Archive for July, 2008
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Derek Hall has just put up a new video on YouTube from the UK 2008 micromouse competition. It show his mouse, MouseX2, pitted against my mouse (Decimus). A bit of split-screen trickery shows the two mice running the same course. Vary handy that as I can now see exactly where ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
A Japanese blog now has pretty complete details of a half size, stepper-driven micromouse. Over a period of only a few weeks, there have been posts covering the mechanical design, software and circuit details of a complete mouse and several videos of it performing in a test maze.
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Sometimes the simplest things can be tricky to achieve. Of the several mice I have build, one of the hardest things to find can be a suitable skid for the front and back of the mouse. On the latest micromouse test-bed, the base is several millimeters off the floor. Too ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
There has been some talk of changing the schools micromouse competitions. I am in favour of a more flexible line-following class of competitions. While doing a bit of research, I found many examples of the kind of thing I had in mind. Given that these competitions are much more popular ...
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