Northern Bites Blog

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We’re going to Germany!!!

UPDATE:: Here’s a list of teams that qualified. Over 39 35 teams applied, twelve of which were guaranteed qualification from last year’s performance!

UPDATE x2:: Lots of Chatter going on in the four-legged league mailing list including a message sent by the head honcho of the league concerning the qualification process: Legged Qualification FAQ.

UPDATE x3:: 35 Teams applied. 12 Prequalified. 11 were let in by committee. Northern Bites is only one of three teams selected as first-year applicants to the World Championship!

Is ordered.

So it’s the two week stretch before break and people are busy. Either you are busy this week, or busy next week, or busy both of them. Either way, work on Robots!!

With progress on the brain this weekend, with some localization and communication progress, we still have heaps to go as me march towards competition. Less than two months. Lots of things to do.

Meeting 4pm in the lab tomorrow. Up it Up.

Hey–I just commented out an errant AssertReady I found in the TCP protocol stuff that deals with AiboConnect, and suddenly the framerate–even when you do our full vision processing–is significantly faster. This is quite cool.

Tonight Henry and I created a new brain class, so it is no longer essentially just an arm of our Vision class. Also, now when a scripted motion ceases, the queue is cleared in such a way that the head stays where it last was (so when you decide to pan the head looking for the ball, you can easily have the head stop and stay there). Plus, the vision module is now receiving up-to-date joint angles from the motion system, which will be useful to the brain.

We also listened to Monzy.

We were in the lab on a Friday night… woot.

We’re on the newly configured AP now, and all the wireless stuff we do should be working well. The IPs have changed to a different subnet–this has changed the ips but the dns’s haved moved over accordingly. If for some strange reason you desire to connect via the new IPs, ping the dns’s to discover the proper ips. The ips listed on the back of every aibo are inaccurate, currently.

“Hmm, which AIBO should I use?”

The answer from Sir Henry Work is the AIBO with the lowest number. Those are the oldest ones, so they’re the most beat up. Keep beating them up

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Alright! We’ve received our own shipment of uniforms and balls, thanks to Noriaki Mitsunaga and the iXs Research Corp.

Today is a momentous day. Every single one of our computers in the robotics lab is functional. Wow–what a day. Yes, that new g4 laptop that Prof. Toma was using and even that pissy G5 in the corner can all now compile, edit, and ship off our code.

Use this thread to emphasis how great we are.