Code Monkey [ go ]
Here-y Here-y, everyone listen close, the new Boeing 787 will have code written by the famous Robert Gehring! I got to program the Multiplexer which basically, well backup, the data lines consist of an A channel and a B channel, and each channel has a primary and backup line. So my Mux code is based on a look up table and decides based on what position I commanded it to be and what position it reports back to me. It was actually very simple code to create.
But the best part of it: I got to PWNZ John Myer because HIS code was incorrect and my code worked perfectly! John is an awesome guy, really sarcastic, but really smart and has taught me a lot of stuff so far. And so me being his little “padawan” or “grasshopper” and then telling him his code is broken and he didn’t believe it was his fault was AWESOME! But, it was a simple problem because the SRS has changed on him and he must have been side tracked and didn’t finish the edit, so the code wouldn’t switch to a combination of Primary/Primary, Backup/Backup, A Both, or B Both.
I am psyched I have official code on there. More to post in a second.
First Week [ go ]
Well, after the first week I would have to say this is going great! Goodrich is amazing and I am constantly doing something. I think it is amazing that they instantly threw me into a project on the first day after 2 hours of orientation.
First the low down, the Vergennes Goodrich is making a number of “Black Boxes,” they do different things from check the fuel level, using capacitors sort of scary, check to see if different fuel valves are open, or helping open the cabin doors if the power goes out using charges to “help” open the door. It is all pretty cool. But the group I am working with deals with the CSS, Central Server System or something like that. It receives ALL of the information from the so called black boxes and checks to make sure everything is working correctly. The cool thing about the setup is the crazy amount of redundancy, there are 2-4 sets of redundancy throughout the fuel system, it is really neat.
BUT, what I am doing is creating simulations of the “black boxes” to test the CSS because we visually cant see if the systems are working correctly when they are hooked up, so the simulation gives a visual representation of all the data. It allows us to input the data, and then see what happens with the output. So we get to check that the correct valves get shutoff, the fuel calculations are correct, if one valve is open, it wont try to open the next one and let all the fuel out. I am very happy I stayed, but I know I would have been just as happy if I had gone to China.
And the sweet thing about Goodrich is:
- I have my own desk
- Brand new 2gig Sandisk thumbdrive
- Brand new Dell 3.2GHz 2gigs of ram
- Another machine to do my simulations on
- A sweet KVM
- Whenever I print stuff, it first prints out MY name on the top paper
- Everyone I work with is awesome and great to work with.
The place I am living at is very nice, everyone is extremely welcoming it is cool. But they are all older, one is 37ish, 60ish, and the owner is around 45-55. Sooo…. it is calm and peaceful, but it is in the woods around nothing in South Starksboro, sort of boring. So at the end of the month I will be moving in with Jon at his apartment in Shelburne, well it is more of Burlington. It is about 2 miles from Church St. and about 50 yards from Lake Champlain. From the outside is looks really scary, but once you walk it, it has REALLY nice hardwood floors, a big sliding glass door to the backyard, a good size backyard too. A big brick patio, which is probably where I will park my bike when I get it because there is no driveway, all street parking. It will definitely be WAY sweeter then the place I am at now, and it will be cheaper too. PUMPED!
Looks like VT is in [ go ]
Well, it looks like I’ll be staying in Vergennes this summer:
HI Robert,
I did a research and checked with HR partner. We won’t be able to support your flight ticket but we can offer the service to help you searching housing rental. Please let me know if it still works for your plan and thanks for consider IBM as your personal career.
Best Regards,Jerry Tsou
Which isn’t a bad thing, it should be a lot of fun actually, I mean, I am going to party with Justine and Amanda all summer, Nick said he would come up and drink with us, it will be a blast AND I will get to buy my bike!!! I went and checked out the “apartment” last night. It is a bed room in a double wide, with a girl and her boyfriend. I met Jenn last night but Jaime is out installing docks in NY so I wont be able to meet him. But it is a perfect location, 5 minutes from Goodrich, nice people. And only an hour from Northfield and Burlington. But I guess some older guy is interested in it, and so the boyfriend wants to meet him too because he thinks I am going to hit on Jenn… lame…
So I just found two more apartments, one in Shelburne 30ish minutes away from Goodrich, and about 20 away from Burlington, and still about an hourish to Northfield. And another in Starksboro which is right between Goodrich and Northfield, about 20 minute to Goodrich. I like the idea of Shelburne, because it is in a SWEET area, and you can see the lake, it looks amazing. But I’ll try to see them on Friday/Saturday. Hopefully I can just live in the trailer, it is cheap only 400 and is all I need.