Welcome to Lifeng's Home Page

Hi, glad you stopped by. First a little history. This is the third incarnation of my home page. I made the first one when I was a sophomore in high school. It had few pictures of Beavis and Butthead and some outdated info on hacking. When I was taking CSCI 15A, one of the assignments was to create a web page. Even though my old page met all the requirements, I felt I had to use some of my newly acquired skills. So I created a totally new page that featured frames, cgi, java scripts, etc. That page was pretty flashy, but it seriously lacked original content. In this version 3.0 I hope to contribute some useful info in the areas of electronics and robotics.


Projects:

"Testy" -- the Analogic IC tester. This device tests digital ICs, analog ICs, diode, transistors, capacitors, and even inductors.

"Icarus" --  the Light Tracker. This light tracking robot won first place at the 2001 AIME Light Tracker Competition.

"That's Wrong" -- The Square Mouse. This Micro Mouse competed in numerous IEEE Region 6 Micro Mouse competitions.

"Lithium" -- The uMouse. This is the Micromouse I worked on during Spring 2002.

"Maximice Li+ Charger" Charges 1 to 4 lithium-ion cells safely and rapidly. Now available for sale!

"Soma" -- This is the Micromouse I worked on during Spring 2003.

"Simple Serial" -- USB 2 Serial Converter. Made it cause the chips and PCB were free.

"Soma 2" -- Partially stuffed Micromouse board; abandoned due to lack of time.

"Soma Zero" -- This is the Micromouse I worked on during Spring 2004.
                           Winner of the 2004 IEEE Region 6 competition!

 

Micromouse Stuff:

Chico State Micromouse (2000 - 2003) -- now with 35% more juicy tidbits

UCSB Micromouse -- home of the Green Machine (4 time 1st place winner)

Free Micromouse Parts -- don't be too greedy and ruin it for the rest of us

Recommended Readings -- useful websites, PDFs and books

 

IEEE Stuff:

FAQ -- How to be a parts manager

Help Section for ECE186 -- labels for the parts etc

Lab Kits


You can contact me via email at: jiang@nospam.ece.ucsb.edu (delete the nospam. to make the address work)

AIM: ecchinin

Last messed around with: Jun 29, 2004