A new mouse is begun
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…
Japan 2009 Micromouse Rules
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…
UK Micromouse 2009 videos
Video from the UK Micromouse 2009 competition is now available on YouTube. These cover the maze solver and non-contact wall follower classes.
UK Micromouse 2009 University Pictures
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.
UK Micromouse 2009 JAGraphics photos
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.
UK Micromouse 2009 personal photos
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.
UK Micromouse 2009 results
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]
UK Micromouse 2009 preliminary
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…
UK Schools Micromouse 2009
By Bernard Grabowski
The 2009 National Schools and Colleges Micromouse competition took place on Saturday 27th June at the Technology Innovation Centre in Birmingham. The team from John Hampden Grammar School were once again strongly represented. They have dominated the event for several years but this time were pushed to the limit by teams from three debuting schools. Competition was intense and new event best times were recorded. The existing drag race record (2.132 seconds, set last year by the team from Singapore) was smashed several times and now stands at an incredible 1.699 sec. The track is just less than 7m in length and the mouse had to stop under control within 1m beyond the finish line. Peak acceleration must now be around 1g in this event and braking has to start at just past the halfway mark.
Simple ADC use on the STM32
Here is a bit of a look at how to use the ADC on the STM32 for simple applications. The ADC peripheral on the STM32 processor is a flexible but complex beast. The peripheral driver library should make it relatively easy to use. After all, there is no need to remember the names of all those pesky registers and bitfields. There are anything up to 18 multiplexed channels that can be converted singly, continually, scanned or discontinuously. The results can be transferred to memory through DMA and some devices have two or more ADCs for simultaneous conversions. With all those options, simple reading of an ADC port is a little tricky…
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