In the current state of the world, the importance of making sure that our micromouse is sustainable is vital as if we want any project to meet the current needs in the world it must be sustainable. This task of sustainability will involve reducing components that we do not need. Using another feature to save adding devices, preventing more devices and wasting material which is crucial. Recycling materials and making sure that at least some of them can be recycled.

Reducing components in this micromouse from the fact it is not needed. For example we are using all the features and we are jumping wires from 1 breadboard to another but we have two white line sensors which are connected on the same board. This will save circuit boards but it mainly save the use of wires. This would require at least 4 more wires where we would have to connect them an add more solder.

We also added the ada seesaw where this device connected give us several more pin allowing us to add new devices without getting another Raspberry Pi Pico. We also make sure that every device on the micromouse is used in some way. This will prevent us from building needless devices without a purpose apart from saying we have it. This is also good as it made us think what we really needed and then we can think of the most optimum design for it.

We also made sure that when creating devices like ultrasonic that it can easily be desolder so it can be used again in different devices. Recycling components is important and if we can manage that the sustainability of our micromouse would have increase as a result.

Finally, in our micromouse we only used one PCB design so we so not waste material that is not needed. This will also save us using different components. Addition to this when creating a circuit we test out on a breadboard to see if there is any faults in any of the components.

By Josh Jarvis