Sunday, 22 November 2015

Week 8 ( Fyp 1)

Title: Second meeting for FYP Briefing at TTL1, Wednesday

This week a briefing being held by the head of FYP is about to give some explaination  for the students that take FYP 1 this semester. The briefing is about:

  • Confirmation of the date to present the proposal and project slides.
  • Proposal requirement.
  • Explaination of FYP 1 calendar for this semester (sept 2015)


Week 7 ( FYP 1)

Title : Research And Findings.



After done with the research for the component,  Madam Azliza taught me how to make a synchronize workplan for my project, it has to contain techniques and methods appropriate to achieve the project’s objectives.



I have came out with a flow chart diagram showing the process and steps that I have to take to make the project happens.




  1. More research is needed for this project.   
  2. I’ve planning to add another hardware into this project but an opinion from my  advisor. 

Sunday, 15 November 2015


Week 6 ( Fyp 1)

Title: Research and finding for the component of project


   1.  Power Supply

This circuit is a small +5V power supply, which is useful when experimenting with digital electronics, and easy to build. Small inexpensive wall tranformers with variable output voltage are available from any electronics shop and supermarket. Those transformers are easily available, but usually their voltage regulation is very poor, which makes then not very usable for digital circuit experimenter unless a better regulation can be achieved in some way.
This circuit can give +5V output at about 150 mA current, but it can be increased to 1 A when good cooling is added to 7805 regulator chip. The circuit has over overload and therminal protection.





    2.    Microcontroller ( ATMEL)

AT89C51 is an 8-bit microcontroller and belongs to Atmel's 8051 family. ATMEL 89C51 has 4KB of Flash programmable and erasable read only memory (PEROM) and 128 bytes of RAM. It can be erased and program to a maximum of 1000 times.

In 40 pin AT89C51, there are four ports designated as P1, P2, P3 and P0. All these ports are 8-bit bi-directional ports, i.e., they can be used as both input and output ports. Except P0 which needs external pull-ups, rest of the ports have internal pull-ups. When 1s are written to these port pins, they are pulled high by the internal pull-ups and can be used as inputs. These ports are also bit addressable and so their bits can also be accessed individually.





    3.    PIR Sensor


An infrared sensor is and electronic device, that emits in order to sense some aspects of the surroundings. An IR sensor can measure the heat of an object as well as detects the motion. These types of sensors measures only infrared radiation, rather than emitting it like the sensor i'm going to use that called Passive IR sensor, its detects a human being or solid object that moving around within approximately 10m from the sensor.



      4.    Resistor

A resistor is a passive two-terminal electrical component that implements electrical resistance as a circuit element. Resistors act to reduce current flow, and, at the same time, act to lower voltage levels within circuits. In electronic circuits, resistors are used to limit current flow, to adjust signal levels, bias active elements, and terminate transmission lines among other uses. High-power resistors that can dissipate many watts of electrical power as heat may be used as part of motor controls, in power distribution systems, or as test loads for generators. Fixed resistors have resistances that only change slightly with temperature, time or operating voltage. Variable resistors can be used to adjust circuit elements (such as a volume control or a lamp dimmer), or as sensing devices for heat, light, humidity, force, or chemical activity.

Resistors are common elements of electrical networks and electronic circuits and are ubiquitous in electronic equipment. Practical resistors as discrete components can be composed of various compounds and forms. Resistors are also implemented within integrated circuits.






5.    Capacitor 

A capacitor (originally known as a condenser) is a passive two-terminal electrical component used to store electrical energy temporarily in an electric field. The forms of practical capacitors vary widely, but all contain at least two electrical conductors (plates) separated by a dielectric (i.e. an insulator that can store energy by becoming polarized). The conductors can be thin films, foils or sintered beads of metal or conductive electrolyte, etc. The nonconducting dielectric acts to increase the capacitor's charge capacity. A dielectric can be glass, ceramic, plastic film, air, vacuum, paper, mica, oxide layer etc. Capacitors are widely used as parts of electrical circuits in many common electrical devices. Unlike a resistor, an ideal capacitor does not dissipate energy. Instead, a capacitor stores energy in the form of an electrostatic field between its plates.

Capacitors are widely used in electronic circuits for blocking direct current while allowing alternating current to pass. In analog filter networks, they smooth the output of power supplies. In resonant circuits they tune radios to particular frequencies. In electric power transmission systems, they stabilize voltage and power flow.










Week 5 ( Fyp 1)

Title: Research about the sensor that used in the project

This week i do a research about sensor that i want to use in my project. After i do some research, i've found a couple of sensor that should be suitable for the project i been working for.

Among the proposed sensor for the project:
  • IR sensor (passive)
  • Area sensor
  • Motion sensor

I have selected IR sensor for my project.


An infrared sensor is and electronic device, that emits in order to sense some aspects of the surroundings. An IR sensor can measure the heat of an object as well as detects the motion. These types of sensors measures only infrared radiation, rather than emitting it like the sensor i'm going to use that called Passive IR sensor, its detects a human being or solid object that moving around within approximately 10m from the sensor.






  •  PIR SENSOR


  • Most PIR sensors have a 3 pin connection at the side or bottom. One pin will be groud, another will be signal and the last pin will be power. Power ussually up to 5V. Interfacing PIR with microcontroller is very easy and simple. The PIR acts as a digital output so all you need to do is listening for the pin to flip high or low. For PIR sensor can be used to detect presence of human beings in its proximity. The output can be used to control the motion of door. So its also can be used to detect an object such as assingment that been insert into the pigeon hole.





    • PIR sensor IC

     In presence of human IR radiations, the sensor detects the radiations and converts it directly to electrical pulses, which is fed to the inverter circuit. The inverter circuit consists of a transistor,which gets into saturation with application of high base current and eventually develops a low collector voltage. Thus the transistor  output is low.
    This low inverter output is connected to the microcontroller. Based on the input received by the microcontroller, it controls the counter and produce a counting when a paper (assignment).



    Saturday, 7 November 2015

    Week 4 (Fyp1)


    Title: Description of the project.



    Project description:




    Step 1: Students will enter the assignment into a pigeon hole box

    Step 2: The sensor will detect the following assignment and send signals wirelessly to a lecturer.

    Step 3: On the table there are indicators or LCD lecturer who say that there is a student who sent the assignment.

    Therefore, with this system:

    • They will not be crowded with lecturers who sent the student assignment
    • Assignment still be sent even if the lecturer is not in the room