Last Saturday, Jeremy and I took the Ski Train from Denver up to Winter Park Resort. This has been an annual benefit my work has provided since I started. Thanks Abacus!
It was sunny at times and very windy, but not too cold. We enjoyed some powder in the trees on Mary Jane.
The heavens opened and dumped pretty white flakes on the front range this past week. Golden, where we live, received just under 3 feet of snow. The snow from this year's blizzard wasn't as moisture packed as the last one we had in 2003.
The melting has just begun -it will be a while before our yard looses its snow-sea.
Here are some pictures:
We received at least 5 inches last night. Wet snow. See what happens when you have wet snow and elms that haven't lost many leaves yet.
Before:
After:
Jennie and I spent part of Saturday doing cleanup duty.
I never mentioned how I did on Round 1. I didn't do as badly as I thought I might, I believe bugs in my code was my downfall. I made it into the quarter finals.
Round 2 of our competition at work didn't have as much participation. There were only 5 'bots submitted this time. This go 'round, I dominated. I maintained my way-point movement system and focused on my radar control. I improved my aiming by adding a rudimentary linear predictive targeting system.
The RoboLeague platform was used to run a bunch of one on one battles for the participating robots. This method takes a lot less time than doing it by hand and having the computer render the bots movements on the screen. Once you've set up the league participants you push a button and then wait for the computer to run through its calculations and spit out the results.
For my troubles I was awarded a half pound of the most expensive coffee from Starbucks.
I've also posted my bot at an online robot repository: http://robocoderepository.com/
. There is an online Roborumble competition that I've entered. You can see my ranking details here and the general rankings here. I made it up to spot 407 with the 0.0.1 version of my bot. I just uploaded version 0.0.2, it will be a while before it gets anywhere.
The Roborumble works in the following manner: People run an application on their machines that downloads robots from the robot repository and pits them against one another then it uploads the results which are used to create the ranking details.
I think we'll be having another competition in the first quarter of next year. I'm hoping to defend my title. We'll see.
