If you are new to the robot game (and even if you are not) it can be a challenge to select suitable sensors for your creation. This series will look at some possile devices. It is not necessarily a recommendation because I have not tried them all in all circumstances.…
Here are a few pictures from the Summer 2022 event held at STEAMhouse, Birmingham on June 25. The photos were all contributed by George Palmer and Emily Probin. Many thanks to them for their efforts. Thanks also to the great people at STEAMhouse Birmingham who helped us with an excellent…
Git is a revision control system developed by Linus Torvalds. it is capable of distributed working with the ability to support collaboration between multiple developers and teams. It is lightweight, robust, widely used and supported and, perhaps most important, open source and free.
The annual micromouse and robotics conference in the UK - MINOS - was once again a virtual event because of the Covid regulations in place at the moment. If you missed it, here is a summary of the presentations and links to the videos. Copies of the slides will be…
If you are still not sure how to go about searching a micromouse maze and solving it to get an optimal route, this month's talk from Duncan Louttit may provide some answers. Duncan has been working for many years with small robots and he has many interesting ideas on how…
The UKMARSBOT training robot, designed by members of UKMARS, was always intended to be flexible. It can be adapted to use a number of different processor modules in place of the standard Arduino Nano. one of the Society's members, Rob Probin, has gone one stage further by adding a Raspberry…
Find out about upgrade options for the UKMARSBOT robot.
If you were not able to take part in the 2020 Minos conference, catch up on the presentations here.
Modify the Pololu magnetic encoders to give up to three times better resolution.
The new Arduino Nano boards give you more of everything. See a comparison table here.