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…
Robot Sensors: 1 Phototransistor Selection
If you are new to the robot game (and even if you are not) it can be a challenge to select suitable sensors for your creation. This series will look at some possile devices. It is not necessarily a recommendation because I have not tried them all in all circumstances.…
UKMARS Techfest 2022
Here are a few pictures from the Summer 2022 event held at STEAMhouse, Birmingham on June 25. The photos were all contributed by George Palmer and Emily Probin. Many thanks to them for their efforts. Thanks also to the great people at STEAMhouse Birmingham who helped us with an excellent…
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…
Introducing Git
Git is a revision control system developed by Linus Torvalds. it is capable of distributed working with the ability to support collaboration between multiple developers and teams. It is lightweight, robust, widely used and supported and, perhaps most important, open source and free.
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…