at this moment, I am shifting away from my comfort zone to a place where it is now the real thing. I am simply stating that I am an Engineering student and Engineers do more than computations, they look for answers. My 3 years of college were easier than i expected it to be. I am not proud of what I have done up to this point except that I am very lucky to have enlisted to considerate professors. Somehow all practical exams that intended to challenge engineering instinct skipped me. So basically, to stay alive in my course is to study concepts and concepts alone. But now, a different challenge is in front of me, something that I couldn’t face with only a pen and paper. This is the Mini Project I have expected to encounter ever since I’ve stepped in the University. I am excited and scared of how I will perform but as I have said this is the one big step that I have been waiting for to fully prove that I am suit for my course.
Our mini-project would be a turbidity meter with LCD,GSM,MMC interface.Turbidity meter measures the cloudiness or amount of particles dissolved in water. The device will involve measuring the amount of light that passed through the volume of water. The instensity of light would be inversely proportional to the Turbidity. This project would be beneficial and marketable since commercialized turbidity meters reach thousand of dollars (i think).
Here’s the link of the past thesis regarding our project.
I will be focusing on the GSM part where there is programming to do. Ideally, the recorded values will be sent to the Owner via SMS. But other options may be considered like Calling the owner with recorded voice message (cool huh?). What’s bothering me is the GSM module available would cost 3000 pesos which I think will not accompany the budget that was given to us. In addition, the manual for the gsm module is almost 300 pages.
As of now, I don’t know anything.
more power to me. ^_^
