All Things Yummy

So, I was taking my digital camera apart in the solar car office to tap into the buttons (I wanted to be able to control the camera from external signals). So, I’m slowly taking apart the camera, and I notice a BIG capacitor for the flash. It says on the side, 330V. I say “Neat!” and put the entire flash assembly aside, continuing my dismemberment of the camera.

So, couple of solar car people come in, and they’re like neat! Apparently the flash was covered in a lecture they took that day. So, I reach for the flash… then my entire hand convulses for about 3 seconds… a second later, my brain clicks into gear. D’Oh! 4 years of Electrical / Computer Engineering and 4 years of Solar Car… and I finally get shocked… disassembling a freaking CAMERA??? Anyway, my left hand index finger was gone for about 3 hours, and my entire left hand was tingling for quite a while. :p

I did end up wiring all the extra wires into the buttons of the camera, though! So I can now take pictures, focus the camera, and control many other signals just by connecting different wires… wow… think of the possibilities! I originally wanted it for aerial photography and time-lapsed movies of people working around solar car… but for instance, we could mount this on top of the chase car and have it take pictures every 30 seconds. or hook a button to solar car driver’s tiller bars and have it take pictures when a button is pressed… Yes, I’m a geek. :p

Anyway… Camera still works, so no lasting damage. And I can finally feel stuff on my left index finger.

Wow, has it been almost 5 years already? Anyway, here’s my blurb for the yearbook.

Daniel Yum, member of the HardBOOTy class and one of the co-founders of the “meh?” movement, graduated last night after suffering through five long years of excruciating drudgery. He was 22 years old. Lover of Fourier Transforms and anything sweet, he was known for being the guy “who sits in front”, and the guy who always talked about a mysterious entity named “Midnight Sun Solar Race Team” which consumed him from inside.

As a member of the infamously apathetic HardBOOTy class, Daniel tried his best at improving the class spirit, an endeavour in which he failed miserably. He was, however, more successful in photographing many HardBOOTy members falling asleep during lectures, a hobby he kept until his graduation day.

Daniel will be remembered for his sunny disposition and for his endless attempts at trying to jump and touch the exit-signs, clocks, and anything else hanging from the ceiling. He will also be remembered for his propensity of getting stuck with responsibilities he didn’t ask for, like being the class representative or the project manager of the solar car team.

With his last breath before the graduation, he thanked the Lord for guiding him, thanked his parents and his little brother for everything they’ve done, thanked the guys (who knows who they are), the midsun crew, and the HardBOOTy class for making the 5 years at least a little bearable. Before his graduation, he had been planning on continuing his efforts to explode his brain by going on to grad school.