Simpler sensor emitters

Posted Sat, 17/07/2010 - 17:35 by peteh

Simpler is often a good thing. For the new mouse, I wanted to make the sensor arrangement as simple as possible. One way is to drive the emitters from the battery supply...

Bit Banding in the STM32

Posted Wed, 14/07/2010 - 03:47 by peteh

Wondrous though the STM32 (ARM Cortex M3) might be, it makes something of a meal of atomic access to individual bits in memory. The technique used is called bit-banding. Although it is simple enough in concept and pretty friendly to the assembly language programmer, it is easy enough to get lost in C. Or should that be at C?

Calibrating Reflective Sensors

Posted Wed, 07/07/2010 - 03:42 by peteh

By far the most commonly used sensors on a micromouse are simple reflective types that give an indication of distance by measuring how much light is reflected from the maze wall.

2010 UK Micromouse Update

Posted Wed, 30/06/2010 - 02:49 by peteh

After a shaky start, Decimus 2 wins the day in Birmingham at the 2010 UK micromouse contest. After all the hours of preparation and lost sleep, the time had come for the new mouse to prove itself.

UK Micromouse 2010

Posted Wed, 30/06/2010 - 01:29 by peteh

On June 26th 2010, Birmingham City University hosted the UK micromouse championships as part of their robot festival event. Along with the micromouse event, there were wall follower, line follower, sumo, ant weight, biped robots and much more.