I return from a robotics competition!

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scuzz
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I return from a robotics competition!

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Hey everybody,

Jut thought I'd tell you guys that I'm not dead yet and now have some time to work on Scuzzbox in earnest, but the reason why I was so busy, I thought I should share:

One of the things I do is that I'm on a robotics team at the University of Maryland and we just took third in the 13th annual international autonomous underwater vehicle competition! If you want to see some pics and read about our team, check out http://ram.umd.edu and if you want to read up about the competition check out http://www.robosub.org

All of the teams have technical papers (for those who are so inclined) and they're linked to at the bottom of the robosub page.

Woo underwater robots!
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Re: I return from a robotics competition!

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Congrats on 3rd, that's really impressive! How much of that $2250 do you see? :P
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Ha! I wish I saw any of it! :P It all goes back into paying for the club to do bigger and better things next year. We got some nice new cameras and we're currently trying to build the housings for them, but passing firewire through wet-mate bulkhead connectors is no fun at all! Matched impedance signals weren't meant to undergo such a traumatic series of connections :lol:
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