I hate my timetable. Alot. First off, 2 days starts off very early at 9am with one of the two having to end at 6pm (read: bloody crowded bus with traffic jams) with a long 5 hrs break in the middle.
And adding salt onto my wound comes Tuesday with only an hour of tutorial slot as well as Thursday with back to back tutorials and labs.. Sheeesh.
Now, I can't really complain much about my Friday, can i? Well, except for the fact that the only possible freeday that i could have was thrown down the drain when i made the decision to sign my group for the Friday slot...bleah...
School's actually fine thus far; i am actually still very much in holiday mood, playing games everyday and have yet to put in any effort whatsoever to read up on the modules. Alright, honeymoon weeks over soon, better start digging the grave doing some work...
This is the PIC development board which contains the PIC16F877, a 40 pins PIC microcontroller, and other components.
Took us like almost 3 hrs to solder, program and test it. This one is for our EE2001 fam lab, and which will be used for our final product as well, the "Airport of the future".
Now now, the above is considered ok one. Imagine the horror when i saw the schematic for our EE3208 part1 project (below). I almost pee in my pants. Sheesh..
NGDC is Nus Grave Diggers Club, set up by those taking EE2001 with EE3208 as most thinks we are crazy taking these 2 modules tgt (as they are both rather time-consuming design project modules) and thus digging our graves in the process..
The founder of the club decided to set up a blog to honor the birth of such an unique organisation.
We have thus pledge ourselves to build every grave in different shapes and sizes with pride through thick and thin and not to chao geng.
Ready to dig, fellow diggers!
(Before adding in tutorial and labs)
Modules for this semester is as follows:
EE2001 Analog and digital system design (Project Module, 100% CA)
EE3208 Embedded computer system design (100% CA)
EE3304 Digital Control system
EE3407 Analog Electronics
EG2401 Engineering professionalism
Yes yes all engin modules again and this time got 2 design project modules with 100% CA component. Most people think i am crazy taking EE2001 with EE3208.. oh well...what they dunno is that 3208 actually complements 2001 (i think/hope), with the design methodology of embedded system possibly helping with EE2001. But probably not the other way round as mentioned in 3208 lecture just now.
Speaking of which, i thought a small class (less than 50 students?) shouldn't be under the bell curve system? But in the EE3208 lect just now, he mentioned (to a class of 38 folks) that the module have a cap of 30% for the number of As even if all students do well. Damn, this is going to cause lots of market spoilers like EE2007's. Sian..
And EE3407 only has like 35 students... comments i heard so far is that concepts not too hard, but its not a scorable module. Oh well...too bad.. i die die have to take this leh...
EE3304. Boring math again.
Oh yeah, 4 days week! Ahh only for the first few weeks only i guess.. =((
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Some examples of EE3208 projects:
Digital Queue Announcement System
A possible application of this system is in a medical clinic/hospital. The system will consist of a display such as a LED panel, The keypad should allow the doctor (for example) to enter the number of the next patient that he will see. The display should alternate between showing the number of the current patient in the examination room and the next patient that he will see. Interval between the two displays should be about 2 seconds. When the doctor is ready to see the next patient, he should press a button. A synthesized should then announce the number of the patient to enter the doctor's room.
Digital Talking Cash Register
In this project, a cash register that is capable of synthesizing in voice what is keyed into the system is to be designed. It will consist of a six 7-segment LED display, a voice synthesizer, and a keypad. The keypad will allow the casher to key in items into the system (item type, quantity and price). The LED display will show the item, quantity or price as they are keyed in. The voice synthesizer will at the same time speak the same, as the items are displayed.
Both have emphasis on voice synthesizing, which could be useful in our EE2001. And the systematic procedure of the integration of subsystems that will be covered will likely be a valuable knowledge to my team in EE2001.
Its year 2008 liao. So happy new year! And ohh happy birthday tim!
The first day of 2008 begun with the celebration of tim's birthday, at swensen's with lunch followed by the firehouse happy birthday icecream combo with vanilla, chocolate and strawberry flavors. Of course there's the birthday candle which tim had quite a poor job blowing up which zg(@trying_to_be_straight.com) just cant stop commenting on the blow job poorly done which of course is quite understandable, as the expert of blowing stuff must give his most professional advice. Which reminds me, zg's almost every other sentence must have some reference to gay and sexuality in it, but quite sadly for him, it almost always kena backfired by us (very much like jere's attempt to counter mitch's in trashing his liverpool hahaa). Sometimes, if he just shut up, he will not be shot until so jalat, but then again it was rather entertaining so we just let him be, digging his own grave deeper and deeper with every comment he made. Hilarious really.
That continued on as we made our way to.... science centre! Yesh, it must have been like eons ago, for most of you, since you last been to the science centre. We were actually heading to the snow city, very kind suggestion by lzg for a terrific freezing new year day. Oh yes it was terrific, especially the part where zg was aimed by the 3 of us in snow fights where he almost always ended up having snow in the back of his jacket and having to rush out of the snow chamber to clear up the mess.
Snow city is actually quite small, with the main activity being snowtubing, which is like sitting on the snow tube and slide down the slope, and hearing alien, i mean ai lian screaming all the way down (thought we were supposed to shout: "zg dun be gay!!?"). The slope basically took up most of the snow chamber and the rest are like play area for the kids, or for the young-at-heart like the 4 of us...
After the 1hr session, we wandered around the kinetics garden outside the science centre where we proved that zg is indeed heavier than the 3 of us. The first prove of course is during the snowtubing session where his side went down much faster and that the crew had quite a hard time trying to push his fat ass down the slope. Now, we prove it once again with the see-saw balance thingy as shown in the photo on the left. Zg's sullenness in the photo, obviously shows that he is unhappy for having been proven wrong that he's only 62 kg. Its more like 162 kg can?
So then, while pouting away, he decided to do what's he's best at once again, peeping at guys generally of his size but slightly smaller, through the peep hole.
Haiz, what to do, his favorite hobby, so we let him be.
Resolution for 2008
Tim: Hopes zg will become straight.
Ai lian: Hopes zg dun be gay
Me: Hopes zg take the advice of the above 2
Zg: Tries to be straight
Quote of the day: "You know, it would really be kinda hilarious, after all these years of joking and teasing zg about him being gay and all, if one day he were to come up to us and confess that he is indeed one."
