3 a.m.

Friday night. 3 a.m. in the computer clusters. Been spending on average 4-5 hours a day on the networks project. This first project is due this coming Tuesday.

Wish us luck. We wrote everything but will test them tomorrow. Hopefully, 2 days is enough for debugging.

In a few hours, Carnegie Mellon's RedTeam will compete in the DARPA Grand Challenge in the Mojave desert. It's a competition on who could finish the autonomous race over 170 miles. Last year Red Team went the further at 7 miles. Most teams didn't make in a few hundred yards. This year's prize money has been doubled to $2 million but Red Team has spent over $4 million. It's crazy how much technology they put here. Drive-by-wire (just like modern aircrafts) is one cool feature. Boeing even sent an engineer to work on this project.

Hope that these two hummers won't bring embarassment to the Robotics Institute.