Edo Franzi is the designer of the famous Khepera Robot. He first developed uKOS, a multi-tasking OS for the 68k processors, as part of that project. uKOS was subsequently re-written in C and is now available, as uKOS-II, for a range of processors including the ARM Cortex M3 and M4…
Maxim Integrated have a bunch of really good tutorial information on their website. This one, on PCB grounding in mixed signal designs caught my eye. Concerns over the performance of the ADC in my new micromouse, D4, have made me look again at all aspects of the design. It is…
Here are a few micromouse videos from Nicovideo at the 2012 All Japan Micromouse Contest. The event was streamed and recorded professionally throughout the weekend. Unfortunately, the source does not allow generic embedding so you will have to link out to these yourself: UPDATE - embedded videos are in the post…
The full results and maze details for the 2012 All Japan Micromouse contest, held at Shibaura Institute for Technology, Toyosa Campus in Tokyo have now been posted on the New Technology Foundation web site
The final day of the 2012 All Japan Micromouse Contest was exactly that. The three principal contests each had their finals event. Classic micromouse, half-size micromouse and line follower robot builders eagerly awaited the outcome of the big event. (more…)
There are so many entries to the All Japan Micromouse contest that it takes two days to get the job done. For most, the Saturday is qualifying day. All the robots get to run and then best times are used to select the finalist. (more…)
Friday is practice day at the All Japan Micromouse Contest. Held this year at the Shibaura Institute of Technology, Toyosu campus in Tokyo, this is the big event for micromouse and line following robot builders. (more…)
The All Japan Micromouse contest 2012 took place at the Shibaura Institute of Technology, Toyosu campus over the weekend of 23-25 November. This was a different venue to recent years an, although unfamiliar, it all worked out all right in the end. (more…)
The 2012 All Japan Micromouse Contest takes place at Shibaura Institute of Technology, Toyosu Campus, over the weekend of November 23rd to November 25th. I will be there with the current update to Decimus 2D. (more…)
While at the Taiwan 2012 micromouse contest, my mouse showed an alarming tendency to pull to the right. Clearly something was wrong with the drive train. No mouse will have identical left and right drive trains. Sure, you try and make them both as close as you can but there…