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The first is a pair of images from senior Alex W—, who is working with Professor Jeannie Albrecht on software for coordinated task management across a fleet of quad-copters (seen upper right).
Alex, was testing the flight ceiling for for this 'copter on Tuesday and was kind enough to grab us a snapshot of the Tree with the forward-pointing on-board camera. This particular view is from an angle we cannot get from buildings on the quad.
Perhaps later, when Alex and his collaborator Donny H— have cleared off their schedules we'll stitch a 360-degree view of the quad from their flying machine.
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For most of my college years, my dorm room easily fit within a large car. The reality today is that students bring a lot of belongings. Whenever students leave or return to campus (at this time of year, from study abroad), storage boxes—"pods"—appear on campus. On Monday, we caught a pod being dropped off (forklift peering from around the corner of Morgan):
A couple of days later, temperatures reach 60 degrees, snow melts and winds come in, blowing over the empty shell:
Several days later, Mullens, has yet to retrieve their storage unit. One suspects the price of a damaged pod is far less than the money earned from a semester (or more) of storage fees.
