I updated the OS for the MacBook Pro which I'm using while working on the presentation slides with the rest on Leonard's iMac. We practically spent the day working on the presentation slides and testing of the applications to work on the MacBook Pro which You Hock is using.
24 February 2009
Didn't go to IHPC today because we have our Major Project presentation. For me, I had to do 2 presentation for my projects - 1 for Lightdraw & 1 for my own project, FlexCam.
25 February 2009
In the morning, only Leonard and I were here because Ryan and You Hock were having a presentation in school. So when we arrived, Ming Hong showed us the new lasers he bought. The new lasers are stronger than the older ones, which means that Lightdraw would have a better chance to work on the 3 x 2 tile display. After we tested the new lasers, we modified the presentation slides that we used yesterday so that we could use it to do the presentation to Terence and Kevin.
After lunch, Ryan and You Hock returned to IHPC and together, we did a presentation for Terrence and Kevin. Besides both of them, there were other IHPC staff who came in and listened to our presentation. We presented to them on what we have worked on for the past 4 months. They gave us their feedback on the applications which we developed and were also pleased with our work. We told Kevin about our plan to test the 3 x 2 tile display after the presentation and he agreed.
While we were setting up Lighdraw at the 3 x 2 tile display, we were informed that there was a demo going on. So we kept the equipments and returned to our lab. Kevin then asked me to try reformatting the MacBook Pro which I'm using to Mac OS X Leopard. He managed to get a disc image from one of the staff and I researched on how to reformat from external hard disk. Managed to find a tutorial and these are the steps that I did:
- Restart MacBook Pro
- Hold onto the alt/option key at the grey screen
Kevin then found another article online, and we tried it. These are the steps that we did according to the article:
- Find Disk Utility
- Select on the external hard disk and click on the Restore tab
- Drag the Mac OS X installer imager to the source Textbox
- Drag the mounted external hard disk onto the Destination texbox
- Click Restore and wait for the files to be copied
- Go to System Preference and select Startup Disk
- Select your external hard disk and click on restart
Kevin was there when we tried to reformat, he asked me to do more research on how to install the OS X Leopard onto the MacBook Pro. So I spent the rest of the day researching on how to install the OS X Leopard onto the MacBook Pro.
26 February 2009
I researched on how to reformat the MacBook Pro and found others with the same problem. Here's a link on how this person manage to solve this problem. However, the solution isn't really feasible as the person simply purchased a new CD from the store. So I decided to take a break from the research and help out with the testing to make Lightdraw work with the 3x2 tile display.
We had some problems calibrating as Lightdraw crashes when it tried to calibrate. So we seek help from Ming Hong. He managed to fix the problem and we got it to work. After calibration, we tested the screen with the new lasers which Ming Hong bought and we found new problems with the screen. The surface of the screen is not entirely flat. It is a little slanted on the top and bottom part on the screen. Nonetheless, we still managed to make Lightdraw work on the 3x2 tile display to a certain extend with the new lasers.
We gave Ming Hong a treat for lunch because he had helped us a lot during our time here as interns. We were not able to treat the rest for lunch because they were busy.
When done with lunch, we discussed about the poster design for PSRP and Leonard volunteered to design the poster. We had a photo-shoot with the rest of the team for the article we wrote a few weeks back. Once the photo-shoot was done, we had a 1 to 1 feedback session with Kevin and Ming Hong where they asked us for feedback and gave us some advice on how we could improve ourselves.
After the feedback session, we sent Daryl from Corporate Comms some pictures to be used for the article. We also planned out the new video we want to do for Lightboard, which is to be used for our presentation at the PSRP award. Once the plan had been finalized, I went to look for Cheng Teng to get help with the video shoot for both the 3D visualizer application and LightBoard. However, he was busy and we were unsure on how we should film the 3D visualizer application. So I went to look for Kevin to inform him about the situation. He then told me how the 3D visualizer application is to be video-ed and I went to inform the rest. However, the 3D visualizer application needs to be able to load 3 models for the video. So You Hock worked on getting the 3D visualizer application to load 3 models while the rest of us worked on the PSRP presentation slides.
27 February 2009
In the morning, we were trying to do the video shoot for the 3D visualizer application, however, we faced some problems and the video shoot had to be delayed until after lunch.
For lunch, Kevin gave us a nice treat at a French restaurant where the "seniors' interns" had their last lunch. So it's sort of like a customary thing between Kevin and the interns that worked on Lightdraw. During lunch, we had a great talk about what are our plans after finishing our attachment and other stuff.
After lunch, Leonard and I did the video shoot for the 3D visualizer application while Ryan helped You Hock to reformat the MacBook Pro. After the video, we wanted to do the video shoot for the Lightboard. However, when we wanted to do the video, we realized that Lightdraw couldn't work on You Hock's "fresh" MacBook Pro as there were some stuff we had to install to get it running. Here are some pictures we took when we were doing the video shoot for the 3D visualizer application:


We also handed in our time sheet for the month of February and returned our Fusionopolis temp pass. In a blink of an eye, 4 months have passed and this marks the end of my internship stint at IHPC. During this short span of 4 months, we had learn loads of stuff, be it technical or interpersonal. I truly enjoyed working here at IHPC for my internship.
And before I left the building, I received a farewell gift from JTC:

How nice of them. =P
Reflection for the week:
It's kind of like a joyful, yet reluctant feeling on our last day of work. Joyful, because our internship is ending and we are going to graduate in a few months time. Reluctant, because we know we would miss the times we had working together at IHPC. Nonetheless, we know that we are different from the first time we stepped into IHPC. All of us had grown wiser and more knowledgeable. We also do understand about our strengths and weakness through the feedback session with Kevin and Ming Hong.
Thanks to these people, we had truly enjoyed our time here at IHPC.