UCSB Micromouse

IEEE 2001 Region 6 Southern Area Competition at UCSB

UC Santa Barbara's "MM2K"

Green Machine was unable to enter the contest due to a fried microcontroller hours before the competition.

IEEE 2002 Region 6 Southern Area Competition at Cal Poly Pomona

Winner: Green Machine

IEEE 2003 Region 6 Southern Area Competition at CSULA

Among the schools that competed were UCR, UCLA, UCD, UCSD, CSULA, and CSULB. The top three mice finished the maze by finding their way to the center of a big 16x16 square maze from a corner. The other mice were not successful in finding the center in the given 10 minute time allotment.
 

IEEE 2004 Region 6 Southern Area Competition at UCLA

This competition was the most dramatic one I've ever been to. My understanding of Murphy's law reached a new level.

The week before the competition was plagued by frequent cable failures. The night before the competition I was locked out of the lab due to a keycard system failure. Few hours before the competition, one of the batteries somehow shorted to the chassis and increase the regulated voltage to 8.6V or so. Thankfully all of the chips and sensors survived. During the competition, the race condition that usually occurs once every 10 runs or so was happening much more frequently. Somehow, it all worked out in the end. 

Soma Zero

Lifeng Jiang, Ryan Burns