After a breather, we're back!

Wow...

It's certainly been a while! After a little bit of a break, I'm back with two (albeit short) videos from dynamics scrutineering (check it out on the video bar to the right) and 13 or so photos from the race (on Flickr, also to the right).






(Just a teaser of what's posted!)

More Tigergen news

The car-- and of course the team-- were featured in two more articles (that I found).

Check out the follow-up done by the Missourian here and an article by the Columbia Tribune here.

I'll post more if I can find them!

Stage stop in Neosho

Good news: Found the firewire cable.

Bad news: Haven't really used it yet. But tomorrow I'll be back in Columbia with more free time, so you'll see that edited down and posted on Youtube soon.

Today, though, was our display/stage stop in Neosho. We spent the day relaxing and socializing with the people visiting while all the other teams worked to ready their cars for the race's continuation tomorrow morning. We got lucky in that respect.

It was intersting to watch all the cars come in. University of Michigan, HS Bochum, Missouri University of Science and Tech, Principia College were already at Crowder College by the time we arrived around 11 a.m. As all the other cars rolled in, the other teams in the parking lot at Crowder would stop what they were doing and applaud them.

Prior to coming to this race, I had heard stories about the simply intense competitiveness of races like this. There were insane amounts of secrecy and competitiveness seemed to overrule any sense of comradeship. But after seeing everything this week-- how so many teams willingly took on members from disqualified teams, how there was barely a moment spared to help out another team with parts or even help-- I couldn't believe that was ever the case. We have been lucky to be with such an amazing group; we wish them all the best of luck.

Video

Video from dynamics scrutineering will be posted as soon as I find my firewire cable, among several other cords that didn't make it from one of the vans to my bags.

Tigergen on Wired.com

A reporter from Wired.com wrote a wonderful story about the North American Solar Challenge and a subsequent blog post on Autopia about Tigergen.

You can read the story here and Autopia blog here.

Neosho

After leaving Plano this morning after the race start, we drove up to Neosho, Mo., to the first stage stop. It was a long drive, even in the vans and truck, so just imagining driving Tigergen (in her current state) makes us think we really made the right choice Friday.

The day itself was uneventful. We had a nice dinner where we finally had the opportunity to relax and just be a bunch of college kids again. Our talk about the car was no longer about what needs to be done and when, but instead of some of the more humorous stories from the past three years. It's been a while that we could relax like that.

Tomorrow morning we'll be at Crowder College, and we'll be there into the afternoon and evening. We'll also be out for a little bit on Tuesday morning before heading back to Columbia to unpack and plan for what Tigergen II will look like.

Photos and Video

Sorry, again, (I seem to say that a lot now) for the lack of photo updates last night. However there are some photos from yesterday up on Flickr and some new ones from start day in Plano will be up in a little bit.

Video will hopefully be up this afternoon once we reach Neosho.

I'll let you know where we will be with Tigergen when we get there!