Simple Maze Tile Manufacture
In this presentation Ken Hewitt explains an ingeneous way to manufacture accurate tiles for maze construction using a minimum set of tools. Maze Tile Construction
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…
Autumn 2022 Contest Results
On Saturday 1 October we met up for our Autumn competition day. It was great to see so many new people and so many new robots! You can see the results in the tables below. Results Tables for UKMARS Autumn 2022 Results for Drag Race Junior Final Mouse Contestant Score…
Summer 2022 Contest Results
Results Tables for UKMARS TechFest 2022 Results for Drag Race Junior Final Mouse Contestant Score Ukmarsbot_Evlyn Evlyn Bosworth 3.426 Results for Drag Race Senior Final Mouse Contestant Score Asymouse Ian Butterworth 2.253 Mars10 Chris Balmforth 2.475 Results for Half Size Line Follower Junior Final Mouse Contestant Score UKmarsbot_2 Alex Beale…
Minos 2022 Presentations
Over the weekend of Saturday 2nd April and Sunday 3rd April we had another successful Minos conference and the first since 2019 that we were able to hold in person with a full programme of competitions on the Sunday. You can see the results here Minos 2022 Competition Results Thank…
Minos 2022 Competition Results
Results Tables for Minos 2022 Results for Drag Race Junior Final Mouse Contestant Score KES_Shravan Shravan Mandava 7.931 KES_Rohan Rohan Srirangam 11.547 Results for Drag Race Senior Final Mouse Contestant Score Asymouse Ian Butterworth 2.400 HammerTime Neil Stevenson 2.600 Results for Half Size Line Follower Junior Final Mouse Contestant Score…
Autumn 2021 Contest Results
Results Tables for UKMARS Autumn 2021 Results for Half Size Line Follower Senior Final Mouse Contestant Score Magellan Ian Butterworth 9.720 Tinymouse Stephen Pithouse 17.335 PicoBot David Hannaford 23.018 Results for Half Size Maze Solver Senior Final Mouse Contestant Score ThumperT2 Derek Hall 17.000 Results for Line Follower Junior Final…
Half size line – full size robot
We have been looking at the possibilities for a half size line follower challenge and Duncan has published a test track for printing in A1. I thought I’d see just how few special items were needed to try this out. So I used my A4 printer in posterising mode to…
UKMARSBOT for new constructors
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…