Cristian Rotundu

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 [...]

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, [...]

I know that this little serious toy of mine had a monopoly on my attention lately, but what can I say? It does deserve it. After I completely assembled ASURO, I read the manual two more times, crossed my fingers and switched it on. If something was bound to go wrong, that would have been [...]

Today was the first time I soldered something on a PCB. It was quite awkward, since my arms were continuously shaking, but I guess that was just me being a little nervous and nothing else. After the first few tries I felt like I was doing this for years. My first goal was to solder [...]

I finally received all the hardware that I needed for my thesis project. I haven’t assembled anything else before but software, so you can image how many things I had to buy: from your standard soldering kit (solder, wick, soldering iron), to standard electronics must-haves: multimeter, pliers, cutters, clips, cables and cable binders, and many [...]