In 1975 my mom bought a brand new 1974 Triumph Spitfire, a small two-seat British sports car, and drove it for many years. In 2015, with the car having been off the road for many years, I initially set out to get it running again. My ambitions quickly...

I started writing this post in 2013 after getting back from giving a talk on some work I did in collaboration with Randolph Voorhies at IROS 2013 in Tokyo. My initial plans to keep up a regular blog quickly went to the wayside, however, as I became...