Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
University of Nevada, Reno
Micro-Mouse


   What is Micro-Mouse?
    Micro-Mouse is a competition where an autonomous student built robot navagates a randomly defined 10ft x 10ft maze. The overall goal of competition is to see who's robot reaches the center of the maze in the shortest amout of time. For more Detailed information regarding Micro-Mouse, and the competition, click HERE
 
   Past Experience
    UNR has had some sucessful past experience with Mico-Mouse. In fact, in 2001 the UNR IEEE student branch took their micromouse to nationals, and won! The micro-Mouse that took home the grand prize is pictured below.
 

"Gimp", the Micro-Mouse that took home 1st prize at nationals in 2001
   Current Involvement
    Do to lack of interest and scheduling issues, UNR Micro-Mouse is currently on hiatus. Many great minds are needed to pull together a Micro-Mouse for competition and currently all the great minds are busy trying to graduate.
 
   Intrested in Getting Involved?
    If you are and undergrad that is knowledgeable in any of the following; mechanical devices, electric motors, micro-processors, computer programming, or computer artifical intellegence, and are interested in becoming involved with UNR Micro-Mouse, feel free to drop us an e-mail. You can reach us at: ieeeunr@gmail.com