Robert Ussery

Robert Ussery

Electrical Engineer on the move.

Senior Designing

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Considering I'm only taking three classes this semester, I've been pretty busy with Senior Design stuff so far. We had a technical review paper due two weeks ago and a proposal due next week... too much writing for my tastes.

Anyway, I'm the webmaster for the group, so I've been working on getting a website together. I grabbed a .tk domain name for the website, so that we don't have to deal with the horrible Georgia Tech hosting url. Anyway, the site's at http://www.pneumaniacs.tk if you want to see what we're up to. [Edit: the .tk domain expired and now it points at some spam page. Here's the direct link to our project page] I'll be updating it throughout the semester as we get more work done on the project.

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