Category: Monthly Updates

Our group finished everything this month. We were finalizing everything in our website so we can present later on. The only thing left to submit was the shell examination.

We have finished working on the website , code and the flowcharts on Micromouse, now the only thing left to do is to prepare for the shell examination that will happen on 3rd of June.

This month, we had a talk about ethics in engineering, and I progressed with the special feature. This month after the February post about bluetooth, this is about the Wifi module. These are the ESP8266, they are small Wifi peripherals which enable use to leverage the wireless capabilities. Below is the basic code on setting … Continue reading April – Drew

This month we mostly completed the shell, we got to a decision that it will look like a tank. Me and Sasindu worked on it. Solid works was interesting to work with.

After a coniderable amount of hours and help from Mr Moody, we have completed our shell design in the form of a tank. The only issue arrised was the ability to create the wheel. This led to the implemention of a premade wheel which was royality free.

This month our team is finishing off the work and preparing for our final website assessments. Also we have visited the ethics presentation that was given by a professor from Manchester University. It was very informative.

I mostly worked on helping Alderham with the shell design. The learning curve for solid works is high ,though, we are making process.

This month I started working on solid works. We got in a meeting with Dr Moody and helped us on learning the basics of Solid works. We got a rough idea of what our shell will look like.

This month, I worked on the PCB design for the assignment due 26th, the end result of this progress was this circuit board.

During February, I was tasked with testing bluetooth for the device, this will as it stands operate using the ATMega328/2560 chipsets (most commonly seen in the Arduino’s). The code below is the code on the microcontroller, it simply connects to the BLE module which is connected on the TX and RX pins. The BLE (Bluetooth … Continue reading February Update – Drew