During this month I have been gauging the team's progress in certain areas. We fell behind slightly on the IR sensors (the PCB and fixing a suitable range became quite the challenge) but this is nothing to worry about since we saved time on other tasks meaning that our net progress remains on track. Personally, I have added to the touchbar circuits that James started off, building this was fairly simple and took little time. I started the documentation of our IR sensor circuit creation. I will finalise this document when we have fully completed the IR circuitry and we have attached it to our micromouse.
Initially the IR sensors were placed in the hands of Panos and Anthony but due to the slower progress on the IR sensors, Panos had to draw his attention to the creation of the PCB, this meant that I filled in for him after getting the motor assembly done with James. Following on from this it was now Anthony and I who had our work cut out for us to find a suitable range for the IR sensors. Since the detectors were so strong we could detect an object over 600mm away, this is not very useful in our current objective to avoid obstacles. To overcome this issue we ended up fixing the sleeve on the sensor and it drastically reduced the sensors pickup range to a more suitable value, more is discussed in the document.
Overall , the month of November was productive, with more hours under our belt we've definitely become more in tune with the task at hand. We hope this carries on into the first part of December before the Christmas and Exam break