WEEK 4

                                                                

 In this week 4, i am consulting with my supervisor to make my automatic whiteboard cleaner using ultrasonic sensor and colour sensor.

    The ultrasonic sensor are used to detect any obstacle at the whiteboard. Since the automatic whiteboard cleaner are moving automatically and freely on the whiteboard that are attached at the wall, an obstacle will be put together at the border of the whiteboard. The purpose of this barrier at the border of the whiteboard is to make sure the ultrasonic sensor can sense it and send the data to the controller to turn to another way.

    The color sensor are use to to detect the residue of ink at the whiteboard. when it detect the residue the data will be send to the controller, and from the data it will send to the motor driver.

 

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WEEK 5

                                                                      

  This is the final week to register my FYP1 project tile. My supervisor and I has decide to put the project title to Automatic Whiteboard Cleaner using Ultrasonic Sensor and Color Sensor.

    In this week also, I have complete my Literature review which is Chapter 2 of my report. I submit my Chapter 2 draft to my supervisor and waiting his comment.

    From the literature review, what I can summarize is explained in the table.

NO.	TITLE	MATERIALS	DESCRIPTION
1.	Automatic Whiteboard Cleaner Using Microcontroller Based Rack And Pinion Mechanism	Arduino, driver module dc gear motor, rack and pinion mechanism, sonar sensor	•      The used of sonar sensor is to calculate the distance of the sensor and reflecting object that mounted at brush. •      This automatic whiteboard cleaner will move across the board in forward and backward direction in order to clean the entire board.
2.	Design and fabrication of automated duster for cleaning of whiteboard	Rectifier, capacitor and transformer to make the white film rotate.	•      The operation of this automatic whiteboard cleaner is the white film will rotate around the whiteboard in forward and backward direction when the start switch is pressed while the duster remain at the edge of the board.
3.	Design And Development Of Automatic Whiteboard Cleaner For Effective Cleaning Mechanism Using Arduino	Arduino UNO, dc gear motor, motor driver, four channel relay, duster holders, dusters rack and pinion and node MCU, mobile application (blynk).	•      This project are using arduino for wireless control and it helps in quick process. •      The mobile application (blynk) is used to control the movement of the duster either move to the upper or lower part of the whiteboard or move to the right or left side.
4.	Automated Motorized Whiteboard	Flexible whiteboard surface material, dusters, plastic rollers, motors.	•      The whiteboard surface is flexible and by using the roller it rotate the whiteboard while the duster are fixed at the back of the whiteboard. •      When user switch on the power supply the motor start rotating the white sheets and the due to the friction the duster and the whiteboard, the whiteboard come out clean as the result.

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WEEK 6

   

 In this week. I am required to do a research why I decide to do this project, this is the reason why I am going to do this project. Cleaning the whiteboard usually take much time and effort without realizing it because the teacher keep doing it over and over until they used to do it. It can also cause their students to get distracted easily and hence cause their bad performance in studies. Also, Cleaning the whiteboard can also cause various type of illness to the user such as backbone pain, asthma, eyes and skin irritation because of the small particles of inks from the duster. This situation happen because when the user clean the whiteboard too much they can easily get slip disc and can paralyzed their hands due to too much pressure being applied to the disc at the backbone. Also, the tiny particles of the ink can be the cause to a chronic diseases such as heart diseases or asthma, eye and skin irritation when the particles get into the nose, eyes and the skin of the user.

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WEEK 7

    

 In this week, workshop for Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 are given through Microsoft Teams. In chapter 1, we need to know the problem why we want to do the project and the objective of this project. For chapter 2, this chapter cover the literature review from different sources regarding the development of automatic whiteboard cleaner. This chapter also will cover the invention of the other project, the technology and the latest industrial product and the component that being used to develop these automatic whiteboard cleaner. It also state the observation and results on their strengths and recommendations from the studies discussed in this chapter. Basically, the technology that have been stated in this chapter will be used as references and guidance to the project. The limitations of the journal also will be applied to fulfil the industry expectation.

    Doing a literature review very important before starting any new project. This is because by doing literature review it can somehow improve the design to a new idea and can know the procedure or the flow of the project from the findings. 

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WEEK 8

   

 In week 8, I am meeting my supervisor and show to him the hardware that I am going to use. I am using Ultrasonic sensor to detect the obstacle that I am going to put at the border of the whiteboard, Color Sensor to detect any ink residue, motor driver to control the DC motor.

    I also discuss with my supervisor how my project will look like and below is the sketch how my prototype will be.

Sketch of the project

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WEEK 9

    

 In this week, the workshop on methodology (Chapter 3), Preliminary Result (Chapter 4) and abstract writing are being held in Microsoft Teams channel. the purpose of this workshop is to guide us how to write it correctly in our report. 

    In this week also, I am going to complete my draft for my Chapter 3 and send the draft to my supervisor. In my Chapter 3, I am write about my hardware application, block diagram of my project and the flowchart for the whole project.

 

    This is my block diagram that i made about my project.

And this is my Flowchart for my whole project.

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WEEK 10

    

During this week, I am completing my Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 and submitted it to my supervisor. For chapter 3, there are still some part that still not complete because it required me to do more research about the hardware that I am going to use.

    The supervisor also ask to do early preparation for the Proposal Defense Day that will be held at Week 12. 

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WEEK 11

    

This week 11, a briefing about the defense day are given by the speaker at microsoft teams. The briefing is given is to make sure the students are ready to present the proposed project.

    The presentation slide are done with guide from my supervisor and I am doing my preparation by doing more research about my project.

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WEEK 12

    

 This week is for the Defense Day, during the Defense Day, I was assessed by Sir Tarmizi and Sir Yusof. All the question that being asked by them are answered by me with confidence. Here I attached the presentation slide during my Defense Day.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IGA6Cj5ITvJtYrwX6M8_YKey-3K_GWJU/view?usp=sharing

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WEEK 13

   

  I have done the presentation for my Defense day, my supervisor are asking me to complete my report and send the draft to him to check the report before sending the final report. In the meantime, I am still do the research for my project in order to complete the report. 

    In Chapter 3, this chapter is focus on the research methodology, the method how to operate the automatic whiteboard cleaner and to identify the suitable component to use to develop this project. This chapter will also explain the block diagram, the use of the hardware application and the flowchart for the whole program to provide informational perspectives towards gaining an understanding it and also gaining more knowledge about the hardware to be use.

    This project is focused on how to produce the project step by step until the project is complete. The hardware development is focused on the functionality and operation of the project. A technique is discussed which is to make an automatic whiteboard cleaner by using the ultrasonic and color sensor.

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WEEK 14

  

  I have completely my chapter 3 and give to my supervisor to double checked it and waiting for him patiently to comment my Chapter 3.   

  Also, I has started doing my chapter 4 during this week, In this chapter, there are several aspects that have been considered in the making of the automatic whiteboard cleaner. The Ultrasonic Sensor from our prototype detect the obstacle in front of it and the Colour Sensor is to detect the ink residue on the whiteboard and send the input to the microcontroller (Arduino Nano) then the data are sending the signal to the motor driver. The expected result of this project are in this chapter.

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WEEK 15

     

   In this week, I have receive the comment from my supervisor regarding my chapter 3 and I need to do some correction from my report. During this week also, I have come out with my expected project prototype that I done by using Microsoft Words only. Here I attached my expected Prototype look.

    The automatic whiteboard cleaner consists of the duster itself, Arduino Nano attached at the top of the duster along with the motor driver and the battery, DC motor at the side of the duster, ultrasonic sensor at the front of the duster, colour sensor at the back of the duster and toggle switch. The DC motor are located at the side of the duster so that the duster can move vertically at the whiteboard and make it easier to clean faster. The ultrasonic sensor are located at the front of the duster to detect any obstacle when the duster are moving and the colour sensor at the back of the duster is used to detect an residue of the ink that the duster did not clean.

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WEEK 16

    

 In this week 16, I have completed my final report until Chapter 3 and this week I come out with the expected output for this automatic whiteboard cleaner. 

    By using the common duster it takes about 25sec to clean up a whiteboard of 10inch wide and 6inch long. The time taken to clean the whiteboard for that size is consider a long time.

Length	Width	Space Cover by the Duster (inches²) Length x Width	Time (s)
10	15	150	9
20	30	600	17
30	45	1350	25
40	50	2000	32
50	75	3750	40
60	90	5400	47
70	105	7350	56

    For this propose project, this is the expected time taken to clean the whiteboard for whiteboard size 150 inches² is around 9sec. From the size of the whiteboard, if the user are using their hand to clean the whiteboard it can take up to 30sec because it is manual, it also use lot of the energy of the user. By using the automatic whiteboard cleaner, user can save their time about half of the time taken. So this proposed automatic whiteboard cleaner takes less time than using the duster manually by the hand.

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WEEK 17

     

This is the last week to complete my final report and send it to my supervisor, once I completed my report for every chapter, I send the draft to my supervisor to check it. After my supervisor satisfied with my report i compiled the report following the FYP1 template given by the FYP coordinator, I am required to do the plagiarism checking before submitting the complete report to my supervisor. We are required to get less than 20% of plagiarism. 

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