Electronic Circuit Design 2 – Epilogue
SHIIAAATTTT.
It’s not working. Damn thing decided to crap out on me ON THE FREAKING PCB after assembly. A criteria I didn’t meet? Yeap. It didn’t go past 10V peak to peak. It barely brushed past 5V p-p. Oh Em Gee. Screw it. Handed it up last Thursday, with my project report following it on Monday next week. I hope that my lecturer will accept my half-arsed reason for it not working. Not fluff and bullshit, mind you, but proper analysis on the problem and why the damn thing didn’t work. But still, I call it half-arsed reason because there wasn’t any proof of the failure attributing to the fact, it was more like I tied the failure to the fact through self-analysis and observation. Should work? I hope.
Btw, the project website is up, albeit a temporary one. It’s still ‘work in progress’, but it has my group picture as well as (soon I hope) the project description. Project group name = RC2.
Left to Right : Shang Wen, Me, Robert Li
ECD 3 though, is moving towards the end (thankfully!) with the project on the final dregs for the hardware and software section. All that will be left then is the report, which I hope I will write in a state of mind that does not lean towards fluff. Or plain long-windedness.
Project work? Don’t ask. We had to scrap our 5 weeks of work today when the algorithm that we were using right until 6 hours ago had to be scrapped. Complications in the algorithm were the main cause, and we hammered out a simpler algorithm that wasn’t so memory hungry and might even be faster in the end. Now, we will be concentrating on our PCB design as a prototype as well as having it as a development board.
Ah well, hope I don’t fall sick again.
KW
