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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
The annual micromouse and robotics conference in the UK - MINOS - was once again a virtual event because of the Covid regulations in place at the moment. If you missed it, here is a summary of the presentations and links to the videos. Copies of the slides will be…
In this month's presentation, Ian Butterworth describes how he managed to fit a Raspberry Pi Zero to the UKMARSBOT while ensuring that there is enough power for everything. UKMARSBOT was designed to have a replaceable processor. What we didn't think of was adding a Raspberry Pi Zero as a supervisory…
The UKMARSBOT robot was designed from the start to be a good training robot for aspiring micromouse developers. In this month's presentation, Peter Harrison describes some of the important considerations and features needed in the code that controls a micromouse. All the code that is described can be downloaded from…
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…