My uncle Ernesto came to Brasilia for a research conference. He stayed at a really fancy hotel paid for by the embassy of a Brazil. It was actually him, Roger(co-worker of my uncle/friend of mine) and Robert( same as Roger). Although during this time I was extremly busy finishing up the Rocket project which I will get to later, I did manage to see him for dinner with the Gurgel family and lunch the next day before he left back to the USA. For dinner we all went to a really fancy indian restaurant. It had an ancient school oven and waiters serving you appetizers before you even ordered anything. It was really great to see him I missed my uncle and all my family a lot. He is like a father to me and best friend along with being one of my greatest motivation in academics and in life. Also without him I don't think I would have known about all the research opportunities in the UW or have met the people from UnB to do the research I'm doing here this summer.
Oba:
Before eating lunch with my uncle the day after eating dinner with him, Marcus picked me up and we went to a store called Oba(think of this as a "Top Foods" Brazilian style). Since most people in Brasilia live in apartments churrascos are not always easy to make. Because of this during the weekends Marcus comes here and buys meat that is being churrasco'd (if thats a word) and I must say it's impressive to see the quantity of meat Brazilians consume.
Finishing Project 1 the Rocket!:
Believe it or not this week has actually been really hectic. Aside from the two break to get food with my Uncle the entire week, weekend and beginning of this week. We had to finish the Rocket project for Gurgel and well I'll let the videos explain the rest.(this is also the main reason I have not updated)
They are broken down into stages of the projects completion.
Thursday August 6th
Beginning:
After Initial Testing:
Friday August 7th
The Next Day:
Tuesday August 11th
We put everything together but there was still one hardward bug Gago was working on and during the weekend I spent the entire time except eating lunch and dinner with my Uncle and the Gurgel Family working on a new labview code that could handle our protocol, not have buffer overrun issues and had graphs to look flashy. Then when It all worked on Sunday. The labview code got corrupt and I had to start anew :(
luckily, I had a previous old version of the code and now 5 days of experience with labview so it went faster.
What's left now is to put them in new steel boxes to create a faraday cage, aside from that we are done :)
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