PURPOSE, MOTIVATIONS & HOPESDo what you love, and love what you do.
The technical reason, I guess would be that this platform is created as part of a final year project requirement in my final year as an Electrical and Electronic Engineering undergraduate. But the truth behind how this began was a quiet afternoon in my fyp supervisor's office and the day there were no more cookies. The thin line between believing and understanding may not be clear to most, no matter how old you are. I was fortunate to have met my current fyp supervisor who shared the same belief of inspiring youths as well as giving back in the only way we knew how- knowledge through experience. The day we finished our cookies was the day almost 3 years ago now. I was 20 by then, and struggling with a project that did not have its hardware ready. Sure, you may think, hardware isn't so tough...but to have the spherical vehicle printed back then, wasn't as easy as it sounds. Hence at a deadlock, my teammates and I headed to class with our minds still tangled about the project. It was a joke at first, "Why don't we use the cookie can?"...but then we stopped, and thought...why not? As you could probably tell, we were eager by the time class was over. In an instant we were back in lab, clearing out the remaining crumbs and drilling holes into the cookie can. By the end of the day, we were driving our little spybot around lab. To this day I don't remember the class subject we attended, nor the brand of cookies, but I remember the feeling. The feeling of creating something that seemed almost ridiculous at first, and the moment where we truly believed that nothing was impossible. For that, I wish for fellow readers to hopefully gain from this platform the experience of the same moment, the same excitement, the same dream in their own creations. |