WEEK 13 (Industial Day)

So this day, was the day that we waiting for. Our presentation on this project was running perfectly and smooth. All of our friends are doing well to. Thank you very much to our supervisor that willingly to handle us as their fyp student for diploma and he also help us on many ways to complete this project and our report to. We also thank to our friends that give support to do this project because this is our first time doing a project that hard for us to handle it. 

Moment :D

WEEK 12 (REPORT PREPARERATION)

On this week, we do our report for this project. All the result and analysis that we get must have in the report. We do together all the chapters from introduction until the result including the methodology of this project. But first we must draft the report and give it to our supervisor to check of our content and format of this report. After that we have made changes for mistake of format and content, then we have to print it out and make two copy of hard cover of the report to send it to library and to our supervisor to fulfill our assessment on this project.

WEEK 11 (POSTER AND PAMPLET)

This day we had last briefing for Final Year Project for this semester. The requirement that needed went presenting this project at Gemilang Hall is a poster and pamplet. These were an outline of our poster and pamplet that we did for this project before present it to our assessor soon.

WEEK 10 (FINAL ASSEMBLY)

On this week, we are trying to figure out on creating a box for the circuit and also a motor that we want to attach to the food tank. Other than that, we have to buy Poly pipe PVC, tuperware ,hot glue gun ,perspex , a small aquarium and cardboard to create this protype of fish feeder. Here were the picture of final assembly and the prototype of this project .

WEEK 9 (RESULT)

After completing the project, it is tested and the result is show in picture below. Each circuit has difference output which is related to each other. The 4060 IC circuit is the main circuit on this project. Means that, if there is a problem on the 4060 circuit, then the other will be effected too. The astable 555 IC also depends on the 4060 timer. If not, the motor will be not running.

Behaviour of Output Signal

We can see that the Astable 555 IC will start counting when the output of 4060 IC goes HIGH. Then, when the complete counting, the output will LOW for a second and it will goes HIGH again. The HIGH and LOW output can be set-up by replacing the resistor and capacitor. The Monostable output will goes HIGH when the Astable output LOW. The output will goes HIGH depends on the value of resistor and capacitor. The monostable output is representing the duration of motor running. 

WEEK 8 (TROUBLESHOOTING)

After we complete the process of drilling and soldering, we have to tested and troubleshoot the circuit. Find the problems that found and tried to solve it. 

The problem that we found is the amount of food can’t be control. So after study the circuit operation and do some research about the IC’s. After the input is given by the adapter which is DC 6V~12V, the first IC’s which is 4060 get enough power to operate. The IC 4060 is 14-bit counter which will count and give output to timer directly. The IC 4060 sending pulses by “1” means high and “0” low. So, the timer operate when output from 4060 show high which is “1”.But, its seem like the timer does not working at all. It seem that ouput from IC 4060 doesn’t enough power to operate the timer directly.

            So, in litte bit of theoretically and also practically, to allow timer get enough power, put between them an IC 7411 which is AND gate. The AND gate function as multiplier of the high and low input which is “1” and “0”. As example, when AND gate get input which “1” and “0”. The ouput will become “0” and when the input get “1” and “1”, the AND gate output will become high which is “1”.

            So, in this case to achieve enough power for timer operate is the input AND get connected from output 4060 and VCC to keep one of the input stay high. When 4060 counting and sent high output to AND gate and the high output from AND gate will send to the timer which cause timer to operate the motor which is control the amount of food to feed the fish. 

We attach some of picture on troubleshooting : 

WEEK 7 (DRILLING AND SOLDERING PROCESS)

The activity of this week is soldering process. After we have done the etching process, we set up all the component on the PCB board that we have drill all the holes on it. Then we solder each of the components. Here are the picture of our activity :

DRILLING PROCESS

SOLDERING PROCESS

To drill the PCB and solder the components must have take a precaution on doing it. If wrong your PCB or your components maybe damage and it is waste of your time to buy another PCB and one set of the components. Before doing this process, you must have another set of the components and a few of copper board to not wasted your time to go to the shop for buying all of this.