The NS-MMU Annual Innovative Project Competition is jointly organized by Multimedia University (MMU) and National Semiconductor Sdn. Bhd.(NS). It is open to all students from the Engineering, IT, as well as the Creative Multimedia Faculties of the university. Students are encouraged to form project groups consisting of members from different disciplines and years. Each group can consist of up to a maximum of 5 members. The project titles are proposed by the students themselves, out of their creative and innovative minds. In other words, the students get to work on the ideas that they are interested to realize rather than a topic that is imposed on them. Nevertheless, the projects shall demonstrate original use of electronics, IT and multimedia in industrial or consumer applications. (Quoted from Project Webpage)

I wanted to join the competition while I was in my first year but at that time, I did not know much or enough to be able to carry out the project successfully. I believe that by joining this competition, I will gain much useful experience in carrying out practical work. It also serves to put into practice what I have learned theoretically.

Here are my fellow project group members:

• Lim Su Peng (Leader) - Telecommunications Engineering (2nd Year).
• Daniel Phan Sern Hong - Electronics Engineering (2nd Year).
• Lam Yoke Khei - Multimedia Engineering (2nd Year).
• Chai Hwee Lin - Telecommunications Engineering (2nd Year).

• Braille Translator
• Smart Aquarium

Current interests and preparations for the competition:

• Parallel Port Interfacing.
• Fishes and aquariums.
• Various sensors (temperature, acidicity, infra-red etc.).