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The end of 7th week… nothing much in progress, nothing much changed…

Except I’m half a thousand ringgit poorer getting this tiny 20mm x 23mm piece of IMU. Was planning to borrow it instead of buying it, but the manufacturer is not producing it anymore, so I might as well get one unit right now before it become an antique… well, one new hp gone… =’(

Still don’t know what to do about it…

Counting down… 5 weeks to go before fyp1 presentation.

Self update: Someone told me I look fatter, and I’m starting to look like a nerd… |||-_-

I’ve been missing in action for quite sometimes… mainly due to my final year and what I expect to be a “toy” suddenly become part of my professor’s research.

Many seniors once told me that final year is really “no play play” and I always doubted that. “What on Earth in this final year that can be worse than being in the Robocon team?”

I mean I’ve been used to staying up late for 2 years, rushing this and that, working under pressure, bla bla bla… so final year should be quite relaxing… that’s what I thought… (aw… I’m damn cocky)

Unfortunately, this year the whole batch of students have started their final year project quite late. A few of my friends from other uni have been asking bout my progress and to their surprise, I always come up with, “Sorry, I still haven’t started anything yet…”. This is already the end of the 5th week and most students have not even started anything (including me =P). Instead, most of the time we’re struggling to keep up with our weekly homeworks, small projects, lab works and assignments.

As adviced by one of my seniors, I wanted to do something simple for my project. I don’t wanna spend too much time on it as I realise most of the things that I’ve been studying and working on are more to self-interest and will not be of any great help in my future career. If possible, I wish to complete at least 70% of it by the end of this semester. With this, next semester I can have time to get myself prepared and start searching for job.

But things are not as easy as I thought. Instead of doing a hobbyist’s “toy”, which in my case is simply a self balancing robot using gyro and accelerometer, I am now more like doing research. We are required to do it in a more “academic” way and that’s where the pressure lies. We have choices, but sometimes it is not up to us to make the decision (I can’t believe I am saying this, which is so contrary to my previous post.).

Nevertheless, I’m still very optimistic with my current life. I will survive.

p/s: If anyone come across any shop in Malaysia selling “Sparkfun IMU 5 degree of freedom” cheaper than RM450, kindly contact me.