A Rainy Day Post

Hello gents!

It has been raining like mad here today and most of the weekend which is kind of a bummer. We took the t-shirt launcher to our first football game on saturday but due to the crappy weather the crowd was quite thin. Here's a sweet picture of the Black Bear mascot Bananas with the launcher.

Complete with electronics rain condom

It has been a decent weekend, hung out with Dave a bit and built a motor test stand for our senior project. I'll hopefully get to see if I got the dimensions remotely right tomorrow. Got to drive this enormous diesel truck this weekend which was kind of cool. The truck pulled really hard when you step on the gas, nothing really revs up it just goes. I wouldn't want a truck that large but basically diesel powered things are sweet.

I've been learning to use this awesome PCB CAD software that costs like $6000 a seat at school. It's called Altium and it can do all kinds of neat stuff. It even has 3d models of the components which is just plain cool. On top of that you can connect different parts with a supplier webpage and it will even tell you if that part is in stock when you place it in a circuit. Pretty sweet. Hopefully we'll make a PCB design with it for our motor controller. We'll have another order of parts for our senior project coming in right off so that should be sweet.

Planning on crankin out some serious progress this week before taking off to visit my sister in DC on friday. Also talking myself out of buying this HUGE MOTOR! So many electric vehicle things....