Poster Design for the Competition. 

1. Introduction

Can I safely assume that you’ve visited this website because of the QR Code at the bottom of the poster? Oh if you’re not,  I will just introduce this anyway. Dyscalculia is a mathematics disability that’s currently affecting about 4-6% of the whole world population. It is a disability that causes the patient not being able to recognize numbers. For instance: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (Are you reading this in your brain now? congratulation if you could! it means that you don’t have such disability).

Adobe Air Application published onto Android.

2. Development

Because I’m such an android fan (true story, bro). How is Android application differs from an air one? One could probably says it lags more than usual compared to native application  which I totally agree with. However, air application is cross-platform which is why it’s nicer to develop using it and easier to port it over in the future to other OS-es by using the same classes, probably just different resolution.

What’s more? An international student came over and talked to me during the presentation at DSI (student hall?) saying that Flash is such a powerful tool because he used it for interacting with hardware. He was an electrical engineering student.

Plus, Minus, Multiply, Divide

3. How is it going to be implemented for people with Dyscalculia?

Repeat. Repeat and Repeat. Keep repeating the same number and hopefully they will be able to learn it one day later. An interesting game play method will be implemented in the number system.

All you need is internet connectivity and an android phone with Adobe air installed (internationally!), you can just download the application once into your phone. After that, you can let people with dyscalculia trying to learn it any time and anywhere that they truly wish to.

Furthermore, the application will speak out the number.

One

One

One

Then, the user can listen and see the number being displayed on the phone.

To circle or not to circle. 

4. Importance of Number

How important are numbers in our daily life? If we know basic plus and minus, we will be able to calculate the price of the lunch we ate with the drink we drank. That way we will not get cheated by the evil vendors. However, we can always pretend to be a smart person and pay with bigger amount of money and then, pretend to like know how to count and see see the money before we place them inside our wallet.

Apart from that, we will be able to tell basic time so just in case when your mom decided to bake a cake and asked you for the time since the cake requires 30 minutes before it’s done; we know it’s 2.15 and the cake is ready for om-nom-nom at 2.45 if you like it hot and freshly served.

Anyway, this is just a blog post to provide some information (basically what I’ve said during the presentation at student hall) and no, I don’t really wish to win the competition or get selected to enter the final round >_>.

Generated Graph

1.  Tambun World Report Generator

Mock-up application just to show to the client. I did the calculation for card details and information along with the graph generator according to year or month.

• IDE: Adobe Dreamweaver using ASP with IIS7
• Software: Adobe Dreamweaver, Photoshop, mySQL
• Language: SQL, ASP, JavaScript with JSON

Slice the right fruit!

2. Ipad2 Game: Hennessy’ Fruit Garnisher

The game was mainly divided into two parts: Game and Application Flow. I was in charge of the application flow. The key art and main art are done by the designer where as we just need to integrate those with the programming. The Application Flow is the process of registering or login for the user (interaction with the database), display brand video, showing how to play, displaying leaderboard and returning back to the original page.

• Involvement: Documenting, slight designing, programming
• Software: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash Pro, Enterprise Architect (flowchart), mySQL, Microsoft Powerpoint (How to play story-boarding)
• Language: AS3, SQL

User Registration Panel

3. Hennessy’ Registration Application with RFID tagging system

For the first event, the tagging system was not included but for the second event, it was. The key art was given by the client and edited by the company’s designer. After registering, the registrant will be required to associate the rfid tag with the user. When searching using name, a list of names will be displayed out (wildcard statement) but if the registrant searches using IC, it requires an accurate entry. The API for RFID was provided by Dragonsoft.

• Involvement: Documenting (flow chart), application design, programming
• Software: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash Pro, Enterprise Architect (Flowchart), mySQL
• Language: AS3, SQL
• Hardware: iPad2

Almost real-time score update

4. Hennessy’ Leaderboard Panel

This leaderboard panel was displayed on a 42″ TV where the iPad2 was located at. The video panel will keep on looping while the leaderboard panel will be displaying the top 10 highest scores. Winners will actually get a limited edition VSOP bottles that cost about RM 300 market price but the crews aren’t allowed to take part in it. The application was running whole night on a mac mini.

How it works? the iPad2 will submit all the scores to the mac mini along with the user’s details and then this application will retrieve the top 10 scores every 5 seconds.

• Involvement: Programming
• Software: Adobe Flash Pro
• Language: AS3, SQL
• Hardware: Plasma TV, Mac mini

SQLite manager using Firefox

5. Copying mySQL to SQLite Console Application

After long period of AS3 and SQL-ing, I was required to develop a small console application that will connect to the mySQL database, copy the latest details and paste it in the SQLite that will be used by applications that have RFID tagging system in it.

For every few seconds interval, the console application will compare the null rfid part with the latest mySQL database, if the RFID was inserted then it will copy the RFID part only to the user details in the database. The primary key of the SQLite is the combination of facebook_id with venue.

• Involvement: Programming
• Software: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 with ADO.net connector and C#-mySQL connector, SQLite manager on Firefox
• Language: C#, SQL (mySQL, SQLite)

Toshiba Folio Photo App

6. Miscellaneous

There are a couple more applications that I didn’t write about for this post because they are considered smaller projects and some were incomplete when I’ve finished my intern. They are:

• Snake Game
• Toshiba Folio App (Android)
• Socket-Plug
• Papervision 3D
• ETC

That’s all I would like to say about my internship. Thanks *bows*