Category Archives: Micromouse

Shapeways motor mounts arrive

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Peter Harrison

Soon after listening to the presentation by Martyn Pittuck at Minos12 about Shapeways printed parts, I designed and ordered the motor mounts for my micromouse, Decimus 4. The design part was a bit harder than I expected because of a … Continue reading →

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Improved Search Turns

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Peter Harrison

Arguably the most important turn that a micromouse can perform is the search turn. That is, a simple 90 degree turn performed while the mouse is still searching the maze. While searching, the mouse generally has no idea what is … Continue reading →

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Going too fast without thinking

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Peter Harrison

Preparation of Decimus2B for the UK micromouse contest in four weeks or so proceeds apace. The mouse is faster than it has ever been, it is more accurate than it has ever been and it turns better than it ever … Continue reading →

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Decimus 2B Turning Grip

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Peter Harrison

When a micromouse corners faster, sooner or later, it will run out of grip. That doesn’t mean it can not perform a useful turn but it will drift instead of neatly following a tangential path around the turn. To find … Continue reading →

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All Japan Micromouse 2011 – report

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Peter Harrison

A full report of the events at the 2011 All Japan Micromouse contest is now available here http://www.ntf.or.jp/mouse/micromouse2011/2011report.html. It includes plenty of video and information about the routes taken by the mice. Take a look  

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MINOS12 Micromouse Contest

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Peter Harrison

As usual, on the Sunday after the Minos presentations, we hold a semi-formal micromouse contest as a bit of a taster for the upcoming UK summer contest. All the usual suspects were present but for some, this was a difficult … Continue reading →

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MINOS12 Presentations

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Peter Harrison

The 12th Annual Micromouse Conference, MINOS12 was held on April 14th, 2012 at Royal Holloway College. Here are the highlights and papers from a packed days presentations.

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Excellent solver visualization

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Harjit Singh

Came across this visualization for a solver. http://qiao.github.com/PathFinding.js/visual/

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Decimus 4 progress – minus a little smoke

Posted on March 24, 2012 by Peter Harrison

It didn’t take long to get the first Decimus 4 board on the bench for a build. This first one will serve as a static testbed for code development and sensor testing. After verifying that the power supplies were good, … Continue reading →

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Decimus 4 Begins

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Peter Harrison

It has been more than two years since I promised myself that I would move on and build a new micromouse using the STM32 processor. Finally, I have done something about it. The new mouse is Decimus 4.

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