Autumn 2023 Contest Results

The national Micromouse contest was held on Saturday 7 October 2023 in Hazlemere, another great day of robot competitions. Here are the results of the robots that successfuly completed contests. Results Tables for UKMARS Autumn 2023 Results for Drag Race Junior Final MouseContestantScoreDrag-onMax Bayliss3.090s.a.mRichard Louttit5.723 Results for Drag Race Senior…

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Summer 2023 National Competition Results

The national Micromouse contest was held on Saturday 1 July 2023, another great day of robot competitions. Here are the results of the robots that successfuly completed contests. Results Tables for UKMARS National Competition Results for Drag Race Junior Final Mouse Contestant Score Millennium Racer Max Bayliss 2.960 Tiger Akshaj…

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Arduino IDE with a Raspberry Pi Pico (or RP2040 based boards)

These are instructions for setting the Arduino IDE with a Pico / RP2040 NOTE: I already had the support board installed before writing this post, so some of this might be missing some steps. If anyone spots a problem, then let please me know. We'd like people to be able…

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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…

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