A traditional way for those of us who work with computers and robotics to test our systems is the pleasantly ubiquitous “hello world” program. This post is such a test program. Both as a way to gauge the abilities and features of the web interface I’m using to create it, and as a test of my own skills at writing and maintaining such a thing as a “blog”. Through this blog and other associated pages, I hope to exemplify some of my projects in robotics and electrical engineering, especially my masters independent research project. To those of you who have stumbled upon this first post be warned, I have not yet gained the ability to statistically predict future outcomes, and as such make no claims about the quality or extent of what is to follow. Enjoy.