RoboTIC 2008
Sunday, November 30th, 2008Our winter event is RoboTIC, hed at the Technology Innovation Centre in Birmingham. This year we gathered on Saturday 29th November and held the usual semi-formal set of competitions...
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Our winter event is RoboTIC, hed at the Technology Innovation Centre in Birmingham. This year we gathered on Saturday 29th November and held the usual semi-formal set of competitions...
Winmaze - Another Maze Editor
Saturday, August 16th, 2008It seems that all micromouse builders get around to writing their own software for displaying and editing mazes in the end. This is mine. It is a Windows only application but should run on pretty well any version of Windows. I have not tested it on Vista. It can ...
Head to Head micromouse video
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008Derek 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 ...
Half size micromouse details published
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008A 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.
Cheap micromouse skid pads
Friday, July 11th, 2008Sometimes 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 ...
UK Micromouse Competition 2008
Sunday, June 29th, 2008The UK micromouse competition for 2008 was run on June 28th at Millennium Point in Birmingham. We had an excellent turnout and a truly International flavour with teams from Iran, India, Singapore and Holland as well as the UK teams. As well as the micromouse contest there was also ...
Pre-competition testing of Decimus
Thursday, June 26th, 2008There are two days to go until the UK micromouse championships at Millennium Point in Birmingham. The competition will be held on Saturday 28th June 2008 and the day starts at 09:45. Decimus is as ready as it is going to get now and I am afraid to tinker any ...
Micromouse Tuning
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008Here we are with ten days to go before the UK micromouse competition and Decimus is still far from ready. All the basic software is there but there are still issues with the basic motion control. I have all the turns calculated and the parameters have been tuned to a ...
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