Electronics Interest Group

Electronics Interest Group (EIG) would like to extend our sincerest thanks to all the participants who joined our December session. A special thanks to our advisors Mr. Caleb Tan, Dr. Jiang Li Jun, and all of our Exco members for organising this workshop. Makey-Makey workshop allows both participants and EXCOs to make Christmas songs with instruments which we are not used to. In this workshop, we used bananas as our piano and played Christmas songs for everyone. Also, in this workshop we have known each other better and enjoy the activities that the EXCOs have organised like 2 players football game and shooting game. Below are the photos taken on the workshop:

  Congratulations to the team on getting Champion for EIC 2022. The team consists of Osaki Quoc Anh, Seah Kai Wen Kelvin, Sherman Chow Jun Shin, and Lim Qiang Huat. We would like to thank Dr. Jiang, Mr. Caleb, and our mentor Mr. Poh for helping us with the competition and giving us support whenever we need. The theme of EIC 2022 was to build a prototype with artificial intelligence which helps in sustainable living. The team’s idea is about improving the recycling rate and reducing the contamination rate for recycling bins. The idea helps to identify items to sort out within them into different categories. It can help to cut, clean, and compress the items so that it can make more space and help to clean the inside of the item. Most importantly, the team’s idea consists of an artificial intelligence-enabled camera that can help to sort the items into different categories which helps the workers from waste management to save their items to sort out the materials. The team’s idea can ...

Electronics Interest Group (EIG) would like to extend our sincerest thanks to all the participants who joined our September session. A special thanks to our advisors Mr. Caleb Tan, Dr. Jiang Li Jun, and all of our Exco members for organizing this workshop. DesignSpark Workshop is our second physical workshop in this pandemic. The event happened on 9 Sept 2022, from 10am - 4pm at Republic Polytechnic W23A.  The objective of this workshop is to let students learn how to use DesignSpark software to make their own Printed-Circuit-Board. Students who attended the workshop were very active, they will share their opinion, and asked for help if they needed it.  In this workshop, the Exco members taught the students how to import the libraries so that they can use the components in the schematic, how to do PCB routing, and do's and don'ts for PCB. Below are the images taken on the day: Top 3 winners for Kahoot: Prize Ceremony: Group photo: Therefore, we would like to thank all advisors...

                                         Introducing our EXCO committee for 2022!!! Hi everyone!!! Please Welcome our new EIG EXCO committee for 2022. Please stay tuned for our upcoming workshop and follow our Instagram page for the latest update for the workshop. Instagram account: @rp_eig

Engineering Innovation Challenge 2021 is the competition held in the period between August and November 2021, organised by the Institution of Engineer in Singapore (IES), Singapore Nuclear Research & Safety Initiative by the National University of Singapore (NUS), and Singapore Science Centre.  It is held for all Singapore students who are interested in the relevant field of STEM. The competition was to provide opportunities for innovation to all students from Secondary Schools, Junior Colleges, Polytechnics, and ITEs. This allows them to collaborate with professional engineering and business mentors to design or invent a product to demonstrate their engineering skills. There were 8 students represented from RP under 2 teams, which consists 1 leader and around 3 to 4 members per team, under ITE and Polytechnic Category. One of which all members are a group of Engineering students from the Electronics Interest Group.  In this competition, the team, from SEG-DEEE and Electro...

Electronics Interest Group (EIG) would like to extend our sincerest thanks to all 20 participants who had joined our December workshop session while paying our apologies for the remains who are unable to come for the workshop due to the COVID-19 restriction. A special thanks to our advisors Mr Caleb Tan, Dr Jiang Li Jun, and all of our EXCO members for organizing such an astonishing hands-on workshop.  Arduino Bluetooth Robot Car Workshop II is the first physical workshop that has ever been held since the beginning of the pandemic. The event happened on 16th December (Thursday), starting at 10.30 am and ending at 4 pm. The location is laboratory W23A, in Republic Polytechnic. The objective of the workshop is to gather, team up and enable all participating students to collaborate in the hands-on Robot Cars construction.  Before attending the workshop, the participants are required to download two software on their smart devices, which are Arduino IDE (for computer) and Arduino ...

Few-Shot Learning for Vehicle Footprint Recognition An SEG DEEE team won 3rd Prize at the Grand Challenge "Few-Shot Learning for Vehicle Footprint Recognition" o f IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) -  International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2021.  ICME has been the flagship multimedia conference sponsored by four IEEE societies since 2000.This award is to recognize participants who can be either university students, graduated researchers, or from industries with great research ideas on the topic of “few-shot learning” (A branch from AI) to aid with the specific problem of tire pattern image classification and retrieval for the use of traffic accident management. Due to covid19, the grand challenge of ICME 2021 was held online . The team, from SEG-DEEE and Electronics IG, developed an AI model and published it under the name “Pix2Pt Map for Transfer-Based Few-Shot Learning” which acts as a convenient tire classification model to aid in the...

Lee Hsien Loong Interactive Digital Media Smart Nation Award (LHL-IDM Smart Nation Award) 2021 The LHL-IDM Smart Nation Award for 2021 was won by a group of students from the Republic Polytechnic - School of Engineering (RP-SEG). This award is to recognize full-time polytechnic students who have completed Interactive Digital Media projects that fulfil the Smart Nation vision of harnessing technology to improve the lives of citizens, create more opportunities, and build stronger communities. The team, from SEG-DEEE and Electronics IG, developed a Smart AI Detector system that combines commonly required functions of face recognition, with mask detection, thermal scanning, safety headgear detection and cigarette detection. The Smart AI Detector is based on the open-source program Yolov5 model, which takes in commonly available form inputs like image files, videos, online streaming or live videos from a camera or CCTV video feeds. The software captures video feeds from the camera frame...

South East Asia Programmable Logic Controller Design Competition 2021 The "South East Asia Programmable Logic Controller Design Competition" was held on the 10th July 2021, organized by Republic Polytechnic (RP), in partnership with  Asia Pacific University (APU) and Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), Malaysia.  The PLC competition was held especially for the Year 3 students who have taken the "E243 Automation Systems" module at RP. The purpose of the competition was to cultivate teamwork, allow the students from South East Asia to use their imagination and analytical skills to invent, design and turn ideas into products. A total of 29 teams from Singapore and Malaysia have participated in this competition in 2 categories – Degree and Diploma. There were 8 students who participated from RP under 2 teams of 4 each, led by lecturer Ms. Elven Kee. The competition was held on MS Teams with a duration of 4 hours which included the solutions, simulations and pres...

  Electronic Interest Group (EIG) would like to extend our sincerest thanks to all the participants in our workshop held on the 29th July 2021 (Thursday) on Arduino Based Bluetooth Robot Car using Microsoft Teams due to the prevailing COVID situation. A special thanks to advisors Mr Caleb Tan ,Dr Jiang Lijun and our all our EXCOS for organizing this event for all the students of Republic Polytechnic (RP). We hope all the participants learned about basic knowledge of Arduino programming and wire connections through the simulations done through "Adobe TinkerCAD" platform.. We managed to attract over 30 participants which is great achievement considering this being the first event for the New Executive Committee. We are looking forward to seeing you at our upcoming events soon.