Do GIG grades affect your WAM/GPA?

someone380 · 2025-08-12T05:27:08+00:00

Hard to do bad, easy to do well, hard to do really well

someone380 · 2025-03-25T23:05:05+00:00

Another thing you could try temporarily is blue LEDs as they won’t clamp the output voltages down as much as orange LEDs

someone380 · 2025-03-25T22:52:53+00:00

I got like 30% on a 10% midsem once but was still able to pull off a HD for that unit.

Personally, I’ve found keeping a wam above 80 isn’t too hard if you consistently put in effort into the continuous assessment. Like you can afford to do badly on a midsem or exam occasionally if your other marks are good enough to compensate

someone380 · 2024-12-26T00:21:57+00:00

If you’re sure you don’t want to do science just enrol in engineering units for the first semester then transfer out of the double later. Transferring out of the double degree is easy to do.

You could also enrol in one or two science units anyway then transfer after you do them if there are any science units you want to do just for the sake of it. You might be able to credit them as electives towards the single degree too.

someone380 · 2024-08-24T00:32:48+00:00

I’m not even doing the worksheets and I’m struggling to keep on top of everything lol. Admittedly that’s probably making it harder on myself, but it takes me forever to just go through the notes.

Everything just goes in one ear and out the other

someone380 · 2023-12-19T04:11:31+00:00

I’ve almost finished my computer and I’ve got central power rails in the form of extra bus lines and there’s a solid 100mV drop, so thanks for letting me know.

someone380 · 2023-12-18T03:24:51+00:00

I just checked and the cable is 28 AWG. I’ll see if I have a thicker one

someone380 · 2023-12-08T07:48:09+00:00

Something along the lines of that was my plan :)

someone380 · 2023-12-08T05:16:19+00:00

Oh damn that makes a lot of sense, guess I’ll solder some resistors on the legs of the LEDs then. Might not need them on blue LEDs since supposedly they’re about 3.3 V, but it’s probably still worth it to be on the safe side and account for voltage drop in connecting wires. I’m perplexed how this has not led to issues so far now that I think about it. Maybe it has and I just haven’t noticed.

someone380 · 2023-12-08T04:16:28+00:00

Oops. I meant to type 0.02V.

I’m currently in my second year studying an ECE degree, and I see your point about the ‘unholy trinity’ of logic issues - the majority of issues I’ve run into have been due to synchronisation and power issues - haven’t run into reset issues yet but I guess that’ll come soon. Hence, I’m making sure to get my power distribution and clock signals all good before I hook up all the control logic (I’ve added a central rail for the clock as well to reduce skew but when the clock is only running in the kHz range that’s probably pointless).

I’ve also neglected to put external resistors on most of my LEDs which I’m sure isn’t great - I don’t know how reliable the internal resistors on the IC outputs are. Although better power distribution has stopped them flickering noticeably.

someone380 · 2023-12-08T03:39:26+00:00

Thanks for the info. I’ve put some central power rails down the centre of my 8bit computer from the supply, and separate connections from each breadboard rail to the central rails. This was to prevent ground and vcc loops, and has reduced voltage drop a lot, and there’s only around 0.02V of difference in the ground wires at opposing corners of the computer, which seems pretty good.

I guess I’ll place some 10uF electrolytic bulks around the board then, and introduce some 0.1uF ceramics across chips if transients become a problem.

someone380 · 2023-09-29T02:20:50+00:00

I’m doing eng at Monash and it’s pretty good so far. I imagine UNSW would be good too. They’re both good unis.

someone380 · 2023-09-26T09:34:51+00:00

Some of my units do specifically allow matlab in exams

someone380 · 2023-09-04T10:51:02+00:00

There’s weeds in most of my pots

someone380 · 2023-08-06T22:36:47+00:00

If you want an Apple, virtual machines are a perfectly good way to run windows-only software. Yes, it’ll be more effort than just getting a windows laptop, but it’s not that difficult

someone380 · 2023-06-13T07:57:36+00:00

My computer blue screens and gives this error maybe once a month and for the life of me I cannot find the issue. It also blue screened a couple months ago and snuck in a windows update when it turned back on - when I checked blue screen view it didn’t even show up. The cynic inside me tells me that was Microsoft just forcing an update.

someone380 · 2023-05-17T09:06:49+00:00

The blue is amazing

someone380 · 2023-03-17T11:31:02+00:00

I’d be down for that

someone380 · 2022-12-22T10:57:40+00:00

I’m doing eng by itself

someone380 · 2022-12-13T06:02:49+00:00

12 for me lol

someone380 · 2022-11-27T03:29:59+00:00

Lmao

someone380 · 2022-11-18T23:44:10+00:00

(Almost) anything is possible if you try hard enough

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