This just made my day!

@Dex They’re climbin in your windows, they’re snatching your people up.

Yes this made as much sense as your post.

Amazing computational ability in such a little package. Ahh makes me sad i can only build something 7 times as large, uses 4 times more power, wheighs 10 times as much and has 1/10 of the quality *sniff*.

Guide to making a Japanese robot:
1. Take something small and make it smaller.
2. Give it an animal shape OR name it after an animal.
3. Add the most obnoxiously-cute beep sounds and tones.
4. Make a YouTube video of it.

There used to be actual contests for IRL robot “mice” to solve actual physical mazes 20-30 years back (the “mice” were sometimes almost R2D2-sized). Whatever happened to those contests?

We had a similar course in my Uni, Interactive Media Dedesign. Basically the students were taught how to use the ARDUINO and blink LEDs and such.

Not to mention that they all looked like the kind of people that would write their novel on their macbook at Starbucks.

The maze almost spells HACK.

We used to do micromouse competitions many years ago at university. Very challenging! But it is also fun to do.

@AJ Robins: Here you go: .

My uni team is competing in this event next April at RoboGames. We’re wrapping up the planning stage and will start building soon. I hope to document the process and maybe submit it here if there’s any interest.

It is easy to make a maze which can’t be solved by just hugging the left or right wall, so no the method is more complex than that.