Gotten A 3 Semester Project

Yeah, finally! I should have gotten the project on Tuesday though. However the course co-ordinator who uploads all the project proposals, has uploaded my project in the wrong folder. There are 4 streams in Engineering department, Electrical, Communication, Computer and Electronic. The co-ordinator uploaded my project which is supposed to be in Electronic, to Computer and went for a 9 weeks vacation; furthermore he was a temporary co-ordinator, 'half-hearted'. I went to look for the discipline of Electronic whether the project can proceed with just 1 student. My supervisor is not sure as he is from a different department (explained below). The discipline said it is no problem but he needs to clarify if this project is under his authority since it is in a different folder and he told me to wait until he has sorted out with the other discipline. I finally got the approval on Thursday.

My project is 'Design a Camera Mouse for Papertrail'. It is to integrate a camera underneath the mouse, not the camera with the mouse software. Just do a 'cameramouse' search online for those who do not know what I mean. Papertrail is a software use to verify the authenticity of a document. I will find out more from my supervisor during our 1st meeting which is next week. My supervisor is from the Maths department, yeah maths. He came up with this proposal as he has been using a webcam for the software. A 2nd supervisor from my department will be involved too. He is the Chief Technical Officer of my department!

This project came out last Thursday as my supervisor does not know the Engineering system well. This turn out to be my lucky charm. I immediately applied for it. I found out that I was the only 1 who applied. Guess I was the only 1 without a project at that time and the only 1 who will start at next week. The other groups had already started 1 week ago! All the project groups are supposed to submit a 'Requirement Analysis' the next following week! I am definitely gonna ask for an extension!

A small incident happened during 1 of my computer labs. A very common mistake for careless people. I forgot to take my thumbdrive out of the USB port! Fortunately it was still plug into the USB port when I got back after 1/2 hr. Lucky!
posted by Estan @ 5:51:00 AM (GMT+08:00).