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...
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 ...
Adachi micromouse maze solving algorithms
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008Going through some old notes, I came across reference to the micromouse maze solving methods described some time ago by Adachi in Japan. While these are apparently quite well known in Japan, they are, as far as I can tell, almost completely unknown in the West. At least, I ...
Rise of the Robots Update
Sunday, May 18th, 2008I have just returned form the Rise of the Robots event at the National Space Centre in Leicester. Just one of many specially themed weekends they hold, this proved a great success for exhibitors and guests alike. Visitors were able to experience a variety of robotic experiences from the ...
Decimus the wall follower
Sunday, April 6th, 2008We often tell beginners that they can learn a lot by building a non-contact wall following micromouse. If it can keep track of where it is and knows when it is in the centre of the maze, most of the hard problems have been solved. To get to that ...
Decimus speed feed forward
Friday, April 4th, 2008As set up for the last post, my micromouse Decimus is performing reasonably well on the ground. So far. The data plots show some features that are a little bit curious. However, my concerns over the apparent error in the endpoint were a little misleading. The recorded error is derived ...
Decimus data - 2
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008With new tyres and a tweak to the acceleration profilers it is time to grab some data from Decimus again. The tyre seem to give me reliable grip up to 4m/s/s. They will probably manage more but I seem to have other control issues then. In any case, a dusty ...
More new tyres
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008The 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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