The Comet's Flame

All aspects of the senior design project are finished! Today I built the final version of the Data Logger hardware (click on the picture), and amazingly my printed circuit board design had no flaws and I got all the parts soldered without destroying anything, so the device totally works.

By the way, special thanks to my brother Josiah for designing a model of the SD card connector in the layout software (we worked with that last summer as part of the light show project). It saved me a lot of time since I was able to just drag and drop it onto my board layout!

I turned in the final paper today.

Also, I attended the poster session this morning. It was mostly very boring. However, I got a chance to chat with some classmates about their projects, so that was fun. Also, one of my friends (a mechanical engineer) walked by and I accosted him and demanded that he check out my team’s poster. He looked at it with sort of a blank stare.

Also, I am not kidding you… there was a GUY wearing a SKIRT (actually, for some reason I saw these on the internet once… they’re called a UtiliKilt, so technically not a skirt… but I’m telling you, it looks exactly like a pleated skirt.) It was incredibly disturbing. I cannot get the image out of my mind. WHY??? Why would you ever do that??? What do you wear under it? Oh man… don’t tell me. Any answer is equally horrifying.

But yeah, other than that guy’s lack of fashion sense, things went really well. Overall, I would say that the project has been a fairly good experience. I’ve learned a lot, and I successfully made a real working product that I’m reasonably happy with.