So Ends Another Chapter

As the semes­ter draws to a close, one can’t help but suc­cumb to that tinge of sad­ness brought about every time we con­clude yet another 14-week semester.

Let not the lack of updates to this poor blog deceive you though, for you bet, the semes­ter was so jam-packed that I promptly shied away from the Add New Post but­ton. But this blog wasn’t left idle for nothing.

We pulled through prepar­ing a case study report and pre­sent­ing it later..

Kheng Shin talking on the Da Vinci Surgery Robot
Kheng Shin talk­ing on the Da Vinci Sur­gi­cal Robot

We spent hours on end build­ing, pro­gram­ming, test­ing and pro­gram­ming, and pro­gram­ming, aaand pro­gram­ming a Lego robot for the Robotic Competition..

Troubleshooting robot problems
Trou­bleshoot­ing robot prob­lems while Kheng Shin snapped us

..which exceeded our wildest expec­ta­tions when it secured a shiny 3rd place.

Victory
Vic­tory

We got a taste of indus­trial machin­ing when we grinded and milled a nut and bolt out of bare steel cylinders.

Forming a bolt using a lathe machine
Form­ing a bolt on a lathe machine

We’d never look at music boxes in gift shops the same way again after crack­ing our heads imple­ment­ing one in Embed­ded Microcontrollers.

Music Boxes are a pain to program I tell you
Music Boxes are a pain to pro­gram I tell you

We cel­e­brated our achieve­ments in the schol­ar­ships pre­sen­ta­tion ceremony..

Scholars
Schol­ars of joy

In a few hours time, we’d head into the halls. Where the air-cond chill and end­less rows of iso­lated tables arranged in a per­fect grid over­whelms your sur­round­ings, as if designed specif­i­cally to thwart your con­fi­dence. As we approach our des­ig­nated desks, although in sweaty palms and short, cold breaths, we sit down in dignity.

Danbo studies
Danbo stud­ies

For it is with dig­nity we make 4-months of hard­ship — worth­while.

Good luck!

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