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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3 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
hello sir,
the info u have provided i quite useful but its all in japanese that had made all the complexity for learning. could you plzz send the link of the english version of the mechanical design of your bot plzzz its very urgent……for me to learn how you made it
By vamsi on Nov 4, 2008