diff --git a/content/_index.md b/content/_index.md index 8f09e5a..463537c 100644 --- a/content/_index.md +++ b/content/_index.md @@ -63,20 +63,20 @@ I am a fairly active Amateur Radio operator. The following table is a reference |----------------------|:--------:|-----------------------------------| | **VA3ZZA** | *Active* | My primary callsign | | **VA3UJF** | *Active* | Testing & automated transmissions | -| [**VB3YEET**](/yeet) | *Active* | Special Event | + -My current license class is *Basic with Honours*, and I have been on-air since late 2020. More station information may be found at [my QRZ page](https://www.qrz.com/db/VA3ZZA). + ## Music diff --git a/content/blog/2022-05-10-album-space-time.md b/content/blog/2022-05-10-album-space-time.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4c15e88 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2022-05-10-album-space-time.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +--- +layout: page +title: "Album Release: Space & Time Vol. 1" +description: "New music from Evan Pratten" +date: 2022-05-10 +tags: music +draft: true +extra: + uses_katex: false + auto_center_images: true + excerpt: Release notification for Space & Time Vol. 1 +--- \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/blog/2022-07-02-robotics-journey.md b/content/blog/2022-07-02-robotics-journey.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..15417f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2022-07-02-robotics-journey.md @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +--- +layout: page +title: "My journey through robotics" +description: "5 years of self-taught robotics development, recapped" +date: 2022-07-02 +tags: story +draft: true +extra: + uses_katex: false + auto_center_images: true + excerpt: From 2016 to 2021, I dedicated most of my time to robotics and control systems programming. This is my journey +--- + +My very first introduction to robotics was back in 2014, when I took an autonomous programming workshop as a part of a bigger summer engineering event at [Western University](https://www.uwo.ca/). A few years later, I ended up beginning a stint of robotics work through two different competitive robotics teams. + +

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+ +- [Elementary school robotics](#elementary-school-robotics) +- [Highschool robotics](#highschool-robotics) + - [Introduction](#introduction) + +## Elementary school robotics + +Back in 2016, myself and three other friends formed a competitive robotics team at our elementary school called the *Star Trekies*. My role on the team was both hardware prototyping and single-handedly programming the entire robot. + +With very little knowledge of what we were doing, we stumbled our way through the process, and realistically got pretty much nowhere. Importantly though, I ended up figuring out a few key concepts of control systems development in the process that would come in handy later on. + +## Highschool robotics + +When presented with the question of which highschool I would apply to at the end of 8th grade, I specifically chose *H.B. Beal Secondary School* due to their well-known competitive robotics team, [Raider Robotics](https://www.raiderrobotics.org/), which later turned into a special-invite full-credit program at the school (conveniently counting towards my college requirements). + +The year before I joined Raider Robotics, most of the members with substantial technical knowledge moved on to other schools, leaving me once again will very little to work off of. + +### Introduction + +I remember in mid December of 2017, this testbed was brought in to the software lab I was working in, thus marking my first hands-on experience with a fully programable machine at this level. + +![Testbed photo I took](/images/posts/robotics-journey/testbed.jpg) + +I don't remember a ton about that night, aside from a group of confused students trying to figure out how to load code onto the thing, and [@hyperliskdev](https://github.com/hyperliskdev) teaching me how to make a `class` in Python3 (its the weirdest things that stick in my memory..) + +Fast-forward a few months to early February 2018, and I had figure out how to control a newly built testbed with a laptop sending control commands over a WLAN connection. + + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/static/images/posts/robotics-journey/testbed.jpg b/static/images/posts/robotics-journey/testbed.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..70af682 Binary files /dev/null and b/static/images/posts/robotics-journey/testbed.jpg differ diff --git a/static/videos/posts/robotics-journey/2018_drive.mp4 b/static/videos/posts/robotics-journey/2018_drive.mp4 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..949c23b Binary files /dev/null and b/static/videos/posts/robotics-journey/2018_drive.mp4 differ