Who M I, I M Chai Bin: UTM

It's been so long since i post sth here. I've been extremely busy and stress during tis few weeks. Oopss, it's been almost more than a month aledi.... Currently, i so stress bout my project as i knw not much bout these project. After v finish do all the testing practice wic v gain a little knowldege wat v gonna do to the project, it's left around 2 weeks for us to finish the project but 2 bad, there's some component not complete yet and the most important thing, Board, still not bought yet. Wic mean, without the board, v can do ntg. So, tis 2 weeks v been rushing to complete the project but eventhough u finish them doesn't mean mission accomplished. Wat coming out is the most head-cracked situition wer u hav to make sure ur board is in 100% function or at least it's functioning well. First, u hav to test the DIP switch, LED (small bulb), keypad, 7-segment, and motor. Each of them is applied wif 1 or 2 IC and u hav to make sure the Ic is operating ur component. TO troubleshoot all these really stressful to me. V finish troubleshoot tis board on Sat, 10th November 2007 wic can some of my happiest moment wer i finally finish them and after tat, my lecturer, En Zamri invite all of us to go to his house for open house.

UTM Mission begin from 12nd - 16th (the first 4 days is to test our project)

Our lab start at 12nd so v hav to go there at 11st. V go there by bus, (the actual transport is by van but dunno how v argue, can get the bus =p). Start going at 10.30am and reach there around 2 or 3pm. V not gonna stay at UTM but the college near it, College Telecom. Wat i can bout this college is their hostel look like the launching rocket pit. Seriously, u can imagine there's 2 block of building wic is the room, bridge connected them and right at the middle is the lift wic look like the rocket. Haha.... our Malaysia since wen hav tis rocket launch pit??? But there's a problem here, v gonna stay at 16th floor wic i'm SCARED!!!After put all our thing at our own room, it's rocking the KL time. They plan go to Lowyat as Hafiz wanna buy Ext Harddisk. Sergeant wanna buy 1GB pendrive wer there's seem to be promotion wer it's only sold at most RM30. The chepest i can c is RM29. Well, juz RM1 but he still ask us if it's cheap. OMG, think urself la. Not quite like him.

Can u c how many floor there are????

Me at the lift. Wish dunwan go out there. @.@

The next day, v hav to wake up so early as the class start at 8.30am. For those newbies, us, who din knw much bout area of UTM hav to go early to find our class. Well, not our college hav lab at UTM, there Lagenda college (only 1 ppl) from Seremban and PTI (7 ppl?) from Perak. I can say our college is the most successful cuz Lagenda separate all the component wic can be so confusing and PTI the worst, din do anything as they expect to do them here. Dunno wat their lecturer knw bout tis lab. Is killing them.

1st day, v gonna test our LED functioning wer u gonna use their expanded mode wic our college dun hav for us to practice but v're ready for tis. The lecturer wan us to write a software to make the LED to rotate left or right, and blink. At the same time, u gonna make the 7-segment rotate as well. Juz to show the number is increasing tat enough. Seem easy to us but there's some problem. I not sure wat happening but our board din show the exact result as it should be. So, waste so much time to troubleshoot again. Class end at 4pm wic is the longest class i ever hav in my life. Can u imagine tat u're having the same class from morning till evening? Not quite satisfied wif my result 2day so gonna go back to hostel and repair it.

2nd day, v gonna test our DIP switch. DIP switch hav 8 switch on them and u hav to make sure tat all 7 is functioning. Unfortunately, the 7th swtich seem cant be used and lecturer say nvm, remember dun use tat switch. Now, u hav to write a software so tat wen u open 1 of the switch it'll rotate left or right and blink. Although 1 of the swtich is spoiled but wen v put all 2gether from previous day, all messed up. It's not functioning again. It's really make me so so so stressful. At college, there's no problem at all but why here?

3rd day, the lecturer is changed to anothere ppl who responsible to test out keypad and motor. So, test the keypad first. U hav to make sure tat wen u press ur keypad, the computer can read the data from wat u press. Well, once again, got problem again. T.T So, hav check so many hours but still dunno wer is the mistake. At last, it the stupid IC is not grounded and tat's why it's not functioning. So so frustrated!!!!!!!! Next, the lecturer bring a CD-Rom and wan us type a data so the CD-Rom will opened. Well, somehow our board can manage 5V and can operate the CD-Rom.=[

4th day, the final project. U hav to write a software wer u hav to insert 4 digit password and there's onlt 3 trial. If all the password is wrong, LED will half blink. So, if the password is correct, press 1 for LED and 2 for motor. For LED, press A to rotate left, B for blink, C for 2 way coming and D for reset. For motor, press A to move forward, press B to move reverse, press C to stop and D to reset. Tis is the most happiest day for tis year cuz i done them b4 afternoon and i quite proud of me. After all the failure the previous day but if u dun give up, at the end, u'll given a gift.

The last day is not for our project but it's Techno Lab and all v need to do is collect the data. Then, go back to our hostel and copy the report from other ppl report. =p So miss the experience tat v get at UTM, but dun wori, next semester i gonna go again. Dunno next semester will gonna be more fun than do our project or not? Waiting for tat.....