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Electronic rat nest. The PLC itself is just a real-time app running on Linux PREEMPT_RT on the Raspberry Pi 5. I remember vividly the moment the term ‘PLC’ was first used in a relevant context I was participating. It was during an Instrumentation & Controls lecture at UTP. My lecturer threw out the term ‘PLC’ to the class, expecting us to at least know what it meant. At the time I was sure I’ve seen the term before somewhere, but I never really understood what it meant at the time. Even today, the term has a pretty nebulous definition, but I digress for the time being. Somebody then asked him what a ‘PLC’ is (mind you, we were all third-year electrical engineering students at that point) and he took a substantial pause before defeatedly answering that it’s basically an Arduino. ...

Our Team: The Interns - Left: Me; Right: Mclaren Well. Here I am again. It’s been almost a year since one of the most unforgettable moments of my life happened. Between that, so many things have happened. Ever since my internship commenced, I’ve been free of coursework and I’ve started to seriously think about where my life is headed, and what opportunities out there just waiting to be pounced on. I learned a lot, and I’m still learning, and there’s a lot left to be learn, unlearned, relearned. Whatever knowledge the world can offer; I’ll never live long enough to learn them all, but at the very least I didn’t sit idly by and took the effort to try. ...

That's me in gaung Kadazan at the back in the middle :) The Pat Nyem Ake' - Left: Eddry; Middle, front: Zech; Right: Mclaren It’s been a while since I updated my site. A lot has happened since then. I’m now in the first semester of my third year at UTP. This will be my last semester on campus before embarking on an internship, away from campus, and away from home. It’s honestly been such a journey so far, and in this post I’m gonna share a part of that journey. One of the best memories I have ever made. ...

I’m writing this after my last paper for my second semester of my second year. Recently, just a week ago on Friday we submitted our course project for EFB2073 - Microprocessor and Computer Architecture. It was a fun course although I’m not sure how well I did on the tests. Semester results would be out a month from now. Anyways it was one of those courses that really did push me to learn and discover more. ...

This post details some of my current ongoing projects. Major projects [Active] Pimato font project - Taarau Pimato is a constructed writing system I worked on for 7 years. I’ve been planning to make a font 3 years ago but only got around doing it 2 months ago. Taarau is the name of the first font for Pimato, it comes from the word arau which means to rush. I’ve been intending to rush the development of the font as I believed as long as it looks close enough to my vision, it doesn’t matter. But as the weeks ago by I can’t help but scrutinize its tiny details. Professional fonts typically take 2 years to develop, I’m hoping that this font won’t be a professional one because I need to start making materials with it. ...