POSTED to EE&T ALUMNI 29 MAR 2026

Sections: -- Background Cycles #2 -- New Members -- Emu Robotics Results -- Gravity at Work -- Unix Philosophy

== BACKGROUND CYCLES #2 ==

A) St Patrick's Day, 17th March Q: What do you call an Irishman who hangs from the ceiling?

A: Shaun-de-lier.

B) March Equinox, 21st March

- - Sinewave's 180 degree point in the southern hemisphere.

- - Equal day and night duration.

C) Nowroz, New Year's Day for the Persian dispora.

- - Falls on the March Equinox (Spring time in northern hempshere)

- - Major 13-day festival celebrating renewal, fertility, and the new year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowruz D) Easter, Good Friday, 03 April

- - Falls around 2nd Full Moon after March Equinox.

E) Daylight Savings, 05 April

- - Ends on first Sunday in April on Australian East Coast

- - Clocks go back one hour

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/australia

== NEW MEMBERS ==

For March 2026, welcome to Muhammad Redho Marizky, Energy Systems, MSc.

The ones requesting to join but didn't graduate from an ElecEng course at UNSW were: a) Graduated:

- Sheffield, UK - Vivek Thoppe b) Other:

- China - Yanni Liu

- Vietnam - Thuy Tran Thi Thu

c) Undergrad:

- Macquarie Uni - Thiruni Wennawattage (course to Dec 2028)

== EMU ROBOTICS Results ==

Missed the Southern Cross Finals at Penrith on 12-15 March?

Here are some links to ElecEng's team #4729.

The competition had 41 teams made up from NSW(23), QLD(02), SA(01), VIC(07), WA(05), S.Korea(02) and Taipei(01).

https://frc-events.firstinspires.org/2026/AUSC

Example: Qualifying match 59 of 70: 3m19

https://youtu.be/RqM02pi9LI4

Event Results for Team 4729:

https://www.thebluealliance.com/team/4729/2026

== GRAVITY at WORK ==

Have you experienced a person's sleek design that's missing some engineering or system awareness?

Some concepts - - Adhering to written standards, Connected logic & timing, Data and records, Emotional responses, Financial flow, Maintenace procedures, Part or code availability.

== UNIX PHILOSOPHY ==

Can also be applied to engineering, communication, designs & products.

1978, Doug McIlroy

1 - Make each program do one thing well.

2 - Use output to feed into another program.

3 - Design and build to be tried early.

4 - Use tools to lighten a programming task.

1994, Peter Salus mentioned, "write programs: 1 - to do one thing and do it well.

2 - to work together.

3 - to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface."

Wiki: Douglas McIlroy - - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_McIlroy Wiki: Unix Philosophy - - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

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