Step 1: You yawn a little.
Step 2: You yawn a little more and do some stretching.
Step 3: Say goodnight to the world and sleep.
Archive for July, 2007
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Subscribe to my feedIt’s 11 hours since the Blogathon started. My body feels like it needs some recharging. Ahhhh……I’m getting lazy. I can barely sit up right (not that I can’t, but more like I don’t want to). I’m typing slower than a two year old. Another hour and I’ll be half way through this “race for charity”.
I really need to freshen up. Going to take a bath now but before that, I want to include a list of other Malaysian bloggers who have joined the Blogathon 2007 as well. They are:
- pelf for the Eden Handicap Service Center [Pledge]
- Edrei for the Association for International Cancer Research [Pledge]
- Serge Norguard for UNICEF [Pledge]
- Yee Pei for the Malaysian Mental Health Association [Pledge]
- Ja Mustapha for MERCY Malaysia [Pledge]
- Kelwin for MAKNA Malaysia [Pledge]
I’m really starting to feel the stress on my body now. Now will be a good time for some multi-tasking (sleep while blogging). LOL.
Paul Tan, the automotive specialist has just pledged to donate to MAKNA. If any of you out there is looking for information on cars, Paul is the man for it. No vehicle is built without going through Paul Tan’s blog. LOL. Thanks for your pledge Paul!
When I was about to publish this post, I’ve received another email saying that I have received yet another pledge. The latest one comes from Andrew Chan. Andrew writes about Tech related stuffs, general news on Malaysia, and lots more. Do check him out. Andrew, thank you for your pledge!
With the latest two pledges, the amount pledged to far is USD356.35. Yippeee!!! Thank you so much for the 10 people who have pledged so far.
If you haven’t already know, I’m blogging for MAKNA and you can pledge to donate as well.
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The obstacle course had an entrance and an exit. The robot needs to find its way to the exit by itself, that’s if our coding worked. In the end, out of a dozen teams (or more), only 3 teams saw their robot moving out of the exit. Some of the other teams’ robot ended up stuck or exiting the course through the entrance (which is prohibited).
Proud to say, my team was one of the 3 successful ones. Unfortunately, this was one competition that I did not win. My team ended up having the same time (the time taken for the robot to exit the course) as the other team. However, our team’s mark was deducted because I took a minute longer to modify the codes. One of my friends manage to catch the moments on his camera.
One of the losing teams:
My team: (the “shit shit SHHIITTTTT!!!” and “goo gooo GOOOOOOO!!!” were the voices of my friends and I)
At the end, our robot took a wrong turn…and then another “wrong turn” only to manage to find the exit. It’s a long story. Bottom line is that our robot managed to get out of the course but we didn’t win. I heard from my friend that the winner’s robot got out of the maze only by luck. I didn’t manage to see because I was busy designing and rewriting the program on paper. I was nervous like crazy at that time.
At the end, they won the prize money of RM500 I think. To their horror, the faculty was having some event the next day and they were suppose to demonstrate their robot to the public. They ended up coming up to my team asking for our source codes. To be very honest, I didn’t want to give it to them. They split the RM500 in front of us earlier! What do you expect from me? 
grrrrrrrr
At the end, my friend passed the codes to them. Bargggeerrrr…they didn’t even buy us lunch or anything. cehh
In my first/second year studying in UKM, my faculty organized the first competition involving robots. The competition was called “Robomaze”. We were supposed to program the robot to pass through an obstacle course. At first, I was a little reluctant to join because I was studying computer science which doesn’t involve hardware. To be honest, I was afraid of losing. I had no confidence of beating the other guys. There are some really good programmers in my course and others as well.
In the end, I did join the competition. The fear of losing is still there but I really wanted to test my skills and knowledge against the other 50+ or more witty brains.
The robot actually looks like a stripped down “car”. It has two big wheels at the back and another smaller on at the front. It has two types of sensor detectors — one to detect light and another two to detect objects. We were given some basic tutorial on how to program and control the robots. We get to play and experiment with the robots a few days before the competition day.
On the day of the competition, we were given a “map” of how the obstacle course will look like. We then had a certain amount of time to plan and do the coding. We then had to store the coding into a diskette and hand it over to the judge. We were only able to take it back when its our turn to test it out in the obstacle course.
When all of us saw the obstacle course for the first time, everyone was in shock. The “map” that was given earlier was different compared to the actual course itself. The whole place erupted and became noisier than a market. In the end, all of us had to rethink our design for the coding. We were given 2 minutes to modify our codes before running the robot on the course.
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