Too Excited

So after deciding robotics really was what I wanted to get into I started looking around for robotics clubs or projects going on at BYU I could join, but I couldn't find one anywhere. It was really puzzling to me since BYU has such a great engineering program.

But then a few days ago my brother Patrick mentioned a whisper in the machine shop, a nameless secret he had heard (except not really, they just don't advertise much.) It was the BYU Mars Rover Project!

Basically a bunch of Universities build mars rover-like robots that compete in a bunch of challenge at the Mars Desert Research Station down in southern Utah. It's pretty dang sweet. 

Actually I was surprised that I couldn't find it earlier, it has its own website. 

http://marsrover.byu.edu/ 

Though not very up to date.

And it's own Wikipedia page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYU_Mars_Rover 

So I came to the meeting and I'm joined!

Basically right now I'm just a machine shop lackie, but it's an opportunity to learn so much!

I might be a little too excited about it, but hey I love this kind of stuff.