La Trobe Open Day 2007

Yesterday was the Open day at La Trobe Uni, which though I'm not a student at any more I took a very active part. I gave two presentations regarding electronic engineering, which can be found here, and had on display the UAV and the new ROV project. Some of the people coming around looking at the ROV asked where we purchased it from or had it fabricated which I took as a huge compliment and was able to tell them I built it myself from the ground up. It was also really great, though tiring to talk to potential students and find out some of the things they were interested in. Several were really enthralled and interested in robotics, mirroring my own recollection of when I attended open day in their shoes in 2001. I remember I questioned one of the guys about creating a robot-wars style project for the final year project - to which he replied "it's possible, but the students probably wouldn't want to see a years work cut to pieces in a matter of minutes".