IBU prototype (Part 2)

On 27th Sept, we were announced that we have to bring our bamboo to HBP school for that day RUS101 lesson. Non of the students was not suprised by this news, because everyone know about this in the early morning.
I was the last one who be informed and hence didn't get to snap in the pictures. When i was informed, i was in school. i rushed back to carry those bamboo.haha..

Due to the lack of paip tube, we didn't get it on Monday. The new paip reached on the next day as shown in the picture below.

They started to cut it into shorter part..

Before we use the fire to melt the top part and straigthen the paip, we marked 5cm for straight line and another 0.5cm for curve. We have to cut it before take it to the pak cik for making the curve part.

This is our product on Monday(27/9). Too many pictures and messed up.haha~

On 29th of Sept, early in the morning, we were lining up to wait for the Pak cik to cut the curve part on the paip for us. Waited for a long time~

After that, we smaller the top part of the paip before melting its.

Inhaling plastic...

Mark to make a hole there...

Finally get all the paip done, we measure again for the bamboo and shorten it to achieve the length we want form the hole of the paip to another.

yeah~ it fix!

Our production...

7: IBU Ptototype (part 1)

Friday-24 Sept, a new assignment was given to us. Mr. Wan is going to make a big dome named IBU and all HBP 1st year students were divided into 5 section with different colors. The colors represent the group and below is the detail about each group. Mine is green color which stand for group B, and the length of bamboo i need to cut is 2.284m and the quantity is two.

Without wasting anytime, my friends and i went to the place where the bamboo prepared in the evening. There are many bamboo and the accepted one are only those with a diameter about 7.5cm.
After choosing the right bamboo, we measured it and start our cutting session...

In the middle, we took some funny pictures.
And here is the last bamboo that finish cutting before we heading back. Yeah~ Thank to all my friends who work together, i appreciate it.

6B

1.Looking Backward…

It is undeniable that many people like to share their experience, looking backward of their life and flash back the journey they had have gone through. This time, we are asked to look back what we had gone through after we entered USM.
The first lesson I entered in school of HBP was RAG132 which conducted by Mr. Wan, our studio master. I had missed out the previous lessons as I was a second intake student. I was pretty blur during the first lesson, trying hard to adapt to the new environment and I was shocked when I knew that there are few assignments for me to catch up. Since that day, I am in totally busy, not only rushing for assignments but also trying hard to get into this new environment as everything is new for me, places, friends and lecturers.
Every lesson that I attained I got something, something that will be useful in future-knowledge and something that will influence our life-attitudes. For those weeks we went through, documentation weeks, communication weeks and design weeks we learnt something during the lessons and through the assignments. So far, we have done 11 assignments for RUS101 and almost all of the assignments are new to me and because of this, I was proud after getting its done one by one. From those lessons and assignments I had learnt to manage my time wisely, think positively, work in team (oneness), be creative (design) and be sociable (communicate). Besides, as Mr. Wan always mentioned, we have to be responsible on our behavior. Our future is in our hand, either we want to jump, walk or remain in the same place is decided by ourselves. The hopes of ourselves, our family and country are depend on our hand.


2.Looking forward…

21st Dec 2012, as Mayan people predicted this is the date that the world (or humanity’s existence) will come to an abrupt end. Although some people don’t believe it, it has been proven by some scholars who studied the end of the Mayan calendar. While there is no definite proclamation of how the end of the world 2012 predictions will happen, those who have studied this calendar claim that the long calendar was created in order to correspond with a long term astronomical prediction by the Mayan people. This has led some to believe that this end of the world scenario will play out in a manner that has something to do with something from beyond this world. (Refer to www.december2012endofworld.com)
For me, I believe it partially. What preparation will I do before the change occur? And what can I contribute to this world through my study in USM? First of all, I myself think that what will occur in the future especially for environments change is out of our control, we only can try to prevent the disaster occur due to human activities. As a human being, one’s power is limited but if we gather it up (oneness), it might come out with an amazing result.Mind set is very important, it is good to know and good to not know, and therefore, since I knew the 2012 prophecy, I should be no surprise when the day comes. Preparation that I can do is to play my part well as a student and gain as much as knowledge as I can during the day in USM. Staying clear that what can I do and what should I do before and after 21st Dec 2012. To contribute is to give whatever you are able to. For me, I would contribute myself by being cooperative and proactive while carrying out those preparations with others before the day comes.

For assignment 6B we are requesed to pay a visit at Jewish's cemetry and have a look on the monuments there in order to design one monument. My friends and i took bus in the afternoon and walk about 10minutes to reach the destination.

We are so happy to see the sight board-Jalan Zainul Abidin.^^

We took picture before entering the place to have a look.
This is the cemetery...

Many kind of monuments...big, small, triangular,spheric, etc.

What can I leave…

In the future, I hope that I can leave something that can benefit others. This monument symbolic the contribution of mine during my life.
Positive thinking, positive attitudes and positive mind. Maybe i might not be positive always while facing different situation but i'm training myself to be so.

This is a bamboo monument, natural and sustainable. A green heart surrounded with bamboo stick, just like a reinforcement to strengthen the heart to face all obstacle with positive mind, attitudes and thinking.

Survival Kit

Basically, this is the structure of IBU. Firstly, the roof is covered with a light-weighted membrane, morphology membrane which had been improved and modified by USM researchers to stable the membrane structure and increase the sensitivity of stretching speed. Secondly, to build a strong but light floor structure, a composite material- epoxy nanocomposites hybrid is chosen. With the advance of hand lay-up technique, the excellent flexural properties and good thermal properties of the epoxy hybrid nanocomposites meet the requirement for making the floor of IBU.

As bamboo with the form of poles are the main structure material for IBU, its need joint and filler to stable its up. For joint, it should be make from steel of polycarbonate, thus, adhesive from recycle polystyrene is needed. Instead of recycling polystyrene, converting it to adhesive is more environmental friendly and the product exhibits excellent adhesion, physical and mechanical properties when applied to different materials. µSiO₂ is novel cheap high performance silica filler from tin mine waste. The characteristics of µSiO₂ such as various particle shape, minimal agglomeration and partially amorphous layer are suitable in the construction of IBU as a filler.

My survival kit is shown as below. Inside the survival kit there are two main elements from the inventions of USM which are Resources Management Tool (RMT) and Dissolved air flotation (DAF). During disaster period, RMT will help to manage all the resources contained in IBU wisely in order to sustain 40 days and nights of battering. RMT offers six renowned and highly effective core service that are Internet Bandwidth Monitoring and Control Service, Active Virtual Folder Service, Computer Management Service, Application Management and Control Service, Computer Utilization Monitoring Service and RMT Tamper-Proof Service. Besides, by using the Application Programming Interface other custom service can be implemented according to their need and thus ease the survivals in controlling and managing their resources.
For DAF, it is a process used to separate solid from the body of liquid for water and wastewater clarification. A pilot plant for dissolved air flotation process was
constructed for potable water treatment to remove the particles present in the raw water so that the turbidity is reduced to an acceptable limit for drinking purposes. Hence, with the present of DAF people will have enough water to survive throughout 40 days and nights and it can help in providing clean water after the disaster too.