks to FRC 3847 for posting their design which inspired this one.
I was gonna post something about “survived a week at work” but I think these both win 
But for real. Mostly just celebrating the start of the holiday shutdown at work with some fun robot-related software development, and cooking dinner.
Nice but one word of advice, offset that handle. Your ankles will thank you, I know
Going back to work Monday after two and a half months off. Thanks to all my robot friends for your prayers and good thoughts.
I start my move Monday from Michigan to Texas for an internship along with being done with classes for the semester!
After like 5 years of wanting one I finally broke down and bought a Nixie clock (kit, of course), and all finals are complete! Now to start of the 12 page report I forgot about…
We had our 2nd league meet of the season with a remarkable amount of improvement over event 1. All 4 of our teams are now up and able to score on the various junctions and we’re starting to see some really good matches.
I returned home on Thursday Now I don’t have to sit in traffic anymore, I zoom by it on the bus. I don’t know how people sit in traffic every day of their lives. I did it for two weeks in the Seattle area and oh my god it’s so miserable. I just do not understand how people can be ok with doing that every day. Trains and bus lanes for the win!
I went to see a friend who was in town from Germany on my first day back which was a lot of fun.
The ten mile trip involved no frustrations, which was a nice change. Same for the 8 mile trip home.
I also bought Minecraft for the switch this week, So that’s been kinda fun
And it’s really nice to see my two cats.
It doesn’t slow down for anything, and averages 38kph, with stops.MC’d a VexIQ competition my work was hosting. My voice is destroyed (I’m terrified for when I GA Hueneme next year) but everyone had a great time.
