Tinker CAD Arduino Competition
Tinker CAD Arduino Competition
Project Description: : Led a four-person team to design and build a fully autonomous robot using Arduino and onboard sensors. Improved navigation accuracy by 20% over baseline and delivered a working prototype within a $40 budget.
Problem & Motivation: Autonomous navigation requires integrating hardware, firmware, and sensor fusion under real constraints — cost, size, and time. This project developed hands-on systems engineering skills, including requirement definition, team coordination, and iterative prototyping under a hard budget ceiling.
Role & Contributions: Project lead. Defined system architecture, divided subsystem ownership across team members, wrote core navigation logic, and led integration and testing phases.
Technical Details:
Platform: Arduino microcontroller
Sensors: [ultrasonic/IR/line sensor — fill in what was used]
Navigation: obstacle avoidance / line following / [fill in mode]
Budget: $40 hard cap
Team size: 4
Results & Evaluation: