Dear all,
There is a typo in the room name in https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/DESN2000/26T2/resources/124278 for tomorrow, which says AGMS LG07. It should be correct as the AGSM LG07, which is: https://www.learningenvironments.unsw.edu.au/physical-spaces/k-g27/k-g27-lg07.
Cheers
-Hasindu
Dear all,
Hope you are ready for the implementation vivas tomorrow and day after. Please come to the right venue at the right time as shown here: https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/DESN2000/26T2/resources/124278.
Each of you should bring your laptop and the development board (unless an exemption was granted).
Do not forget to submit the team evaluation form by 15th of August. Each of you should individually submit this, assessing the contribution of others in the group: https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/DESN2000/26T2/resources/121358.
Regards
-Hasindu
Hi everyone,
Hope you are all progressing well with your projects. Lab 4 marks are out and you should be now able to see your marks for lab 4 in
Give
.
Cheers,
William
Dear all,
Amongst so many other emails in my inbox, there is a slight chance that I could miss one of your group's early submissions when recording them. If you do not get a response email from me by today 11pm, please send me a reminder email.
Regards
-Hasindu
Dear students
So far, only around 30% of the students have filled out myexperience . Really appreciate it if all of you could fill it out.
Tell us what's good that we should continue as it is, and what should be changed for the future. Both of these are equally important, as otherwise, one or two outliers can determine the future direction.
Regards
-Hasindu
Dear all,
Based on the poll, I have updated the implementation submission deadline to Wed 12 Aug 23:59:59 2026.
Not to disadvantage those who finished early (which seems to be very few), we will award upto 5 bonus marks for the implementation, to offset any marks lost during the viva marking. Such groups, please send me (and CC William) an email, with a full snapshot of the git respository attached into the email. If you take this path, you should not update the give submission after the old deadline or have any commits in the git repository after the old deadline.
Regards
-Hasindu
Still only 34 students have participated in the poll out of 53, regarding potential deadline extension for implementation. If you haven't seen this post in discourse yet, quickly indicate your preference by 12pm today (1 hour left).
https://discourse03.cse.unsw.edu.au/26T2/DESN2000/t/potential-deadline-extension/59
Dear all,
Please see the forum regarding the project implementation submission.
Regards
-Hasindu
Hi all
Hope the project implementation is going well. This Thursday's lecture slot will be mostly used for consultation, where I will be there from 4 pm- 6 pm, and William, who is the NFC module expert, will join at 5 pm. So if you have any ongoing questions or issues, please turn up.
Regards
Dear all,
I kindly ask each of you to take a few minutes to complete the myexperience forms . Tell us what's good that we should continue as it is, and what should be changed for the future. Both of these are equally important, as otherwise, one or two outliers can determine the future direction.
<u>Course Evaluation</u>
In the course feedback, comment on the course structure & content. Please be clear to distinguish between the design portion (design lectures, design journal and design presentation) and the technical component (lectures done by me, labs and the project implementation) in your comments. Your feedback over the past few years has significantly shaped the technical part of the course, which I have the authority to change.
<u>Instructor Evaluation</u>
In the instructor's feedback for myself, give more focus on the technical lectures and the coordination of the technical component of the course.
In the instructor's feedback for the demonstrators, give more focus on the labs. Though you might find forms for all the demonstrators, only fill out the ones for whom you interacted during the labs.Your design component's instructor
Hi everyone,
The project demonstration schedule is now published. You can find it in the Projects Implementation Section tab on WebCMS here , please check your group's date, time and venue and note it down now, they should be the same time as the one you have booked. If you did not book, they were randomly assigned.
Please note the two different location s for each of the days and arrive at the location at least five minutes before your slot.
You must
bring your own board and laptop with the cubeIDE project available
(unless exemption granted), as you will be required to demonstrate that you can flash it yourself.
Furthermore, the
board
and the
NFC module
will be collected after your demonstration. Please make sure your code is ready to upload to the board so you can demonstrate the project in a timely manner.
1. You flash your own boards at the start of the session.
2. You then demonstrate your project. Show what it does and walk us through the functionality you have implemented.
3. Demonstrators mark your implementation against the project requirements, detailed in the
implementation guide
, while you demonstrate. During the demonstration demonstrators will ask questions to determine your understanding on the technical aspects. Demonstrators may also require you to go through the code to assess it and ask you further questions.
Every group member should be ready to answer questions on
all parts of the code
, so make sure you all understand the full implementation, not just your own section.
If you have a question about the schedule or your slot, post on the course forum or contact me through teams or my email z5481729@ad.unsw.edu.au .
Good luck for your demonstrations!
Cheers,
William
Hi all,
If you have not checked already, place check your presentation and journal marks (these were available from a while ago).
For each of these assignments, comments from the marker were also uploaded. As the comments are long, the give web interface may not be showing it properly. So please use the command-line method instead:
`
login.cse.unsw.edu.au
desn2000 classrun -sturec
`
I have to send off the design journal and presentation marks to the course convenor (Ilpo Koskinen) soon; therefore, ask any questions regarding these marks as soon as possible.
Regards
-Hasindu
Dear all,
As you may have realised, all the technical content required for your project was covered by the end of Monday's lecture.
For tomorrow's lecture slot, the plan is as follows, based on requests I received from some of you:
Please make the most of this opportunity and come prepared with any questions or issues you would like to discuss.
Regards
-Hasindu
Dear all,
DESN2000 2026 T2 Project technical demonstration slot selection (viva voce) can be done using the link here .
Please note that only one person from the group should do the booking. The slots are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
The venue for the viva will be announced later.
Regards
-Hasindu
Hi all,
If the jumper wires your group got with the NFC RFID module is unsuitable to connect to the QWIIC port on the coaST board, please collect the right jumper wires during the lecture tomorrow.
During the lecture tomorrow, I will be covering how to use PWM to make sounds on the buzzer and then the analogue to digital converter to read the LDR values.
Regards
-Hasindu
Dear all,
I have posted a few announcements in the Discourse forum. Putting the links to those posts in case you miss them:
https://discourse03.cse.unsw.edu.au/26T2/DESN2000/t/lecture-tomorrow/43
https://discourse03.cse.unsw.edu.au/26T2/DESN2000/t/project-presentation-marks-and-feedback/45
https://discourse03.cse.unsw.edu.au/26T2/DESN2000/t/lab-2-marks/44
Regards
-Hasindu
Hi everyone,
The project implementation assessment guide has now been released on WebCMS which can be found in the Project section under Project Implementation. You should read through the guide carefully as it contains important details about the nature of the task and its marking. There are two main tasks: first is a project repository submission (which will be opened at a later date) which is due by 11:59 PM Fri Week 10. In addition, each member must complete the individual contribution form to ensure marks are distributed fairly. The second is an in-person viva, whereby you will demonstrate your project. Vivas (20–30 min/group) run in Week 11/12, with a booking form to follow on a first-come-first-served basis. Make sure to come ready to explain your own work, as you're questioned individually which will affect your marks.
Dear all,
Please do not worry if you submitted your design presentations on time before the deadline (Sunday 11.59 pm) and still see that it is xx hours late. This is due to a misconfiguration in the specification file for give, and I apologise for the inconvenience. So please ignore that late submission notice. Please be assured that we will not penalise this as long as the actual submission was done by Sunday 11.59 pm.
Cheers
-Hasindu
Hi all,
You should be now able to see your marks for lab 1 in Give .
Also, given it is past the 3rd week, I would appreciate if you could fill up this feedback form on
lectures
.
That way, I can accomodate any changes for the upcoming weeks, where possible.
Cheers
Hi everyone,
Here are some important updates regarding the Design Presentation assessment. The design presentation marking assessment guide is now out on WebCMS named Design presentation assessment guide , with the presentations to be delivered during normal lecture times in week 5, either Monday 9:00-11:00 or Thursday 16:00-18:00, depending on your allocated time slot, which is visible under the Design Presentation heading titled Project Presentation Allocation Slot . If you are unable to attend your assigned session due to an unavoidable clash, arrange with another group who is willing to swap and please contact me (William Chan) via Teams or email z5481729@ad.unsw.edu.au and inform me of the group that will swap with you by the end of this week.
There is also a Design presentation team evaluation for you to fill out after the presentation which is due Friday of Week 5, to ensure equal contribution from each member of your group. Furthermore, there is a list of all the groups to check your teammates’ names and zids called Groups List .
Finally, Week 3’s lab is out.
That’s it for now, if you have any questions please feel free to contact me or ask during the labs, have a great rest of the week!
Hi all,
Tomorrow we have the second lecture from 4.00pm-6.00pm at the Tyree Energy Technology LG07 (K-H6-LG07), which is next door to the Monday lecture theatre.
I will be giving you the NFC RFID Wireless Modules, which you will be using for the project.
Please make sure to read the project brief and the design journal assessment before coming.
Dear all,
The design journal assessment details are now available on webCMS . Please post any questions on the forum or ask during the lectures.
Also, as I (stream coordinator) mentioned during the lecture, the project brief is available at webCMS . Please read this carefully before coming to the next lecture on Thursday.
The lecture recordings are available through echo 360 . However, please note that my lectures are conducted in person, and as this is a project-based course, sessions will be activity-driven. As a result, echo360 cannot fully capture the learning experience. Even when recordings are available, the quality may vary due to limitations of echo360 and the recording system: e.g., whiteboard content can sometimes appear blurry, and microphone audio may be low at times. These recordings are intended only as a supplementary resource for review and should not be relied upon as a substitute for attending in-person lectures.
In addition to all of the above, some faculty-wide design content supplied by Ilpo Koskinen (course convenor) is available on Moodle . There are only two lectures for design content, and both of them are recorded videos. These two videos have been uploaded to the same echo360 link above.
Cheers
-Hasindu
Dear all,
Hope you all had a great break. Here comes the 2026 T2!
You will have your first DESN2000 (Computer Engineering Stream) lecture on Monday, 9 am-11am at the Tyree Energy Technology LG05 (K-H6-LG05).
At this first lecture, I will demystify the structure of DESN2000, and then we will get onto some important activities such as getting started with the development board, forming your groups, etc. So make sure you attend the lecture in person.
Before coming to the lecture, could you please install STM32CubeIDE and STM32CubeMX on your laptop? - see details here . We will be using this software throughout the course.
See you tomorrow.
-Hasindu
Welcome to DESN2000 (Computer Engineering). I am the stream coordinator for the Computer Engineering stream (COMPBH or COMP). We will be using this webCMS to host the course material for our stream. For discussion, we are planning to use this Discourse forum .
This is NOT for the Software Engineering (SENG) stream or the Bioinformatics Engineering (BINF) Stream. The stream coordinator for SENG is Morty Al-Banna and for BINF it is Dr Sara Ballouz .