October Blog

For October we spent the majority of our time planning out the future of our project. This included setting deadlines and making sure we assigned our tasks to the correct people. Along with creating a team contract and skill matrix we also built the circuit for the IR sensor we will be using for the micro-mouse. This was quite a useful exercise. As I where all able to learn a bit more about the layout of a circuit. The final thing we started this month was building the IR circuit in Proteus. This came with some challenges when converting the circuit since we where moving from a 3D plane to a 2D one where wires and elements couldn’t over lap. I would like to have our special feature decided upon by early November so we can start working on that ASAP.

In addition to our group work we have all been working on individual coding assignments. These are designed to ensure each group member a baseline level of knowledge when it comes to writing in c+. They have started off quite simple. However they have been very helpful personally as coding is the area where I am weakest.