Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Freescale Smart Car Malaysia 2008

Freescale Smart Car Competition is held in Dewan Sirim where it is somewhere near UITM in Shah Alam. There are all together 28 teams from 11 university in Malaysia took part in this competition. During the first day of the competition, we were given a chance to do a trial run on the “real track”. The “real track” I mean here was not really the real track they going to use on the competition but a small track that build with the same material as the real one. All the participants do not know how the real track is before the competition because the track is confidential. Below is the video Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) teams’ trial run.



You can notice that everything going well during the trial run on the small ‘8’ track.

The second day, 13 December 2008 is the day of the competition. Every team had done their full preparation for their smart car and all the cars were being place in the pit. The real track is very challenging.


The person in charge is trying to block the sun light that shine through the window into the track. This is very important because the bright light will influence the performance of the sensor or the camera use by the smart car.





This is the video that show my team’s smart car going off track.

Well, sorry that I can’t show the video of the wining team's car because I don’t have the video with me. So here are some pictures taken when our UMS team becomes champion.

11 comments:

Borneo Falcon said...

That is one difficult track to navigate and they came out as champion

sabahking said...

i think ur group very sayang leh !! really sayang leh..... !! but you all really powerful... dun know how to express my feeling .... maybe can say as "LEGEND" !!

JuneJune said...

unbelieveable... ums is a champion !!!

Anonymous said...

UMS so close to getting no1 and no2, but one champion still great job!
well done~

Kuching Remisier Blog said...

cause run out then cannot win? nvm lah.. great job di.. next time make one for me play.. i want can climb wall one

Anonymous said...

harlo... i am one of the participant of the competition. can i know which motor driver are u using? b'cos i facing the motor problem...thanks...

TNH said...

To Anonymous that face motor driver problem.

For your information,we build our own motor driver with a MOSFET,a buffer and relay to switch polarity. It is a very simple motor driver.

Kyle said...

Hell all the hard work paid off afterall... Be sure to give me the video and pictures.. I dont have even a single of that. by the way enjoy your christmas and new year.. Solving the error from the car was fun ^^

sabahking said...

i hate Kyle, he always come to my blog to critic me make me no confidence liao but come to ur blog talk so nice ...

Kyle said...

Swt... did I? next time I dont talk lor... T.T

TNH said...

haha...did he critic you in your blog?? i'm going to see then.. well,i don't have all the video to..just part of it but justin got all.