StarK!..thats the name

I havent been able to contribute for quite some time now . Point is am too caught up with MM for this years techfest at IIT Powai-2009. Things are going great..am enjoying every second of it.

Have finished with the board.

Check Motors- Running Fine.

Check Sensors - Running fine.

Check microcontroller - Running fine.

Presently working with the code.

Enjoy this pic of this years MM. Will be contributing it to the Open Source Hardware and Software community once i am done with it.

After all I must give back something from where i have learnt soo much.

This is what my mouse config speaks about.

Motors - Steppers phase resistance is - 4 ohm. They are real small motors

Wheels - 5cm Diameter

Sensors- T.R.I. micromouse sensors.

Motor Drivers- A3983SLPT (Allegro Microstepper and chopping motor drivers). GOSH! these drivers work like a charm. I am one of the few in the community of people who have been able to get these drivers to work withouth problems.
Am at the present using these in the full step mode. Will soon be getting down to the quarter step mode.
Incase you need help in driving these motors you could get to me at nilavghosh@gmail.com

Microcontroller - The ever trustwothy Atmega series . I am specifically using the SMD version of ATmega88. Running his small monster at a lowly 8Mhz internal oscillator

Code - Am working on it. A modofied version of the flood fill with some more put in. Ill share this too.

While making all this 3rd time in a row i learnt a big lesson courtesy Apple. If you really want to make a good device, "If u really want make good software its important that you make the hardware for it too.!"

Astalavista folks. I would be bak with a complete description of my mouse in the following entries.. meanwhile you could have a look at pics.

For further info u could visit my blog dedicated to Micromouse- micromouse.blogspot.com

The MysTical Maze

I just realised , I had a fundamental flaw in my flood fill algorithm that i had been implementing over these years. How could i ignore it..shucks!. Quite similar to the Y2K limit bug found almost a decade back.

Todays office hours were dominated by talks of Satyam's debacle and Raju Ramalingam's resignation and the 5k crore fraud! Not much to do except a lot of reading .

Learnt about Bruce lee's famous one inch punch and John Titor - The man who claims to be from 2036. Yes! He claims of time travelling. Strange!

With time I am gaining confidence in handling SQL Server tuning issues. Must look forward to give a couple of certification exams.

I have a BloG too

Completed my graduation in the June of 2008. I have always known what i have wanted to do i.e. work on making Gadgets (aka James Bond types). Saw Iron Man lately, was greatly inspired, only to find that the "Arc reactor" was a fictional source of Energy .

Another 18 days to go before i have another shot at my dream micromouse. Its been 3 years and i have been "deeply and madly" tried to create a rodent which would traverse that labyrinth successfully.

MiCroMouSE - Thats how its better known in the world of robotics enthusiasts.

i would come up next with further details on this 3rd attempt of mine.