The media cart of science

Sometimes (where sometimes means most of the time) putting stuff on a car to test it can be far more trouble than it's worth. The problem is so tough that often it's better to try to get stuff working in simpler situations before you send it to bat. We've been doing a lot of "simple" tests like that recently, where we lug our sensors outside, get some data, and spend some time processing it in the lab. Considering last year, where getting the car out was actually more of a quest than anything else, it's probably a good move.

Anyway, when we lug our sensors out, we need somewhere to put them. It's a job filled masterfully by... THE MEDIA CART OF SCIENCE [echo] Science science (science). Here are a few of the many faces of this versatile device:

Yes, that is a battery powering the computer, through a 1500 Watt inverter. Overkill? Us? Never.

Oh, and I thought I'd leave you with a quote from the lab:

"I got it working at 40 Hz."
"Sweet. Did you fix the bugs yet?"
"Yes... err, sorta. Well, not really. No."