ANSEL aTOMs - Four Puns for the Price of None
- The Analog Select register, abbreviated ANSEL, was the bane of our first attempts at PIC programming. Forgetting to clear this register leaves all lines set as analog inputs. Which means no digital in or out!
- Our team name from last quarter, TOM, makes a reappearance here.
- The 'a' and 's' bookending our previous team name create 'aTOMs', which are unrelated to this project but we can all agree qualify as nerdy.
- All together, we have the obvious pun on Ansel Adams. Enjoy!
Atolled You So!
Needed another pun? Then meet our awesomely light and incredibly nimble Atoll Capture Vehicle, 'Atolled You So!'. Built with just the bare necessities and coming in at a fraction of the weight of most boats, Atolled You So! was just quick enough to make it through the fountain waterfall, but so agile that he would need to spend hardly any time capturing an atoll.
Sam
Sam did his undergrad at MIT, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford. He likes his Pad Thai just like he likes his women: HOT HOT HOT. Sam was the ACV coding guru of this project. His one-liners and horribly awesome puns have obviously gotten to this project. When asked how he felt about the workload of the project as a whole, he was asleep.
Contact Sam at:
samweiss at stanford dot edu.
Contact Sam at:
samweiss at stanford dot edu.
Vu
Vu did his undergraduate at MIT as well, before moving out California for the Sun and the Woman. Vu did much of the coding on the CVC, and did a fantastic job, he claims. Favorite catch phrases include "I hate you Sam," and [snore]. He will be here for the next ___ years of his life, doing a Ph.D in MEMS.
Contact Vu at:
vuhong at stanford dot edu.
Contact Vu at:
vuhong at stanford dot edu.
David
David "If everything weighs nothing, then something has to weigh something" "Can I get that soup toasted" Christensen did his undergrad at U.C. Berkeley in 2005 (Go Bears!). He went on to do process R&D and equipment design for 5 years at Valimet, a metal powder atomization company, before coming back for a master's at Stanford. He served as a PRL T.A. before joining Tom Kenny's lab to do MEMS research. David is now all grown up, having replaced rubber duckies in the bath tub with home-made paddle wheel boats.
Contact David at:
davidc10 at stanford dot edu.
Contact David at:
davidc10 at stanford dot edu.
