At And I'll Form the Head, I've been freaking out for the last couple of days over the the Roomba/Pac-Man project. The original article I read at cnet left many questions unanswered, such as "will the project ever make its way into the consumer marker", and "how cool would it be if I could play with their creation." I think everybody deserves to know that.
So, I emailed the team over at their homepage with some questions. In turn, the Email was passed on over to team member Maciej Stachura who quickly replied with thorough answers.
Maciej Stachura, aka "Clyde", is working at Colorado University and was in charge of different aspects of the project such as creating the interface to the Hagisonic Stargazer, creating an unscented Kalman fitler for navigation, and creating a joystick interface for controlling the Roombas. His input was invaluable, and he's just the person I needed to get in touch with (if I ever wanted to play with their magnificent technology).
