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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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SapoBot

SapoBot is a robot that wonders through spaces avoiding obstacles detects holes on the ground, follow walls and follow lines, to change between behaviors you only need to press the shell, and when he detects a collision gives a frog sound. This project was comissioned by Sapo, means frog in portuguese. This bots were made [...]

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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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Júlio de Matos

“Júlio de Matos” is a comedy performed by Joaquim Monchique. The set has a non-conventional projection zone, and I had to adapt all the contents to it. I invited David Rebordão to help me with video capture and editing. David is a promising Movie Director and Producer, check out what it is the most watched [...]

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ICU2

I SEE YOU TOO, is the 2nd version of the original ICU This version gained an upgrade in both hardware and software. The hardware is mostly based on servocity.com pan and tilt systems. This is a work in progress, until now what is implemented is Face Detect with the openCV library for Processing. Next stage [...]

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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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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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“É Como Diz o Outro”, the post

“É Como Diz o Outro” is a comedy performed by Miguel Guilherme and Bruno Nogueira, directed by Tiago Guedes and produced by UAU. Our commitment was to create a video scene with a street landscape and a building front. This video started early in the morning and went through several stages during a normal work [...]

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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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Driving Farrusco @ CoworkLX @ LX Factory ‘open day’

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 [...]

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