2014 "Angry Engineers" Competition

Welcome to the offical site of the BYU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 2014 "Angry Engineers" Competition!

Links to 2013 Laser Truck Rally, 2012 Laser Truck Rally, 2011 Laser Truck Rally, 2010 Laser Truck Rally.

Competition Results (Engineering Week Competition)

#1: Team - Aaron Norris, Tim Wood
#2: Team - Andrew Wendt, Craig Lowe
#3: Team - Jonathan Spencer, Ben Arnold, James Eck

2014 Movie of Winning Design

Important Information

The competition this year will be held during BYU's Engineering Week. By placing the competition earlier in the semester we hope that students will find it easier to compete and now conflict with their final preparations at the end of the semester. It is quite likely that we will have a competition redux during ECEn on Display. Stay tuned for more information.

Register your team in the Department Office, 459 Clyde Building. There will only be ten slots available (2-3 students each), so sign up early to guarantee your participation.

This year, instead of using a R/C truck platform, we will take advantage of the trend to use small microcontrollers as the basis for this competition. We did not want this to be a vision-based competition, however, so the sensing mechanism will be through ultrasonic sensors.

Important Dates

Monday, January 13, 2014: Registration opens at 9 AM
Friday, January 17, 2014: Registration closes at 5 PM
Monday, January 20, 2014: Parts available for pickup at ECEn office
Tuesday, February 18, 2014: Field set up for practice - location and time TBD
Thursday, February 20, 2014: Competition in the Garden Court of the WSC

Rules for 2014

2014 Angry Engineers Rules

Rules Committee Rulings

Rules Committee: Brian Mazzeo, Dan Smalley, Neal Bangerter

Update: February 7, 2014
You may have an external button to start your device. However, you cannot input any information to your device other than to start, i.e. you cannot give your device information about the field or placement of the target.

Update: January 21, 2014
Your $5 allocation includes things that can be bought at the shop. However, solder and hot glue and things of that nature do not have to be accounted for in that cost.

Update: January 20, 2014
Because we have so many teams, we had to put in orders for more hardware. Much of the hardware has arrived and tomorrow morning we will see if we have enough to start distributing kits to all of the teams.

Update: January 15, 2014
Competition sign-up is now closed. We have 18 teams! We will acquire hardware to accommodate teams that signed up on the first day.

Update: January 13, 2014
Only students will be allowed to participate. No post-docs.

Update: January 10, 2014
New competition announced. 2014 rules posted.

Teams
Technical Info