Half size micromouse details published
July 16, 2008 – 7:53 pm
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.
As ever, identifying the owner/author of a Japanese blog can be a bit difficult. His nickname on the profile page is k_com and the blog uses the name CPU4EDU.
UPDATE: The site owner (Kiyoteru Hayama) has put his personal details in a comment below.
You can find his home page here:
http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/CPU4Edu/
On a single page are the mechanical details and a number of photographs of the mouse during construction as well as a full schematic:
http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/CPU4Edu/20005
And on this page is a link to the source code (only about 1000 lines or so)
http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/CPU4Edu/20009
Videos are readily found on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/cpu4edu
So, budding mouse builders now have another example to follow. This is a simple design and has everything you might need to build a near replica. The processor is an H8. These seem popular in Japan and are readily available on handy plug-in modules. However, the code is all in Ca nd the hardware dependencies could easily be ported to another processor. Only one timer is used and a number of I/O ports along with a few ADC channels.
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2 Responses to “Half size micromouse details published”
Thank you for the introducion of my web pages.
The main focus of my page is design of CPU for education, so I used user name of “CPU4EDU”. Also, my nickname “k_com” is the name of simple emulator of 8bit computer.
I hope you also have interest to my main contents.
By Kiyoteru Hayama on Jul 29, 2008
Thanks for the clarification. You have an interesting site. I was impressed with how quickly you got to a working micr4omouse. I suppose it is not your first.
By peteh on Jul 29, 2008