Minos is upon us. It is now possible to register for the 2012 Minos event which takes place on April 14th and 15th at Royal Holloway, University of London., Our twelfth weekend conference on micromouse and other robotics related matters follows the success of previous MINOS events. We will also run…
When I applied power to the motors on Zeetah VI (ZVI) for the first time, the motors seemed to struggle and the PWM value to get the wheels to rotate seemed higher than usual. Since this was my first four wheel mouse of this configuration (ZIV is a four wheel drive, four wheel steer mouse), I wasn’t sure if the higher load was normal or not.
Having seen quite a lot of variability in the output from the encoders on my micromouse, I got to wondering how much backlash there really is in the gear train. Finally, I figured the easiest way to measure it would be to send the motors back and forward alternately while holding…
You could be forgiven for thinking that a micromouse contest - particularly the All Japan micromouse contest - is one of the most photographed and filmed events there are. All day there are cameras going. Pretty well all of the resulting imagery does not get to see the light of…