November Blog

The objective for November was to get a working IR circuit built onto a printed circuit board. Other goals included choosing a special feature for our micromouse and finishing the set-up of our website. The first step of making the IR circuit was to get a working model on the breadboards we have in the lab. After adjusting the value of the resistor leading to the IR LED and finding a pair of IR sensors with the same range I am happy with the circuit that Josh, Khizar and I have made.

The next step was to design the PCB itself. The way our team went around doing this was having each member design their own PCB then we would pick the best one. After some discussion about our special feature our team leader chose my circuit since it was the most compact. As for the coding exercises they have gotten a bit more complex and now we are directly working to code the motors.