Quick update from Taipei
1325, Taipei International Robotics Exhibition (TIROS)
The wireless in our dorm SUCKS. What kind of DNS cannot find "google.com?" This is just not good. Anyway, I managed to find an open wi-fi connection at the robotics trade show we're at so I can check my e-mail for the first time since leaving Kaohsiung. I'll write something worth posting later, but to those who have sent me e-mails: I have read them and appreciate the thoughts. I'll write back ASAP.
For those who asked: we did pretty well in FIRA:
- 1st place in Obstacle Run (day 2); due to a poor day 1 we finished 4th overall
- 2nd place in the marathon (with a time of 8:21, beaten only by Plymouth @ 6:44; third place was over 10 minutes)
- ~6th place in the basketball overall (despite a very poor performance overall)
- 8th place overall (about half-way up the pack)
I'm pretty happy with our results. It could have been better, but I think we did respectably. Learned lots for next year in Bristol.
Got to get back to work now. We're doing a mini-competition at the trade show, with the marathon first thing in just over two hours.
The wireless in our dorm SUCKS. What kind of DNS cannot find "google.com?" This is just not good. Anyway, I managed to find an open wi-fi connection at the robotics trade show we're at so I can check my e-mail for the first time since leaving Kaohsiung. I'll write something worth posting later, but to those who have sent me e-mails: I have read them and appreciate the thoughts. I'll write back ASAP.
For those who asked: we did pretty well in FIRA:
- 1st place in Obstacle Run (day 2); due to a poor day 1 we finished 4th overall
- 2nd place in the marathon (with a time of 8:21, beaten only by Plymouth @ 6:44; third place was over 10 minutes)
- ~6th place in the basketball overall (despite a very poor performance overall)
- 8th place overall (about half-way up the pack)
I'm pretty happy with our results. It could have been better, but I think we did respectably. Learned lots for next year in Bristol.
Got to get back to work now. We're doing a mini-competition at the trade show, with the marathon first thing in just over two hours.