Mini-Mouse (2003) by Martin Barratt, UK. "The Wall Follower design presented here is based on a mouse designed in early 2003 as a result of running out of time during the development of a full maze solver. Mini-Mouse (it is conventional to give your mouse a name) was entered into the 2003 competition and gave a creditable performance. It did not win its class but was the fastest of the non-contact entrants. As a fully paid-up member of the `quart out of a pint pot' club, the author decided that Mini-Mouse should be a single-chip design using the smallest PIC possible, the choice being the 16C71, which offers little in the way of hardware features except a four channel 8-bit ADC. This approach was obviously going to lead to design compromises and place somewhat greater demands on the intricacies of the software (which was to be written in assembler) but that is the author's preferred design strategy." – Martin Barratt, Micromouse wall follower, Electronics World, Part I (June 2004), Part II (July 2004).
