Well the projects and labs are finally all done. Handed in 2 lab reports today and back to studying. Studying sleepily because I was awoken this morning by a friend’s SMS at about 9 saying that there was a long queue for luggage storage. I wanted to queue up but after seeing the crowd I was too lazy to :P
Slept at about 2am so was sleepy but felt it was time to get up. So ‘bummed’ around for about an hour before going to hand in reports. After that been trying to study EE2011 Engineering Electromagnetics. Sleepily study. Almost done with the first part. The second part is more managable due to the fact that there was a quiz in each tutorial.

Oh wait not all projects are done. Hopefully hand in report for EE2001 on the remote controlled boat. Its basically all done. Just need to do a few code updates and put that in the report. Maximum page limit is 50 excluding code listing. Countable pages is 49, total report length is 170+ :|
Anyway back to studying. Goodluck for exams people and study well.

EE3208 Computer Embedded Systems done.
EE4210 Computer Communications Networks II ‘done’ minus exam and report.
EE2001 to be done in about 12 hours.
The remote controlled boat works. Bluetooth phone connection works. Direct server control works. Internet client control works (though I dont think I’ve really tested it :S:S:S). Car works in the sense that the motors move. But its too heavy to move properly :(. Guess my extra feature of a server to support both a car and a boat wont work as perfectly as I hoped. But what do you expect. So after tomorrow NO MORE PROJECTS!!!! =D=D=D For the semester at least.
Still got 2 more lab reports to do for EE3101 Digital Signal Processing and STUDYING!!!! Luckily only 3 examinable modules this semester but the timetable is packed. 25th , 27th and 29th.
Its going to be 1 heck of a reading week.
Good luck to all the boats tomorrow and all the best.

*Mental note: wake up at 730. Reprogram microcontroller with the proper software at lab. Test boat and car. Take a deep breath. Breathe out. Present. Demo. Enjoy :P And most of all. DONT PANICK!!!! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! :P

Couldn’t sleep just now. Too nervous. Seem calmer now. But when I lie in bed who knows :'( Calm…. Calm…. Sea breeze… (just wondering is that calming? :P) … Ice cream… mmmm now thats calming :P

Off to attempt to sleep #2… :P
Night people. All the best to all the boat people tomorrow =D

EE3208 Embedded Computer Design is ‘done’ =D
Well I havent fully tested the IR detection but everything else works =D
Tomorrow maybe add a filter for my sound. But this module feels so rewarding once its done =D
But there are still reports to be done :(

My boat is ‘done’ too. Report and presentation material to prepare.
Networks II little bit of programming to do and report to do. I think I’ll actually survive this semester =D Thank God.
But its done =D=D
Happy happy =D Think I’ll go play something =D
Good night people!!!!

Life seems to suck again

** Updated at 16:47:18 on 2005/04/02 **
The 12V accumulator can power the 2 motors at easily giving LOTS of power (direct connection). Sounds real loud and nice. However once I connect it to the motor circuit it doesnt even move on the highest power :'(
Is my LRRH not meant to set sail? :'(
The only good news is that an accumulator will be used instead of buying new batteries all the time. The only batteries used will be for the transmitter.

Little Red Riding Hood in all her glory (I hope it will be at least)

Nice image name or what? ;-)

The transmitter ‘gift wrapped’ in EE3208 wire wrapping wire :P

If you are wondering what LRRH (Little Red Riding Hood) means its the name of my boat =D She works, but she has a few bugs here and there :(
I think the motors are either not good enough or uses to much current.
Testing in Prince George’s Park Residences (PGP/PGPR) fountain tomorrow =D Hope I dont get too many funny stares :P
Hopefully it will work well with the lead acid accumulator :)
Going to be a busy weekend with assembly programming for my EE3208 Embedded Computer Systems module. Doesnt help that I didnt learn much assembly programming in EE2007 Microprocessor Systems. It wasnt a conducive way of learning the language. Sigh :(
Need to catch up on sleep as well :(

Been looking through lots of free software just now after trying to find a proper hex editor for my EE3208 project so that I can combine my sound files into 1 big chunk for easier burning into the EPROM. If you dont understand my last statement it doesnt matter. Nothing I really want to describe. Let me reiterate to all ECE students of NUS. EE3208 really is a module where you actually learn things. However, and thats a BIG however, it is VERY VERY VERY time consuming. But it is worth it. At least I think so. If you are up to the challenge I dare you to try :P Just dont blame me for anything :P

Anyway below are a few good links for free and even open source programs for just about anything you would need to do.

xtort.net: complete freeware collection: It all started from this site :P

GNUWin — Open your Windows !
The OSSwin project: Open Source for Windows!
TheOpenCD
Win32 SAPPS _ Stand Alone Apps

TinyApps.Org: Another nice site I’ve bookmarked for a long time :)
Back to resting I guess. Been a tiring week and 3 projects due in 2 weeks. In exactly 2 weeks I will be relieved for all the projects being over but that is also the time of the start of the reading week for exams :|
Reading week is going to be bad :( LOTS of things to catch up on :(
Anyway I should stop typing. Think I’ll go get some ice cream :P
Enjoy your weekend people

My bad day is becoming more than just that. Screwed up quiz I had this morning. My EE3208 board is screwed up so I cant even test any software I’ve written. And its far from finished. Hardware still needs some changing. My boat is yet to be realised. And I have 2 more labs to do. Now I cant sleep because I’m feeling too panicky. This is my lousy sucky life. Oh wait I havent even mentioned about studying. When will that come in I dont know. Project deadlines all in 2 weeks. How long can one survive without sleep? I may find out the good or bad way. So what else can I do now except program EE4210 Computer Communications Networks 2 project.
Whats the worse that could happen? Fail the module and because of that I wont fulfil the prerequisites for the other module that I want to take. The stupid thing is that the module I want to take along with its prerequisites are offered only in the second semester. I worse comes to worse I’ll be extending 1 year study here. Oh wait thats if I live that long. Will all the earthquakes and stuff I bet the end of the world could come to. And I wont be surprised.
Enjoy life while you can people.

How fun life is

Been busy doing EE2001 (the remote controlled boat) and EE4210 networks 2 projects. EE2001 is pretty simple. Got the communications part working in a day =D Something my friend failed to do for a few weeks……. grrrrrr
Networks project doesnt seem to be added much more from the demo. This is due to the fact that there was a lot of code to clean up but now things seem pretty good. Things starting finally seems to be getting better =D
But I still have EE3208 Embedded Computer Systems project to do =|
At least I opted for the S/U (satisfactory / unsatisfactory) option so that I wont affect my average =D=D But the project is still =|
Been doing EE2001 report as draft is due at the end of the month. I think I’ve done the template and half of my part. A few more hours and it’ll be done, at least for my part =D
And next week it just has to be the 1st week where there is a quiz in EE2011 Electromagnetism tutorials :”( At least the question is from the previous tutorial =P And the 2nd part of the module which is being taught now is a lot of ‘sub in equation’ questions. Thats ‘good’ in the sense that you dont have to study much, but ‘stupid’ in the fact that you dont learn much by doing that.
Anyway I better relax for a while before getting back to work. Maybe :P

I want to play. Now even more normal. There were 10 people on my server. Got lots of work to do. I work slow.
Feel I screwed up the presentation today thats worth 30% of the final grade. Anyway I better get back to work. 1 hour behind time already.

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