PICone is a very economical micromouse designed by Jim Chidley and Derek Hall. In the 2009 UK micromouse competition, it came fourth in the finals. You can buy the kit from www.picone.co.uk and now the designers have put up a series of videos on Youtube to show you how to build your mouse, tune it for optimum behaviour and modify it for better performance. See them here…
Arguably the most successful Japanese micromouse builder is Itani Yutaka. If you follow the micromouse goings-on in Japan and south East Asia, you will have come across him as the builder of the six-wheeled micromouse known as mm3 and shown in the picture on the left. He posts to a wiki site and recently has added a list of the winning entry for each of the Japanese competitions to date…
Time to start serious thought about a new mouse. Decimus has been OK but has some serious limitations. Not least of which are a probable dry joint on the processor and a damaged motor. So what should the new mouse look like…
The 30th All Japan Micromouse Contest will run from Saturday November 21 to Monday Noember 23rd 2009 in Tsukuba. The organisers have released the rules for this event and there are a couple of surprises…
Video from the UK Micromouse 2009 competition is now available on YouTube. These cover the maze solver and non-contact wall follower classes.
Birmingham City University hosts the UK micromouse competition and without its generous support, the event would be a poor shadow of it current self. Here are some pictures taken by the University’s photographer.
The UK micromouse competition is held in the ThinkTank lecture theatre and is organised by Birmingham City University. There is also generous sponsorship from Phaedrus Systems, Microchip and PCB-Pool. This photo set was taken by JA Graphics.
Here is the first set of photos from the 2009 UK micromouse competition held in Birmingham on June 27th. These photos are taken by me and there are not very many because I was pretty busy.
The results of the 2009 UK micromouse competition are now available. Also posted here are the results of some of the allied competitions – the wall followers and the time trials. [Updated 19 Jul 2009 to correct an error in the tables]
The UK Micromouse championships were held at the Technology innovation Centre in Birmingham on Saturday June 27th. A good number of mice ran this year, some for the first time. The morning practice was a nerve-wracking affair which looked like it would result in another win by MouseX. However, a couple of mechanical repairs, some software tweaks and an unusually fortunate maze configuration saw a new champion emerge…