I just got back from an excellent weekend of snowboarding at Northstar at Tahoe with my uncle and cousin. There is a heck of a lot of snow over there. It was almost perfect, not quite steep enough though. Anyway, it was lots of fun.
I can tell that FIRST season has started, I got over 20 non-spam emails over the weekend, and I realized that I was not signed up for the high-volume TRC mailing list. So I took a look at the competition, and realized that FIRST is getting better at making autonomous mode required to win. Personally, I think that it is a mistake. A very small percentage of FIRST teams will be able to make a reliable autonomous mode. By making that section of the competition critical, it will be more like the first year the TRC competed. There will be one team on an alliance who will do all the work, and the rest of the teams will just run around aimlessly. By making the game 3 vs. 3, there will be much more pushing than in previous competitions.
In a brief moment of insanity, I volunteered to be the webmaster for titanrobotics.net. I received a list of wanted features and access to the code. I am still not quite sure what I got myself into. Previously, I wanted to port the site from coldfusion into php. But then I realized that this was an excellent opportunity to learn another serverside scripting language. Once I get my hands on a copy of Macromedia ColdFusion, I will start to hack the website up. Tomorrow life starts up again, I am going back to school. Sigh…