Autonomous Hovercraft Competition 2014

23/03/2016

Our winners for AHC 2014!

19/03/2015

From Autonomous Hovercrafts to Pathfinder Robots. We'd like to thank the participants of Pathfinder Robot Competition this past Saturday.

Now the only questions is...What Next!?

Website: http://pathfindercompetition2015.comyr.com/index.html Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UNMCPathfinder?fref=ts

05/11/2014

Digital Arts Guild UNMC's Artwork on Autonomous Hovercraft Competition 2014

02/06/2014

Stay tuned on our page for Autonomous Hovercraft competition 2015!

UPDATE : Pathfinder Robot Competition 2015

11/05/2014

IIUM, It was our pleasure having you in the event. We hope to see you again in the coming years of this event.

Autonomous Hovercraft competiton was held on 29th March 2014 at University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus UNMC. These were teams from International Islamic Un...

11/05/2014

Our pleasure hosting UTM at the AHC '14. Thank you for your participation.

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia’s (UTM) Team HC01 emerged as winner in Autonomous Hovercraft Competition (AHC) organized by the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) on March 29th 2014. Total of 20 teams participated and UTM sent two teams consisting of students from Faculty of Electrical En…

06/05/2014

MIRI: An engineering student team from Curtin University Sarawak Malaysia (Curtin Sarawak) finished a creditable ninth in the recent nationwide 2014 Autonomous Hovercraft Competition held at Univer...

31/03/2014

in collaboration with Earth Hour UNMC 2014 having dinner in candle lights.

31/03/2014

More photos from our Media Partner, Digital Arts Guild UNMC

UNMC Autonomous Hovercraft Competition 2014 held on 29th March 2014.

http://unmc.ieeemy.org/hovercraft

Photography by Arushad

30/03/2014

HUGE Thanks to all the participants, crew, volunteers & visitors for making Autonomous Hovercraft Competition 2014 happen for the FIRST TIME EVER!

Congratulations to all participants for stepping up and taking up this challenge and bigger Congratulations to those who succeeded in this challenge.

We were very proud and honoured to be your hosts for this unforgettable evening. This was not only a challenge for the participants but for the crew to organise this event from more than 5 months ago.

Hopefully your great support and showing continues for the future of this event as yesterday was just the first of MANY TO COME

More photos will be uploaded through our Media Partner Digital Arts Guild UNMC soon as well as this page.

Special Thanks to Motorola Solutions Autoliv Institution of Mechanical Engineers - Malaysian Branch SparkleLite, Monetous for sponsoring us and helping us through this competition.

Also huge thanks to IMechE Student Chapter of UNMC IEEE UNMC Student Branch Engineers Without Borders Malaysia UNMC Robotics Society for taking up this huge challenge as the organisers.

Hope to see everyone again very very soon.

This will be the end of but you never know when the next one is going to be maybe sometime this very year AGAIN!

21/03/2014

We have been receiving lots of same queries as following:

Q: What are the materials that we are allowed to bring for this competition?

A: All teams are allowed to bring their own fasteners, linkage or any other components/materials that will not constitute as either the body or the skirting of the hovercraft.

20/03/2014

http://www.astounding.org.uk/ian/hovercraft/mark2A.html
We have found some really great tutorial into making the hovercraft. If you're out of ideas in improving the hovercraft performance, here's some tips you can look up at.

This time I looked at the web a bit. I found Mark Porter's Griffon design, which seems to be the most popular design of model hovercraft on the web, perhaps because it's so well written up on that site. I nicked two points from his design: 1: I built my hull from thin plywood (didn't occur to me bef...