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� Article crossposted from comp.robotics �
� Author was IEEE MicroMouse-- Project Leader's Account �
� Posted on 11 Jan 1995 02:26:24 GMT �

Hello.  This is the second announcement to comp.robotics regarding the
second annual UCD Picnic Day micromouse contest.  It will be held Sat.,
April 22, 1995 on the UC Davis campus.  Time and room number are currently
TBA, but it will likely be in the afternoon, possibly in Haring Hall.

This is an open micromouse contest.  As such, anyone may participate, and
certainly all are welcome to watch.  Picnic Day is the name given to the
annual campus wide open house.  It generally attracts tens of thousands
of visitors to our campus.  Last year, we packed a 500 person lecture
literally to the rafters.  It was truly a lot of fun.  Last year's winner
was the University of Nevada, Reno.

Please write me back if you are interested in participating!!  Also, if
you have the e-mail address of any school that builds micromice, please
let me know.  We regard this contest as both a chance to practice before
the official contests and as a way to informally hobnob with other
micromousers.  Last year, a trophy was provided by Advanced Micro Devices.
I'm hopeful they will do likewise this coming year.

The challenge of micromouse is to build a self-contained, maze solving
robot.  It must navigate from a know starting location to a known finish
location, given an unknown maze in between.  In general, the first run is
spent on mapping the maze.  Subsequent runs of the mouse go directly to
the finish, with speed increasing on each try.  Depending on the maze,
times of 20 seconds or less are common.  The official time is the minimum
of any of the runs taken within the allotted 10 minutes.

I am trying to start a mailing list devoted entirely to micromouse.  This
will hopefully spark discussions, questions, etc. among micromousers
worldwide.  To subscribe, send a message to listproc@ucdavis.edu with the
following in the body (not the subject) of the message:

subscribe micromousers yourlastname yourfirstname

Please don't forget to include your name, as shown above.  Also, feel
free to check out the UCD Micromouse home page at
http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/umouse.  Our ftp site is
ftp://ftp.ece.ucdavis.edu/pub/umouse, although it hasn't been updated
recently.

Please don't hesitate to write me for more info, to find out where on
earth Davis is, etc. etc.

Regards,
Jeff Collins
UCD Micromouse coordinator
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IEEE MicroMouse Robotics Project,            1107 Engineering Unit II
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