Monday, September 21, 2015

Weekly Report (Week 3)

1.      A meeting with supervisor to discuss our first failure.
2.      Identify the operation of X-ray Diffractometer use at Muhibah lab.
3.      Design a new auto-sampler model and sketch out the design.
4.      Choose suitable materials for our new auto-sampler design.
5.      Estimate an affordable budget for our new design.
6.      Prepare for Re-viva, make presentation slide, discussion among team members.
7.      Re-viva on 22/9/2015 morning at 9am.

Thursday, September 17, 2015

Weekly Report (Week 2)

1.      Discuss about the contents of the part of proposed product.
2.      Discuss the design of the auto-sampler and sketch the design.
3.      Doing research on the suitable material used for the robotic arm, auto-sampler plate, sampler holder and the stand of the auto-sampler.
4.      Predict the budget of the auto-sampler.
5.      Group meeting among group members and doing the presentation slide for first Viva on 17th September 2015.
6.      First Viva presentation on 17th September 2015.

Friday, September 11, 2015

Weekly Report (Week1)


  • Understanding about the Capstone title: Design and Fabrication of an Auto-Sampler for X-ray Diffraction (XRD) Analysis.
  • Study about XRD machine
  • Collect information about auto-sampler that already exist in the market
  • Figures above show various types of auto-sampler that available in the market
  • Group meeting among group members and have a concept of auto-sampler of XRD
  • Job and tasks are distributed equally to each of the group member
  • Each of the group members start to do the task assigned to them in order to complete the proposal