Group Project is Over!!!
June 21, 2006 10:03 pmFinally finished the group project today, will have a post on the finial prototype Roomba that we have soon. Didn't manage to get everything to work, with some bad luck on the Rabbit processing board died on the night before the demostration! All the functions was there, the Rabbit was able to host the website, but not quite functioning as expected. Anyway it was really good experience working on this project and getting hardware to work is just sooooooooo hard! Anything can go wrong! Thank you for the team and our supervisor Dr. Hernandez who has helped us a lot. There is a html version of the Rabbit hosted web interface at http://evac.vinlai.com/ for you to have some idea what we did. I will upload some photos later.
Since the group project is finished, have to catch up on many things like websites, packing, reading, etc…
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Just want to finish with a quote from the Buddha
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
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Wednesday 21st was our final final deadline for the project eVac. The aim of this project is to produce a robotic vacuum cleaner which will be able to communicate wirelessly so that the user can control it through the internet. However, it turned out that the camera didn’t work, the wifi didn’t work, and on the last day, even the rabbit processor didn’t work. So, it turned out that the WIFI was not compatible with the Rabbit, the camera was idled and all in all it was not too successful! Despite that, the presentation, led by Johannna (on marketing) and Wang Yan (on technical), scored very high. The demonstration, which we thought would be totally disastrous turned out to be very successful despite not having any of the components we mentioned above. I guess its the way we presented ourselves as a group. We have all the ’smart’ people so, I guess that was why even though nothing worked, we made it seem like its ‘not our fault’ - but it really wasn’t because we did spend a long time on the various components…
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