Robotics 3000! Cool!

On Wednesday, I attended the first meeting of MARS (MAssey Robotics Society), and it was AWESOME!!! We caught the train in to Wellington, and then had to basically run to Massey, but it was worth it. The first half-hour to hour was spent on Health and Safety (oh, great.) We then watched a video about how Silicon chips are made, and then got given FREE food! Awesome!
After break, we learnt about transistors and diodes, and made a light following robot. It is pretty awesome, if you ask me. It has two modes, one where it sits there waiting for light, then follows it if you shine light at it, and the other mode is where is spins around until is sees light, and then follows it. Awesome!
Next week, we will be looking at robot computer systems, e.g. Single-board computers and microcontrollers
P.S. The BMW 7-series uses 53 microcontrollers.

Robotics 2.0b

Today, I received the best e-mail message in the world – one that said I was accepted into the MARS – MAssey Robotics Society – a robotics group being started at the University. Basically, for 6-7 weeks we go there and do robotics for 4 hours. After the 6-7 weeks are up, there are open-ended robotics projects running indefinitely. Cool!
"Hello all
Congratulations on being accepted into the first Training Programme of the
Massey Robot Society. We are looking forward to meeting you and getting some
amazing projects under way."

And the best thing:
"As MARS runs for 4 hours, we suspect you may get a little hungry, so there
will be light refreshments available at around 5-5.30pm."

V Lemon day

So, at school I sell energy drinks to junkies (even though I am one myself, and regularly drink my own stock) and Lambda and I were sitting up the front in Maths, drinking a Lemon flavoured V energy drink (Go to site) and the teacher found out. She took out wonderful nectar off us, and put them on her desk. Possessing another three in my bag, I proceeded to take one out for Lambda and give it to him. Upon seeing this, the teacher threatened to tip out our precious drinks, so we stopped. I like V.

Perl/Tk!!

By the way, I am 16 and live in NZ. Lambda is one of my friends, and I have a twin, known as RubyGuy. The three of us are the Open Source Musketeers! It's so cool. We even have a song! I will post it here when we have finished it.

Anyway, here is my first Perl/Tk script.

use English;
require Tk;
use Tk;

my $version="1.0";
my $main=MainWindow->new();
$main->minsize( qw(250 250));
$main->title("Hello");
my $hellolabel=$main->Label (-text=>"JavaNoob is such a noob :-")->pack(-side=>"top", -anchor=>"nw");
my $hellobutton=$main->Button (-text=>"Hello!")->pack(-side=>"top", -anchor=>"nw");
MainLoop();

!!Robotics!!

YAY! A few days ago, a true PICAXE genius came and visited our school, and I spent FOUR HOURS learning how to program the PICAXE and interface electronics to it. It was legendary. and I made a KITT scanner (with only 4 LEDs, blue ones though) and at the end of the day, made a robot that drove around, playing the first two bars of Slayer's Raining Blood. It was legendary. I'll probably recreate it and take a video of it, and post it on Youtube. So cool!

Java Noob

There is a person in our computing class, who thinks he is good at Java, but he is just a Java noob. He is very annoying. He will now be addressed as JavaNoob.

Intro.pl

use Awesome;
use Blogger;

$name = "PerlGuy";
@hobbies = ("Programming","RC Helicopters","Energy Drink","Computer Games","Robotics","Bass");
$coolness = 100000000;

print "I like Perl. It is a very good, multi-purpose programming language, which can be hard to learn. I especially like Perl/Tk. I recently started it, and have since had many romantic dreams about Perl GUIs. Yay, Perl!\n";

print "I also like Black Metal, and other forms of metal. I like Satan, and want to summon him one day, to talk about Hellish versions of computer languages and their implementations. Imagine, Perl666, Ruby Black and SATANBASIC\n";

print "Wait, you don't care? Too Bad. I just wasted a few minutes of your life. Ha ha!\n";