I read through the Statement of Ethical Principles by the Engineering Council and revised by the Royal Academy of Engineering. I found that the key ethical principles listed were; honesty and integrity; respect for life, law, the environment and public good; accuracy and rigour; and leadership and communication. As a Read more…
Cost breakdown The extra components we had to account for were the 128×64 OLED screen, the piezoelectric buzzers and the extra LEDs for our special features. Our shell costs approximately £8.40. WE only had two IR sensors but we had 2 IR emitters and 3 white LEDs for white line Read more…
For this issue, I will focus on the ethics of autonomous vehicles from the perspective of a design team working on designing a driverless car. I will be considering the consultation on the regulation of autonomous vehicles according to the Law Society. Our team’s reaction is that the proper safety Read more…
Throughout the micromouse project, we followed through with equality, diversity and inclusion. This is important as it ensures that everyone is respected as equal peers in the group. Equality, diversity and inclusion is essential as it ensures that despite different backgrounds and lifestyles, everyone is given an equal opportunity to Read more…
This month was the conclusion of our micromouse project. We completed the physical build of the micromouse. This included the shell, the touchbars, the IR sensors and the white line sensors. Additionally, our special features were completed. This included the indicator lights and reverse lights which simulates an autonomous vehicle. Read more…
This month we made good progress. The micromouse is almost completed and we should be able to have the product ready for the trip to Gregynnog. The features we focussed on this month included the finished PCB, the shell design, and the coding. Hafiz designed the shell to add space Read more…
Between November and the end of February, we completed work on the IR sensor circuit and printed the PCB. After the Christmas period, we started work on the white line following for the micromouse. I created the initial breadboard design of the light dependant resistor circuit. This allows the microcontroller Read more…
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. Read more…
I was assigned to group Delta, and I decided to take up the role of programmer because I find coding interesting. So far in the month, we have organised our group and made a planner using Teams. We also created a website for our micromouse and tried a experiment on Read more…