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Been a while, again.

by Martyn on September 11, 2008 · No Comments

I am not too good at keeping this blog updated. Meh. Anyhow, new things I managed to get a sparkfun order off and now have some nice new toys to talk about; as part of my 4th year project I need an intertial measurement unit, so I am building one! Nothing too fancy as I [...]

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Micromouse – Quadrature Decoders

by Martyn on April 26, 2008 · 2 Comments

I have started to develop the quadrature decoders for my mouse, a simple circuit and is mainly programming so its something I can do to break up exam revision. Here is a picture of the setup: The main board is an Explorer 16 with a 32 bit PIC microcontroller in there. I have the prototype [...]

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MINOS 2008

by Martyn on April 14, 2008 · 2 Comments

Another year, another MINOS (UK Micromouse conference). This year I only went for the first day, the talks and testing, but was still a great experience. I got quite a few of my questions answered and am now ready to start working on my mouse proper. The day started off well, no waiting at stations [...]

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Micromouse Sensors

by Martyn on April 7, 2008 · 18 Comments

Ok, its been a while since I did much more than think about my micromouse, but over the last week or so I actually did some ‘work’ on the sensor design… First off this is all theoretical, I need some bits an pieces before I can test this outside of simulation. Hopefully in the next [...]

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Been a while…

by Martyn on April 5, 2008 · No Comments

Eep, its been a while, photoblog kind of died, way too busy Anyhow, here is a video of the robot from end of last year. Should have new videos of other stuff soon…

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