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During May, the project was drawing to a close. As a result, a lot occurred, so I will go through it quickly – I began with attempting to convert the current prototype of the casing to a Lasercut Design – however I found there were several issues preventing assembly. I attempted this once more, and…

Most of the month was Easter. The wiring for the Stepper Motor was done, as well as another prototype. An ongoing issue with the Stepper Motor was that it would quickly cause the Hardware to overheat to a dangerous degree – even the addition of a heat sink did not remedy this issue. This is…

During March, prototyping began. Building from the skills developed during the last project, I worked once more with Cam and Follower mechanisms. The intent was to create a Kinetic Sculpture of the endangered animal in question, so that it could be displayed. Pictured above is one of the earliest concepts, however it had several glaring…

For the Febuary of 2026, we began our group project. To begin with we brainstormed, and decided we would wish to bring attention to a species within UK that is endangered. While we had not yet decided the Species, we began brainstorming. We researched various facets from Audience, to existing Data, and Species we could…

During the January of 2026, we were working on the modifications for our Pololu devices. For mine, I decided to work on a retractable pen, and the ability to control it remotely, rather then following a set path. For the pen, I decided to utilize a Cam and Snail follower to lift it up, and…

The final week. This week, we finished up all projects. our goal was to ensure everything was organised and finished completely, ready for submission. Nothing new this week, just lots of documentation paperwork and essay writing. Oh…. and even writing this!

This week we touched up on our first Arduino project, ensuring the documentation and all was complete so we could focus fully on the second, more complicated project. We had another lecture regarding controllers, and had a review regarding Essay Progress. All-In-All a much quieter week then previous, not much to report on.

This week we had a group tutorial – we did not learn anything within it – instead we simply checked up on our progress to make sure nobody was falling behind – fortunately of those who actually attended (which was not all!) nobody was falling behind. Having finished our prior Arduino Task, we began to…

This week, we learnt how to integrate an LCD screen into our Arduino projects. This was very complicated with a LOT of wires so it got messy quickly! I used my LCD screen to individually display four lines of text, outlining details of the music I was playing through the buzzer – in this case…

This week, we began our first Arduino Project. We began learning to add LEDs and Piezo Buzzers to our Arduino Circuits – In particular I learnt that due to how the code executes you cannot include more than one buzzer! We learnt how to wire these up to function in parallel, and wrote code to…