Category: Robotics

Feb 15 2016 No Comments by Mário Saleiro

Lisbon Maker Faire 2016: the dates are set!

Posted in 3D Printing, Digital Fabrication, Education, eLab Hackerspace, Electronics, Internet of Things, Mechatronics, Microcontrollers, Open Source, Raspberry Pi, Robotics

The dates for Lisbon Maker Faire 2016, the biggest maker event in Portugal, have been announced! This year the event will occur a few months sooner: 25 and 26 of June! You read that right. 4 months left to get your project ready. This time you won’t have the summer months to finish your projects.

Apr 08 2015 No Comments by Mário Saleiro

Lisbon Mini Maker Faire – part III

Posted in 3D Printing, Digital Fabrication, Education, eLab Hackerspace, Electronics, Mechatronics, Microcontrollers, Open Source, Projects, Robotics

This is the third post regarding Lisbon Mini Maker Faire. In case you haven’t read the previous parts, click here (part I) and here (part II). In this post I’ll just show you two videos and the full Gallery of photos taken by all eLab Hackerspace members (+500 photos!) 🙂 Enjoy! Videos Here is a short video that I edited with

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Apr 07 2015 1 Comment by Mário Saleiro

Lisbon Mini Maker Faire – part II

Posted in 3D Printing, Digital Fabrication, Education, eLab Hackerspace, Electronics, Mechatronics, Microcontrollers, Open Source, Projects, Robotics

This is the second post regarding Lisbon Mini Maker Faire. In case you haven’t read part I, click here. Lisbon Mini Maker Faire – Day 1 After an almost sleepless night working on the projects and filling a storage box with all the components and tools that could be necessary, at 7AM we started the

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Apr 06 2015 3 Comments by Mário Saleiro

Lisbon Mini Maker Faire – part I

Posted in 3D Printing, Digital Fabrication, Education, eLab Hackerspace, Electronics, Mechatronics, Microcontrollers, Open Source, Projects, Robotics

Amazing! This is the word that best describes the Lisbon Mini Maker Faire: amazing! 🙂 During three days more than 100 Portuguese Makers were together at Pavilhão do Conhecimento, in Lisbon, sharing their knowledge and showing their amazing projects to over 12000 visitors, a number that surpassed all expectations. Before the Maker Faire: the beginning

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Jun 28 2014 2 Comments by Mário Saleiro

Lisbon Mini Maker Faire – the Curators, extended deadline and some news

Posted in Digital Fabrication, Education, eLab Hackerspace, Electronics, Hacks, Mechatronics, Microcontrollers, Networks, Open Source, Raspberry Pi, Robotics

Hi everyone! I have some great news about the Lisbon Mini Maker Faire that’s going to happen in September. 🙂 In case you haven’t checked out the first post I made about the Lisbon Mini Maker Faire, go check it out here. In case you already read it, then you know that the call

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Jun 19 2014 No Comments by Mário Saleiro

Lisbon Mini Maker Faire

Posted in Digital Fabrication, Education, eLab Hackerspace, Electronics, Hacks, Mechatronics, Microcontrollers, Networks, Open Source, Raspberry Pi, Robotics, Uncategorized

The moment that some people have been waiting for is coming: the first Maker Faire in Portugal! 😀 It’s going to be held in Pavilhão do Conhecimento, in Lisbon, from the 19th to the 21st of September of 2014. The event was first announced in the 7th Portuguese Makers Hangouts session live at Codebits

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Dec 19 2013 No Comments by Mário Saleiro

Video of Episode 6 of Portuguese Makers Hangouts

Posted in Blogging, Computer Vision, Digital Fabrication, Education, Electronics, Hacks, Open Source, Robotics

Hi everyone 🙂 As I said in my previous post, Episode 6 of the Portuguese Makers Hangouts was live on the 5th of December. As usual, it was very interesting to watch and hear about the projects made by other portuguese makers. This episode’s participants were: Gonçalo Lopes, who talked about his PhD work in

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Nov 07 2013 No Comments by Mário Saleiro

episode 5 of the portuguese makers hangouts

Video of Episode 5 of Portuguese Makers Hangouts

Posted in Blogging, Digital Fabrication, Education, Electronics, Hacks, Open Source, Robotics

Hi everyone 🙂 As I said in my previous post, Episode 5 of the Portuguese Makers Hangouts was live on the 16th of October. Once again, it was very interesting to watch and hear about the projects made by other portuguese makers. This episode’s participants were Guilherme Martins from ArticaCC, Ferdinand Meier from FabLAB EDP

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Nov 03 2013 22 Comments by Mário Saleiro

sistema de robótica educativa de baixo custo com robôs Infante

Infante robots – an educational robotics system

Posted in Digital Fabrication, Education, Electronics, Linux, Microcontrollers, Networks, Projects, Raspberry Pi, Robotics

Hi! Today I’ll show you a project that started as a challenge that I have accepted and turned out to be one of the most challenging projects I have ever done. K6 professor Bruna Carmo wanted to do some research on educational robotics for her Master Thesis but couldn’t find an affordable educational robotics

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May 26 2013 No Comments by Mário Saleiro

Video of Episode 2 of Portuguese Makers Hangouts

Posted in Digital Fabrication, Electronics, Mechatronics, Robotics

Hi everyone 🙂 As I said in my last post, I have been invited to participate in Episode 2 of the Portuguese Makers Hangouts. It was on the 21st of May at 22:00 (Lisbon time). In case you weren’t able to watch it live, here’s the full hangout. It’s in portuguese but you’ll still be

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