Peter Harrison, Author at Micromouse Online

Taiwan 2012

Post author:Peter Harrison
Post published:October 28, 2012
Post category:Micromouse Taiwan
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Last month, I was able to visit Taiwan once more for the 2012 Micromouse and Intelligent Robot Contest. It has taken a while before I was able to write up this trip unfortunately. (more…)

ROBOtic 2012

Post author:Peter Harrison
Post published:October 9, 2012
Post category:RoboTIC
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The UK's premier autumn robotics event, ROBOtic, will take place this year on Saturday November 17th 2012 at Millenium Point, Birmingham. The event starts at 10am. There is no entry fee and no need to register in advance. Just turn up with your robot or come along to watch. Contests…

Taiwan 2012 – getting ready to go

Post author:Peter Harrison
Post published:September 21, 2012
Post category:Micromouse Taiwan
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After all the frantic preparation over the last few weeks, I was really relieved to have a working (I think) micromouse again. Normally, I leave two evenings to gather all the bits, arrange the packing and make sure I am actually ready to go. This time, I had only one…

Preparing for Taiwan 2012

Post author:Peter Harrison
Post published:September 18, 2012
Post category:Micromouse Taiwan
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The Taiwan 2012 micromouse and intelligent robot contest is only five days away. I have spent a huge amount of time in the last few weeks trying to turn my latest code re-write into a working mouse. This could all have been a lot less stressful if I had done…

Dogs and cats and micromouse

Post author:Peter Harrison
Post published:September 16, 2012
Post category:Micromouse
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Not many of us have the luxury of developing a micromouse in a laboratory environment. Although, thinking about it, some of the very best mice do indeed enjoy that benefit. Like most, I work in a spare room at home. Technically, it is a spare bedroom and so it is…

More bugs than I need

Post author:Peter Harrison
Post published:September 15, 2012
Post category:Micromouse Taiwan
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For a few weeks now, I have been struggling with strange behaviour on the micromouse. This version is Decimus 2C. It is the build that ran (poorly) at the UK contest in the summer of 2012. It did not do well so I have been trying to get it all tidy for the Taiwan contest next week. (more…)

Midland Micromouse Club September

Post author:Peter Harrison
Post published:August 31, 2012
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Please note that the Meeting for September 3rd will not take place. Normal service will be resumed from October 1st. See you there.

Midlands Micromouse meeting – August 2012

Post author:Peter Harrison
Post published:July 27, 2012
Post category:MMRC News
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Don't forget - there will be a club meeting on August 6th at Millenium Point. As it is holiday season, can you get in touch with Tony Wilcox if you are going to be coming along - or leave a comment on this post so that we can be sure…

MCU Car Rally

Post author:Peter Harrison
Post published:July 27, 2012
Post category:Japan Line Follower
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The line following contest at the annual All Japan Micromouse event is an exciting event. Simple rules, brutal timing constraints and a long, challenging course make for a great competition. While I already knew there were plenty of other robotic contest in Japan, I had not realised there was a whole line following event separate to the one I had seen. (more…)

Centre of Mass for Decimus4

Post author:Peter Harrison
Post published:June 26, 2012
Post category:Hardware Micromouse
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A while ago, I posted a way to calculate the position of the centre of mass of your micromouse. One or two people wondered why I might care so much. A couple of calculations with Decimus 4 illustrated why it might be important. (more…)