Throughout this project the team has come together and we have all worked very well together. I am very happy with the final product and even though it isn't perfect i believe it did very well on the course and managed to find its way round a fair bit of the course. It also performed the reverse command perfectly.
My job in this task was group manager and the construction of the base but I also helped a little with the code and the wiring with everyone else. As group manager I wanted to keep everyone on track and make sure everyone was pulling their own weight I believe I was mostly successful in this task and everyone did their tasks in time for each meeting we had minus one.
As for the construction of the shell I talked with adam about material and we decided on cardboard as it is easy to construct, easy to change when problems are encountered and it is also very light weight. However to strengthen it we used wooden dowels as cardboard is quite flexable and this problem needed to be overcome. In previous posts I created a basic CAD model so i could get the dimensions correct and I then made a mock up so that i could test how strong it was and the dimensions.
In the end with a few little changes the design was very succsessful as it was strong, fitted all the components in perfectly and did the job it was supposed to do. Our buggy also stood out from the crowd of mechano which most of the other groups had used.
As for the wiring I helped quite a bit even though the final orientation of the wireing was changed. I also purchuced a bright white LED so that we weren't relying on natural light which is unpredictible.
I am very happy with our buggy, I'm glad I had such a good group for this project and I'm also glad I had the oppertunity to do it.
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