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Artica Showreel 2011

2011 was a great year for Artica, check for yourself, we will appreciate that you share this video and help us to make 2012 an even better year!! Cheers!

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2012 01 06 GUI Comments (0)

Einstein VideoPlayer

Einstein VideoPlayer is a project that I initiated during a dance performance entitled “Einstein Dreams” created by Rui Horta. All this took place at Göteborg Opera in Sweden, September of 2010. Einstein is not just a tool to play videos, it allows anyone to play a list of videos, cross fading between them, with the [...]

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2011 12 08 GUI MAXMSPJITTER
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Magabot

Magabot is an open hardware and software robotics platform designed to stimulate creative minds. Any robot with a computer is a very powerfull robot, and because all laptops have a camera, a screen, speakers, microphone, batteries and usb interfaces, your robotics experience will be empowered with Magabot. This project is being developed in a partnership [...]

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2011 10 10 GUI Arduino
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Artica @ TEDxEdges

This TEDxEdges was a huge event, and Artica marked its presence on stage with the Einstein VideoPlayer adapted to play the videos between the talks, and with a video mapping system to display the data captured by biometric PLUX sensors. There were 4 gloves on the room, and each person wearing a glove would be [...]

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2011 10 06 GUI MAXMSPJITTER
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Motoruino and Motors – Workshop @ ALTLAB

Last Wednesday Artica lectured a Motoruino workshop at AltLab. Beside all the participants there were more than a hundred watching a live stream on Ustream, people from Viseu, Guimarães, Porto, Évora, Madrid and many more places I believe. The central theme was Motoruino and motors such as Servos, DC motors, Steppers and Linear actuators. In [...]

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2011 08 01 GUI Misc
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Farrusco, Your First Robot

Farrusco is a small robot based on the Arduino platform, in this case, is using a Motoruino wich is inspired on the Arduino but with a couple of enhancements – dc motor dual controller, servo and sensor plugs. With Farrusco you will be able to make it avoid obstacles, follow walls, enter in free space [...]

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2011 03 23 GUI Farrusco
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Max + Arduino + Industrial Motor

At Artica, we had a request to link MAXMSP to an industrial motor for an artistic installation witch we will speak about at another time. This motor is a true beast, and since we have never worked with such a thing we decided to ask for help to our electronics guru David Palma. The motor [...]

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2011 03 10 GUI Hacks
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Paint Me breakdown

Like everything, there is always an idea at the very beginning and this time was no exception. Rui Horta gave me a drawing with a set design to be created in 3D. Creating environments in 3D is always good for a first impression of the set, to detect possible flaws and to comunicate ideas with [...]

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2011 01 04 GUI Paint Me
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Repairing a damaged charger

We at Artica are taking this manifesto very seriouslly: Due to a stupid mistake (inverted power wires), this battery charger (the best that my fingers ever touched) smoked for a second or two: When we opened the case, there was this little SMD with a strange eruption result of an overburn, it was definetely what [...]

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2011 01 04 GUI Hacks
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Artica’s Interactive Slideshow

CCB, Museu Colecção Berardo, Trienal de Arquitectura, Prémios Secil – Interactive SlideShow – 2010 from artica on Vimeo. Interactive Slideshow created to showcase Secil Prizes. You can see it live @ CCB, Museu Colecção Berardo, Exposição Trienal de Arquitectura.

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2010 12 03 GUI Comments (0)