April finally brought our micro mouse adventure to a close with the assessment day at Gregynong hall. the week before the assessment we spent checking our micros mouse and making final adjustments to the code for each of the tasks. After arriving at Gregynog our mouse managed to successfully complete Read more…
March was largely spent working on our micro mouse’s special feature. our special feature was a speaker system that can play sound effects that allow us to play sound effects and music while our mouse works. In order to achieve this the speaker had to be powered by a separate Read more…
Freddie Colton The Micro mouses chassis houses a variety of electronic and mechanical components all of which have an associated carbon footprint. For example, raw materials had to be extracted from the earth which required machinery burning diesel fuel, the machinery itself also has its own carbon footprint in in Read more…
In order to achieve the line following functionality we planned to use 4 white LED in combination with 4 light dependant resistors in order to detect the white line. The line would be detected by exploiting the fact that the white line would reflect light differently to the the black Read more…
The first half of January was spent out of the lab with myself and the rest of the team focusing on our exams for other modules. in the latter weeks of January though we were glad to return to the lab to continue working on our micro mouse. Our first Read more…
In November we successfully designed and printed our PCB for the IR circuit therefore the key task for December was constructing and testing the IR circuit. I began by drilling out the PCB in order for the components to be mounted ad soldered in place. When soldering the components onto Read more…
After successfully constructing our IR sensor circuit on the breadboard it was time for us to begin designing a version that could be printed on a PCB. For this we were introduced to the PCB design software Proteus. Initially I had some difficulty operating the software as I have limited Read more…
After meeting my teammates and becoming acquainted we quickly began discussing our goals for the project and outlining areas we each found most interesting about the project. Following this we created our project plan and team contract after taking careful consideration for each other’s areas of expertise and needs. Once Read more…
In engineering ethical principals describe the standards to which we must hold ourselves and peers. Firstly the work we produce as engineers produce will play safety critical roles in everyday life for millions of people for example aircraft and other vehicles which carry human. For this reason the engineering council Read more…