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Tag Archives: maze
Excellent solver visualization
Came across this visualization for a solver. http://qiao.github.com/PathFinding.js/visual/
Finishing the new maze floor
The walls and posts arrived and so it was time to finish the maze floor.
Painting the floor
Once the panels dried out, it was time to paint them.
Making the floor
Now that I had the layout, the next step was to cut and drill the plywood. While there are many techniques for doing this, I ended up getting help from a friend who has access to water jet cutters to … Continue reading
Designing a maze floor
Given standard sizes for plywood, here is a pattern I used to make a maze floor.
How many walls do you need for a square maze?
At the Japanese contest, Peter said there is a closed form solution for the maximum number of walls a legal micromouse maze can have.
Adachi micromouse maze solving algorithms
Going 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, … Continue reading
Decimus the wall follower
We 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 … Continue reading