Done

-This is my first hardware project so I hope the board will work.
-KiCAD kept crashing and deleting all my custom libraries, so I wasted a lot of time recreating them from scratch.

On my way making the micromouse!!!!
Have to make every modules because they aren’t available in kiCAD.

Fixing bug so hard 😭

Devlog #02 Micromouse

1. Hardware is ready!

2. Software:

- Maze Solver:

• Floodfill (BFS): nothing changed.
• Added: prioritize moving forward if there are two different ways having same shortest distance.

- Hardware Code:

• Fixed: motor driver not turning on.

This is a reverse engineering project because they didn’t provide me with the robot’s circuit diagram, so I had to figure out the hardware myself. It took me about 5-7 hours testing before I discovered that the motor driver was controlled by a chip called PCF8574; I thought it only controlled the sensors.

Btw, if anyone knows how to upload videos, pls tell me T-T.

Devlog #01
The physical robot is not ready yet, so I developed a simple maze solver algorithm using BFS.
The robot is coming soon :D