Guilherme Martins : visual art, new media & creative robotics

Farruscos @ TedxKids@CentralTejo

Here is another great video of this memorial day!! :D

Tagged Artica, central tejo, educational, Farrusco, guibot, kids, Robotics, tedx, tedxkids

2013 04 12 GUI Artica
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Artica Showreel 2012

It has been a long ride since the 2012 showreel, we’ve been in Ireland, Munich and Slovenia, done a lot of robotics workshops and improved our products and services to a higher level!

Tagged 2012, Artica, showreel

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We had the pleasure to be part on the first portuguese TEDxKids!! We brought our Farrusco’s tribe for a brief introduction to robotics during the afternoon, what a great time!! Big thanks to all the TEDxKids team for the opportunity and support!! This kind of events should happen more often!

There will be a TV show dedicated to the event this Saturday and Sunday @ SICNoticias

http://imagensdemarca.sapo.pt/emissoes/tv/pecas/promo-pequenos-grandes-oradores/

Tagged Artica, Farrusco, guibot, kids, ted, tedx, tedxkids, workshop

2013 03 01 GUI Artica
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Livebots.cc

Have you ever controlled a robot online??
How about controlling two robots?

Just try it @ livebots.cc

All credits belong to XicoMBD! Respect!!

Tagged Farrusco, francisco dias, livebots, online, Robots

2013 02 06 GUI Artica
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Handboat

A couple of time ago I tried to materialize a painting to offer to a friends, the author is Alfredo Luz, he does this very original surrealistic paintings!!

This is what came out, STL file is available at Thingiverse!

Tagged 3D, 3dprint, alfredo luz, boat, hand, painting

2013 01 25 GUI 3D Comments (0) Permalink

BFB3000 meets “mancave solutions”

ABS warping and PLA broken filaments is a very well known issue in the 3d print world! At Artica we have our good old BFB3000 and we solved this problems using what I have later proudly called “mancave solutions”!! :D

Here I am using a heater pointed to the printer, this keeps the object and the platform quite warmy! and it works flawleslly! Besides it keeps the room quite warm wich feels good under the winter.. summer will be much hotter I suppose!!

PLA filament lose elastic properties through the time and on the BFB3000 it simply snaps inside the rubber tubes.. I created a roof on the top of the printer as you can see, the filament enters the print head without any stress and no more snaps!

And the result is awesome!!

Tagged abs, bfb, bfb3000, Hack, modification, pla, snap, warp

2013 01 23 GUI 3D
Artica
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The Path, after and before

This photo was taken on a foggy day, but I couldn’t miss to capture this nice wood path! After some retouch with HDR manipulation it came out quite nice in my opinion.