Duality

It rocked. NATCAR 2005 was probably the best day of my undergraduate career. It was competitive, yet there was a comradery among the teams that crossed school allegiances. We cheered on our teams, their teams, the fast cars, and the slow cars. In the end, a team from Berkeley won the competition, but it was hard to leave that place feeling like anything but a winner.

Final Results

1. 34.X seconds: Bryan, Jerry, James (Berkeley)
2. 35.X seconds: Quan, Charlie (Berkeley)
3. 38.1 seconds: Kenny, Philip (Davis)
4. 39.2 seconds: Dexter, Li, Jonathan (< that's me; Berkeley)

(full race results… not updated yet, but will eventually be there)

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(Apologies for the grainy-ness of the photos. Something about the lighting didn’t agree with my camera.)

Photos

• Our car: the drifter (same as above). Notice the tape on the outer part of the back wheels.
• All the cars lined up: 1, 2, 3.
• Dual-motor car (rear wheel steering; front wheels don’t even touch the ground): on display, on the track (1, 2).
• Quan and Charlie on the track and checking results. Their car had a remote; in Quan’s (white shirt) left hand in the first photo.
• It’s a table!
• Two test tracks for groups up next.
• The track. And the crowd (Bigi’s in the orange).
• Back in Berkeley, saying goodbye to the lab: 1, 2.