SRL Archive - Who Are You ? Who ? Who ?

Hey dear community, my name is Thomas aka Furyan and I'm new here!

I live in Belgium, I'm in my 3d year at the university of Leuven, studying Electrical & Software Engineering. In my spare time I like to do geeky stuff, go out with friends and make music (piano, guitar, drums and singing). I've been friends IRL with Freddy for many years now (8 I believe). He's the one that made me get interested in scripting, maybe even programming altogether.

I haven't written any scripts yet, but I will pick it up soon after my examinations end (February). Currently I'm just looking around a bit, finding my way.

That was about all I have to say, I'm looking forward to seeing you around these forums!

Haha I read that you go to the Uni. of Leuven and I immediately was gonna ask if you knew Freddy. :p

Anyways welcome, enjoy your stay.

Hey, welcome to Villavu.

The subject you're studying seems interesting, mind telling me more about it?

Welcome! :D

Welcome :)

From: EvilChicken!
Hey, welcome to Villavu.

The subject you're studying seems interesting, mind telling me more about it?

Sure :p. Well, the study is a typical engineering study, aimed at practical solutions and problem solving, by using wide knowledge of mathematics and physics. This leaves many possibilities regarding in which line of work you would put this to use, you can choose different specializations. I currently have both electrical engineering and computer science combined.

We basically learn how to develop, design and construct both electrical (hardware) and software systems. Although mostly we end up doing one of the two, but it's interesting to see devices from both sides: the programming side and the electronics side. It's a big asset for a programmer to actually know in detail how his program will be executed by the hardware. In the same way it is interesting for an electrical engineer to know how operating systems and assembly languages work, or programming in general.

So we have courses like:
- Computer architecture and system software
- Digital & Analog Communication systems
- Object Oriented Programming
- Numerical Modelling & Approximation
- …

But also physics and math courses to give wider knowledge for problem solving:
- Thermodynamics
- Electricity and Magnetism
- Mechanics
- Linear Algebra
- …

Currently I have to build a robot like a segway: two wheels, keeping itself upright. I also need to build in a wireless transmitter for a connection with a pc, to be able to control it from a distance. It needs to have some kind of radar, which can detect objects in its neighborhood and avoid them….

That should give you an idea of what it is I'm doing. It's really interesting, but really hard.

Thanks for the reply! Your study seems really interesting, I wish I had the brains to pick a study more similar to yours when I was to make the choice. Well, I can still educate myself further to become an engineer within this topic, so not all hope is lost.

Nevertheless, your current project seems pretty interesting – do you have to design a circuit board and program it yourself, or do you receive some help?

Anyway, on topic, hahah..
If you ever feel like getting into what we do around here, the tutorial island is the best way to get yourself acquainted. Also, if you get really eager to learn scripting, the best tip I could give you would be to look at already existing scripts and to try to see how they deal with various situations and what algorithms they apply, et cetera. I myself believe I learned so much more from studying scripts than from reading the tutorials. And also, we always have people willing to help at IRC, and I'm often on MSN should you wish to add me.


(Oh, and as a side note, if you want to show off your project, there's a subforum dedicated to just that. :p I know I'd be interested in knowing about it.)

I would really love to see a blog of the progress of your project, I know it might be a bit too much to ask, but with pictures and stuff like that, I would read it.

From: EvilChicken!
Thanks for the reply! Your study seems really interesting, I wish I had the brains to pick a study more similar to yours when I was to make the choice. Well, I can still educate myself further to become an engineer within this topic, so not all hope is lost.

Nevertheless, your current project seems pretty interesting – do you have to design a circuit board and program it yourself, or do you receive some help?

Anyway, on topic, hahah..
If you ever feel like getting into what we do around here, the tutorial island is the best way to get yourself acquainted. Also, if you get really eager to learn scripting, the best tip I could give you would be to look at already existing scripts and to try to see how they deal with various situations and what algorithms they apply, et cetera. I myself believe I learned so much more from studying scripts than from reading the tutorials. And also, we always have people willing to help at IRC, and I'm often on MSN should you wish to add me.


(Oh, and as a side note, if you want to show off your project, there's a subforum dedicated to just that. :p I know I'd be interested in knowing about it.)

The first step is to think of a mathematical model for the robot, second step is to write simulations in MATLAB, XILINX and SPICE. Then use those simulations to get some specific results, draw and design the circuits. Also have to do the soldering myself, do the FPGA programming etc. Currently I'm done simulating, I start building next semester.

Ontopic: Yes I will surely look into some tutorials in the future. I really like messing around with stuff to see what happens when I change things :p, so all the scripts here will be a lot of help.

And well, if you guys are really interested, I might keep you posted on my project in a blog here. ;)

Looking forward for your contributions and the blog :)

i hope u've have a warm welcome ! (: a blog would be interesting (:

From: Furyan
The first step is to think of a mathematical model for the robot, second step is to write simulations in MATLAB, XILINX and SPICE. Then use those simulations to get some specific results, draw and design the circuits. Also have to do the soldering myself, do the FPGA programming etc. Currently I'm done simulating, I start building next semester.

Ontopic: Yes I will surely look into some tutorials in the future. I really like messing around with stuff to see what happens when I change things :p, so all the scripts here will be a lot of help.

And well, if you guys are really interested, I might keep you posted on my project in a blog here. ;)

I wouldn't mind seeing that MATLAB code. I've been looking into simple simulations in first year Computer Science class, and I'd like to see what someone can do later on :D