Monday - Assignment two finished

We started off today with watching some videos about robots and about how they can move objects from a shelf. This was quite interesting as robots are advancing a lot now. Another news article John showed us was about how Wi-Fi signals can charge devices such as a camera.

After that we moved onto working on our work. I was aiming to finish assignment two today so I have the rest of the time to work on assignment three and hopefully get that submitted soon. I firstly moved over the images from my phone for assignment three so tomorrow I can get on and work on assignment three.

Finally I managed to get assignment two done. This was not too hard however it did take some time to find all of the main components and decide which ones I wanted. This did take most of the day as I was helping Adam with trying to get his network adapter working however it was not fixed.

Friday - Practical

The starter today was three quizzes about computer systems, functions of OS and CPU. I found this quite interesting as there was a little game between each question. In the end I managed to get 25/30 in the three quizzes and I was proud with it.

After that I started the practical for assignment three. I had a windows XP machine with 2GB RAM and a 3GHz processor. This was quite good however I decided that it needed a dedicated graphics card and more RAM so I installed that.

The installation was not too hard and I found it quite enjoyable to do. I had to install the drivers that was not too hard and I think that the computer runs a lot more smoother now. I just have to add in the files to the user accounts and wait for the disk defragger to finish.

Thursday

Today's starter was a quiz about how well can you hear audio quality. There were six questions in total and they all had three different audio quality that were 128knps, 320 kbps and a wav file. The wav file is the highest quality however I only selected that one twice out of the six times. 

After that we had a recap on assignment three and had a sheet going around about assignment one/two. I found the recap quite helpful as sometimes I do forget parts and it helps to hear different ways to do it. 

For the rest of the day I was working on some re submissions and my checklist for assignment three. I had nearly finished it so this did not take too long to do but I did get a little bit confused however I managed to work it out in the end. I only have one re submission left now however I will do that over the weekend. 

Tuesday - Assignment two and three

We started off today with another quiz. This quiz was about 3D printing and the future of it. It was quite an interesting quiz and in the end I managed to get 8 1/2 that was not too bad. The main aim of today was to learn about a bit of assignment two and assignment three.

After the quiz we worked on our assignment work. I still have task three of assignment one to do and now I have nearly finished it. I have started D1 of it and I will be finishing it off later tonight or tomorrow as it is due for them. It should not take too much time to do so I will be finishing off tonight.

Finally we learnt about assignment three. This is the practical part and we have to upgrade a part of a computer. There are three tasks for this and we need to get the evidence for it all. We all created task lists for task one and had a look at each others. I will find having a task list useful because then I cannot miss a part out and I know I have met all of the criteria.