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Arduino Hack Day report

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[PT]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.
[EN]On Feb 5th alt­lab held its first Arduino Hack Day. Around 40 enthu­si­asts, artists, pro­gram­mers, archi­tects, pho­tog­ra­phers and friends par­tic­i­pated in the event.

[PT]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 ban­cadas, os par­tic­i­pantes começaram a exper­i­men­tar assim que chegaram!
[EN]For many this was their first con­tact with the Arduino, dis­cov­er­ing the ease with which this plat­form can be used for the devel­op­ment of phys­i­cal com­put­ing projects.
Assem­bled around work­benches, par­tic­i­pants started exper­i­ment­ing as soon as they arrived!

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[PT]Uma das ban­cadas, ded­i­cada ao tema Arduino, motores e a robótica, ficou por conta do Guil­herme Mar­tins (Gui­bot). Noutra ban­cada, alguns prin­cipi­antes apren­diam a dar os primeiros pas­sos, com a ajuda de mem­bros do alt­lab.
[EN]One of the tables, ded­i­cated to Arduino, motors and robot­ics, was run by Guil­herme Mar­tins (Gui­bot). Near by, at another table, some par­tic­i­pants took their first steps with the help of alt­lab members.

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[PT]Enquanto isso, a impres­sora 3D (“maker­bot”) trazida pelo nosso con­vi­dado neoze­landês, Tiago, ia impri­m­indo as primeiras peças.
[EN]All the while, the Maker­Bot brought by our New Zele­and guest Tiago, was print­ing some plas­tic parts for the projects.

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[PT]O Pedro Ângelo, do LCD­Lab, veio do Porto para nos aju­dar e ressus­ci­tou um pro­jecto antigo do Mau­rí­cio, que depois de pronto gerou alguma diver­são…
[EN]O Pedro Ângelo, from LCD­Lab, came from Porto to help out and decided to bring back to life an old project of Maurício’s which imme­di­ately turned into a lot of fun.…

Arduino Hack Day

[PT]Logo depois do almoço começaram as apre­sen­tações. A Mónica Mendes e o Mau­rí­cio Mar­tins deram a con­hecer o colec­tivo alt­lab, o seu pas­sado, pre­sente e futuro. A Cheng Xu, tam­bém nossa con­vi­dada, apresentou-nos o Seee­duino Film. Por fim, o Gui­bot e o André, da Artica, falaram do Motoru­ino e do Far­r­usco.
[EN]After lunch we had some pre­sen­ta­tions. Mónica Mendes and Mau­rí­cio Mar­tins talked about the past, present and future of alt­lab. Our guest Cheng Xu pre­sented the See­duino film. Finally, Gui­bot and André from Artica talked about the Motoru­ino and Farrusco.

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[PT]Pas­sadas 10 horas de puro hack­ing e muita cerveja, o Arduino Hack Day chegava ao fim, todos os par­tic­i­pantes muito sat­is­feitos com a exper­iên­cia. O alt­lab con­seguiu con­cretizar o prin­ci­pal objec­tivo desta ini­cia­tiva: jun­tar pes­soas inter­es­sadas em par­til­har con­hec­i­men­tos sobre o Arduino, aju­dar quem nunca tinha desen­volvido nada com a plataforma e con­quis­tar novos inter­es­sa­dos em per­tencer a este colec­tivo fan­tás­tico!
[EN]After 10 hours of pure hack­ing and lots of beer, the Arduino Hack Day came to an end, and every­one left with a smile on their faces. We were able to attain the main goals for this event: gather peo­ple inter­ested in shar­ing knowl­edge about the Arduino, help those who had never used the plat­form, and have sev­eral new mem­bers join our beloved collective.

[PT]Por último, fica aqui um agradec­i­mento muito espe­cial aos mem­bros do alt­lab que con­tribuíram na orga­ni­za­ção deste evento:
[EN]Finally, a word of spe­cial thanks to the alt­lab mem­bers who con­tributed to mak­ing the Arduino Hack Day possible:

Andre Almeida, Ferdi Meier, Guil­herme Mar­tins, Leonardo Mar­ques, Manuel Alves, Mauri­cio Mar­tins, Mónica Mendes, Nuno João, Paulo Rodrigues e Pedro Ângelo (LCD).

Some pho­tos by João Nogueira e Rita Carvalho.

Flickr Photo Set: http://tinyurl.com/6f7vhsx

Eng­lish ver­sion soon!

Arduino Hack Day

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I want to join !

Soldering is Easy workshop report

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Ter­rific night yes­ter­day @ alt­lab!
The work­shop started with an intro to elec­tron­ics leav­ing the atten­dees anx­ious to get down to sol­der­ing.
Despite that, every­one was focus­ing their atten­tion on what was being said.
Half an hour later the sol­der­ing irons were plugged in and the fun started.

Soldering is Easy!
Hands-on and hav­ing fun!

Kit Pisca-Pisca
Blink­ing LED KIT


A new Hacker is born ! @Ricardo Castel­hano


Here is the final result, everyone leaves with their own blink­ing gadget.

More pho­tos @flickr

AZ ready for world domination

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It took us a while, but prac­tice makes per­fect, and we’re now much closer to ridi­cul­ing Justin Bieber than we’ve ever been before!

You might have noticed what derived from our Res­i­dency @ Espaço do Tempo, a dozen projects from sev­eral folks spread over the 3 labs explor­ing the robotic, the inter­ac­tive, the sen­so­r­ial, the tan­gi­ble, the gen­er­a­tive, the audio­vi­sual, the aug­mented, the provoca­tive, the per­for­ma­tive and a few other of all those dirty lit­tle words you so much secretly love hear­ing about. Don’t be shy now. Noth­ing wrong with get­ting a lit­tle tan­gi­ble now and again. ;)

We even par­tic­i­pated in a lit­tle exhibit last month at Pavil­hão Atlân­tico to present these and a cou­ple other works. And now we’re back with more weapons of mass destruc­tion. And now, this very week­end we’re meet­ing up again for some hol­i­day hack­ing follery at LCD to show some more of our projects and do a few mini-sprints. Feel free to join us. Lock up your geeks, we’re com­ing for them!

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Call for developers

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For those who have been present at alt lab meet­ings know by now that I’m cur­rently devel­op­ing a 3D Laser Printer.

Laser pro­jec­tion

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 it to be delayed for much longer than it already has been, so I’m request­ing for kind hearted devel­op­ers to step up and help me in this task.

Any help is wel­come please con­tact me to lj dot marques@fct dot unl dot pt (replace “dot” for “.”).

Cur­rent device

Please adress this Git Hub repos­i­tory for your kind code donations:

http://github.com/Reonarudo/O3DLP

Expla­na­tion of device components.

AZLabs @ O Espaço do Tempo

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After many days of work, stress and fun, we seem to have man­aged to pull through 10 projects to show­case at O Espaço do Tempo! The exhi­bi­tion opened yes­ter­day, 12th July at Con­vento da Saudação and will remain in exhibit until the end of the month.

We also have a mini-site with bios of the authors and descrip­tions of the works, tem­porar­ily hosted here. Not only of the works present at the exhi­bi­tion but also a few oth­ers devel­oped dur­ing the res­i­dency that couldn’t be exhib­ited by one rea­son or another. Check them out!

Big thanks are in order to every­one at O Espaço do Tempo for the oppor­tu­nity we had, and all the in loco sup­port to our needs, you rock. :)

AZLabs @ O Espaço Do Tempo (0day –2)

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2 days to go until the exhibit open­ing of the Audi­en­cia Zero Labs res­i­dency at O Espaço Do Tempo!

A few folks seem to be miss­ing in action. Mauri­cio is back with some news from Inter­ac­tivos to lend us a hand on pend­ing projects. Mónica and Pedro are still work­ing on B-wind!. Mar­garida work­ing on his robot Freddy. Vic­tor Silva rehears­ing his The Last Words of Dominico. Vic­tor and Marco work­ing on Dis­card­able Beauty. Guil­herme fin­ish­ing his Róbot­ica Cria­tiva works. And me fin­ish­ing up Meta Gen Haiku. Cata­rina and Joel should also show up tomorow with their Micro Dérive.

Web­site with more info on the pre­sented projects should go online soon. In the mean­time if you should show up on Mon­day the 12th July in Montemor-O-Novo for the exhibit. We will have 7 projects installed under exhi­bi­tion until the 31st July, and 2 live­acts pre­sented on the exhi­bi­tion day 12th July.

In the mean­time we’ll leave you with some impor­tant t-shirt quote mate­r­ial we have recently acquired:
“48 horas são 6 dias de tra­balho, em turnos de 8 horas“
“Eu só faço pro­jec­tion map­ping quando estou bêbado“
“Não tens pin­cel para isso. Vai antes de rolo.“
“Queres falar ao tele­fone? Fala aí! *slap*”

AZ Labs Exhibition @ O Espaço do Tempo

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LCD + Alt­Lab + xDA
12 — 31 July 2010
Con­vento da Saudação | Montemor-o-Novo | Portugal

Exhi­bi­tion: Mon­day to Fri­day — 6pm / 11pm | Sat­ur­day and Sun­day — 4pm /11pm
Open­ing: 12th of July, 18h00

Artists : Cata­rina Mota | Fil­ipe Cruz | Francesco Cerutti | Guil­herme Mar­tins | João Maia e Silva | Joël Belouet | Jorge Ribeiro | Pedro Ângelo | Mar­garida Faria | Mau­rí­cio Mar­tins | Mónica Mendes | Marco Moura | Mar­i­ana Fer­reira | Mécia Sá | Ricardo Webbens | Sér­gio Fer­reira | Tiago Serra | Vitor Lago Silva | Vic­tor Martins

This exhi­bi­tion presents the results of a unique exper­i­ment. For 17 days, 30 mem­bers of the Audi­en­cia Zero Labs from all over the coun­try and also abroad lived and worked together on col­lec­tive projects. New teams were formed, infi­nite ideas pro­posed, new tools and tech­nolo­gies exper­i­mented with, incred­i­ble adven­tures lived and new friends made. The projects at this exhibit are just the tip of the veil, the true impact of this expe­ri­ence is yet to come.

More info @ O Espaço do Tempo

Workshops at BetaLab

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In the next weeks we’ll be giv­ing two work­shops at Beta­Lab, a co-working space orga­nized by beta­haus| within the Chiado-After-Work program.

Here’s all the infor­ma­tion and work­shops’ sched­ule (in Portuguese):

Work­shop DIY Kinetic Solar­Bots — Con­strua o seu próprio robot cinético solar.

Neste work­shop os par­tic­i­pantes vão con­struir um pequeno robot cinético através da mon­tagem de um cir­cuito solar com um pequeno motor e do design/modelagem do corpo do robot com Shmel­zolan (plás­tico uti­lizado em artesanato).

Datas : 12 de Maio / 19 de Maio / 26 de Maio

Horário : 17h — 21h

Preço : 25 Euros/Pessoa

Local : Rua Gar­rett, 70 (Baixa, Lisboa)

CC : Video by xdate­lier (http://xdatelier.org/)

Work­shop Elec­trónica Apren­der a soldar

Qual­quer pes­soa é capaz de fazer uma boa sol­dadura, é só uma questão de prática! Neste work­shop apren­demos a sol­dar con­stru­indo cir­cuitos muito diver­tidos como o Pisca-Pisca LED, uPONG (Retro Video GAME), Draw­dio (um lápis/pincel que emite sons enquanto desen­há­mos) entre outros.

Datas : 14 de Maio / 21 de Maio / 28 de Maio

Horário : 17h — 21h

Preço : entre 10 — 35  Euros/Pessoa (con­soante o kit selec­cionado para construir)

Local : Rua Gar­rett, 70 (Baixa, Lisboa)

CC : Photo by LadyAda (www.adafruit.com)

A inscrição para qual­quer um dos work­shops numa das das disponíveis deve ser efec­tu­ada via email para o endereço : daniela@betahaus.de

Mini-workshop “Motores de Passo”

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(scroll down for English)

Vamos pegar aleatóri­a­mente num motor de passo e ten­tar desco­brir que tipo de motor é, desen­har um dia­grama sim­ples do mesmo.
Depois vamos pegar no ferro de sol­dar (não há que ter meeeeeedo :)) e mon­tar um cir­cuito que per­mite con­tro­lar esse motor a par­tir de um Arduino ou qual­quer outra placa baseada num micro­con­tro­lador.
Todo o mate­r­ial é fornecido e fica para os par­tic­i­pantes, sendo ape­nas necessário trazer ferro de sol­dar e mul­ti­metro (ou esperar que alguma alma cari­dosa vos empreste).

O número de par­tic­i­pantes é lim­i­tado pelo que, se dis­serem que vêm, con­ta­mos MEEESMO convosco ;)

Para inscrições e pedi­dos de infor­mação: work­shops /arroba/ audienciazero.org
Lotação máx­ima de 10 par­tic­i­pantes
Sábado 13 de Março de 2010
Alt­Lab em Cacil­has
14h00m
5€


Let’s each of us pick up a ran­dom step­per and try to find out what kind of step­per it is, draw a sim­ple dia­gram.
Then pick up the sol­der­ing iron (have noooooo fear :)) and assem­ble a cir­cuit to con­trol that motor from an Arduino or any other microcontroller-based board.
All mate­ri­als are sup­plied to the par­tic­i­pants and every­one gets to keep them; you’re just required to bring your own sol­der­ing iron and mul­ti­me­ter (or wait a ran­dom amount of time to bor­row some­one else’s).

The num­ber of par­tic­i­pa­tions is lim­ited, there­fore, if you tell us you’ll come, we’ll REEEALLY be wait­ing for you ;)

For reg­is­tra­tion and infor­ma­tion requests: work­shops /at/ audienciazero.org
Max­i­mum of 10 par­tic­i­pants
Sat­ur­day, March 13 2010
Alt­Lab @ Cacil­has
14h00m
5€

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