Animation in PowerPoint

On Friday I finished the presentation of my school project. It is a so-call "CMOS UWB IQ Modulator". In short, it is a Radio Frequency (RF) Circuit.

I and my partner first started the project in 2003. At first we planned to do "Automatic Gain Control System". But this design was difficult and references were limited. We spend 2.5 years but couldn't got anything going. Fortunately my partner is doing RF circuit at work now. Then we change the project topic. And bang! We get it done in half a year.

I will skip all the circuit stuff here. But there is one interesting thing we learn from this project, which is using animation in PowerPoint. Our design involves some not-so-easy RF theories. In a book those theories can take a few pages to explain. So we use animation to present those ideas. To my surprise it is pretty easy to add animation in PowerPoint. And the result is good. It makes the presentation much easier for audiences to follow.

I still need to submit a long report. That I can't use animation. But with all the training form blogging, it shouldn't be too hard to B.S. all the writing.