Cytron Technologies Blog - Robot.Head2Toe

Latest visit to www.robofest.org.my shows that Malaysia organizer finally decided on the date of domestic ROBOCON competition, it will be on 22nd to 27th June. Here is the print screen of the site:

Anyhow, they have yet to decide the venue of competition. Will it be Stadium Melawati, Shah Alam? Or The main hall of UKM? Or PWTC? Let’s wait and see.

The registeration is open until 15th March only, so for those IPTA, IPTS that yet to register, please move faster. And I notice there is some changes on the number of team allow from each institution; this year they allow only 1 team from each institution.

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After the Getting Started workshop at Penang, the next step will be to learn the Mid-Range Microcontroller peripherals. This time, it will be at Southern region, UTM Skudai.

Title: Mid-Range Microcontroller Family Peripheral Configuration and Usage Using Assembly Language
Course Code: WS-MCU1111
Venue: Training Center, Pusat Teknologi Maklumat dan Komunikasi (CICT), UTM Skudai, Johor.
Date: 24th to 25th March 2010 (Wednesday and Thursday)
Time: 9.00am to 5.00pm

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For those that missed MURoC at UniMAP, I am sure you missed the excitement. Why? Because it is very fun, exciting as you are controlling robot to play paint ball for you, you wouldn’t be hurt by your friend when they shoot your robot….. Woh! Creative way to play a dangerous game, right?

As we have shared about this event early in our blog here, many should have notice this exciting game. Though the competition day is fallen on new year, there are still many participants. There are team from UPM, UiTM, UIAM, UPSI, UTHM, Poli Shah Alam and of course not forgetting the host, UniMAP.

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Yes, I know every one is waiting for the 3rd issue of Robot. Head to Toe magazine to be out. Is out now, so don worry! Because of year end holiday and rushing work, our graphic designer and printing house have delayed the output of this issue. Anyway is out now! Here you are, the front page:

What did we talk about in this issue?

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Happy New Year, welcome to year 2010. We will start with basic workshop. If you are new to PIC Microcontroller and are interested to start, by googling the Internet, you might notice “PIC16F84A” or “PIC16F877A”, why? Because PIC16F84A and PIC16F877A are 2 very popular PIC models since the year I started to use PIC. Though it have been years back, it still remain one of the famous PIC used among students, hobbiyst, researchers and developers. Many would like to get started, but was stuck at how to write program for it? what is configuration bits? Which Language to be used? C or Assembly? So many question mark…… and finally many stop in the middle.

Now, you have the chance to get started with the guidance from Microchip (the designer and manufacturer of PIC Microcontroller). As a start for 2010, we shall conduct it at Northern Region, USM Nibong Tebal. Join us for 1 day workshop at USM, to explore the architecture of PIC16 family and also the instruction set (Assembly Language). There are 5 labs for participant to pick up the understanding of how PIC works and also furnish the skill of writing code. Furthermore, for those company or college that registered with HRFD, this workshop is claimable under SBL. If you need the facilitator profile from us, please email to support@cytron.com.my

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It has been a very busy end of year. Besides the Christmas and New Year celebration, I have been busy for Robot. Head to Toe magazine publication, Workshop at Universiti Malaysia Pahang and MURoC at UniMAP. Let’s talk about the workshop at UMP first. I will talk about magazine and MURoC in coming article. Let’s see some photos during workshop. We went to Jabatan Kejuruteraan Pembuatan, is a big workshop area and there are several robotic arms, very impressive! According to staff of UMP, these robotic arms are contributed by Perodua, the production line for Kancil. You can read more at here.

OK, enough of the site views. Let’s come back to the USB workshop. This is workshop requested by UMP, thus only UMP staff is attending the workshop. UMP is a new Universiti, right beside highway near to Gambang exit, if you are coming from Lebuhraya Pantai Timur (LPT).

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Last few weeks, SK40B is out of stock. Sorry for that, but we have come out with great replacement - SK40C, the enhanced version of SK40B.

Before I talk about the enhancements, let’s see what’s the price you need to pay to get it. ONLY RM39.90, if you get it from our website.

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Last month, we announced that Cytron will be on RobotShop soon. It is on now. You can now view our product at: http://www.robotshop.ca/cytron-technologies.html.

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Yup, it takes us 3 days to cover the C Programming Language. Though is short, but this workshop has 19 demo labs and hands-on labs which give very good idea to participant about C Language.

Title: Introduction to the C Programming Language for Embedded Control Engineers
Course Code: WS-TLS2101
Venue: GMI (German Malaysia Institute) Kajang, Selangor.
Date: 2nd to 4th Dec 2009 (Wednesday to Friday)
Time: 9.00am to 5.00pm

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