Cristian Rotundu

Having worked with Flex for almost two years uninterruptedly I developed this mental dependency for its packages and classes. I don’t see it as something unnatural, but a little while back I had to work on a Flash project and to be honest I had a lot of moments of “man I wish I had *this* [...]

Really? OK, so I didn’t really plan on coming out of my hiatus with this, but hehe… I had a short chat with Adrian a few hours ago, something related to the ideal solution for online document editing and collaboration, but for some still unknown reason we ended up in the same kind of topics [...]

Yeah, I did it…after many “dare-you-to”, I finally cracked and divorced my installation of Windows Server 2008 after exactly a month of marriage. It wasn’t a bad marriage, not at all, in fact we’ve had our share of good times, we’ve had a nice, stable and very responsive relation, with clear improvements compared to the [...]

I finally came up with a name for the project: …[heavy drums]… suspense… the name is…JAROBE (pronounced like Jay-Robbie) which stands for JAde ROBot Explorers. In just about three or four days the bluetooth modules will arrive (thank you Christoph) and I will be able to test the explorers’ communication abilities. I don’t have much [...]

There it is! A sneak preview of my thesis project. So far I have the stage set up, but the Vision System is used to only record the action and nothing more. The robots only blindly surf around the wooden wave patterns (no bluetooth yet), bump into the border walls and why not…into each other. [...]

I’ve known about this library for quite a while now, but I haven’t really paid any serious attention to it. Shame on me! By visiting the project’s home page you can see that the guys are busy with three packages: Asurino, which is a library for the Arduino IDE AsuroBoot, a modified Bootloader for ASURO [...]

The last four days have been quite fun, in spite of the quickly approaching project deadline. I found some time to assemble the second ASURO robot and I can truly say the the experience with the first one had a word to say. The process lasted 1/3 less than the first time, I also managed [...]

After putting the first robot through a lot of stress lately (one plane and two train trips, one fall from knee level, too many curious fingers all over it) the engines decided to go berserk on me. I’m not sure if it’s only the engines, but when running the Self Test program, the Engines Test [...]

I’ve been writing a little while back about how disappointing ASURO’s IR interface proved to be. I’ve extended the tests to a more realistic scenario, like having the little robot move in the same time while it sends data via IR and the results were disastrous. The transmission quality was much lower than I expected, [...]

…and this error persists since I lost all my identification documents on the 28th at one of the wonderful Metro stations in Bucharest. I barely got my luggage out form the train station luggage deposit; that cost me a lot of persuasion and two Belgian chocolate bars. By the way: Thanks Andrei for buying me [...]