Preparation of Decimus2B for the UK micromouse contest in four weeks or so proceeds apace. The mouse is faster than it has ever been, it is more accurate than it has ever been and it turns better than it ever has before. Does it work well? Of course not. During…
When a micromouse corners faster, sooner or later, it will run out of grip. That doesn't mean it can not perform a useful turn but it will drift instead of neatly following a tangential path around the turn. To find out where the limits might be for Decimus 2B, it…
A full report of the events at the 2011 All Japan Micromouse contest is now available here http://www.ntf.or.jp/mouse/micromouse2011/2011report.html. It includes plenty of video and information about the routes taken by the mice. Take a look
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.
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…
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…
The APEC 2012 contest had a good turnout of mice. There wer, I believe, 19 entries. For some reason, I failed to get good pictures of all of them but here are some images of most of them… (more…)