Presentation Day

Hi GUYs!

Last Tuesday was our Mid-Review Presentation, and I was extremely nervous. I could feel my heart beating rapidly, moments before our presentation starts.

Okay, let's talk about what we did on Monday;

We imported the demo video we created into our slides, and also check the animations/transitions and content as well.

Here are the gif and layout of our final slides :-)

After confirming everything is PERFECT, we then rehearse and timed ourselves to check if we overshot 20 minutes - and yes WE DID..... :-(

We then had to trim the demo video from 7 minutes to 2 minutes! With that, our presentation lasted precisely 20 minutes - NOT including the live demo. We just hoped and prayed the panelist would not be THAT strict about the time! - and YES, they weren't that strict after all.

Overall, our presentation on Tuesday, 8 January 2019 went better than expected! Our supervisor, Mr. David was super impressed and extremely proud of us, and that made all of us feel that all of our HARD work pulled off.

As of the Q&A section, the questions our panelists asked was:

1. Elaborate more about the Experiment that you conducted.

• This experiment was conducted to find out was file format(.ipt or .fbx) was better/reliable for the Model Target: Detection of Tools.

• And also finding out which device is the most ideal and suitable for our DEVIANT application.

• fbx was most reliable and better for Model Target tracking.

• iPad was most suited for use as the detection rate was reasonable and it consists of the Spatial Target tracking which the others lack.

2. Would the DEVIANT application be better if there is feedback? Because currently, for example, if the user scans the wrong tool - the app doesn't let the user know that it is the wrong tool!

• Yes, but due to the limited time we have. We are not able to implement IoT into our application. But we hope the future FYP/MDP students, might be continuing our project would perform such functions into the app. We will be adding this as part of our recommendation in our final report!

We also used Mirroring360 to show our live demo during the presentation! It was seamless, and I strongly recommend you to try it if you are looking for a software to showcase your app! The pricing is as follows:

But we did not purchase it, as there is a one-week free trial for you to try! :-)

There was a big sigh of relief once the presentation was over! Unfortunately, it did not last long as we needed to plan and prepare for our Engineering Show! - 17 & 18 January 2019

There was a schedule fixed for each of us so that we could take shifts! The logistics, table layout and script were also pre-planned to avoid any problems arise during Engineering Show.

We also added the name: "TOP SIDE OF CASTOR BASE" and the THINGMARK onto the workstation hehe

Next week we will be busy with the Engineering Show, but we will update you on how it went alright!

Thanks for reading, and I will see you next week! :D

Ashley

Project In Summary

If you happen to see me around at this period of time, it would seem as though I got my life together. But in reality, I'm a complete disaster. I could fake my preparedness and you think I'm ready for our Mid-Review Presentation but let's be honest – I'm TOTALLY not! I pretty much gave up memorizing my script a while ago (except the slides with diagrams, which is easier to memorize and present) as it's full of details and content to remember. Since this presentation consists of 50% of our final grade, I had to do the best I could.

Between the rest of our MDP peer's presentation and ours, there was a couple of days difference which is utterly nerve-wracking as we've had good presentation and bad ones. Stories shared from the previous groups sounded pressurizing and full of expectations. I get nervous easily, it's crazy.

During the presentation, I was practically shaking because I was SO nervous, but after I finished my set of slides, I was bombarded with questions about the experiments we conducted. The questions were so unexpected as we were in the midst of our presentation when we were asked to clarify the experiment section. Nonetheless, I managed to maintain my cool and answered the best I could as I predicted that such questions were going to be asked. I knew my content well enough that it was easy to clarify and proceed. Most of the questions asked were in relation to our slides and it only needed further clarification and understanding.

I'm also having a major moment after the presentation ended. Mr. David mentioned that our presentation was impressive. It was his first time seeing us in full preparedness (or at least the rest of the team members were). Our presentation to the panelist was also the first and so was his. To receive such feedback helped boost the team's morale to do even better and to constantly create an impressive content and quality of work.

There was also some constructive criticism received. One of the issues brought up was, will the students be notified when they made a mistake when operating the CNC Milling Machine? If time permits, the team will do our best to better improve and create a better version of DEVIANT.

Now that this stressful week is over, I can finally take the rest of the day off before I start planning for Engineering Show. Oh, if you read my blog a couple of weeks ago, you'd probably notice the plain boring slides I posted. Here's our final set of slides that we used to present! Hope this video inspires you to create a cool set of slides too!

All the best & See you soon!

Week 19: Judgement Day!?

Heyyo guys!!!

Hope Y'all had a good start to the new year!! So far, things have been coming and going pretty fast for the past couple of weeks. And to update you guys on what's been happening this week, just yesterday, we finally completed our mid-review presentation. To be honest, all of us were pretty nervous for this presentation as it holds quite a big portion of the marks for our project and we wanted to do our very best for it.

From the various comments and questions that the panellist asked us yesterday, I felt that we were in the clear as thanks to my teammates, we were able to answer each and every question thrown at us. Although we're glad that the mid-review stuff was done and over with, we can't afford to stop and rest now as just next week, we have another event to prepare for which is the SP Engineering Show 2019.

Anyways that’s all for this week.

- Khai