Archive for April, 2008
Sunday, April 6th, 2008
We often tell beginners that they can learn a lot by building a non-contact wall following micromouse. If it can keep track of where it is and knows when it is in the centre of the maze, most of the hard problems have been solved. To get to that ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
As set up for the last post, my micromouse Decimus is performing reasonably well on the ground. So far. The data plots show some features that are a little bit curious. However, my concerns over the apparent error in the endpoint were a little misleading. The recorded error is derived ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
With new tyres and a tweak to the acceleration profilers it is time to grab some data from Decimus again. The tyre seem to give me reliable grip up to 4m/s/s. They will probably manage more but I seem to have other control issues then. In any case, a dusty ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
The Pit Shimizu tyres arrived today. I had to order them from Hong King and they took a week or so to arrive. These are PS-0300 according to the label and have 15° Shore hardness. This is a bit harder than the PN racing set that came the other ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
All fools day it may have been ... but not at the Open University headquarters today in Milton Keynes. The 'Robotics in the Curriculum' event was attended by a variety of people from the commercial and education worlds. Looking for ways to develop the use of robotics in education, ...
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