Sam’s Blogs

At the begin of April was the Gregynog trip. This as the final test to see if our micro mouse could successfully preform withal the necessary tasks that were required of it the first assessment hat our micro mouse performs was the obstacle avoidance which it successfully manoeuvred itself to avoid all the obstacles that … Read more

In March after a lot of trouble shooting and testing, we finally got the white line following to work as intended. Once our white line following capabilities were acceptable when then used key elements from both white line following and obstacle avoidance to create the combat mode for our micro mouse this involved using the … Read more

In February we had made great progress with the white line following capabilities of our micro mouse. After a slight set back with our mouse falling off a table and cause some small, repairable damage to itself we got our white line following to work as intended but required some fine tuning to make the … Read more

In December with the PCB now fully constructed and functioning correctly we gave our micro mouse the ability to move around using the PCB and a raspberry pi microcontroller connecter to a set of motorised wheels. After this we made a touch bar sensor on the front of our micro mouse that allowed the micro … Read more

At the end of life for our micro mouse needs to be dismantled in a manner that allows us to save as many parts as possible ass possible for potential reuse many of the part will be eligible for reuse this including but not limited to the Raspberry pi Arduino board, motors and wheel, and … Read more

Our experience with the micro mouse project has allowed us to better understand the challenges of working on larger projects, for instance, autonomous vehicles. These present many challenges not just technical ones but also ethical ones too, for instance, identifying design flaws that can harm users and pedestrians. As per IET guidelines, such concerns ought … Read more

Due to the skill that we learn as engineers It is our job as engineers to follow ethical guideline set by the Royal academy of engineering (RAE) and the engineering council (EC). The purpose of these guidelines is to maintain trust in engineers. The IET also gives examples of ethical guidelines to follow two of … Read more

During November we made our first steps towards creating our micromouse. At first, we had an issue on our initial breadboard circuit regarding the IR sensors and the range each sensor detected the IR from the IR LED after some help from David moody we fixed the issue by swapping the IR sensors to ones … Read more

Within the first weeks of the micromouse project we completed a variety of team-based activities to allocate us into teams. Once we had been placed into teams, we quickly got to work creating a skill matrix to allow us as a team to effectively assign roles that best suite each individual skill. Once we had … Read more