Chico State Micromouse
IEEE 2000 Region 6 Central Area Competition at UNR
Old 97
Peter Sullivan
DC motors, MC68EC000FN20 and PIC16F877-20I, UART port for debugging, 2nd place finish
Red Leader
Jason Brown and Tyler Foreman
Bipolar stepper motors, MC68EC000FN10, has its own Voodoo doll, 3rd place finish
Square Mouse
Aaron Lager and Michael Witham
Three servo motors, PIC16F877-20I, programming entire done in PIC assembly, the first one to use switching power supply?
Smog
Brian Goudy
Brian constructed and programmed the thing in about a week (most of the programming was done the night before the competition).
Manta
Eddie Tracy
Eddie played too much Everquest, and had to write most of the code on the way to Reno.
IEEE 2001 Region 6 Central Area Competition at CSUS
Beelzebot
Dustin Hess
The first one to successfully use the side-looking sensors to obtain distance info? First Place finish!
Headache
Mark Miliano
Features a 3AH NiMH battery from a laptop, perhaps too modular
That's Wrong
Lifeng Jiang Minor assistance from Clinton Lazarri Code mostly borrowed from Michael Witham
Slightly improved/faster Square Mouse, snappy snap-on design, first one to use
lithium-ion batteries
Strategy: Dripping grease on the maze floor (j/k)
Why the strategy didn't work: It was the last one to traverse the maze.
IEEE 2002 Region 6 Central Area Competition at CSUC
Orange Blossom Special
Peter Sullivan
NEMA 14 Bipolar stepper motors, MC68HC12BE32, Sharp GP2D12 Sensors
Fastest straight way speed during speed run
Team Maximice (Maxim +
Mice)
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Much thanks to Bill Rypka from Maxim for the MAX1737
evaluation kit!
People no longer ran out of the lab when we were charging
lithium-ion batteries.
Lithium
Lifeng Jiang
Turn-ons: Lithium-ion
batteries from obsolete cell phones, free parts and EVKs from Maxim
Turn-offs: Inexperienced
Micromouse judges, electrical tapes on the maze floor
Wild Mouse 1.0
Jatin Patel
An accidental short killed it
the night before the competition, so we all went out
for some margaritas.
Afterwards, proto-lithium
sacrificed its life to resurrect Wild Mouse.
First place finish!
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Scooter
Aaron Lagar and Micheal Witham
Promising design featuring a servo, a DC motor, and two PIC16F876-20I.
Aaron took apart an optical mouse and placed the optical sensor at the bottom of
Scooter.
However, it was a major pain getting useful information from the sensor.
In Need of a Miracle
David Stephenson
The miracle didn't come soon enough. Nevertheless, it managed to solve the maze two weeks after the competition.
IEEE 2003 Region 6 Central Area Competition at UOP
Zuma
Peter Sullivan, Daniel Goudy, Lifeng Jiang, Scott McMillan
If Pete had stopped working on this mouse a few days before the competition, he would have a very competitive mouse.
Turtle
Truong Pham
Ignoring my suggestion of the name "Microtron", Truong aptly
named his mouse "Turtle".
This mouse was slow and steady and won the race.
First place finish!
PIC18F452 + Sharp GP2D120 + Most expensive motors from Jameco + Masta
Pete's flood-fill code and suggestions = winner
In a related news: Pete considers licensing his flood-fill code.
Schematic
This is the schematic Truong based his design on. It's not exactly the same but
close enough.
A training board based on this schematic is available for sale.
Soma
Peter Sullivan, Lifeng Jiang, Scott McMillan, Daniel Goudy
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