XBEE TO TALK TO EACH OTHER

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Above is the link that I've found. Hope tomorrow I can try it with Hilwani that is now busy with her keypads and pumps. LOL!! She got so much to do it is cruel for me to laugh about is but it is fun to know your partner is that panic!!

Well I got presentations and 3 reports to write so I am off to do that today! :)

TSUNAMI IN JAPAN...

Just an update for this week.I think I should say something. There's been another Tsunami in Japan last Friday, and it sure shakes our self and our little hearts. It takes me back where I begin, pondering about my mistakes that I've made, sins that I commit. Ah, will ALLAH forgive us?

Sure, he will if we ask him to. We just never had time for ALLAH. Poor humans like me, always busy wasting my time. Astaghfirullah.

Here is a blog that I visit through my freind's facebook page, this week's post is not about FYP guys, it's about another post of TANBIHUL GHAFILIN. (for those who forgets)

Click on this link to view the disaster created by this 10 m waves. 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/japan-quake-2011/beforeafter.htm

Subhanallah, we created everything in His world, doing everything in his world, forget who we are in His world, all of our creations, gone just in seconds. This catastrophic incident is caused and being banish, burns to ground, only by.... water.

THE COMING..BE AFRAID.BE VERY VERY AFRAID...

                  8th week!!!!Oh my!!!I never thought I would have this crazy busy!!!I haven't got the time to write what I've been doing in the past days..So to summerize it, here we go:

                  1. I've checked my LED 7 segment, turns out I got the whole colour coding of the resistors wrong!!!No wonder the LED's in a very crazy mood!Then I changed the connections to the new resistors, it works just fine, no need extra IC for driving currents like I discovered before.hehehehehe :D

                  2. I've done the LCD of the patient's part. (Same like the one in the monitoring.)

                  But...I still can't figure out how to work on the keypad. I have to get the IC first, but until now I didn't know what is the function of the IC..maybe still, to reduce the input to arduino connection. I am getting tired and cramped, with my hopes are all burns to dust and my future is in jepordy. Arghhhhhhhhh~!!!!!!!!!!!!

INNA LILLAHI WA INNA ILAIHI RAAJI'UN... (TANBIHUL GHAFILIN)

Alhamdulillah, praise to ALLAH for giving us time and health in doing this final year project. Today, I am not talking about my project, just a bit of thoughts that I would like to share to you all my dear friends, about my experience in the making of this project.  In the excitement of exploring Alduino and Xbee, I would like to advice me, my partner and my viewers about the importance of staying grounded, stable, alert and the awareness of we also have another destiny, the Akhirah. 

 As we can see today this world is living in massive madness, madness that is created and continuously being influenced day by day, through the excitement of entertainment. We have to realized that the entertainment that is attacking our brain and thoughts does not only comes from the singers and televisions, it also comes in a variety of fields, not to mention that it was very very fine and never can be detected with our naked eyes.  

 For example, this electronics field is really exciting and fun to explore, and it would be really great if we use the technology to raise our Ummah. Yes, we are all in the process of learning and exploring, but please remember and please note to yourself, that we are doing this to learn the knowledge of the technology world, all because of ALLAH. I am writing about this today because I am once lost  in my own electronics world. Weeks before this post is published, I am ambitious about my project, I want it to be really good to impressed lecturers, friends and my future employer. I want it to be good so bad that I am scared that I will fail it and it will effect my job applications after I am done studying at UniKL BMI. Not that I am saying that it is bad to be ambitious, I am warning you about the excitement that will leads you to forget about your main purpose of living in this world, that is to be the Khalifah to other creatures. 


Then I look back and started to realize that our religion teaches us to be modest about anything, in everything. So from now on, that is what I am going to do. I changed my motives to learn about this field all because of ALLAH, not to impressed other people. ALLAH is the one who have to be satisfied, not anybody, since He is the King of all kings. I feel so much more motivated, plus I have no fear anymore that this project will cause me trouble or failure, since I am now working very hard on it plus I am practicing tawakkal to ALLAH! I will leave everything to ALLAH once I did all my efforts.

We are literally running out of time, the clock is ticking and we are all headed to that one place, that is Akhirah. So wake up,  pray for guidance and ALLAH's forgiveness everyday, work like you live forever and pray, worship Allah like there is no tomorrow.  May ALLAH blesses us and have mercy on our soul...


 From Ibn. Umar Radiallahu Anhu: 

Allah's Apostle said, "Amongst the trees, there is a tree, the leaves of which do not fall and is like a Muslim. Tell me the name of that tree." Everybody started thinking about the trees of the desert areas. And I thought of the date-palm tree but felt shy to answer the others then asked, "What is that tree, O Allah's Apostle ?" He replied, "It is the date-palm tree."

AIYA!!!NOT ENOUGH CURRENT??

Well firstly I would like to say: Currents are crucial!!!!! Don't take it easy or your project will not function! Em.. As you all know I've been setting up my LCD and 7 segment display... Apparently.. Guess what... The 7 segments are working all weird.. By weird, I mean that some of the lights are dimmer than the other, and only one segment, that is the "g" section got so bright, seriously u have to wear glasses! After a long hardwork trying to figure out what could have been wrong at my circuit, I went to internet and.. YIKES!!!

                        What went wrong was: 

1) If u are using the 74HC595, u actually need an IC that is called IC driver to make sure u deliver enough current for the 7 segment display. The ones that are seldom shown to u by blogs or what so ever don't mention this because they use LEDs to displays the lights. (Credit to Mr. Azmi for mentioning this earlier but I took his advice for granted :( )

2) The 7 segments acting up all wired when it is combined with LCD circuit because the LCD also takes up a lot of currents and furthermore, it uses the same 5V from the UNO.

So there u go guys... Actually I have a test at 3 pm, so I'll upload pictures of my ruined 7 segment circuit later this evening. So keep up the good work guys.. Surviving FYP!!! :)

OUR BUDGET-SO WE DON'T FORGET

Ok, this post will always be update by each weeks because we dont want to lose and forgot to includes our budgets for our purchasing. This post is also important since the budgeting is in the FYP REPORT.


Arduino UNO                - RM 109.00 X 2 = RM 218
XBEE Shield                 - RM 165.00 X 2 = RM 330
JHD LCD Display        - RM  25.00 X 2  = RM  50
Jumper Wire                 - RM  18.00  X 1 = RM  18
IC LM 293                       - RM     8.00 X1  = RM    8
7 Segment  (CC)           - RM    3.00  X 1 = RM    3
PCB Buzzer                  - RM     2.00 X 1 = RM    2
AA Battery Holder        - RM         1 X 1  = RM    1
IC 74HC595                    - RM     1.70 X 1 = RM    1.70


Current Total                                           = RM 631.70


There are such things that we don't have to buy, thanks to Sir Kamalul Faizin, who has lended us his stepper motor and another IC LM293. Alhamdulillah, we also didn't have to buy power supply to support current to drive the stepper motor also because of his generosity. :)      


That is all for now, we will update another post next week about our 7 segment and motor assembly. Next week is also our phase test week so pray for us guys~~ :)    

EXCITING HANDS-ON TIME... :)

           Okay..Sorry to kept anyone who is reading this blog to wait for our new post... Well as you all know that the unexpected happened, so we figured it would be better for us to just continue with our current progress.. As soon as we got the UNO, we couldn't keep our hands off it!! We kept testing the programs that have in the examples from the Tutorials forum and it goes without saying, IT WORKSSS~~~ :D As we both are excited, first we tested to both our UNO using the blinking LED program to make sure it's transferring the right data. (Of course u wont see it's blinking in this picture)

                                                                   Blinking LED worked!


             Then, we soldered the LCD (16X2) to the right connection, to get it ready to run at the UNO. First, we set the contrast. By setting the contrast, there are some soldering needed. After that, we connected the UNO to a USB cable, and don't worry,  the cable is the same as your printer cable. This step is crucial, you cannot GO FURTHER until you get this kind of output. *The connections are based on the previous post about configuring pins.

          After that, we connects the data lines from the LCD to the monitoring UNO. Also, the pins are from the previous post. So when the jumpers are connected, we run our testing programs from the ARDUINO Software and VOILA!!!!

Then all other test were just playing around such as:

And credits to our new freind, Azmi :)