He is BACK !!

So , week 12 is coming to an end. Its time to say our goodbyes and hello to exams !
Before venturing into exam paradise, let me show you a sneak preview to the work of Semester TWO !

Nick giving pressure to Nazira and Karen from RC3

Currently, the first Single Processor Motherboard (housing one Snapper Unit) has been finalised(yeah , "sort of", but its there). We designed it using a software call Altium Designer 6 (formerly Protel) in which a schematic was drawn. Drawing schematic its easy, however when u look at the big picture after , I realised that , "hey i have 50 capacitors on my board , thats cool" but ... i still have to route them MANUALLY ... gosh ...routing nightmare.

Me giving pressure to Shubham

Hmm , ever wonder how small our Snapper Module is ? now lets see ...

See this little beast ? Its THAT small, smaller that the standard name cards. Houses the big beast of them all a PXA255 processor (formerly owned by Intel) , smaller beasts like a Cyclone FPGA (Cyclone III will be out soon), LAN interface, UARTS, USB, SDRAM,MMC , Audio , LCD .. etc etc and the lists goes on.







So, how does our motherboard look like ? Wanna see ? but its confidential. So sorry, can't do that :(

Poor Wen from RC2 got his ahem kicked

But i'm kind ... i'll show you anyway ...

So the white paper on top of the green board (base board of the robot) is our "preview" motherboard and you can see where Snapper would be sitting on it in the near future.

The baseboard would be where RC3 (Ball Control Team) whips up their magic.

Hopefully after the exams, we'll be done facing our routing nightmare and the single snapper board would be out in say ...
middle of July ? yeah i hope.


Nick at it again



So as semester two beckons and exam days lies near, good luck to all Fourth Years in their exams and project. Endeavour guys, the BBQ was good. Thank you !

Special thanks to David for the help all semester long !

We close the curtains on Semester One with our little friend ... HE IS BACK ....






See you in Semester TWO !

DID ANYONE BREAK THE CODE ?