Hello everyone!
My name is Maria Yanitzin Ochoa but since my first name is so common, I make most people call me "Yany," which is a short nickname derived from my middle name.
I am the youngest of two daughters from my mother side and number 11th from my father side, he had two marriages before marrying my mother.
Thus, I have a BIG and LOVING family.
I grew up in Mexico and moved to Phoenix about five years ago. Once I moved here I started to get more familiarized with Robotics. Actually, in Mexico the only time I played with tools, like I started to do in high school, was at my father's workshop. But again, I want you to understand that even though the move was a challenge the tradeoff was worth it: playing with technology.
I have been in Phoenix College since the fall of 2010. When I first started, I tried to do robotics but I did not continue. Now I am ready to continue doing here at PC something that I enjoy doing: robotics :)
--Yany
Yany,
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the program! I am glad you want to rejoin robotics :) I think you'll find we've made a lot of progress since you last participated.
Hi, Yani
ReplyDeleteI liked your post on the drone aircraft and in particular your comments on autonomous capabilities of these devices. A civilian use of this technology would be an alternate transportation system to get to school or work. Everyone hates that commute and it takes forever, so you’d have an audience for a solution to this problem. As it stands now busses too slow and unreliable and light rail too expensive and doesn’t take me door to door at all hours of the day. I think Toyota is working on a robotic car system in which the user has a pod vehicle that can either be driven or run by an automated computerized system. Their system requires a separate path used only by these pod vehicles and a central computerized system plots the fastest way to the destination. Since there are no drivers, there are no traffic lights and the pods can then move at high speed because the trajectory and destination of every other pod on the roadway is known. If someone offered me a free ride to the moon, I’d go, but I’d pay to be able to go to work at 100 mph every day. Just a thought.
Jon Hayashi