Micromouse

UK Micromouse 2010

Posted Wed, 30/06/2010 - 01:29 by peteh

On June 26th 2010, Birmingham City University hosted the UK micromouse championships as part of their robot festival event. Along with the micromouse event, there were wall follower, line follower, sumo, ant weight, biped robots and much more.

All Japan Micromouse contest 2009 results

Posted Thu, 17/12/2009 - 05:42 by peteh

The Official results for the 2009 All Japan Micromouse Contest have been posted to the New Technology Foundation web site:

http://www.robomedia.org/micromouse2009/2009result.html


All Japan Micromouse 2009 Monday

Posted Sat, 05/12/2009 - 23:50 by peteh

Finals day! I really expected to be nothing more than a spectator today so I was pretty excited about the fact that I would be able to run in the finals. No matter what happened, I felt that was a bit of an achievement. Apart from any nervousness, this was a fairly relaxed day. We could concentrate on watching the other contests as they were being run one after another. First up was the robotrace line follower contest...

All Japan Micromouse 2009 Sunday

Posted Sat, 05/12/2009 - 21:49 by peteh

Sunday crept up on me after another poor night’s sleep. Today was the all-important qualifying contest. In many ways, this was quite a relaxed day. After breakfast we went down to the Capio, got our gear set up and watched the opening ceremony. Once that was done, there was not much else to do except look at robots, watch the other contests and wait for our turn in the qualifying session. With 77 entrants to the expert class, the qualifiers were run on two mazes at the same time…

All Japan Micromouse 2009 Saturday

Posted Sat, 05/12/2009 - 05:15 by peteh

I didn’t get much sleep at all on my first night in Japan. Or any of the others in fact. Probably over-excited. the view from the hotel room was pretty good what with the rocket, the planetarium and Mt Tsukuba all beautifully lit by the rising sun. Having missed out on the Akihabara experience on the day before, I resolved to take the Tsukuba Express and have a look this morning...