WEEK 12

Everything is done. There is nothing more to be done apart from final demonstration. The only thing that is left to do is the report . A video demonstration has also been done that will be used on the third stage of the demonstration.

WEEK ELEVEN

The week concerned nothing much has been done due to work and stuff. My colleague and I have also been very busy doing engines assignments. In any case, we are not behind with anything except for the report itself that needs to be put together accordingly. With all components assembled, there is nothing left but to demonstrate to our supervisor.

WEEK TEN

The prototype was built and tested. Progress is looking good and the programming still needs to be fine tuned. I have also informed my colleague of the specific areas that need researching to determine certain aspects that needs to be talked about in the final report. Particularly the temperatures and the reasons why we decided not to use thermo-couples and coolant temperature sensors.

WEEK NINE

All parts that have been purchased I positioned accordingly and took photographs and quickly put together a draft presentation. I then emailed this to my colleague. I have also started looking at the programmimng of the CHIP.

WEEK EIGHT

That week was I think the progress report week. Unfortunately we expected different and therefore asked Roman if we were able to present the following week. This is because we were ill-prepared and we have yet to take any photographs for our prototype.

WEEK SEVEN

The prototype has been built and I've yet to test to see if it works. We finally decided that we will use a temperature sensor instead of coolant temperature. This is because coolant sensors are different for every manufacturer and therm-couples have too big ranges to work with.

WEEK SIX

That week was just another usual day of reporting to our supervisors. Our supervisor Prabhat made very useful suggestions as to how we should sense the engine temperature. We told him about the steam sensor suggestion of which he advised us not to pursue due to the complexity. For me it was a good advice because it would mean that I would have to conduct so much research. Prabaht however pointed us out in the right direction and approach of which we will base our project and continue to develop our literature review and possible scenarios. This week I also went and purchased all the parts for the project. We have not yet assembled.