India’s
first Micromouse workshop, aka MouseTRIx, began yesterday
at the IIT Mumbai campus. It’s a week long workshop
and I was lucky enough to get an opportunity to attend it.
It was organised by a cool new startup TRI.
I
don’t have much time to write now, but I’ll put
up a detailed ‘post-workshop’ analysis in the
coming weekend
Day
4, 5 and 6: 24 June 2006
Day
3: 21 June 2006
We
built the programmer for the Atmega16 microcontroller, basically
a RS232 to TTL level shifter, and used PonyProg
to dump the HEX code. Sample codes were written and tested
on the controller board.
ICC compiler was used for the coding.
The
programmer that one of the teams assembled |
The
battery charger |
Ashish
gets to keep the pro-looking programmer :-( |
The
sample mouse setup |
Day
2: 20 June
2006
The
day two began with the final assembly of the chassis and mounting
of the controller board.
The
kit is as professional as it could get. Laser-cut chassis,
machined wheels, super-cool Atmega16 controller board and
a lecture delivered by Ashish
Bhat himself. It couldn’t get any better than this..
(click
to enlarge)
| 
Ashish
doing what he does best, building robots. (apart from
being a rock star ;-)) |
A
guy from bangalore assembling his first micromouse kit.
|
| 
Two
guys from aurangabad. |
Couple
of local IITians assembling their kits. |
| 
A
kit that I partially assembled |
After
mounting the controller board |
| 
Looks
good, doesn't it? |
A
sample mouse that Ashish built |
| 
Rahul
Singh explaining mechanics... |
The
sample mouse |
| 
The
mouse in the maze |
It
ran smoothly using only its side looking sensors |
can't
wait for tommorrows action!
Day 1: 19 June 2006
Missed :-(
Last Updated: 24 June 2006
