Micromouse
A small two-wheeled robot for the third-year Engineering Design course. Straight-line drive on encoders, then a full maze solve with self-return.
The brief
Two tasks, one robot. First: drive a metre in a straight line using only wheel encoders. Second: enter an unknown maze, find its centre, and drive itself back to the start without bumping a wall.
My side of it
Two of us on the build, and I worked across the whole stack: the power PCB, hand-soldering the assembly, sensor calibration, and the firmware in embedded C. The straight-line task quietly taught me more about honest test rigs than any lecture. The maze pass was the pay-off from getting the boring first task right.
