Simple Maze Tile Manufacture
In this presentation Ken Hewitt explains an ingeneous way to manufacture accurate tiles for maze construction using a minimum set of tools. Maze Tile Construction
Remote Control your Robot from an Android Phone
In December's robot club video call David Hannaford shared an update on his presentation from Minos showing how to add remote control to your robot using an Android phone. The approach uses the MIT App Inventor software to build the software for the phone and sketch code on the Arduino…
Minos 2022 Presentations
Over the weekend of Saturday 2nd April and Sunday 3rd April we had another successful Minos conference and the first since 2019 that we were able to hold in person with a full programme of competitions on the Sunday. You can see the results here Minos 2022 Competition Results Thank…
Minos 2022 Competition Results
Results Tables for Minos 2022 Results for Drag Race Junior Final Mouse Contestant Score KES_Shravan Shravan Mandava 7.931 KES_Rohan Rohan Srirangam 11.547 Results for Drag Race Senior Final Mouse Contestant Score Asymouse Ian Butterworth 2.400 HammerTime Neil Stevenson 2.600 Results for Half Size Line Follower Junior Final Mouse Contestant Score…
Introducing Git
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.
Autumn 2021 Contest Results
Results Tables for UKMARS Autumn 2021 Results for Half Size Line Follower Senior Final Mouse Contestant Score Magellan Ian Butterworth 9.720 Tinymouse Stephen Pithouse 17.335 PicoBot David Hannaford 23.018 Results for Half Size Maze Solver Senior Final Mouse Contestant Score ThumperT2 Derek Hall 17.000 Results for Line Follower Junior Final…
MINOS 2021
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…
Powering The Pi Zero on UKMARSBOT
In this month's presentation, Ian Butterworth describes how he managed to fit a Raspberry Pi Zero to the UKMARSBOT while ensuring that there is enough power for everything. UKMARSBOT was designed to have a replaceable processor. What we didn't think of was adding a Raspberry Pi Zero as a supervisory…
UKMARSBOT Mazerunner
The UKMARSBOT robot was designed from the start to be a good training robot for aspiring micromouse developers. In this month's presentation, Peter Harrison describes some of the important considerations and features needed in the code that controls a micromouse. All the code that is described can be downloaded from…
Bluetooth LE
You will have heard of Bluetooth. You will almost certainly have also heard of Bluetooth LE (BLE). Ever wondered about the difference? Want to know more? In this months online meeting, Rob Probin gives a bit of background on Bluetooth, describes some of the features of BLE, tells us how…