You thought we were dead. But the nerds in black were never gone.

AZ Res­i­dency at Espaço Tempo has resumed its course on the 14th July 2010, and we’ve been kick­ing it real with some hard­core project dev for a whole week now! Our main aim is to get all of these projects kick­ing and scream­ing on the 12th July for the big open­ing of the exhibition.

Cata­rina and Joel spent most of their week fid­dling with some heavy duty Maker­Bot print­ing trial and error. In between ran­dom python re-learning fast courses, they man­aged to pull off some awe­some hacks, such as a maker­bot micro­scope to observe bac­te­ria, a nutella jesus on a toast, and some robot printed & baked cookies.

Ran­dom project quotes include:
“we have sci­en­tif­i­cally proven that straw­berry yogurt is not print­able“
“if you believe, it will work“
“how big should we make jesus?“
“only two jesus toasts and already out of nutella?!“
“there is a guy com­ing by on mon­day to get a jesus on a toast”

Mean­while Francesco and Mar­i­ana been hard at work on their ant track­ing project. Marco draw­ing some more Sui­cide Girls for his secret pro­jec­tion art instal­la­tion project. Ricardo work­ing on his the­sis. Pedro and Mónica work­ing some more on the RTiVISS (Real-Time Video Inter­ac­tive Sys­tems for Sus­tain­abil­ity) project. Vitor upgrad­ing his ver­sion of Attic Tesla / Last Words of Domenico per­for­mance. Mar­garida work­ing on her arduino based reac­tive robot.

Myself and Tiago arrived yes­ter­day night and been hard at work in our own projects as well. Me prepar­ing a release ver­sion of Gen Haiku, help­ing out with the web­dev side of things on the iCookie fast-hack project and con­jur­ing some evil plans for world dom­i­na­tion prepar­ing a live­act for the open­ing day of the exhi­bi­tion. And Tiago work­ing on his bus GPS track­ing sys­tem app.