This week we are understanding the operation of the project that has touched us now, you could say that it is the most difficult of the whole year and that is why we have to be focused to learn everything for the exam of the next February 14th, we're having a hard time getting the robot up and running, but we're slowly moving forward both individually and in a group. It's the last test we have to do to leave in March of practice
We're in the second week of the challenge. We have to deliver for this week 6 mpi and PROFIBUS exercises. Apart for next week we plan to start programming the four panels that is the challenge project. We have to communicate 4 PLC via mpi and profibus. Each panel has to have its graphet, its inputs and outputs and separate its program. Once we have done the 4 programs we have to communicate them between them. We have to work together to overcome the challenge.
This week we have been given the results of the exam that we did, after being threatened by these results, now it is up to us to put the batteries in to finish the challenge well. We are making the communication through PROFIBUS, making some notes to take them to the exam. Other colleagues are working with the programming of the 4 models. Once we are done with this we have to communicate the models using PUT and GET and with PROFIBUS, since in the exam we will be asked to make this communication.
Last challenge, 2 weeks in and we are still clueless, we dont have much of an idea about communication, Profibus and MPI are both very complicated and need a lot of time to get used to.
But we are working on it and in 2 days we got 3 excersices done, if we keep this up we will end in no time, and we'll be off to study very soon, but I dont think that is likely, some issue we dont know about occurs very often, still we are giving our best and trying very hard, we dont want to end up here next year.
This week we are finishing the exercises to be done in the challenge, as the teachers did not say that the deadline for delivery is this Friday. For me this is the most complicated challenge of the whole course since I have never touched what is given here. I'm afraid of the exam, because, last time the teacher got angry about how the previous ones did and doesn't want it to happen again. People did the bare minimum to pass with a 5. Let's hope he's good with us and doesn't create trouble for us on the test.
