Nolan’s Notes

As the school year starts winding up and down at the same time, I find it more and more important to keep my wits about me throughout the activities I’m involved in. To that end, my posts will be a little more sporadic than usual until the end of May. Thank you everyone for checking up on my blog thus far, and I will be sure to keep you updated as time passes by.

Well, today was definitely a day to remember. After missing my alarm clock because the atomic clock was still set for Pacific time, I started off the day on my left foot and 45 minutes late! I scarfed down breakfast on the bus over to the airport, and then I set off towards Carnegie Mellon. Here are a few pictures of downtown Pittsburgh.

One thing that I noticed about the surrounding city of pittsburgh was the large open spaces with no lack of debris. This isn’t much of a problem near the university, but it still happens.

faintly reminiscent of the Tower of Babel…

This is actually the final project that introductory robotics student have to create a robot for. It’s a combination of line-following, obstacle-avoiding, and I’m sure other coding goodness. One thing I want to point out is the specialized “wheelchair” ramps that look specially designed for robots. Awesome!

Day Two is over. More to come!

Woo, I’m in my hotel and getting ready for bed. Here are a few pictures. I apoligize in advance for the quality of the darker ones, this cheap camera really only works in the daytime. Enjoy!

I had an interesting opportunity this morning to be on a Financial Aid Podcast, courtesy of Chris Penn. Click on the picture to look at the podcast, which also talks about some good ways to network using LinkedIn. His scholarship e-book is also a very good article to read. I’ll be adding it to my scholarships page.

A first of hopefully many in my blog, I want to pass on a cool video that I found. This was one of my random ideas that popped into my head, and it even has a “How Things Work” page that goes with it. Enjoy!

Acoustic Levitation

How Things Work: Acoustic Levitation

This is the link to Bruce TV.

Hello Everyone, NolanHergert.com is now online! More to come in the next couple of weeks…

Nolan