One of the main elements of our sustainability plan is the maintenance of our project website. We made sure that we kept updating the website as we worked on our project. Not only did we keep updating the website with the work we have done but also we did make some changes to make our […]
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Blowing the whistle Building a car that drives itself is challenging and there might be some technical issues that must be sorted out. teams face a host of technical, ethical, and regulatory challenges. These teams must make sure the main ethical guidelines are applied in their designs. Furthermore, the safety and well -being of all
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Working in a group on a project with people from different countries was a new experiment for me. Initially, I thought that working with people coming from different countries with different cultures, mindsets, and personalities was going to be a challenge and perhaps a disadvantage. However, working with my teammates made me realise that I
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During April we worked on completing our project micro mouse. While installing the bumper one of the touch bars broke, so I worked on replacing the broken touch bar and installing the bumper on the touch bars. In addition, we finalized our presentation slides and made some changes. Then we discussed who should talk about
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Through March we completed our first shell design for our micromouse, after printing it out we realized it had some issues. Which are the following, it didn’t fit on the micromouse, its diameter was small, while designing it we forgot about figuring out a way to access the off/on switch, we had some issues with
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During February, we have made massive improvements to our project. starting with the micromouse, We have made 4 sensors, two of which are in the front for obstacle avoidance mode and we have coded them to detect the white and black colours so it can stay on the white line and turn when it is
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After reading the statement of ethical principles issued in 2005 by the Royal Academy of Engineering and Engineering Council, I will do my best to commit to these principles. In my opinion, honesty and integrity is the most important section. As future professional engineers and students working together on a project, we should be able
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During December we didn’t accomplish many things, because we have finished most of the work in November. During December’s lab sessions, we started by preparing for the project’s obstacle avoidance presentation. In addition, we started planning for the next semester and discussed how to improve the quality of our project. In conclusion, during this semester
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During November, we accomplished a lot of tasks. Starting with the website, we kept developing our website and we added some new pages. I worked with Modou on choosing a background picture for the website’s blogs page. I personally worked on publishing the Micromouse part on the project documentation page. In addition, I have worked
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On our first week of the group project, after being assigned together as team Charlie. The four members of the team started by deciding which roles they wanted to take, we filled a roles and skills matrix. Furthermore, we planned and splitted the tasks required to get done. We were briefed about this lab’s structure
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