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Chris Hills of Phaedrus Systems, the embedded systems company, with Ted Gibbins of IAR presented an IAR ARM Kickstart Kitto Jim Chidley (Best Engineered Mouse) and an Ingenia DsPIC kit to Derek Hall  (Fastest Maze Solver Mouse) at this-years Micro-mouse at the Technology Innovation Centre (TIC) in Birmingham.  As usual the event was very well attended with many innovative “mice” in the three classes, from simple “wall-followers” to the autonomous mice with artificial intelligence.   The range of classes allows students from secondary schools through to post graduate to compete with non-educational entries.

 

Chris Hills or Phaedrus Systems,  Jim Chidley (Best Engineerd Mouse),
Lecturer Tony Wilcox, Derek Hall (fastest Maze Solver) and Ted Gibbins of IAR


Tony Wilcox the organiser from TIC, part of UCE (University of Central England), said he welcomed the support and interest from industry based companies as many of the competitors from universities will be in industry next year. However an increasing number of competitors are involved in industrial robotics anyway, and even though they said they were competing “just for fun” they clearly take it very seriously.
 
Chris Hills said, "The competitors who talked to Phaedrus Systems were all looking for professional development tools and dev-kits to develop their robots to a much higher standard than was the norm a few years ago. The 32 bit ARM and the DSPIC parts were of interest to the maze solver competitors.   Whilst not part of the main competition there were many biped walking robots in evidence."

"We will be supporting MicroMouse again next year as we are keen to support UK universities and are well know for assisting donations of equipment to higher education.  

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