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PAPERduino keep inspiring others

Everytime I see PAPERduino’s being featured in blogs, websites, and other people projects I feel joy! This time I have the surprise of looking at the Concurrency website, the new multithread language for Arduino, and I see the PAPERduino giving this guys the ideia of taking it to a higher level, I present you the Cardboarduino: “The Cardboarduino is physically larger than the PAPERduino, and includes space for a 9V battery clip.”

The bottom shows all of the pins that need to be soldered together with wire.

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2010 02 05 GUI Arduino
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demannU

It’s been quite a while without building robots, or should I call them creatures?

anyhow I’m releasing this new creature, wich is still a work in progress..  and since I can’t think on a name for it, I will call it demannU, witch is “unnamed” backwards (without the ‘u’)… sounds like ‘demon’,  and for the sake of insanity, it looks like a little demon..

the wheels where designed by Catarina Mota, and if you go to thingiverse, you can download the source code, and print your own wheels if you have access to a 3D printer

pololu mini gears, i strongly advice this motors, very powerfull and fast



this bits will be the motors supports

and after some dremel work they look nice and ready to hold the motors

the chassis, this time I wanted to try wood, it’s quite good to work and to do fast prototyping





et voilá

It isn’t finished yet, but I wanted to share with you  :)   will add more sensors and more cool stuff as soon as I have time

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2010 02 04 GUI Arduino
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Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa

The architect Nuno Monteiro invited me to enter a contest to present an exposition concept for the “Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa”, and this was our proposal. My work consisted in finding a way to vizualize the exposition space and its different areas, and to achieve this nothing better than an aeral 3D perspective:

Another view of the exposition:

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2010 01 11 GUI 3D
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guibot @codebits (update)

Codebits was an amazing event! I totally wish to be there next year!

This was me during the Creative Robotics talk, you can see the video below. I was a bit nervous for no apparent reason, just hope to be more relaxed next time.

Mitch Altman’s bench:

During three days people could learn how to solder and build cool stuff, TV-B-Gone’s, Brain Machine’s, Boarduino’s, POV’s and a lot more.

Mitch Altman’s Talk about HackerSpaces, a must see:

AltLab’s makerbot was there too, and there where lots of cool things being printed all the time


Christmas Tree by Paulo Ricca

(all photos were taken by Tiago Serra) Continue reading ›

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guibot @codebits

I was invited to assist Mitch Altman during codebits. I believe it is going to be an amazing experience.  :)
I will also talk about Creative Robotics on Friday at 2PM.

Filipe Valpereiro from InMotion.pt will talk about Arduino, and Rui Madeira will talk about OpenFrameworks.

Hope to see you there  ;)

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2009 11 25 GUI Arduino
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Meet the new family members

May I introduce you to the new family members: Farrusco v2.5, and Farrusco Junior.

Farrusco v2 is the new generation of my first robot Farrusco.
The F2 was created with Filipe Valpereiro from InMotion.pt, and this was the robot used for the last robotics workshops season.

The F2.5 version has a cleaner design, we are using two modified servos to work as DC motors as you can see in this tutorial, the motor driver is an ardumoto, and soon I will upload more photos with new addons.

Farrusco Junior is another iteration, he has two modified servos and a small chassis. The modified servos operate as normal servos but they rotate 360º continuously, and you can learn howto hack them watching this video tutorial (in portuguese).
This robot is still a work in progress, and I will upload new pics soon.

All the components were sponsored by InMotion.pt.

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2009 11 19 GUI Arduino
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Fun with Arduino Contest

Think It – Build It – Share It!

  • Contest Start Date: 01 | Nov | 09
  • Contest End Date: 31 | Dec | 09
  • Judging Begins: 01 | Jan | 10
  • Top 3 Winners Announced: 08 | Jan | 10

Prizes awarded to the top three Arduino projects. Projects will be judged by Shawn Augustson of ArduinoFun.com, Guilherme Martins of Guibot.net, Dr. Alison Colman of theFuseFactory.org, and we will also accept viewer submitted votes through Twitter

How to Enter: Contestants must create a project using the Arduino (any board). The project must be geared towards the beginner to intermediate user to help learn more about what the Arduino is and can do. Project can have already been submitted elsewhere, for example you already published it on another site like Instructables, etc.

Each project MUST HAVE the following in order to be considered:

  • Photo of the finished project
  • YouTube or other service video showing the project working
  • Step by step supporting documentation on how a user can complete your project
  • Arduino code used for project
  • List of sources used, for example if you borrowed ideas from another project on the web

(Optional) – Bonus points for adding a statement of what the Arduino has meant to you.

How to Submit Your Project: Send photos, documentation, links to your video and your arduino sketch pasted into a text file to shawn at arduinofun dot com. Projects will then be posted to ArduinoFun.com (you remain the project owner, we will not use projects in anything other than published to ArduinoFun.com)

Prizes:

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2009 11 01 GUI Arduino
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Servo Suspension System

This is my first experiment with the MakerBot. I am totally thrilled with this machine!!!


(photo by Tiago Serra)

SSS (servo suspension system) is designed to support standard servo motors and act as a basic suspension. It is still a work in progress and has not been tested yet.

Will update results as soon as possible (still waiting to have my lab back).

Already uploaded this part to thingiverse.

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2009 10 30 GUI 3D
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Talk Show

This has been another huge creative odissey!!

The stage, cenary, coreography and lyrics are Rui Horta’s work, for the video projections we are using an application coded by Rui Madeira. The immersive soundscapes and music belong to Tiago Cerqueira.

I’ve created visual environments, animations and textures to be projected on stage, in the photos below you can see samples of my work.

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Workshops Olhares de Outono 2009 (Nov.)

/// WORKSHOPS OLHARES DE OUTONO 2009 ///

O Festival de Artes Digitais Olhares de Outono chega este ano à 10ª edição. Os workshops são gratuitos porém, os que têm como objecto a plataforma Arduino implicam a aquisição de kits de material que ficam para o formando. Os interessados podem solicitar mais informações ou realizar uma pré-inscrição através do mail hdias@porto.ucp.pt ou consultar o site: Olhares de Outono, 2009

Os temas dos workshops são:
/// COMUNICAÇÂO SEM FIOS COM O ARDUINO
\\\ TRACKING VIDEO
/// PURE DATA
\\\ ROBÓTICA CRIATIVA

COMUNICAÇÂO SEM FIOS COM O ARDUINO
18 de Nov. (9:30-12:30 e 14:00-17:00) | Duração: 1 dia
Participantes: 10 – 12 | Formador: Filipe Valpereiro

TRACKING VIDEO
19 de Nov. (14:00-18:00) e 20 de Nov. (9:30-12:30 e 14:00-18:00)
Duração: 2 dias | Participantes: 10 – 12 | Formador: Armando Menicacci

PURE DATA, introduction à Pure Data – design sonore.
23 e 24 de Nov. (9:30-12:30 e 14:00-16:00) | Duração: 2 dias
Participantes: 10 – 12 | Formador: Christian Delecluze

ROBÓTICA CRIATIVA
23, 24 e 25 de Nov. (9:30-12:30 e 14:00-17:00) | Duração: 3 dias
Participantes: 10 – 12 | Formador: Guilherme Martins e Filipe Valpereiro

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