Nayim – November Blog

This month we have designed the PCB for the infrared light circuit using the Proteus software. The design is based on our breadboard circuit. We also decided on what to do for our special feature. We created a prototype circuit and we recreated the design on the PCB using Proteus. Our team leader Jamie created the design and Hafiz analysed it for any faults.

Our team decided to add turn signals and a reverse light on our micromouse for its special feature. We created the prototype for special feature on a breadboard and we designed the code. I coded the orange lights to indicate when the micromouse is turning directions, based on the IR sensor input. The indicators have a frequency of 0.5Hz. When the micromouse is reversing the white LED remains on until both sensors stop detecting an obstacle.

Additionally, we started constructing the base of our micromouse by adding the wheels, the raspberry pi board and the touchbars, which was done by our builders Jamie and Hafiz. Our prototype IR circuit functions correctly after we added heat shrink tubing to threshold the input.

Thanks to our web master Ibrahim, we have made progress on our website by adding our project plan and some placeholder web pages. I also added my profile photo and introduction for our ‘Team’ page.

Our progress so far is great because we have completed what we need for our website’s initial assessment and we created the PCB design for our micromouse.

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