Author Archives: Peter Harrison
2nd International Symposium on Micromouse
Call for Papers The 2nd Micromouse Symposium 1st May 2020, Vila Real, Portugal, the 2nd International Symposium on Micromouse, will be held in Vila Real, Portugal, 1st May 2020. Industry experts, researchers and academics are expected to gather together to share ideas and experiences surrounding frontier technologies, breakthroughs, innovative solutions, research results, as well as initiatives related… Read More »
Micromouse in Mumbai
From Abinav Kumar: The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay is regarded as one of the premier institutes in India for imparting education of one of its kind and to provide resources for the cutting edge technology recognized all over the world. Techfest is IIT Bombay’s annual science and technology festival to promote technology, scientific thinking, and innovation and has… Read More »
Micromouse contest in Egypt – an invitation
From Mohamed Orabi : “We are organizing a new micromouse competition during the IEEE Conference on Power Electronics and Renewable Energy, that will be hold during Oct. 23-25, 2019 in Aswan, Egyptwww.ieee-cpere.org We would like to invite teams from world wide to participate. To encourage team, The conference will provide each team with free registrations… Read More »
Time taken to run a straight
Calculating the time needed to run a straight between two turns in the micromouse contest
UK Micromouse at Techfest 2019
The UK Micromouse contest took place on Jun 1st at the Techfest 2019 event. I am happy to report that, from a personal perspective, it was almost entirely without drama. [update: full results are here: https://ukmars.org/index.php/TechFest_2019 ] There was a worrisome moment when the program would not build on the new laptop but that was… Read More »
Schools Micromouse at Techfest 2019
On Saturday 1st June the 2019 National Schools and Colleges Micromouse Competition was held by the UKMARS organisation and hosted by Birmingham City University as part of the annual City Centre Campus TechFest event. As usual three events were run: The Drag Race – a 6 metre sprint following a white line; the Line Follower… Read More »
Techfest 2019 Programme
Register now for Techfest 2019
Techfest 2019, held on Saturday June 1st at Millennium Point, Birmingham is the UKMARS main event of the year and includes the UK micromouse contest as well as a host of other contests. Registrations now open at: http://registration.ukmars.org
UK contest rules change
At the 2019 Minos conference in April, the UK Micromouse and Robotics Society (UKMARS) agreed revisions to the rules governing its contests. Many of these changes were minor, to reflect the common practice that has been observed for several years. Some were more significant and are intended to bring the event up to date. The… Read More »