Finally finished, what a day!!!

[twincam]

Had my final year project presentation today, it's such a relief to be finished.

The day started out a complete disaster, with my project not working at all
I thought i had blown a component in the pcb board, or at worst, made a mistake in the pcb design. I had not yet had the project working to specification as i only found out last friday before the bank holiday that i had the microchip inputs designed from copper botton of the pcb board rather then copper top

With the college closed over the bank holiday, first thing this morning was my first chance to see if the program worked and everything else done as supposed too. With the presentation scheduled for 9.30, time was running out very very fast!

Unfortunately at 9.30, my circuit was dead, not running the program to control the project and nothing was working. Thankfully i was given extra time to see if i could find the fault and get it working.

A few hours later after stripping the control box, testing the pcb board and checking the program, the simplest of faults was found. A spade connector had come off the top of one of the supercapacitors connected to the pcb causing a brake in the circuit

Something so simple could have caused a very different ending to my final college year. Gave my presentation and everything ran smoothly in the end. A happy ending to a very stressful few weeks

Finally after two years of being parked up in the garage, i can dust off my s13, get it finished and back on the road. Yes it does exist, but for now, it's bucky time

[Tetra]

Congrats Emmett, Must be a real relief. Whenever you sober up get working on that 13

[simon_irl]

well done lad. it is a great feeling when everything is finished.

[matthew]

congratulations. Its some relief finishing knowing your done...

[Sideways Simon]

Well done Emmet, what course was it you done??

[muddle84]

Well done its a fantaztic feeling getting the first pint in your gob after all the stress and hard work of college!

[CillianS14a]

Well done emmett, bottle of b down the spanish arch later?!lol

[Sideways Simon]

Well done emmett, bottle of b down the spanish arch later?!lol

haha.... classy!

[twincam]

Thanks all. It's strange walking out for the last time.
Looking forward to hopefully getting a job sometime soon.

Well done emmett, bottle of b down the spanish arch later?!lol

haha, i must be getting old, i haven't done that in a few years.
I'll be down for a bottle during race week though all suited and booted

Congrats Emmett, Must be a real relief. Whenever you sober up get working on that 13

Ya, i need some boost back in my life
It was hard to be studying during the good weather when all i could think was, i could be finishing off spraying the car.

Well done Emmet, what course was it you done??

Cheers Simon Automation and Control. Basically working with robotic manufacting systems

[JP]

Congratulations Emmett! Bring oooooonnnn the Bucky!!

[Col200sx]

Congrats Emmett, must be a relief after that hiccup on the morning

I'll be down for a bottle during race week though all suited and booted

Ah classy Galway eh, suit, shirt, tie and the all important bottle of Buckfast

[Dunny55]

Congrats man, i know your relief finished up my very final exam there two weeks ago

Now all we gotta do is wait for the results