Robot wins competition with JK micro single board computer.

Jim Cannaliato, a Principal Software Engineer at SAIC Advanced Technologies and Solutions Group, won first place in the experts division at the Trinity College Fire Fighting Home Robot Contest (www.trincoll.edu/events/robot/index.html). Jim's robot, "Oculus" (picture below), won by successfully navigating the floor plan structure of a house and extinguishing a candle. At the core of Oculus was a JK microsystems, Inc. Flashlite-V25 single board computer that contained Jim's C code.

Jim wrote us and explained:

"I really like the Flashlite-V25. It's more than fast enough and gives me plenty of memory so I don't have to worry about my programs running out of space. Most folks at the contest used "lesser" controllers. One guy told me he couldn't fit all his code into the 64K address space in the 68HC11 and couldn't finish his robot in time as a result. The contest code for Oculus is 6200 lines of C, plus I've got several test programs as well. It all fits in the B: flash drive that lets me switch programs easily."

Congratulations Jim!