Week 3: Computer Engineering

COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Computer engineering is the branch of engineering that integrates electronic engineering with computer sciences. Computer engineers design and develop computer systems and other technological devices.

Computer engineers use many of the principles and techniques of electrical engineering and many of computer science.

Major areas of CPE:

  • Machine Intelligence
  • Computer software
  • Design automation
  • Cybersecurity
  • Networking

What we did:

Throughout this project, we used an Arduino SparkFun Redbot kit to construct a robot with sensors. We built a robot with an Arduino red board and tracked vehicles.

Step 1: Aurdino Red Board


Step 2: Aurdino Redbot Kit



Used programs:

IR Sensor


Alarm


Bumper

Step 3: Tanks

Final Product and Video

What would we do different to improve?

  • We would use our time more efficiently.
  • We would do our project in a more simple way.

Obstacles:

  • Hot glue gun
  • Programming the robots was confusing (coding)

Successes:

  • Our redbot kit worked pretty well.
  • Dividing the work equally

What we learned:

  • Using Aurdino
  • Teamwork
  • Combining the tanks with the Aurdino robots