A New Member of the Family

As of early last week, the MUN SailBOT team has gained a new ally in their quest to solve science once and for all. 

Ladies and gentlemen... Petunia the Pump!

Petunia is a classy pump come up to help all the way from California, USA. She has thus far been a great aid with the development of some components for the new vessel Trixie. These components include a new rudder, a hatch prototype and a test section of the keel. There are sure to be many other items that Petunia will generously lend a hand with - and we look forward to each one!

Left to Right: Petunia and Liam Johnston

Launch of blog / first post / tech talk

[So the old PHP News was great, but given that it wasn't frequently used and the site has been updated (Moreso because I just got a new Google phone for Christmas) I thought I'd launch a blog for Sailbot and replace News if all goes well. (Scott, if you'd rather do it another way, give me a shout, the blog has a few cool features like RSS and Atom feeds, we could just integrate with News.).  -- Jordan]

Sailbot presented a tech talk at the IEEE Newfoundland and Labrador Section's Annual General Meeting with distribution of new newsletter, hot off the presses (by that we mean printed at the last minute in the lab). Thanks to all Sailbot members who attended, IEEE:NL for the coffee card and thanks to Dr. Peters for inviting us. If any executive IEEE member hears new developments regarding the McNaughton center, please keep us in mind!

[Read the newsletter here.]

[Archive/Repost] IEEE: NECEC

Several members attended IEEE's Newfoundland Electrical and Computer Engineering Conference on Novermber 1st, publishing and presenting a paper on our development.