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Call for developers

For those who have been present at alt lab meetings know by now that I’m currently developing a 3D Laser Printer.
As far as electronics everything is almost good to go with some minor tweaks, but I’m facing a giant problem now. I  don’t have time to develop software for this pet and I don’t want [...]

Drum Pads

Hey.
Four drum pads ready to go.
All made of old material found in the Alt/Lab installations, and a very special big thankxxx for Mónica who brought the casings (we are going back to that in a moment) for the drum pads.
So the idea was to make drum pads that we could hook up to a sound [...]

Make your own game-pad!

…Don’t let others tell you how many buttons you can press at once, these are times of freedom :)
This is a homemade game-pad with just one accelerometer (a breakout board from Sparkfun) and one push-button.
Using a simple, custom protocol and a C# listener we could play Acceleroids, an Asteroids lost sibling on Steroids, which uses the [...]

more photos of yesterday evening

We had a great time building this electronic/paper pieces, and more are to come pretty soon .)

AltLab opening with paper arduinos

We are happy to introduce the paperduino  :D

This Tuesday AltLab had its first public session and we did a mini workshop on “paperduinos”, a new generation of cardboard arduinos. We had lots of fun and have many more ideas we’d like to try: different layouts, colored papers, and other materials. More info soon.

Control your motors with L293D and Arduino

I realized there was some lack of information regarding the use of this chip with Arduino, so I made this Instructable. Hope you find it usefull ;)

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We meet every Tuesday, at 21:30h, in Cacilhas (directions here). Everyone is welcome to join us for some hacking, brainstorming, coding, whatever it is you’re into that day.

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