Engineering Elegance

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Week 2 : Getting started with the project

In this week I was given reading permission to the firmware of the board. Starting to look into the project, I get a better picture of what it is all about. My first task is to get the mechanism of Spartan-6 FPGA programming work. This involves a few steps. First, download the code sent by user through the Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) communication protocol. What CORS does is basically identify the permission of resource sharing via a sequence of HTTP Read more

By Lucas, ago

First week of my internship

  In this week, I was given time to learn Git to prepare myself for the later participation into the grand project without messing it up. In short, Git is a decentralized version control system that conserve different version of our work in series of so called “commit”, a record of what we have done, in “branch” that we are working on. “Branch” is essentially an independent line of development that we can manipulate through branching off or merging depend Read more

By Lucas, ago
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Cache Me if you Can

I now have started another crucial component of the project, i.e a caching mechanism. So far I have been able to simulate the mounting remote filesystems using SSHFS, that provides a convenient way to interact with files in your remote storage just like how you would normally interact with files in a your local Linux filesystem. But in behind the scenes, there is an underlying network protocol for interacting with the remote servers, which is SSH for the case of Read more

By Gabriel Tan, ago

Still Playing with The Judging Screen

Hello, Week 21! I can’t believe that I actually survived 21 weeks in AESTE. I thought I can’t survive after 12 weeks of being here but hello here I am still surviving 🙂 As for this week, I only focus on judging screen since it’s the only screen that is not complete yet (comparative score and getting data of the last performance). I had already make sure that the other screens are completed and can function well. I had a Read more

By Nadia Anuar, ago
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A Blog about Certificates

Previously, there were some issues in the transmission of the bitstream to the board’s server, but with a touch of Dr Shawn’s magic, he managed to somehow solve the issue on the board side. With that, I was able to send the bitstream successfully and get a proper response from the server in the board after a few seconds. At the moment, the board’s server does not do anything with the bitstream, and therefore the MD5 calculation which is done Read more

By Gabriel Tan, ago

Time Management

I don’t know what is going on with me this week. This week seems not a good week for me. I should actually already tested my Vuejs on the server but I still not complete the comparative judging yet. I feel very sad about it. One more thing, I spent a lot of time to do the custom prize for head judge screen which is not important than the comparative judging. Custom prize only is used in the grand finale, Read more

By Nadia Anuar, ago

The Chips

I’ve been experimenting myself with one of the UI components in Vuetify js this week which is chips. The chip (V-chip) component is used to convey small pieces of information and by using close property, the chip becomes interactive and allowing the user interaction. The chips come in four primary variations which are regular, with an icon, with portrait and closeable. For my application, I’ll be using closeable since I want the chip to have a delete function. Chip component Read more

By Nadia Anuar, ago

CORS Mistakes + Firmware Download

I would like to first start off that last week’s problem of not having the automatic redirection working in Firefox was actually my own mistake without even realizing it. Basically, the CORS protocol should only take place for cross site requests, for example if a client application that is being served from www.domainA.com makes a request to www.domainB.com , then it first have to make a preflight request to determine whether or not it is allowed access to domainB’s resources, as well as what Read more

By Gabriel Tan, ago

Fix Things Out

I can say that this week I’m a bit productive probably because I want my baby screens to be completed before this end of the month. I’ve made a checklist what is left for each screen. For emcee screen, there will be two different performance list according to the event state. The event state 0 and 1 which are registration and running, the event state 2 which is closed. Performance list of event 0 and 1 includes the action of Read more

By Nadia Anuar, ago

Vuetiful Tales And Adventures Chapter 5 (Sort of)

Well, this week would not be a very vuetiful chapter, as I’m starting to work on the programming of firmware into the board. Just to recap, the procedure of downloading the firmware into the board is done through a sequence of HTTP requests, mainly revolving around DELETE, PUT requests and also OPTION requests as part of the CORS protocol. The server running in the board would use OPTION requests as an indication to enter into programming mode which would process Read more

By Gabriel Tan, ago
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