It's been a fair while since I posted last, just been fairly busy I suppose. Elisse and I went to Paris last weekend, the trip there and back on the Eurostar was a birthday present from Thea and Bruce. We stayed with friends of Elisse's family, well actually in the basement of their gallery, which is really cool. It was great to see Paris outside of winter, the weather was pretty good, Elisse even managed to get sunburnt.

I've started getting into some programming again recently. I've started again on my Robot Emulator, but this time in Objective-C, which makes a lot more sense to how it works. The last version was in C and was mainly based around the visual element, which was a 3D representation of various robots in OpenGL which could be controlled in either joint-space or on the cartesian plane. With this version I plan to get all the kinematics (and hopefully dynamics) into it's own class and then build the visual element on top of that as a pure representation of data, rather than the base of the program. I brought back my two robotics books from Australia, including one of my favourite technical books; Fundamental of Robotics: Analysis and Control by Robert J. Schilling.

On another note, there was a picture of Tycho and Gabe from Penny Arcade in the flesh on their post from yesterday, which is really quite weird.