Exams coming up again:
29/04/08 5pm @ MPSH1B: EG2401 Engineering Professionalism (Seat 557)
08/05/08 5pm @ MPSH1A: EE3304 Digital Control System (Seat 74)
10/05/08 9am @ ENG AUD: EE3407 Analog Electronics (Seat 28)
Time to start preparing for exams liao.
Spent the whole reading week doing EE3208's talking cash register. In the end, only the cash register part is done, the talking part is still having lots of problems. Seems like i am so going to get a shitty grade for this. Lucky still have s/u. Damn, wasted so much effort and time. in the end still have to s/u, so not worth it. Pissed with myself. =((
Finally finally!! After 2 days of debugging and stressing my ass off, my keypad and 7 segment finally work! Ahh this is for yet another project module, EE3208. Deadline for this project is 7th may wor...
Just moments ago, i finally found the error in my codes that made my 7 segment went berserk earlier in the lab. Here, my system display 543210 and then switch to 9876 after 1 second and 543210 again and so on. This is just a test program to test the 7 segment.
More photos, taken after i wire wrap. Yes wire wrap, bloody hell, you've gotta marvel at the wonderful invention of wire wrapping, making you connect wires for more than TEN TIMES longer than you otherwise would if using breadboard instead and poking wires into those lovely holes. Now, this damn stupid thing cause me like weeks to connect just a simple system...
Now, i better go try to make the sound part work, if not i am still quite screwed. There's a reason why the project is called "Talking cash register"..
Finally, after 1 semester of hard work, pulling of hair wires, soldering accidents extension of wires, late nights and stressing over whether we have enough features, the 6 MCs project module came to an end after a rather good presentation last Friday.
Our team had lots of fun in this project. Its always great to see our concepts and design materialize into the real working product. And we also put in alot of effort in making the model looks professional, and it all pays off because in the end it really looks very good and impressive, and the sense of achievement is just beyond words can describe. We also put in alot of effort on the GUI and SMS, learning much more things than required, to present our project in the best way possible.
In all, it was a great project and no matter what kind of grades we get, we can proudly say we did our very best!
Now, let the photos do the talking.
EE2001, The Airport of the Future, presented by group 4-03:
The Graphical User Interface (GUI):
The GUI has an overview of our entire airport and can control certain features as well as performing real time updating of the status of the transit rooms allocation as well as the smart car park. One of our best features in this project.
The smart transit rooms allocation system:
This one got a rotating platform plus a travellator on top. It basically allocate traveler to the nearest available transit room. Spent a great deal of time to make this feature as perfect as possible.
The smart car park:
The car park provides guiding light for drivers to the nearest available slot. It also have a room booking system and the driver will be directed to the slot nearer to the transit rooms.
The smart queuing system and the SMS system:
Smart queuing system requires traveler to login into the system by first obtaining a one time password from the SMS system and then entering into the keypad in the waiting area. The system then prompt travelers to board plane row by row based on their seat numbers and whether that passenger to the particular seat has login.
The greeting robot and interactive directory:
Next comes the greeting robot which turns to face the travelers as they come out of the car park. On it is the interactive directory where travelers can check out what shops are there in the shopping area as well as the route to take to get there. Moreover, they can have the map sms to their handphone!
The Lounge power management system:
Solar panel for the lounge:
Smart energy control allows the fan to blow at speed corresponding to the number of people in the lounge. Also lighting depends on the amount of sunlight on the solar panel.
More photos of us at work:
Red bull kept us awake all night through! (Eh actually only I drank...together with coffee and had a terrible stomachache the next day..jeez )
Messy wiring below....
Planning stage for the model:
Taking measurements:
The designer at work:
More messy wirings during testing phase:
Once again, this is The Airport of the Future!
Of course, a great project should end with a celebration of sorts. Right after the presentation, we treated ourselves to a sumptuous meal at Sakura!
Okay no more photos after this, too busy eating..lol.
GG!
I finally have time to sit down and blog. For a while.
Yes, it has been a mad rush, the past 1 month or so, of completing assignments and projects, particularly EE2001 which took up lots of time and also EE3208, yet another project module which requires us to make a talking cash register and i am nowhere close to the point to make it talk yet.
There are also interviews for my IC design SMP (Specialist manpower program). So far, i have been to 2 of them and those 2 interviews were just so different.
The first one only asked of general questions with regards to my interests and why i applied for the program and stuff you would expect of an interview including some scenario questions where you have to make some somewhat tough decisions and stuff. Nothing technical, just pure, i would like to call it, chit chat session with the interviewer. It took an hour though.
The second was totally technical! The first thing i had to complete was a test, analyzing some circuits and stuff, basically testing the fundamentals. Well, they gave me 1 hr and i finished in half, so i thought, well.. not bad. But the real thing came when they started interviewing and throwing me more technical questions and also questions with regards to my project for EE3408 (Integrated Analog Design). I kinda forgot quite abit of the project and didn't answer well for some of the questions and the interviewers were kinda disappointed. And so, i also became pessimistic...
Now, the worst thing to happen during an interview is losing confidence. I am quite sure the interviewers can tell, which means i am probably not going to give a good impression. Nvm that, i will probably take this as an experience and learn from it ba.
On a side note, it's quite scary to have 3 interviewers staring at you while you try to think; every passing seconds seems like eternity...
Ok, i guess i better go do work liao, have eg presentation coming up. Also have to finish up the talking cash register and my EE2001 model.
Damn, its 2 weeks plus to the exams and i still cant mug even if i want to. =(( It was a big mistake to take 2 100% CA project module, dun ever ever do that. Be glad and thank god everyday that you do not have to go through the agony of having that uncertain feeling of whether you can pass that goddamn module. Btw, i mean 3208 not 2001.
