News

Happy New year! We had a Christmas break and exams from late December to January, and we came back to the labs this week, we designed the PCB before the break and Mr Moody kindly printed it on Tuesday, Ethan started work on the PCB, drilling holes for the circuits and making a smaller circle. Andrew and I also got to work building the white line sensors on the breadboard and then we are currently adding it to the microcontroller. Check out a few pictures from our PCB and white line sensor prototype.

On the left is the first picture of our PCB after drilling holes for the circuit, the edges are still a little rough.

On the right is the final picture of the PCB after using the sander to get a more accurate circle.

This afternoon, we had a test with Dr Jobling and Dr Timothy Davies to confirm that our micromouse was running in a straight line and that it was able to perform obstacle avoidance, we had a practical test on our sensors. We were a bit worried because one of sensors on the board seemed to be more sensitive than the other, but Dr Davies was still impressed. Also, we completed the PCB design on proteus, and we were lucky enough to get some advice from Dr Timothy as he said that our board was a little empty and that we needed to add more sensors to our board.

We are currently starting the PCB design of the IR circuit on the Proteus software. Mr David Moody gave a briefing about it, and it needs to be completed on the 5th of December. Also, our website is coming along really nicely so Andrew would be moving on to starting a new project on the PCB, we would be helping him later on, but he’s got a head start. We have also got a great going on the breadboards.

All good news!