HAY GUYS

nazpyro · 12:30 AM

Thank you for this thread. I need to complain, and I usually don't like to share my complaining with people. But since you want it...

I'm not worried about finals yet, and probably won't be ever. But this week is hell. I'm all-nighting right now because:

Between last Wednesday and tomorrow, I would have been through almost 30 meetings (yes, including the GFF meet!).

Tomorrow I have a 20-page business plan due for my technology start-up ventures class. I also have to submit the final revision of a three-year 150-page thesis for a team research project on electromagnetic weapons. I am also designing a Discrete Wavelet Transform filter for hardware image compression in Verilog for this Xilinx FPGA as the midterm project for my modern digital system design class.

Now, all the aforementioned are team projects, but I'm the head of all of them. So I have to coordinate and wait for everybody's parts, put them all together as well as fix all their mistakes, and test and debug and correct everything. The business plan is due in 15 hours. I have two meetings tomorrow. The thesis is due in 19 hours. The Verilog project is due Tuesday morning by 9AM. In addition, I have to prepare a presentation for it for Tuesday morning as well.

Then on Tuesday, I also have the second midterm in one of my computer science courses. I have yet to begin studying for that yet. ;_;

Right after Tuesday, I have to work on a Microprocessors project from almost two years ago, which is pretty much implementing a shitload of interrupt handling and DMA in assembly for an old x86-processor based board. I also have to write a file system. These two are due on Saturday.

Then there's just a few more end-of-the years events to coordinate for my school's Filipino group, since I am the Vice President and all. Plus there's a bunch of meetings for that this week.

Then there's venture capitalist presentations. O MAH GOODNESS!

I need to cry. ;_;

Jam it back in, in the dark.

nazpyro · Local time: Apr 24, 2006, 08:09 AM

Originally Posted by Bigblah

Oh hell yes!
My project involves making a multimeter that talks. Basically interfacing an 80186 development board with an 8255, 2Mbit ROM, 7-segment array, keypad, DAC, amplifier + speaker, ADC, 4052 and other assorted components -- plus juggling timer interrupts in assembly code. Here's a picture of it from two weeks ago:

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I have to hand it in by this week ;_;

Your board is much cooler than my board. Mine's an 80C188XL with a 2 Mbit Flash. I already got an A in the course (but it's denoted as "incomplete" for now), and my professor from it wanted the project (so I can... graduate). It really just builds on top of work I did already, but I just have to remember that crap from long ago. Anyway, it's got 12 push buttons, a rotary, an infrared sensor, 4 7-segment LEDs, and a couple of other LEDs to play with. It's just supposed to function as a precision heating-coil controller. I don't plan on putting much effort on it.

There's an empty socket on it for an FPGA, and that would've been fun, but I never bought one for it.

Glad to hear the other engineering woes. Or maybe not.

There's nowhere I can't reach.