Joe's December Blog

This month our main objective is to achieve obstacle avoidance. To achieve this, we first had to build the main PCB on Proteus which could then be printed. Once the PCB had been printed off, we then moved on to soldering the components in. When soldering, we used the same circuit that was previously used to see where each component went. However, a problem was encountered once testing of the fully built PCB was started. Quickly into testing it was discovered that the microprocessor was damaged due to heat from the soldering iron. This resulted in the actual tracks of the PCB becoming damaged, leading to a new PCB to be printed. Unfortunately, this costed us too much time and was unable to achieve obstacle avoidance, so we were only marked on our touch bars.