Week 14 (Final Semester)

Title : Viva and Report Writing

Objective:

• To present the project to the accessor
• To make sure the accessor interest with the project
• To demo the project the the acessor
• To write a report of the project

Content:

The Presentation

The presentation using the poster that has been created last week with the project demonstration. The lecturer that acessor this project is Sir Zakaria and Madam Rohaida. First acesseor that access this project is Sir Zakaria. It did not goes quite well because he did not like that the project is more to electronic instead of electric. He also gave a lot of recommendation. One of the recommendation is that the project need to be use to the home or industrial factory instead of car. 

The second acessor, which is Madam Rohaida does not complaint much. Everything goes smoothly and everything is well explained. 

Report Writing

Writing a report is the final thing to do after the presentation. By using the format that the adviser give. The report must be at least 120 pages with hard paper as cover the report. In week 15, the report soft copy must be handed to the adviser and by the week 17 the hard copy and soft copy must be submitted at the library.

Analysis:

During the presentation, the poster content really help a lot. The acessor read all the content of the poster  before asking the question about the project. Even though Sir Zakaria pretty much complaint about the project, however everything that he said has the point. His knowledge about electrical is very wide.

Conclusion:

This is the last post for this project. The project is considered quite successful because the project function and the acessor satisfied with the project and the presentation even though there are a bit of unsatisfied with the first acessor. When the report writing is finished, the project is consider as done 100%. Thank you to all who support with this project, especially the adviser, Sir Abdul Rashid  

Week 13 (Final Semester)

Title: Poster Preparing

Objective:

• To prepare the poster for the viva
• To make sure all the important detail is in the poster
• To make sure the language of the poster is compact and easy to understand

Content:

The poster cannot be design at will. the specification of the poster must be followed. It is to make sure the content of the poster full of important information of the project. The specification of the poster is:-

• Paper Size : A1 (Provided by IT
• Dept.)
• Must be in Power Point
• Must be laminated
• Print at IT Dept. Level 6

• Content of Poster :

1. Objective
2. Application
3. Diagram
4. Description
5. Methodology
6. Results
7. References

The poster that has been design for the project

Analysis:

Even though the poster that has been design are quite different from the specification, it still considered as legal because all the information that is need when the viva is attach.

Conclusion:

With accomplished the poster designing, all the task for the project of Automatic Car Lock/Unlock System has been finish. Now is the time for preparing for the viva next week and the final report of the project.

Week 12 (Final Semester)

Title: Final test

Objective:

• To make sure all the circuit running as plan
• To make sure the hardware suitable for the project
• To prepared for the viva

Content:

On this week task, the project will be tested thoroughly. After connecting all the wiring at the circuit and connect all the battery the testing begin. First switch on the circuit at the remote control car, which is the receiver circuit. The orange led at the remote control car will be turn on to indicate the receiver is on. Then switch on the transmitter circuit inside the casing, the orange led turn on to indicate the transmitter is on. When the transmitter circuit is on, the door lock of the project automatically goes up. Which means, the car is unlock. It because the transmitter is on the range of receiver can detect, which is about 5 meters. When the transmitter is taken away from the receiver, the door lock is automatically locked. This means that the circuit and the door lock mechanism works fine

door lock mechanism locked when the transmitter out of range that the receiver can detect

 

door lock mechanism unlocked when the transmitter in range that the receiver can detect

The second phase of the final testing is to test the car light (white led) and the engine (motor). The light and the motor has its own switch. When the transmitter is on the range, switch on the switch of motor and the light, and then bring the transmitter outside the range. The motor and the light is automatically switch off when that happen. This prove that the project is successfully worked

 

The light and the motor is off when the transmitter is out of the range

The light and the motor is on when the transmitter is in the range

Analysis:

There are slight problem with the project where there is no more space for the battery to fit in the car, so for the solution, the battery will be outside when the demonstration. the switch also cannot attach at the car because the casing of the is quite soft. The switch will be hanging outside the car. And also, when the motor running, the tire of the car also running, so, something must be put under the back of the car to avoid the car from moving.

Conclusion:

Overall this project is function and successful. Even though the hardware is not perfect, but it considered well turned of project. Now the project is finish, the last thing that need to be done is design a poster for the viva.

Week 11 (Final Semester)

Title: Hardware

Objective:

• To customizing hardware to the project specification
• To interface between circuit and hardware
• To learn all the skill in making a good hardware for the project

Content:

This week is focusing on customizing the hardware base on the project specification. The hardware also appropriate with the circuit because the circuit need to fit in the hardware. For this project, the main hardware is the remote control car. From the remote control car, the function of prototype is:

• white led = car light
• motor = car engine

And for the car lock mechanism, the actual car lock is used just like the figure at the bottom. The door lock as attach to the remote control car.

Receiver circuit + hardware

For the receiver circuit, the circuit itself is put in the car. All the component and the origin circuit is be taken out, so the inner of the remote control car is emptied. After that the receiver circuit is attach to the inner of the remote control car just like the bottom figure

Transmitter Circuit + Hardware

For the transmitter circuit, the circuit is put inside the casing. The casing itself must be small to make sure the driver easy to carry it around. The casing need to drilled a hole for the LED and the switch for the project specification.

Analysis:

When putting the circuit in the hardware, it is necessary to keep the bottom of the circuit safe from scratch, because it may unconnected the path of component of the of the PCB circuit. The battery also must be covered, must avoid direct contact between the circuit and the component because it may causing dysfunctional item.

Conclusion:

The hardware need to be choose wisely for comfortable work and demonstration. For the hardware for the circuit, it must be not too small because it may broke the circuit, also not too large because it can be hard to carry. Now the hardware is complete, testing of the project will begin in next week