Well, it has been a pretty long hiatus! I haven’t written anything in a while because I’ve been incredibly busy. I have been working on my Conrad Challenge project with a couple of my friends and several other concurrent projects.
At the end of January 2024, after being influenced by ChatGPT for nearly a year, I suddenly had an idea: as a computer science student, shouldn’t I keep up with the times and start learning about artificial intelligence?
When I was a kid, everything around me was full of fresh colors. Seeing the toys and appliances at home can have different actions after being plugged in, I developed a great curiosity about the inner principles of these items. One time, I accidentally drove a remote control car off the table, causing its front wheels to stop turning. Just as I was about to throw it away, the curiosity inside my heart drove me to find a screwdriver to disassemble the car. Looking at the precise gear set, winding wires and several circuit boards in the car, I instantly felt like I entered a dreamy mechanical world. Later, with the help of my father, I tried to remove each part and put it back into the car again, and finally carefully closed the lid of the car and connected the battery. Press the switch and push the control stick, the car moved forward smoothly again, making a familiar “buzzing” sound. At that moment, I not only felt the joy of hands-on creation, but also realized that engineering can give new life to seemingly scrapped objects, thus serving the little miracles of daily life. From then on, I had some strange and eager feelings about the concept of “engineering”, which kept running and accelerating in my heart. Since then, I have disassembled many toys and seen various mechanical structures. Why are the internal parts of toys designed like this? These seemingly ordinary designs made me clarify the concept of engineering and ignited the earliest engineering spark in my heart.