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Design, Interaction, People
Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 12:43 AM

Design, Interaction, People
Hello. A blog update after a really really long break.

My semestral exams ended on the 24th of April and the Annual holidays were supposed to start the week after. UNFORUNATELY, BECAUSE I’M IN AN ENGINEERING COURSE, I’ve got to do this DIP thingy. That’ll span a whooping 5 weeks! W00t.

DIP – Design INNOVATION Project. What are we suppose to do? It’s just as what the title implies. A project whereby we are required to Design and Innovate. Nothing surprising since we’re being groomed to become future engineers of the world.

The project - An underwater communications device.

Seems very Duh huh? Well actually this device that the group is working on uses a THROAT microphone to capture your voice and feeds this to a microcontroller. This controller deciphers the received signal and checks whether it is a Voice signal or just random noise. If it’s a voice signal it will output the signal to an underwater Speaker that’s supposed to make anyone/anything within 3-5m radius hear the signal. =D

Well that’s theoretical.

In practical, we’re seriously having a lot of problems implementing it. LOL. It sounds really simple and thought implementing it would be a piece of cake…or maybe a thin slice of it… but we’re so wrong. Who would’ve thought that programming the damned microcontroller would be this difficult? G_G.

…it’s 12:42 AM as of the point of time I typed this line. Initially, I had a bunch of stuff to enter but for some obscure reason my neurons decided to stop functioning efficiently. =(

This shall be the first part of my three-part blog series. =D

…to be continued

I'll play for you.