My sleep schedule is all messed up and I'm supposed to be getting on a plane for Los Alamos bright and early Monday morning. Ugh.

6.270 is so much farther along this year than it was last year. I saw people with complete robot chassis running around under autonomous control today, and it's just the end of the first week. Last year, we didn't even get the boards out until 3 weeks into the contest.

The mystery hunt: I tried to solve some of the problems last year while I was in Los Alamos, but couldn't make heads or tales of any of them. This evening I stopped by the Tetazoo team hangout and helped them solve one problem. There were about 40 people there, most of whom had been working steady for the last 30+ hours. Those questions are ludicrously difficult.

We came in second. Congratulations to Setec Astronomy, they won. Way to go Albert.