Schools Micromouse Competition Report 2015

The 2015 National Schools and Colleges Micromouse competition took place on Saturday 27th June as part of the TechFest event at the Technology Innovation Centre in Birmingham. The three strongest school-based teams, based on past performance, were back with the micromouses that they had been building, tuning and tweaking since…

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UK Micromouse 2015 Results

The 2015 UK Techfest was held at Birmingham City University, Millennium Point on Saturday June 27. With a huge range of contests and entries, there was plenty to keep the robot enthusiast busy all day. Here are the results for the maze-based events:

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Birmingham City University Techfest 2015

Birmingham City University are set to run their fifth annual Techfest at the City Centre Campus, Millenium Point, Birmingham. On Saturday 27 June 2015, the University will be host to a celebration of technology, engineering and science. (more…)

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Minos 2015 Schedule

Just a couple of days to Minos 2015 and I have a provisional timetable for the Saturday: 10:30 Registration and Coffee 10:40 10:50 _________________________________ 11:00 Welcome and Administrivia 11:10 David Otten 11:20 - Lessons from Jehu 11:30 _________________________________ 11:40 Bernard Grabowski 11:50 - Cel Robox 3D printer 12:00 _________________________________ 12:10…

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Minos 2015

Minos 2015 will soon be upon us. Minos will again be run with the support of Birmingham City University at Millennium Point in Birmingham on April 18th and April 19th. Minos is still the event for catching up with goings on in the world of micromouse and small robots. REGISTRATION…

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The Art of Electronics – Third Edition

Huge excitement here. Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill are publishing a third edition of their classic book "The Art of Electronics". Possibly the best electronics text book in the world, my copy of the second edition is one of my most valuable textbooks on any subject. It has something to…

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2014 All Japan Micromouse Results

The New Technology Foundation have published the detailed results of the 35th All Japan Micromouse tournament held at Tokyo Polytechnic Atsugi Campus on November 23rd 2014. http://www.ntf.or.jp/mouse/micromouse2014/MM2014recode01.html There you will find tables of all the entries with their finish positions and times as well as the details of the mazes…

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