Published Sunday, February 3, 2008 by Tony Le.

Updated on Thursday, November 1, 2007 by Tony Le.

Here is the website for an up-to-date progress of my proposed Master's thesis. I plan on up dating this website religiously. For the Fall term, the plan is to complete the construction of the balancing bot. For the time being Balancing-bot 2.1 i.e. the Propellor-based one has yet to be finished, short of getting the IMU working properly and tuning the controller. The next version based on the NXTway that I but together in about 30 minutes, this version is working but needs finer tuning of the light sensor.

Updated 10/11/07: video of my NXTway balancing using just a light sensor.

Updated 12/1/07: video of my NXTway balancing using just a
HiTechnic gyro and obstacle avoidance using a ultrasound sensor.

Detailed instructions to the construction of the balancing bot are now online.

Published Wednesday, August 1, 2007 by Tony Le.

As apart of my requirement to complete a summer internship for my Department of Homeland Security scholarship, I created a presentation describing my internship at my original stomping ground, the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST). The presentation basically recaps what I did in support of the rather complex Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) and SmokeView visualization project(s). More information about these programs can be found here.

Published Wednesday, June 20, 2007 by Tony Le.

The Zagi Tutorial is up. It took a while since it was a yearlong project. It ended up 4 times as long as I hoped it to take but the tutorial is done. It is very detailed and covers everything systematically including the use of the Crossbow Stargate and MNAV.

Published Wednesday, May 2, 2007 by Tony Le.

Here is my current work schedule to be completed in the next month. The plan is to try my best to stick with this schedule to complete my long standing projects and move on to work on potential thesis ideas.

Published Friday, April 20, 2007 by Tony Le.

Here is a picture of Noah and I that will be apart of the Drexel viewbook. I already saw the picture at Accepted Students Data presentation. Luckily it doesn't look too bad; even though we're attaching the blades to the SR-20 crooked.

Published Monday, March 5, 2007 by Tony Le.

Added Balancing-Bot Tutorial: This is a tutorial on my implementation of a balancing bot i.e. inverted pendulum bot as proof of concept project for the senior design team, Right now, as I am some how always prone to, I am at a road block due to technical issues. The tutorial is constantly updated at least once a week so stay tuned.

Updated Monday, March 5, 2007 by Tony Le.

Here is the link for my CS 265 final assignment:

http://landsend.cs.drexel.edu/~ttl28/cgi-bin/getFinal.cgi

It's actually pretty handy, input a course name and it will return when the final for that course will be for Fall 06-07 term. For example, "CS 265" or "ECES 356". Make sure that there is a space between course subject and course number or it will return with an error mesage. Also the course number should be only 3 digits long. Other than that, enjoy.

UPDATE: SRC changed their syntax for the Finals schedule website so I fixed my script accordingly so it should work now. Enjoy.