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I'm now settled back in Taiwan, staying in Taipei this time on the NTU (National Taiwan University) campus. I share a dorm with 3 others, this is the first time I've had a shared room.
Scenery: The first morning
The atmosphere here is great, a warm wet sun welcomes me by 5:30am and makes the air humid.NTU Track |
I then head out to the very well kept athletic area and do my morning 5km on the track.
The lab is a nice 3km away, as I head to NTNU (National Taiwan Normal University). There are many Universities in Taiwan, you may have noticed. This makes the student life incredible. Each of the Universities has a campus radius of about 2 kilometers, and with so many of them -- these campuses often overlap. Everywhere feels like a campus.
I arrived at the NTNU's Electrical Engineering department and met with Davis Kung, one of the students who had been helping me out thus far. We sat down in a conference room, and I had the pleasure of watching his Masters thesis defence, along with 黃騰緯 (Andy) who was also helping me get settled in Taipei.
Welcome To the Lab
The Robot I'm working on is the Thormang3. The THORMANG3 is a Full sized Humanoid robot by Robotis, and a noticeable stepup from the Darwin OP I've had experience breaking. The Thormang3 has 3 separate PC's. Each computer is just like one you'd use at home, with an operating system running on it and all the works. There is a PPC (Perception PC) for reading in sensory information (camera/laser scanner/etc), a MPC (Manipulation PC) for making the robot move, and an OPC (operator PC) which is the one you connect to, when you want to work on the robot.
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THORMANG3 Robot from Robotis |
Note: For those more technologically inclined, I've made a separate post outlining some of the work experience in this lab. I've learned many valuable things, which I believe may be useful to researchers/CS students as well! Click here to read.
Student Life
Together I go with the other lab students out for lunch to a nearby Bubble tea shop or diner of sorts. The amount of food in Taiwan is incredible, you have to be here to really grasp just how much there is!Karaoke Night
One night we went out for Karaoke!

I managed to find my idol, Rick Astley, in the English section, so the students experienced their first RickRoll (Read here about RickRolling)
Jogging and Exercise
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The community is healthy, and it sooths me in times of stress.
It's now mid July, meaning I'll be heading home soon! I'm going to head south to Kaohsiung on the 30th of July to meet up with my lab pals from NKFUST one last time. Then shortly after (on the 4th) I will pack up and head to the airport, where I begin departure for Canada!
Will update again soon with a trip conclusion! Hard to believe it's almost over.
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thought provoking scenic shot to close blog entry |
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