Ok, i kinda got lazy to update for awhile
Anyway here goes:
Thursday (22-01-09): Jogged and swam with Joel, Alvin, Viknesh
Friday (23-01-09): Swam with Joel, Alvin,Viknesh then later with Kenneth
Saturday(24-01-09): Gym then soccer with Ming, Dexter,Kenneth, Wesker
Sunday (25-01-09): Reunion dinner.
Wishing all a Happy Chinese New Year =)
CNY updates to be posted at a later time, lol
Week Ahead:
Monday, Tuesday-Visiting and stuff
Wed-Medicial checkup, dinner with parents
Thurs-Reunion with ken and gang. Supposed to meet ptb.
Fri-Collect car, Dinner and supper with wr and ky
Sat-Visiting with ky's friends
Sun-Return car, rest. Apply for uni???
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
FYP Debrief / Complain time
The past week:
Monday: SRG lab, then celeberate joel's birthday
Pics:
NYDC pic 1
NYDC pic 2
Emo face Joel
Allowing Alvin to get what he wants
The default Happy Birthday Pic
Wishing with a knife in his hands... Killer instinct spotted =)
JQ Hazel Joel
KW, Me and Alvin with Joel
Weini and Camie with Joel
Earlier in school, Joel had two crashes on that day, one mounting a kerb near foodcourt one, causing one of the rear tyres to hang ontop of a drain, good thing it was a front wheel drive. Second was when he reversed into the carpark at T11. His bodykit scraped the kerb which was damn high.
After the dinner, Joel fetched kw,alvin and me home. Treated him fuel when he neared my house as his tank was almost empty. Thanks for the ride home Joel!!!
Tuesday: SRG lab
Wednesday: SRG Competition // This is where the complaining starts
Morning, reached SRG lab. As usual, JJ was late. Tested one time at lab wall, bot not able to complete.
So went to science centre, where JJ broke the news to me that his phone had no battery, so dont call him. The irritating thing was that he brought the charger but tell me that its "Xia Sway" to charge his phone there. Asking him to elaborate what "Xia Sway" means, he told me its sth like pai seh and stuff. The thing was my phone battery was low and i was telling him incase of emergency and we needed something we can call. However, his reply was about embarassment and personal preferance and stuff. The thing is that its no longer personal as it concerns me also. What if i needed him but cannot contact him???
While he was still being anal about charging his phone there, he asked me to remove a connector so that we can plug in the batteries. One of the wires to the connector then fell out and we needed a soldering iron, which we did not have at that time. So we used my low batt phone to contact another group to get a soldering iron.
Then im not sure for revenge or for some other reason, he became anal about me connecting the supply for the charger even though i am not using it. I explained to him that because it was on a multiplug, if i unplug sth, i may lose it and leave it there or sth. He still kept asking why until i told him "ARGH fuck, im not talking to you". After a moment of silence, he started singing some kiddy songs?
Ptb came and got a solder from his friend who was an ex sp lecturer who is in RP now. As JJ was soldering, he came and asked us who did the programming. I admitted to it and told him ptb didn't help us much. He then said that he could offer me a job as a tso in RP for $1700 as he is doing wall climbing robot next year.
Soon, my other classmates came for awhile, mainly to fetch leo's group to the science centre. JJ went to talk to them. While he was away, the caging started and i couldn't get him, as he had no phone -.- . So i carried alot of stuff to the corner when he finally realised what was going on and came over to help.
Soon, it was our robots turn to run, obviously it failed. Did a complete run on Sunday, the time was 03:53. The average timing for the robots for other polytechnics were like 50 seconds. In a nutshell, SP is a failure, at least in wall climbing robots. None of the six robots entered completed the course.
// Complaints start here
Spoke to the guy who sold us servo motors for my robot. He told me he had played all the games in the Singapore Robotic Games before. He was from Temesek Poly and opened his own shop when he graduated. Then he told me what was wrong with my robot.
Human factors
Statements:
Questions:
Monday: SRG lab, then celeberate joel's birthday
Pics:
NYDC pic 1
NYDC pic 2
Emo face Joel
Allowing Alvin to get what he wants
The default Happy Birthday Pic
Wishing with a knife in his hands... Killer instinct spotted =)
JQ Hazel Joel
KW, Me and Alvin with Joel
Weini and Camie with Joel
Earlier in school, Joel had two crashes on that day, one mounting a kerb near foodcourt one, causing one of the rear tyres to hang ontop of a drain, good thing it was a front wheel drive. Second was when he reversed into the carpark at T11. His bodykit scraped the kerb which was damn high.
After the dinner, Joel fetched kw,alvin and me home. Treated him fuel when he neared my house as his tank was almost empty. Thanks for the ride home Joel!!!
Tuesday: SRG lab
Wednesday: SRG Competition // This is where the complaining starts
Morning, reached SRG lab. As usual, JJ was late. Tested one time at lab wall, bot not able to complete.
So went to science centre, where JJ broke the news to me that his phone had no battery, so dont call him. The irritating thing was that he brought the charger but tell me that its "Xia Sway" to charge his phone there. Asking him to elaborate what "Xia Sway" means, he told me its sth like pai seh and stuff. The thing was my phone battery was low and i was telling him incase of emergency and we needed something we can call. However, his reply was about embarassment and personal preferance and stuff. The thing is that its no longer personal as it concerns me also. What if i needed him but cannot contact him???
While he was still being anal about charging his phone there, he asked me to remove a connector so that we can plug in the batteries. One of the wires to the connector then fell out and we needed a soldering iron, which we did not have at that time. So we used my low batt phone to contact another group to get a soldering iron.
Then im not sure for revenge or for some other reason, he became anal about me connecting the supply for the charger even though i am not using it. I explained to him that because it was on a multiplug, if i unplug sth, i may lose it and leave it there or sth. He still kept asking why until i told him "ARGH fuck, im not talking to you". After a moment of silence, he started singing some kiddy songs?
Ptb came and got a solder from his friend who was an ex sp lecturer who is in RP now. As JJ was soldering, he came and asked us who did the programming. I admitted to it and told him ptb didn't help us much. He then said that he could offer me a job as a tso in RP for $1700 as he is doing wall climbing robot next year.
Soon, my other classmates came for awhile, mainly to fetch leo's group to the science centre. JJ went to talk to them. While he was away, the caging started and i couldn't get him, as he had no phone -.- . So i carried alot of stuff to the corner when he finally realised what was going on and came over to help.
Soon, it was our robots turn to run, obviously it failed. Did a complete run on Sunday, the time was 03:53. The average timing for the robots for other polytechnics were like 50 seconds. In a nutshell, SP is a failure, at least in wall climbing robots. None of the six robots entered completed the course.
// Complaints start here
Spoke to the guy who sold us servo motors for my robot. He told me he had played all the games in the Singapore Robotic Games before. He was from Temesek Poly and opened his own shop when he graduated. Then he told me what was wrong with my robot.
- It is too heavy
- We are not utilizing the strength of the metal properly
- The robots weight and size will be halved if we take time to plan some weight saving techniques
- Only one motor should be coupled per leg, to prevent mechanical errors
- Compared to the robot from other schools, ours is very very very heavy and over-designed.
Human factors
- Start of project, girls hinder my progress to work efficiently
- Lack of proper tools in lab
- Girls mess up stuff: borrow and not returned, stuff throwed everywhere (Like today there was an empty fascini scoox packet on my table and the sugar was all over my table.)
- Tools go missing due to borrowing
- Lab not very organised
- Lack of space
- Girls like to occupy the wall: hinder robot testing
- Motherboard used hard to program
- Compiler for motherboard is sucky, hangs randomly, not user friendly (Not even able to use mouse wheel to scroll up and down)
- Motherboard used not user friendly, to put the program into the permanent flash memory I have to download it, remove jumper, disconnect compiler, open hyperterminal, on mcu, send command, off mcu, replace jumper, disconnect hyperterminal, on mcu. To revert to flash mode, I have to off mcu, remove jumper, on mcu, connect hyperterminal, send command, off mcu, replace jumper, on mcu.
- Too many motors used for robot. People use 2x DC motors while i am using 9x SERVO motors. This results in more demanding programming, risk of mechanical error (motors turning against each other) and more current drawn, leading to more heat, hence overheating the motors, RAPIDLY.
- Excess of 5x2 valves used, placed there, for nothing
- No datasheet provided on how the valves work, I had to find one myself
- Valves used wrongly on last year's program
- Last years program had to be totally re-written, only 2 functions kept
- No proper instructions on how to operate each microcontroller board given
- Especially for the Tern motherboard, where the manual was a piece of crap
- Had to resort to signing up for the yahoo group to ask questions where the answer was also crap
- Was not told that during the actualy competition there would not be any tape on the wall, as the one in our lab had to mark the starting and finishing positions
- No distinction???
- Everything is last miniute. Demo in a few days then tell me that I must do a demo, no proper/clear instructions
- Empty promises, multiple times. e.g promised to write out program algorithm for me but never recieved any
- Advise given only 10% useful, and we probably tried it already
- Poor organization, little leadership shown. Not someone I would want to look up to.
Statements:
- If only i had a more enthuisatic teammate, but JJ seems average with some pushing
- If only i had a TSO to guide me...
Questions:
- What would happen if I had not taken this project?
- What would happen if I had just enjoyed and not bother about the project?
- Would I have not wasted all my holidays?
- Would I have accompished something greater?
- Is doing nothing yet getting qualified for it the norm in this world?
- Is my supervisor caring? -> Only to a certain extent.
- Will I benefit from what I learnt from this project?
- Will I lookback and regret taking up this project?
- Or will I be glad that I slogged like hell and get something no one knows to work where no one will apperciate the amount of effort I put in.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Post Spinnovex
Finally have the time to update, sorry for the wait =)
WARNING: Uber long post
Spinnovex Day 1:
Met joel at redhill, he then drove me to school. He was kinda unsure of the way so we went to follow the mrt track. Then at north buoena vista road, joel decided to turn left and we ended up making a big round to school.
Parked infront of W12 (SRG Lab). We went to our respective venues and met up fifteen minutes later at the opening ceremony.
Before the opening ceremony, tieing my tie. I like this pic =)
Concert before the opening ceremony
Went for the opening ceremony with alvin, ka wei viknesh, jerome, joel and samuel. Was quite boring, the only thing we found interesting was when the boss of the singapore science centre made a speech which was also printed inside the spinnovex booklet handed out to us under "A Message by bla bla bla from the singapore science centre."
After the opening ceremony, samuel and I went back to our srg lab to nua and continue with our robots. Lunch quickly arrived. JJ went to eat with the others while i waited for joel and jerome to eat. The two of them arrived and Joel drove to the gate below dover mrt to pick up alvin and ka wei. We then switched places and I drove them to mac. Damn addicted to his mazda 3. Although the fuel consumption is not very low, the sound of the engine and the accleration was damn shiok.
Ate mac with joel and jerome while kw and alvin walked back after they took away theirs. Joel then drove back where he made a damn zai parking.
Parking situation
Joel and his mazda 3
Time passed and the first day of spinnovex came to an end. Nothing much happened in our lab, no one came to visit and stuff. Met up with joel, kw and alvin and we decided to go to holland villiage to have our dinner. However, joel kept missing the numerous parking lots that were along holland villiage.
I then suggested going 1 round by turning left three times but it resulted in Joel turning two times and being afraid about getting lost. hahaha. Walked a long way to holland V to see like there was nth to eat.
So we walked back to the car which was like 1km away and drove to depot road's botak jones to have our dinner.
Joel then kindly fetched us to tiong barhu mrt. While he was trying to turn out, he kinda got stuck and kena horn, haha. He was blocking the first lane.
View of his mazda 3 from the inside
Blocking the first lane
Overall, i would like to comment that joel is one of the slower and safer drivers i know and ever since i drove his mazda 3, i have been speeding.
Spinnovex Day 2:
Nothing much happened during day 2, continued doing my robot. This was when the robot cut my hand =(
Thats pretty much all as the people in tentage(Joel, Alvin, KW and others) had dinner. So i basically worked on my robot the whole day and go home.
Spinnovex Day 3:
Day 3, also the last day of spinnovex started out boring. I was tired and had no mood to program. JJ used the laptop to dota while i stoned and feel damn sian, like never accomplish anything. At around 5 went to tentage to meet the class for the closing ceremony. Soon everyone arrived and we took some pictures.
First almost complete class pic:
Then Joel got poked(notice the face)
Me caught offguard
Ben, Me, Shuai Quan.
Helped Alvin's group move their project to their project lab.
Returning the trolleys after moving
Then the closing ceremony started.
In the convention centre where the closing ceremony was held.
Was quite disappointed as the other wall climbing group which did very little won an award. Their supervisor does all the programming while they basically sit and stare at the screen. Alvin was also disappointed as their group had got a silver award along with a group that did a catapult for launching styrofoam planes which had also got into the main tent.
Projects in the main tent are kinda classified as a featured project or hilighted as they call it. They are supposed to be outstanding and a huge amount of hard work is supposed to be put into it. I should have done a catapult for styrofoam boats/cars and get in as a hilighted project also.
After the closing ceremony, we went for the free buffet where i chionged the food and drink until quite full.
Grabbing a bowl for a helping of cheng teng in the cooler boxes. Notice my plate =)
Then i realised KW was taking pictures
Joel's glasses, haha
On the way to the MRT after a long day.
Joel, Alvin, KW and I then headed to ps Starbucks to chill until late after which we went home to have a good rest.
Overall, Spinnovex was a boring experience for me, but not for those in the main tent. How I wish i were there. The bright side is i made some new friends =)
WARNING: Uber long post
Spinnovex Day 1:
Met joel at redhill, he then drove me to school. He was kinda unsure of the way so we went to follow the mrt track. Then at north buoena vista road, joel decided to turn left and we ended up making a big round to school.
Parked infront of W12 (SRG Lab). We went to our respective venues and met up fifteen minutes later at the opening ceremony.
Before the opening ceremony, tieing my tie. I like this pic =)
Concert before the opening ceremony
Went for the opening ceremony with alvin, ka wei viknesh, jerome, joel and samuel. Was quite boring, the only thing we found interesting was when the boss of the singapore science centre made a speech which was also printed inside the spinnovex booklet handed out to us under "A Message by bla bla bla from the singapore science centre."
After the opening ceremony, samuel and I went back to our srg lab to nua and continue with our robots. Lunch quickly arrived. JJ went to eat with the others while i waited for joel and jerome to eat. The two of them arrived and Joel drove to the gate below dover mrt to pick up alvin and ka wei. We then switched places and I drove them to mac. Damn addicted to his mazda 3. Although the fuel consumption is not very low, the sound of the engine and the accleration was damn shiok.
Ate mac with joel and jerome while kw and alvin walked back after they took away theirs. Joel then drove back where he made a damn zai parking.
Parking situation
Joel and his mazda 3
Time passed and the first day of spinnovex came to an end. Nothing much happened in our lab, no one came to visit and stuff. Met up with joel, kw and alvin and we decided to go to holland villiage to have our dinner. However, joel kept missing the numerous parking lots that were along holland villiage.
I then suggested going 1 round by turning left three times but it resulted in Joel turning two times and being afraid about getting lost. hahaha. Walked a long way to holland V to see like there was nth to eat.
So we walked back to the car which was like 1km away and drove to depot road's botak jones to have our dinner.
Joel then kindly fetched us to tiong barhu mrt. While he was trying to turn out, he kinda got stuck and kena horn, haha. He was blocking the first lane.
View of his mazda 3 from the inside
Blocking the first lane
Overall, i would like to comment that joel is one of the slower and safer drivers i know and ever since i drove his mazda 3, i have been speeding.
Spinnovex Day 2:
Nothing much happened during day 2, continued doing my robot. This was when the robot cut my hand =(
Thats pretty much all as the people in tentage(Joel, Alvin, KW and others) had dinner. So i basically worked on my robot the whole day and go home.
Spinnovex Day 3:
Day 3, also the last day of spinnovex started out boring. I was tired and had no mood to program. JJ used the laptop to dota while i stoned and feel damn sian, like never accomplish anything. At around 5 went to tentage to meet the class for the closing ceremony. Soon everyone arrived and we took some pictures.
First almost complete class pic:
Then Joel got poked(notice the face)
Me caught offguard
Ben, Me, Shuai Quan.
Helped Alvin's group move their project to their project lab.
Returning the trolleys after moving
Then the closing ceremony started.
In the convention centre where the closing ceremony was held.
Was quite disappointed as the other wall climbing group which did very little won an award. Their supervisor does all the programming while they basically sit and stare at the screen. Alvin was also disappointed as their group had got a silver award along with a group that did a catapult for launching styrofoam planes which had also got into the main tent.
Projects in the main tent are kinda classified as a featured project or hilighted as they call it. They are supposed to be outstanding and a huge amount of hard work is supposed to be put into it. I should have done a catapult for styrofoam boats/cars and get in as a hilighted project also.
After the closing ceremony, we went for the free buffet where i chionged the food and drink until quite full.
Grabbing a bowl for a helping of cheng teng in the cooler boxes. Notice my plate =)
Then i realised KW was taking pictures
Joel's glasses, haha
On the way to the MRT after a long day.
Joel, Alvin, KW and I then headed to ps Starbucks to chill until late after which we went home to have a good rest.
Overall, Spinnovex was a boring experience for me, but not for those in the main tent. How I wish i were there. The bright side is i made some new friends =)
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Pre Spinnovex
Today was preparation for spinnovex. Panel come and assess us and stuff, thats all. Abit dissapointed that srg wcr can't go to the main tent and i have to be stuck in my lab next to the garbage dump, lol. Pls dont come visit me =X
Morning went walking around and had breakfast with kw, joel and jerome. Then went back to my lab to nua until 1+ where the panel came to assess us. I abit screwup, cus jj went for his darn medicial checkup and i had to run the robot alone. Abit nervous and took like 5 attempts to get it working.
Got a decent grade (I think/hope). Ptb gave quite high marks to all the groups, the higher ones being his own, lol.
Went to eat lunch with by, leo, vince, keng kwee and yao quan or sth (always forget his name). Went to find our friends at the main tent after that. Took some pics. I'm in formal attire!!! Very rare see de hor =)
I'm tall, Alvin doing -> =p
KW decide to sleep, and Alvin pushed me down to his height
REVENGE WAHAHA!!!
Walked around while joels group got interviewed. Saw alot of projects in various venues. Ended up in SRG where i showed them my robot and how cui it is. They also saw my compiler error. Keeps popping out like free. I like need to save after writing every line.
Note: I need to press "Don't Send" for about 5 times before the bloody thing decides to close.
When joel was done, we went to eat pizza, some student meal. Then watched bedtime stories at GV and went home.
Then, at night, when i reach home, my friends decided to spam facebook.
Morning went walking around and had breakfast with kw, joel and jerome. Then went back to my lab to nua until 1+ where the panel came to assess us. I abit screwup, cus jj went for his darn medicial checkup and i had to run the robot alone. Abit nervous and took like 5 attempts to get it working.
Got a decent grade (I think/hope). Ptb gave quite high marks to all the groups, the higher ones being his own, lol.
Went to eat lunch with by, leo, vince, keng kwee and yao quan or sth (always forget his name). Went to find our friends at the main tent after that. Took some pics. I'm in formal attire!!! Very rare see de hor =)
I'm tall, Alvin doing -> =p
KW decide to sleep, and Alvin pushed me down to his height
REVENGE WAHAHA!!!
Walked around while joels group got interviewed. Saw alot of projects in various venues. Ended up in SRG where i showed them my robot and how cui it is. They also saw my compiler error. Keeps popping out like free. I like need to save after writing every line.
Note: I need to press "Don't Send" for about 5 times before the bloody thing decides to close.
When joel was done, we went to eat pizza, some student meal. Then watched bedtime stories at GV and went home.
Then, at night, when i reach home, my friends decided to spam facebook.
Monday, January 5, 2009
January
First, i shall post what i have missed out in the previous posts.
Shirt bought from G2k, forgot to post during last post.
Saw this on new years day, Ice kosong at 7-11 for $1, hahaha
Saturday: went gym, then went to ps to eat, played arcade for awhile and went home, super tired.
Sunday: went shopping with mummy and daddy for my formal clothes. Bought some other shirts and a pair of formal shoes which cost about $80.
Pics:
I'm not very good with this zilian thing as im not a girl, haha. all the crap faces =/
Today:
Went to school for briefing, stayed and did robot until 5 and went home. Lazy to go into details but there wasn't much progress today, mainly because there were like 3 groups sharing the wall.
Random:
Mother asked me to read this article today, lol.
Shirt bought from G2k, forgot to post during last post.
Saw this on new years day, Ice kosong at 7-11 for $1, hahaha
Saturday: went gym, then went to ps to eat, played arcade for awhile and went home, super tired.
Sunday: went shopping with mummy and daddy for my formal clothes. Bought some other shirts and a pair of formal shoes which cost about $80.
Pics:
I'm not very good with this zilian thing as im not a girl, haha. all the crap faces =/
Today:
Went to school for briefing, stayed and did robot until 5 and went home. Lazy to go into details but there wasn't much progress today, mainly because there were like 3 groups sharing the wall.
Random:
Mother asked me to read this article today, lol.
Saturday, January 3, 2009
2009 first post
Hello, i've been damn lazy to post
New Year Eve:
Day:
Hui Min Birthday Celeberation
Sidenote: Posting in point form is damn easy, lol. Maybe i shld do it more...
Random: Bought a G2000 shirt at $29 with joel on monday.
Still need 1 more shirt for spinnovex. If u guys wanna come visit me (Not recommended) Im in the SRG lab, Workshop 12 (Next to the garbage dump). It would be a miracle if u actually find the entrance, lol
New Year Eve:
- Met at vivo
- Ate at food republic
- Went to ECP
- Chilled at bar
- Saw flares
- 2009
- So go matthew house play mahjong until 6am
- Go home
- Supposed to wake up and meet ken to buy present
- Woke at 5pm
- He tio eye ulcer
- Tell me going home ler
- So nuaed at home whole day
Day:
- Went to school
- ACNS was rubbish
- HF was rubbish
- FYP
- JJ had a great idea, seems more enthu now. Prolly more enthu than me sometimes...
- Girls hate us or sth
- JJ came up with brilliant idea to solve certain problem
Hui Min Birthday Celeberation
- Met kenneth at cq
- He had cool glasses
- Searched for cake
- Bought box to place present for Hui Min (Mango Bag)
- My engineering skills allowed me to fix the box which Michelle could not =)
- Had dinner at Mr Curry Central
- Food was nice =)
- Headed to some MAMA bar to chill
- Wesker Bob Taylor Tay chose the place because he saw 2 filipino maids ushering him in
- Drank abit
- Caught last train home
- Pics when i get them
- Matthew called and ask me dota
- Until 4am
- Tml supposed to go gym
Sidenote: Posting in point form is damn easy, lol. Maybe i shld do it more...
Random: Bought a G2000 shirt at $29 with joel on monday.
Still need 1 more shirt for spinnovex. If u guys wanna come visit me (Not recommended) Im in the SRG lab, Workshop 12 (Next to the garbage dump). It would be a miracle if u actually find the entrance, lol
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