Author Archives: Peter Harrison
Register now for Techfest 2019
Techfest 2019, held on Saturday June 1st at Millennium Point, Birmingham is the UKMARS main event of the year and includes the UK micromouse contest as well as a host of other contests. Registrations now open at: http://registration.ukmars.org
UK contest rules change
At the 2019 Minos conference in April, the UK Micromouse and Robotics Society (UKMARS) agreed revisions to the rules governing its contests. Many of these changes were minor, to reflect the common practice that has been observed for several years. Some were more significant and are intended to bring the event up to date. The… Read More »
Otley Big Day Out – 2019
All MicroMouse builders & fans are welcome to come and visit Easton & Otley College (Otley Suffolk) where we will have our test 11×11 maze available to demonstrate MicroMouse to the visitors of the College’s “Big Day Out”. There is no competition as such, just an opportunity to test mice within a larger maze, and… Read More »
Micromouse Symposium 2019
The 1st Micromouse Symposium 27 April 2019, Gondomar, Portugal Micromouse Symposium 2019, the 1st International Symposium on Micromouse, will be held in Gondomar, Portugal, 27th April 2019. Industry experts, researchers and academics are expected to gather together to share ideas and experiences surrounding frontier technologies, breakthroughs, innovative solutions, research results, as well as initiatives related to the Micromouse Robotic Contest. Micromouse… Read More »
Minos 2019
The 19th conference takes place on 6th and 7th April 2019 at the Quality Hotel in Coventry, U.K. Papers are requested on all aspects of Micromouse and small autonomous robot design and use. Maze solving, wall following, line following and drag racing are the main contexts in both full-size and half-size formats. There will be… Read More »
All Japan 2018 Micromouse Live Stream
Micromouse maze solving performance
For many people, the task of solving the maze is central to the micromouse robot problem. After a while they come to realise that it is secondary to actually making the robot move quickly and reliably through the maze. Even so, the maze has to be solved. My micromouse software expects to be able to… Read More »
A simple git workflow
Source management is essential to software development. Even if you only use it to undo mistakes, there are great benefits. Of the available systems, git is probably the most popular. It is directly supported inside many editors and IDEs as well as the incredible resource that is github. Here is a simple workflow method that… Read More »
Changes to the All-Japan Micromouse Contest for 2018
Every year since its inception, the All-Japan contest has grown in popularity and stature. During that time, there have been many changes. Most notably, the half-size event, introduced in 2009, has become very popular. There are now so many entries that organising the event must meet new challenges each year. For 2018, the contest in… Read More »