FEBRUARY BLOG

We had a break in January so we didn’t do anything for that month. But this month, we got busy and started on the white line sensor. We gathered the components such as a conductive strip, some LDRs, white LEDs and some resistors. We soldered the components on to the strip and fed it some electricity, the LEDs would light up, indicating that the circuit was drawing some current. To check if it was functioning correctly, we measured the LDR’s resistance as it varied in different environments. For example, the LDR would increase in resistance when in a dark environment (when it detected the black board, which the mouse will be competing on) and decreased resistance when in a bright/light environment, like the square white line that act as the parameter for the micromouse.

 I also got hte opportunity to help the team by working on the website. We went on to format the website and structure it in a professional manner such that it’s readable, the colours follow a theme and that the text were of appropriate size.