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…
In this presentation for new constructors and those interested in finding out more about building a UKMARSBOT, Ian explains the design objectives and how they were achieved in the hardware and circuit designs and gives practical advice and tips for the construction. A block diagram showing the elements of line…
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…
This is one of 10 UKMARSbot robots built at KES School in the 2019/2020 academic year with students in year 8. Motors are Pimoroni N20s with the extended shaft and a 20:1 gearbox, but no encoders have been fitted at present, although by using the extended shafts it would be…
This is the demonstration model of the UKMARSbot robot built for the robot club at KES School in the 2019/2020 academic year with students in year 8. Motors are Poluloi N20s with a 10:1 gearbox and the extended shaft with magnetic encoders added The wheels are the standard 32 mm…
Magellan, built by Ian Butterworth, is an example of UKMARSBOT a beginner’s robot with the standard basic line sensor board extended to improve reliability when detecting radius and start/finish markers. UKMARSBOT is covered in detail here https://ukmars.org/projects/ukmarsbot/getting-started-ukmarsbot/ and the modification of the sensors was discussed at Minos 2020, a recording…
Asymouse is a beginner’s robot built by Ian Butterworth to complete the IET triathlon events. The platform is a PCB designed by the builder with sensor boards constructed from prototyping board. There is minimal surface mount, just a microSD slot, and the robot is built around a dsPic33 plug in…
Find out about upgrade options for the UKMARSBOT robot.