PCT 2017 the year of ice and fire
Gear and Backpacking Lessons Learned from Through-Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail
Since I have been asked for multiple people, I am listing lessons I learned on the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT): things I changed, I would change, I would try, ...
Pacific Crest Trail GPS Tracks for Garmin inReach
For my upcoming PCT through hike attempt, I bought a Garmin inReach Explorer GPS and satellite messenger. I intend to use the device mainly as safety precaut...
The Power Of Connectedness
Connectedness is crucial for successful leadership and mentoring since it directly leads to a sense of responsibility. The feeling of connectedness can be cu...
Stop Retyping Commands
Stop retyping the same commands over and over again! Make your computer do some work for you and put some of those GBs of storage and compute power to good u...
minimalism
Find out what is important to you and let go of everything else. (paraphrased from Joshua Becker)
Transformation Cookbook
Rigid body transformations can be a source for confusion and mistakes in theoretical and practical settings. Rotations alone can be represented in a variety...
Simple Research Journal
Writing down insights and conclusions from things I read is my way of processing them more deeply. In the past I have been struggling with just how and where...
My first year of graduate studies at MIT
Wow its already 3 months since my second year at MIT started – time is flying (originally when I started writing the article I had 3 weeks here). There are s...
Notes on “Advice for a Young Investigator” by Santiago Ramón y Cajal
In my Computer Vision class at MIT, our professor Antonio Torralba told us about a good book to read for beginning graduate students: Advice for a Young Inve...
How to dim a LED for Human Perception
There are a lot of webpages describing the actual process of dimming a LED light using Pulse-with Modulation (PWM). The general idea is to switch the LED com...
Ein Erfahrungsbericht über mein Jahr am Georgia Institute of Technology
Mein Name ist Julian Straub, ich bin Student in Elektro- und Informationstechnik an der Technischen Universität München. Im Rahmen des Double-Degree Programm...
A brief report on my year at the Georgia Institute of Technology
For my Atlantis scholarship I wrote a short resume on my two semesters at Georgia Tech:
Project “Easter Egg Hunt”
Final project with Edward Macdonalds, Daniel Pickem and Kunal Muchhala in Ayanna Howard’s class ‘Autonomous Control of Robotic Systems’ at Georgia Tech. In a...
Development of Robots and Software for the RoboSoccer Lab
Under the supervision of Martin Schaefer, I developed the hard- and software for the RoboSoccer lab. Work included the design of an adapter board for the Pol...
rEIzor
I lead the development of a fast line-following robot. The robot achieved nearly 1 m/s on the line while handling branches and intersections. Our team won th...
Holomove - exploring omnidirectionality
Holomove is a robot with omnidirectional driving capability due to its three omni-wheels. The aim was to enable omnidirectional visual sensing as well, which...
Kno.0Bot for Roboking 2007
Kno.0Bot was designed to collect wooden bricks from a special location on a playground and to bring them to a predefined location. To get to that goal the ro...
Ca3505 Robot
Ca3505 is a small robot that was able to collect tea lights on a playground and retrieve them to its base. It used infrared distance sensors and a magnetic f...
Roboking 2005 Robot
This robot was constructed for the Roboking 2005 at the TU Chemnitz. It was able to collect up to three tennis balls in its “tower”. Once returned to its own...
Plicro
Plicro was my second experiment with robots. The goal with this robot was to incorporate and test things I learned with Plexa, my first robot.
Plexa - my first robot
I constructed Plexa to do something cool with a micro-controller my father had given me as a present. The fun I had in building and programming it ignited my...