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 year.
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. (more…)
Came across this visualization for a maze solver.
The UK Micromouse contest will be held this year on Saturday June 16th at Millenium Point, Birmingham as part of the 2012 Techfest event held by Birmingham City University. Registration will be available on the day from 09:00 and competitions will begin at 11:00. Events include: Maze Solvers Wall Followers…
Minos 2012 is just two weeks away. There is still time to arrange to attend. So that you can see what you are missing, here is a first draft of the schedule:
When your STM32 processor starts up from a reset, there are a number of possible sources for that reset. You may want to perform different initialisations depending on the exact source of the reset. A single register holds the flags which tell you why the processor was reset. It is…
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, the LEDs, display, buzzer and pushbuttons were added for a…
Here in the UK, we use metric fasteners. When you go shopping for small screws though, the only sizes you can generally get below M3 are old, awkward imperial sizes. Even if you are happy with M3, the variety of shapes and lengths is woefully inadequate. Imagine my delight when I found perfect screws on Amazon of all places. (more…)
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. (more…)
Way back in 1985 was the 'First World Micromouse Competition'. This was not actually the first competition, nor was it really the first 'world' competition in the sense of having entries from around the world. Nonetheless, it was a major event. Just posted on YouTube is some video from that…