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The humble beginning of my engineering career-
We finally finished our class's cumulative project. The basic idea was to build a machine that had at least 20 steps that moved an orange in certain ways (for example, we had to lift the orange 3 feet, make the orange travel 360 degrees, stuff like that) and juice it - then put the juice in a cup and deliver it to the judges.
We spent most of yesterday building it, me and Kyle were up at the Ferguson Center from about 10:45 until 8:00, leaving once for about thirty minutes to go buy a cup. The first time we ran it for the judges, it would've worked, except for the fact that the group that built the first part of the machine forgot to adjust part of theirs and our CEO (the one the class elected) was high, and hit the machine to make it work. This jarred everything on the machine and caused our part (which was very sensitive to motion) to start prematurely, basically screwing the whole process up. We ran it a couple more times after that, but it never quite worked right. That really didn't matter, I was just impressed that we got the whole thing together.
currently listening:
the way up - pat metheny group
