April blog: April was a shorter month of working with the micromouse since the easterbreak enden in mid april. This month was the last month we were able to work on the micromouse. I soldered and wired up all the LEDs for our special feature. The circuit had a few things that didnt work (grounding …
March blog: March was a productive month focused on advancing and finishing off our micromouse project. I completed the crucial task of soldering all components onto the circuit board, ensuring each connection was perfectly secure. Additionally, I supported my colleague Modou with AutoCAD, aiding in the design of our device’s shell. We tackled AutoCAD’s complexities …
The IET NW Midlands webinar on the Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles, broadcast on March 16, 2021, discussed the technological architecture for autonomous vehicles, focusing on the use of intelligent agents to enhance trust in these systems. This architecture combines hardware and software to enable vehicles to act autonomously, including a variety of sensors and cameras …
Blowing the whistle: After having such success with this micro mouse project, I have a much better understanding of the complexity and workload that must be done for larger and more advanced projects. One example of this is autonomous vehicles and self-driving cars. Not only are there many more technical issues but there are also …
Our micro mouse group was very diverse with team members from all around the globe, William from Norway, Abthy coming from Saudi Arabia and myself living in the Netherlands for a while. This level of diversity definitely helped our team a lot. Furthermore, we made sure that everyone was included, and this allowed us to …
Our mouse could have been more sustainable since we ended up using two shell designs since the first one didn’t function as required. This unfortunately meant that around twice as much material was used for our 3D printed parts as necessary. Apart from this, we tired to keep our mouse as sustainable as possible making …
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This month was short but full of work, after coming back from easter we had one week where we were given our final shell and we quickly got to work making sure everything fitted inside of it. I helped William with wiring the LEDs into the shell, marking what LEDs connect to the different parts …
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 …
in March, our shell was 3d printed. On first impression the shell is what we intended it to be. But looking at the structure of the shell, is too fragile for us to drill any holes. And when the top of the shell is cut open, it has to be sanded down. So, the lid …
This month was a very big month as the white line following is now fully completed, and I have made almost all the code for the combat mode. The only problem I am having is when the mouse is turning and the IR sensors detect an object, the mouse attacks but still turns at the …