Revision as of 16:52, 30 October 2011

Kin Chin Chua - Design Notebook

Week of Sept. 05, 2011

Sept. 07 (Wed):

• attended kick-off meeting
  

Week of Sept. 12, 2011

Sept. 16 (Fri):

• attended weekly meeting
  

Week of Sept. 19, 2011

Sept. 21 (Wed) ~1.5 hour :

• participated in teleconference with HKUST

Sept. 23 (Fri):

• attended weekly-meeting
  

Week of Sept. 26, 2011

Sept. 28 (Wed) ~1 hour:

• attended group meeting:
  

1. Designed and drew a block diagram for the control system.
   
2. Discussed about some processors and TI microcontroller.
   

Sept 29 (Thurs) ~1.5 hour:

• Looked over the TI microcontrollers with Arm cortex M3 processor suggested by Scott and Jason
  
• Search online for other microcontroller board such as Arduino Fio.
  
• Found a webpage introducing a similar project (WIFI Robot) and thought it might be a good reference
  

    ~ Instead of internet, the robot was controlled by the user by connecting a laptop to the router mounted on the robot wirelessly.

    ~ It also has video feed, so that the robot can be controlled even it is out of sight.

    ~ http://www.jbprojects.net/projects/wifirobot/

Sept. 30 (Fri):

• attended weekly-meeting

Week of Oct. 3, 2011

Oct. 6 (Thurs) ~2 hours:

• attended group meeting

1. Designed a draft of poster for VIP poster session

Oct. 7 (Fri):

• attended weekly-meeting

Week of Oct. 10, 2011

Oct. 14 (Fri):

• attended weekly-meeting

Week of Oct. 17, 2011

Oct. 18 (Tues) ~3 hours:

• attended group meeting

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