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 [...]
ICU has been sleeping for a while but was awaken suddenly because I was invited to an exhibition at Flausina, a new born association in Lisbon. Complexity is always a welcome thing around here and the bot was presented with two more servo motors and all the software has been re-written. And because I needed [...]
Since the first SWARS experience, I knew this could go A LOT further, but having Farrusco on a remote terrace where you could only have access by climbing an outside ladder.. I must confess, I never thought of such a thing, until… my friend Fernando Mendes (Cowork_LX) came to me with this crazy idea! I [...]
No último sábado, 5 de Fevereiro, o altlab organizou o Arduino Hack Day. Participaram no evento perto de 40 pessoas, entre entusiastas em electrónica, artistas, programadores, arquitectos, fotógrafos, amigos. Para muitos, foi o primeiro contacto com o Arduino, a descoberta da simplicidade desta plataforma para o desenvolvimento de projectos de computação física. Distribuídos por quatro [...]
Curso de Introdução às Técnicas de Palco DOWNLOAD PDF OFICINAS DE 29 DE JANEIRO A 17 DE JULHO na Culturgest das 10h00 às 13h00 e das 14h30 às 18h30 A inscrição poderá ser feita na bilheteira da Culturgest, por correio ou e-mail, com a entrega da ficha de inscrição devidamente preenchida. Cada oficina terá um [...]
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 [...]
Rui Horta was invited to run a day called “Hoje Quem Manda Sou Eu” @ Pavilhão do Conhecimento, this was a day full of digital art, interactive installations and creative robotics. I exposed ICU and two Farrusco’s: What a great day!!! :)
Artica is a startup company created by me and my friend André Almeida, we decided to merge our skills and knowledge in many fields, from artificial intelligence, augmented reality, interactive media, visual contents, immersive installations, creative robotics, project management, set and light design, and many other cool stuff we have done in the past years. [...]
My life has been going on full of cool things happening since the last post. Lots of new projects coming in, and started a startup company Artica with my friend André Almeida. Our litemotif is to mix art and technology in order to create empowering interactive experiences. Will write more about Artica’s projects soon. Another [...]
