Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Having half a mind on the challenge of half-size micromouse, I was looking at some information on the megabitty controller. As supplied, it may well have enough features to make a micromouse controller but that wasn't what caught my eye. On the board are two full-bridge motor drivers. While looking ...
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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, March 25th, 2008
This micromouse thing is a bit tricky. I have not been happy with the accuracy of the results I have been getting with Decimus. Occasionally, a move is significantly shorter, or longer than intended. Looking at the code does not help - either the code is fine or I just ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
I use SPI on my micromouse both to talk to the Nokia graphical LCD and to talk to the LS7366 quadrature encoders. A large number of devices can be connected to the SPI data lines, MOSI and MISO. Each device needs its own select line. This all appear very simple ...
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
The wheels have given me so much trouble that it all has to be downhill from here. This is how they are put together.
Good wheels are essential in a micromouse. We want something that is robust, reliable and capable of precision, repeatable movement. There should be no ...
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