Hexapod robot control
This robot is from Lynxmotion, and it is made of 18 servo motors. It is controlled by an FPGA board running a nios II processor. The head is an ultrasonic sensor. The video shows it doing collision avoidance.
About Me
## BIO I am a Romanian CS Student. I am passionate about all science related, and even more, about all that is informatics related. I like challenges, and i like to learn new things, new technologies! Education: * In 2006 i graduated from my high school (Math-Informatics class), I also have an "Atestat" certificate in programming from my high school. * In 2010 June I graduated as a computer engineer. I'm looking forward to participating in a master's program. * I am very good at learning on my own. In fact most of the skills i have in my profile I learned on my own. Employment: * I worked for one month at Siemens (now called Continental), as a programmer assistant, for summer practice. My job was to develop XSLT code that would generate C source code for some automotive applications. Here is a partial list of some of the contests that i participated on: * 2010 - the "Alexandru Rogojan" programming contest - 1st Place * 2010 - ACM-ICPC (ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest) - Local Contest - Me and my team won the 1st place, and we also qualified for the regionals, which will be this fall. * 2010 - iTEC (iT Engineering Contest) - BitDefenter contest - 3rd place * 2009 - the "Alexandru Rogojan" programming contest - 3rd place * 2009 - ACM-ICPC(ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest - Southeastern Europe Region) - Regional Contest - Me an my team received Honorable Mention * 2009 - iTEC(iT Engineering Contest) - A hardware contest, the continuation of CEC. The task was to control hexapod robots with FPGA boards. Walk, avoid obstacles. My team and I won the 1st place. **My profile picture is from this contest.** * 2008 - CEC (Computer Engineering Contest) - A hardware design contest, organized for the first time at the Politehnica University of Timisoara. The task was to implement and optimize a multiplier on an FPGA development board. My team and I won the 1st place. * 2008 - I participated in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest - Southeastern Europe Region - me and my team took the 26th place out of 44 very competitive teams, Honorable Mention * 2008 - the "Alexandru Rogojan" programming contest - 2nd place * 2007 - SCSS - "Sesiunea de Comunicari Stiintifice Studentesti" - I went there with s1tuner, a digital guitat tuner, that runs on my portable mp3 player * 2006 - Informatics Olympics - county level - Etapa Judeteana - Mentiune 2 * 2006 - Informatics Contest "Nemes Tihamer" international - Budapest - 14th place * 2006 - Informatics Contest "Nemes Tihamer", transilvania level - 2th prize * 2006 - International Math Contest "Sekely Miko" , transilvania level- 2th place, i was present at the international contest too in Serbia * 2006 - Software contest "Noi Info" - 3d Chess * 2005 - International math contest "TMMATE", 1st edition - 4th place * 2005 - Softwarw contest "Noi Info" - Special Prize: Geiger Muller Counter with a microcontroller- it has been presented at the "Circle of principles" at the faculty of chimics, Biologics, Geographics, and it will be published in a book * 2005 - Informatics Olimpics, county level - 3rd prize * 2003 - Informatics Olimpics, county level - 2nd prize - i also participated at the national level in Focsani * 2005 - Math Olymics, county level - Mentiune * 2004 - "Nemes Tihamer" international informatics contest, Budapest - 24th place * 2004 - Nemes Tihamer", transilvania level - 2th prize * 2004 - Physycs contest "Vermes Miklos" - transilvania level- Mentiune * 2003 - Physics Olimpics - county level - 3rd price ## Area of Expertise **Programming** * C * Python * Php * Javascript * Pascal/Delphi/Freepascal/Lazarus * Assembler (Z80, and a little real mode x86) * OpenGL * Java * Android * Microcontrollers * * Z80-based microcontrollers, including Chinese S1MP3 music players, and the t80 soft processor * avr microcontrollers (atmega8) * Cypress EZ-USB FX2 microcontroller * I worked a little bit with ARM microcontrollers * Microblaze, and NIOSII soft processors **Internet-related** * Html/Xhtml * Css * XML * XSLT transformations * XSD Schema * javascript * PHP * Mysql/Pgsql **Operating Systems** * Linux (Debian Testing) * windows xp **HDLs** * Verilog * VHDL * SystemC
