And now, for some video-editing extravaganza! · 3:20am May 4th, 2018
'Cause I've got a robotics end-of-year banquet to put together a highlights reel for. Stabilizing a shaky phone-recorded video isn't fun in any way.
'Cause I've got a robotics end-of-year banquet to put together a highlights reel for. Stabilizing a shaky phone-recorded video isn't fun in any way.
We just did our last qualifying match. Not the last one of the competition, but the latest one for our team.
Short to say, we're top ten again!
TEAM 4598!
Welcome to The Mechaverse Project, the open story for fans of giant robots and ponies.
Just like the title says, my illustrator for The Iron Horse, Colby Green, aka Greenfinger, will be playing the hit indie title "Undertale" tonight while I watch on and mockingly commentate, and the event kicks off at 8 pm Eastern time! (If you're not within the US and are wondering what time that might be for you, use this handy time converter and set it to July 9, 8 pm in New York.) We are planning to record it, so
While trying to finish a novel (>95% of the way through draft 2) I've been fooling around with game design in Unity.
http://kschnee.xepher.net/code/unity/Ethos/ , more commentary at https://kschnee.deviantart.com/art/Unity-Game-Experiment-Ethos-720259792
In the distant past of Equestria, there were far more rogue wizards and warlocks than one could imagine. And of these magic users, a few decided in secret to create their own race of ponies. A race of clockwork ponies, with gears and pistons and ball joints of metal driving them. Within each pony, a magical crystal encoded with runes and magical equations, a magical computer to drive the being forward.
Three years straight of making it all the way to the quarterfinals and then losing.
Let's hope for next year.
We ended the qualifiers in the 35th spot, but we were chosen as an alliance member during the selections!
Though the actual rounds stop at 53 for today, my team's last match was 49.
We ended off in 26th place, but one of the top scoring robots in every alliance we've been in.
There's still tomorrow, though.
Yep, it's real! I had to learn formatting and do a little legwork through the infinite, time-eating vortex that is the TV Tropes website, but it's up and running!
FIRST MATCH OF THE DAY AND OUR TRAM IS ALREADY IN 1ST PLACE!
And wow. I didn't expect the tour bus to have free WiFi. Granted, it's horrifically slow 'cause robotics teams from three schools in our district including my own are packed in.
Just a little note: I think, since edits and art are done for the next chapter, that I'll post the new chapter a day earlier than I'd planned. I hope you'll enjoy it as the capstone to this arc.
However, the next update might actually take longer than normal. I'm trying to write something original for National Novel Writing Month and it's going to take my attention for a bit. Plus I'd like to do a little more research on some things coming up for the next arc.
We even lost to the exact same team as last year, in the same match, in the same way.
We ended the qualifiers in the 35th spot, but we were chosen as an alliance member during the selections!
Part of my final for Computer Science through Robotics is to make a program where one uses variables, the ultrasonic sensor, and line-following sensor to get my robot through the maze.
2 problems;
1. I don't know how to make a variable. I feel like I'd need to watch an hour-long video on how to make one.