Well, our final week is here and to tell the truth, it seems like a bit of a letdown. We are putting together the pieces of our robotics class, and building an application to get the robots to run through a maze, similar to the robotics competition. (I have posted a video of the competition on the wiki) Most of us got lost in the programming, but even those of us who kept up had our troubles today. For example, my program looks great, but there is something wrong with the differential drive, which doesn't let me move the robot. It can spin, but not drive straight forward. I know it isn't a problem with the connection, because it works for other programs, but not for the maze program. Oh, well... It will take some work to fix it.
Dr. Chen has started lecturing on some very esoteric stuff, including hardware-based service oriented computing, and I feel fairly safe in saying that nobody in the class understood it. We will go through this week getting the basics of deploying a web-based service, though, so that should be a bit more interesting.
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