week 14

Now  is the time. After we spend 13 weeks to complete the our FYP project, Wind Speed Meter, today is the day where we will present our Wind Speed Meter to everyone in Unikl BMI and we will also be assessed by our assessor, Sir azlan and madam norlida. We already prepared everything that we have learn for previous 13 weeks and InsyaAllah we hope that everything will run smoothly. During the assessing process, we have learn many valuable knowledge from our assessor regarding to our Wind Speed Meter. Every knowledge that we have learn is very useful for us to do future development to our project. I would like to express my biggest and sincerest gratitude especially to our supervisor, madam norhaslinawati binti ramli  for being a person that always encourage us to always give the best in everything that we have done and my co-supervisor miss norrolhuda binti sanif for helping our project and give a support . I also want to say thank you to my    our friends that always give support to us during this process and to everyone in Unikl BMI, Thanks a lot.

week 13

poster

Assalamualaikum to all viewers. Thanks for viewing my blog. For this week, we have to prepared all stuff that we need for our booth. There are a few things that my partner and I have make for the guest during the exhibition that will be held next week. Some of it are we do the poster and our supervisor which is madam norhaslinawati  agree with our poster.

After verified we go to print and ready for industrial day. 

week 12

The prototype

In this week, i and my partner do the prototype for the industrial day in week 14. finally we have completely finish and done  with our project wind speed meter.and we show our prototype to our supervisor madam Norhaslinawati Binti Ramli, and declare our project are complete.

And just in case our project is not working in during industrial day we have reco rd video for our safety.

  

week 11

testing and trouble shoot the circuit 

assalamualaikum, after we construct circuit last week, in this week test the circuit in PCB board. we test the circuit on the road because we want accurate the wind speed. I and my partner test in highway NKVE to get the speed we need. mustaqim  is a driver and  I check the wind speed in LCD same with car meter.

And we also we testing in BMI area                                                                                                          

 

week 10

construct in  PCB

So after we have done with our software arduino and test in bread board  last week, now we are going to do the next process of putting our circuit on Printed Circuit Board(PCB). In this process, we required to follow every step on doing the PCB.

step 1 we used software  pcb express to construct pcb circuit  

  next step is we print use  the Overhead Projection Paper (OHP) and PCB layout on this paper using laser jet printer 

PCB UV Exposure, In this process, we are going to exposed our PCB to the Ultraviolet using a UV Box. For this particular process, what we have to do is we stick our PCB layout that we already printed on OHP paper to this PCB board. Then we put this PCB board in the machine and set the time to 60 seconds. Then wait till the process finished

next is we etching the PCB board

  
 ,After etching, what we're going to do is we are going to drilling our PCB in order to place the component on the board before we can go to the soldering process. We are using a cordless drill with drill point size 1.0 mm. For safety precaution we put a Styrofoam as a pad for our PCB. We have to do it with gentle and precise because the size of the components pin is to small. By using my own cordless drill I'll start drilling all the pin for every components.

 

last step is after we drill, Now we can start solder all the component. First put the component on the PCB and make sure that the components are in the correct position. Then switch on the soldering iron and wait for 5 minutes in order to make sure that the soldering iron is heat enough. Then put the PCB on the PCB holder so that we can easily doing the solder without having a difficulty during the process. Now we can start solder. During this work, make sure that we not put the soldering iron too long on the PCB because if too long we might give the burn to our PCB and it will damage our PCB. If we want to desolder, we have to use desolder pump to suck the lead. Then use the solder wick to clean the tip of soldering iron.

week 9

construct the project

First of all, i would like to show our block diagram for this wind speed meter

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last week we to the coding, now on this week we test the coding with  breadboard to check the arduino is function  

figure : schematic diagram for LCD

this is our result in breadboard record in video just in case in PCB board is not working.

                                                                                                        

week 8

coding (part2)

asssalamualaikum, last week we do the flow chart, for this we do the program for our project. refer to our flow chart.

week 7

coding (part 1) 

assalamualaikum, Sorry for being late on giving an update for my Final Year Project. After me and my partner have a discussion with our supervisor madam norhaslinawati  she asked that we need to divide our task into two part which is hardware and software. So after a discussion, i decided to take responsibility on finishing the hardware part for this project and mustaqim  will take care about the software part. the software part is coding in arduino, firstly we do the flow chart to know how the program function.   

                                                                 Figure: flow Chart

week 6

assalamualaikum and hello viewers. For this particular week, me and my FYP partner Ahmad mustaqim went to Jalan Pasar located near Kampung Pandan. Our plan for this week is to browse and purchase the hardware equipments which are required to build our Wind Speed Meter

week 5

hello viewers this week  we updated for our FYP. this week we study about 


-Arduino UNO

Arduino UNO.  The Arduino Uno is a microcontroller board based like PIC It has 14 digital input/output pins (of which 6 can be used as outputs), 6 analog inputs, a USB connection, a power jack,  and a reset button.

It contains everything needed to support the microcontroller; simply connect it to a computer with a USB cable or power it with a AC-to-DC adapter or battery to get started

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figure : Arduino UNO 

- LCD

Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) is a thin and flat device, physically where it serves as a display device. LCD built in two ways, namely by using several colors combined or just one color black, white or gray. For each selection of colors is arranged in front of the light source for the display. Due to the LCD using a small electric power so it can be used in electrical equipment that uses batteries only as a source of supply powers.

LCD used in this project displays wind speed and the speed of the vehicle ahead should be brought in crosswinds. 

we study about the arduino and the lcd because the two thing that are very important for this project. 

week 4 planing

assalamualaikum and hello to all viewers. today we updated our planing foFYP project.

week 3

Assalamualaikum to all viewers. This is the updated for our FYP. We are being supervised by our lecturer madam Norhaslinawati Binti  Ramli lecturer of electronics section. Before we proceed to other stage of making our project we would like to briefly explain about our project and we hope it can make people understand how this project function as a title given. Firstly we would like to talk about what is wind speed meter and how many types of wind speed meter and then we will explain about the circuit functionality. A wind speed meter or other named anemometer is a device that is used to measuring a speed of wind. the word anemometer came from greek word anemos mean wind. This device is commonly used in meteorology or aerodynamics measurement instrument.   The first known description of an anemometer was given by  Leon Battista Alberti around 1450. There is two classes of anemometer. Those that measure wind speed and those that measure wind pressure but nowadays an anemometer have both information. There is a lot of anemometers :-

cup anemometers

windmill anemometers

hot wire anemometers

laser doppler anemometers

sonic anemometers

For this project we are using the cup anemometers  method in our project. Now we would like to explain how this cup anemometer functioned. An  cup anemometer uses motor   to  measure wind speed. It sends a voltage and convert in speed wind  the speed of motor . Wind speed will increase or decrease the speed of motor depending on  wind .

week 2

in this week, i and my partner will introduce  our self

NAME:                      MUHAMMAD ASHRAF BIN HANIF

ID:                             51110212130

COURSE :          DIPLOMA ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC

PHONE NO:      0178849925

EMAIL:                   ashrafhanif09@gmail.com

NAME:                      AHMAD MUSTAQIM BIN MUHD SHUKREE

ID:                             51110212127

COURSE :          DIPLOMA ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC

PHONE NO:      0122847590

EMAIL:                   musscullen@gmail.com

WEEK 1 WELCOME

WEEK 1  WELCOME

Assalamualaikum  First of all let me introduce myself. My name is Muhammad Ashraf B. Hanif. I'm creating this blog   because as you'll can see the title of this blog is about my final year project for my diploma that i take at UNIKL BMI. So i and my teammate Ahmad Mustaqim B. Muhd Shukree  will give an update for our FYP progression at least once a week for all 13 week given. So this entry covered the process for within this two weeks because we've started our class on 8/9/2014 . Our title that we've choose for our FYP is wind speed meter. Why we decide to choose this project?. For me this project is the medium that i can use to applied all my knowledge that i have learned during my study. It's also a little bit challenging because this project need us to program a Arduino UNO and we never study about this thing before but it doesn't mean that this project can't be proceed anyway. So for week 1 what we've done is we try to understand what is this project all about and how we can start to develop this project. Our reference is based on magazine EPE 03-01 start from page 40-47. According to the magazine what we can generally understand about this project is about creating a device that can measured the speed of wind using the ultrasonic circuit  but we not used Ultrasonic because is expensive  we using Anemometer cup. In this project waqs helped by our supervisor is madam Norhaslinawati Binti  Ramli.