Meeting Minute 3

Date : 19 January 2009
Venue : BT 24/25
Time : 2.45pm
Members in attendance: Alex Sim, Dg. Syarmi, Roland Mislan, Tan Beng Hin, Wong Mun Bin

1. Discuss who will be presenting for week 4 pre-proposal. After some consideration and agreement on all team, all group members decided Alex Sim will be presenting the pre-proposal on week 4.

2. The main point of the meeting today is on problem definition and client statement.
a) After last week meeting with the client Pn. Siti Hasnah, she gives the minimum requirement that need to have in the project is
i) Stop watch up to millisecond
ii) Timer can be set up to 3 hours
iii) Remote control
b) All group members also discuss about the objective for this project design. A few ideas comes up from all group member such as
i) The clock is useful for classroom environment
ii) It is easier to manage time for student and teacher so that the class can begin and end punctually.
c) The group has come up with ideas last week on 13 January and discuss again with user requirement for each ideas.
For minimum requirement that client want,
i) The stop watch that can be observing to millisecond is useful for lab or quizzes.
ii) Timer that can be set up to 3 hours is useful for exam.
iii) All the function can be set remotely; it is more convenience to use. The clock for classroom usually hanging on wall, so with remote it is easier to set the timer.
The additional idea
iv) Use LCD for more style.
v) Calendar to show date and day.
vi) Alarm with music, the client had suggested that maybe the music can be selected.
vii) Show room temperature for student and teacher can feel more comfortable with soothing environment.
viii) A reminder so that they did not forget if have anything important for the day.
But this project will only do the minimum requirement first, if still got the time then do other requirement.
d) The constraint that the group might have while doing this project is
i) Financially; with budget limited to rm250 only.
ii) Lack of skill; microcontroller, connection circuit, diagram.
e) The function that the group will establish is the minimum requirement only.

3. Discussion session end at 3.30pm.