For the next three weeks, I'm helping to run this summer camp:

Autonomous Robotics Workshop
Students participating in this workshop will build a robotic car that can automatically track a line, follow a light, or hide in the dark like a cockroach. The "autonomous" part of this program means that the car will operate without input from the student ( Read more... )

Some things I intend to do over break:

Update LCD code from Renesas to support scrolling and full-screen bit-mapped graphics.
Determine exactly what I want the students to get out of Lab 2 and write it up.
Grade midterm exams.
Grade HW2.
Write detailed description of what I want from the grad student project.
Write a magazine article.
Go diving.
Run.
Ride ( Read more... )

I'm enjoying teaching my class. I worry that I'm the wackiest instructor they've ever had. I'm definitely a kook. I'm the class clown ( Read more... )

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My class wasn't a fiasco today! Yay! (Not that it usually is, but the other instructor said his class, who was doing the same thing, yesterday was a fiasco ( Read more... )