Taiwan

It has been a couple of weeks since returning from Taiwan. I would have written about it sooner but things did not go quite to plan robot-wise and I wanted to find out exactly what happened.  (more…)

Results from the 2016 Taiwan Micromouse and Intelligent Robot Contest

It is hard to believe that I have just visited Taiwan for the fifth time. After a couple of fairly unimpressive performances at the last couple of Taiwan micromouse contests, I was determined to do better and there have been a lot of improvements to Decimus4B. Arrival All the overseas…

These videos form the 2013 Taiwan micromouse and intelligent robot contest were dtaken by Lunghua university and uploaded to You tube by Ai Jing (Yu Tsung-Yu I believe) and our host Su Juing-Huei. Thank you for that. (more…)

Lunghua University of Science and Technology hosted the annual Taiwan Micromouse and Intelligent Robot Contest on September 15th 2013. One again, I was fortunate enough to be able to attend and compete with some of the best micromouse builders around. (more…)

Here are some selected photos from the Taiwan 2013 micromouse and intelligent robot contest. (more…)

In a couple of days, I will be getting on a plane, bound once more for Taiwan. This will be my fourth opportunity to take part in the Taiwan Micromouse contest. Each trip I have a better mouse. Unfortunately so does everyone else. The contestants in this event are the best there are and the pressure is definitely on. (more…)

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…)

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…