Finally i decide to update... U complain that i talk abt ptb everyday, but thats wad my whole life is about.. FYP... Demo is next wednesday, JJ burnt another motor yesterday, by reversing the polarities. The motor guy abit dulan already, don wan help us repair...
Ptb hasnt contacted me in 2 weeks i guess... Dono izzit a good thing or bad. Heard from my classmate that only 1 out of the 7 wall climbing robot teams will be going to spinnovex... hope it isnt true >,< . If wad i rly work so hard for nth.. Chun Ming lent me his psp(Thank You, many many) and now im addicted to the game Juiced 2 Hot Import Nights... Feel like gettin a psp for myself. Found out that my father quite tok kong one as i found a wire crimper and heads for the rj45 connectors, but couldnt find the wires... haha...
If i'm not getting into spinnovex or getting an A, i will delete all my programs and let the girls group do everything by themselves. Currently, pattabhi is making me write a program for my robot and the girls robot.
I feel i deserve an A. 90% of the stuff they know how to do now is because i taught them how to and another 5% jj teach them. another 3% is taught by pattabhi so if i do not get at least an A for this sickening fyp i am so going to screw them up.
Fail me if you want to, i do not mind repeating my fyp module to get a better grade. If i do not get into spinnovex, i will inform pattabhi beforehand and make him get me inside. If he refuses, i plan to tell him what i would do.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Was surfing the web and started looking into swiss army knives, this one looks not bad. Found this.
What i liked abt it is that it has a wire cutter, stripper, crimper and plier, lol. and its like 42 us which is like 62.1264 sing. Getting a good plier with a cutter embedded and crimp tool and stripper would cost afew hundred bucks. That day saw the crimping tool at the motor guy's shop selling for 90+ bucks.
Pic of the knife:
Nth much liao, pass few days was basically relaxing at home and staring at the com.
Thats what i showed. Damn screwup, director came and look for the first time cannot work cus jj did not connect the valves to the motherboard.
Today, burnt 1 motor due to pattabhi's great idea of connecting our motors to a psu set to parallel mode as we had only 1 high current supply. Saw an instant of sparks. And it just had to be 2 hours before the director comes.
Replaced the motor afterwhich jj kept saying spark everytime a psu is switched on which was irritating to me. Moreover, he did not dare to turn on the psu and i had to do it. I still do not understand what is there to be scared of.
From the video, you can see that our valves do not "auto purge" as mentioned in the previous post. It is still stuck to the ground after the suction is turned off. You can see that the suction pads are being forced out by the motors. The long delays is to allow the pads to hopefully self purge abit so that the motors have enough torque to lift it off the ground.
Fucker, sunday sms me, ask me do a program in 2 days to flip the robot. Its something we have never done or observed.
NOW, the fucking valve that fucktardbhi claims "Auto Purges" DOES NOT. Seriously, does he know his stuff?!
Prolly screwed my fyp. Can't demo any shit.
My partner.
Fucking pissed with him too. Ask him check this and that, tell me check already. For example the tubing. Ask him check he immediately says check already, then come blame my programming.
Chantale check, saw like 5 tubes were being bent, meaning air for the suction is not being transferred properly.
ARGH FUCK LA... SCREW THIS SHIT AND YES, I JUST REACHED HOME BY CAB AT 12:35
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
12:00am 14th October 2008
Fucked up, i just reached home from srg. If i don't get a fucking distinction i am so going to complain about pattabhi till he loses his fucking job.
FUCK. Lately, i havent been sleeping enough, eating enough and resting enough. Holidays like that burnt away liao. Last day of holiday and what am i doing??? Go srg do fyp... zzz
Wednesday: we packed everything (me bringing most of the things back) and i went home. Just as i was about to reach my lift puga called and said that they needed the cm2 board. Ended up i walk to eunos mrt to pass the board to her and walk home again... wanted to drive to her hse at nite to pass the board but she don wan zzz.
Yesterday, Went to the motor shop, a main objectives, in short AMO to test the darn motors. Motor guy said nothing was wrong with the drivers and stuff. Then he took a look at our mcu and started complaining.
The mcu/mobo we are using is a TERN RD board, running on an AMD 186ER (this chip is no longer in production and i do not know where they are getting this chip from). Basically, everything is sucky about this board. The libraries suck, the manual sucks the compiler sucks. Yes, you can say that all C/C++ compilers are the same, I tell you, they are not. This one is difficiult to use, and you cant even scroll with your mouse wheel. The manual does not list what commands activate what and some commands are just listed in the manual without any description. Even ptb says it sucks, only reason he uses it is because it has rs485 drivers and high voltage drivers.
Today: Now, i brought back the motors to the lab today. The cable we were using was almost falling apart, so i got jj to fix it. He then connected all the pins wrongly, and did the same for a second cable. Then i tried and tried and told him that the cable dosent work.
Next thing i know keng kwee (sorry if i spell wrongly) told me that today collect f1 pay. Then i called alvin and he told me that he was going to leave to collect the pay soon. I sian diao... so many days yet never tell me he going to collect the pay today...
Then asked jj to check the cables and he was like switching power supplies cus ours has one loose pin that is quite erractic. Ended up that he connected the wires in the total opposite. So we were feeding like 16V 1.5A into data lines. Heng the motor nvr spoil. Next, ptb asked me to call the motor guy and ask him to die die also must fix our motors.
Finally got thru after 93470328502395808673746053985917253097205683406734-9768023902 attempts. Apperently the excuse was that the phone had some problem. Finally got thru and got him to speak to ptb. The 2 argued for about 7 mins before they came to an agreement that we send ONE faulty motor and our mobo to the motor guy.
Started to pack the cables for the mobo and jj just found out that he had connected everything the wrong side up. Thats when alvin started to call and ask me if im ready to go anot. I was helping to remove the pins from the connectors(5 sec per pin, im good =D) when he called again... zzz tio rush like siao... then jj wasnt willing to pass the stuff to the motor guy later or tml... he can be very uncooperative sometimes and im doing almost everything...
Finally got the cable and did a quick test to determine it was working (plug into psu and to motor, switch on psu, motor led blink = work). Chionged out to meet alvin to collect pay. Ended up waiting at outram for jason and his gf and her cousin for around 15 min zzz....
Collected my pay and then JJ called. Now he says one of the motor that the motor guy did something to the firmware was working. Then he coming down to pass me the rest of the motors that were faulty, also ptb instructed him not to give the motor guy our mobo and just to update the firmware of our faulty motors and we would test them on monday. Now, i have to send 4 motors to the motor guy for firmware upgrading by 6pm and it was already 5. FUCK
Called the motor guy to ask him to wait for me, also asked him if he flashed the motors anot. HE SAID HE NEVER TOUCH THE FIRMWARE. Knn, come and stress me up again.
The situation now is:
i am supposed to give the faulty motors for the guy to do a firmware flash/upgrade and get them back for testing on monday
the guy said he never touch the firmware and it is probably our hardware fault
I did not know what to do. So i just went to his place and dump everything there including the mobo and cables as he said he wanted to take a look at our board. Apperently he has no trouble with other customers and we are the first.
Went home and then priya called and asked "Eh, Hello?, Biondi ah, sorry to trouble you ah. Biondi you know how to check if motor got burn anot ah???"
Our motor controller board has gone crazy and decides not to function properly. I suspect that it is the capacitor on the bottom but jj dosent want to resolder it, say wad scared and all that shit. ARGH. prolly nid to do it myself on monday.
Wa, damn fucked up man. If they burned the motors, we have no spare and ptb sure kpkb alot. Apperently they said it works as the technitian provided them with a board and program to test theirs. I told them, HOPE FOR THE BEST. If really burn monday confirm no need sake wif joel and kw and alvin.
Again, i wish to say:
The two groups under pattabhi are nothing without me. Anything wrong the girls run to me. JJ is too lazy and stubborn and keeps giving excuses and we are the only 2 groups using the stupid motherboard in the whole lab or possibly the whole school.
I am not saying i am god and my programming is godly. I just have basic programming skills almost as good as the programmers of the girls group, but my knowledge of the motors and the stinking motherboard exceeds all of them.
Today SRG was chaos, felt like true mechanics trying to get the biondi robot to climb. Pics to be up later along with pics of kenneths birthday celeberation. Sorry for the cui quality of the srg pics, i din wan ptb to see moi taking the pic. He sure got some smart comment to say if he catches me in the act =X
Went clubbing with joel, jq, yl, hazel and eleen on fri nite... not bad drank quite alot =/ nidda control my spending this month cux school is starting. And i stupidly went to buy concession without calculating if it was cheaper to buy it or not as the transport fares have risen yet again. Sat nuaed at home and went for dinner as it was my grandfathers birthday.
Sun, swam wif wr and ky, came home slept until 6+. Supposed to go pub wif ky and his class but my mother cooked halfway for me. Watched the island on chn 5 and got stuffed with food until im about to explode... thats about all =/
Found this vid, anyone know what chillies and onions mean???
Secondly, Fuck You ptb. Call me and scold me for going off when u come at 4:30 and leave at 5+ and say u come to school everyday like a mad dog. What an insult to us. If you call yourself coming to school on average, an hour a day a mad dog what does that make us? I did what you told me and plan to continue tomorrow.
I still remember on the first day of itp you throw me 2 motherboards that i do not know how to use and expect me to know everything. You tell me everything is there and WE have done everything before. The problem is that THE PREVIOUS STUDENTS have done it and YOU were the one supervising them.
You did not brief us on what the boards were for and how they were used. We had to trouble the previous students to come down just to teach us how to use them. You tell us everything is there but it is hard for us to find them.
Now the girls come, i educate them and u think they are doing a great job. I can bet with you that they would not be where they are now without me. Any problem they run to me and i do my best to help them solve while coping with my fucked up partner. I seriously wonder what would happen if i end my life right now. My partner dosent know a single fucking thing about the program and does everything by luck, while the girls would call you every single miniute and you would not have any fucking time for your fucking daughter.
After all that you say i am getting on your nerves when you have already got on mine, cut them off repeatedly and scarred my fucking life. I come back every fucking day even though its my fucking holiday and waste my fucking time trying to fucking please you and your fucking ideas for the robot and yet you fucking scold me.
I FUCKING KNOW that there is fucking little time left for this fucking robot to run but you refuse to help me and tell me useless stuff and spend an hour explaining something that i already know how and what to do repeating it again and again. I WOULD LIKE you to sit 1 whole day with us and guide us on how and what to do. You do not have any helpers and you expect us to do everything. You keep saying ask the lab techs if you dont know anything.
THE FUCKING PROBLEM IS THAT YOU WANNA FUCKING GUAI LAN, USE DIFFERENT MOTORS AND DIFFERENT MOTHERBOARDS FROM EVERYONE IN THE FUCKING LAB AND EXPECT THEM TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT OUR STUFF AND HOW THEY WORK. They are probably worst than us at our stuff and i DO NOT blame them. They also have to take care of their assigned groups.
I FUCKING HATE MY FUCKING F Y P. You could pay me a million to do it and i would give you a million not to.
