Cesar Petrescu

Lab · Hackathons and hardware

  • Hackathon
  • 2nd Place · HARD & SOFT 2025

Robot Maze Solver

Raspberry Pi 5 robot on mecanum wheels that maps and solves a maze autonomously with LiDAR.

Raspberry Pi 5 robot on mecanum wheels that maps and solves a maze autonomously with LiDAR. The Pi only multiplexes the camera feed: video streams over a site-to-site VPN to a laptop with an eGPU running YOLO, and a second laptop serves Mistral Small 24B, which turns detections into high-level decisions. A separate security stage deployed Linux honeypots.

  • Python
  • YOLO
  • Mistral Small 24B
  • eGPU
  • Linux
  • Local LLM