Labyrinth

Top 40 Arduino projects on the web

Very cool projects :
http://hacknmod.com/hack/top-40-arduino-projects-of-the-web/

Ignite Oslo, Rapid Prototyping

On Thursday I hold one of the most difficult presentations of my life. I was representing Robotica Osloensis, a student community which I am deputy chairman of, at Ignite Oslo. I talked about Rapid Prototyping which we use as our main method at Robotica in our projects. Ignite is a style of presentation where participants are given five minutes to speak on a subject accompanied by 20 slides. Each slide is displayed for 15 seconds, and slides are automatically advanced. The Ignite format is similar to Pecha Kucha, which features 20 slides displayed for 20 seconds each.

The Ignite Oslo was a very nice event. They had 5 minutes presentations about different topics(list over topics) which were very interesting. Presentations about art, film making, music composition with applications on iPad, 3D printing, air balloons and fashion, etc. It was pretty stressful when it came to my turn. The whole idea of 15 seconds intervals and having a lot to say about a subject that actually belongs to the nerd world made me very nervous. Thanks to my friends Magnus Lange and Ole Jacob, who helped me both about the content and preparing in advance for the presentation, I was well prepared. Also I should thank my friends who came there to support me when I was actually holding the presentation. My presentation can be downloaded by clicking here.

A red bleeding edge artifact

I liked this one ;-) very cool :-D Soooooo bleeding edge, we HAD to maked it RED ;-)

RxTx API, Java

By clicking on the following link you can have access to the full directory of RxTx library API's in Java :

• http://users.frii.com/jarvi/rxtx/doc/index.html

Robotics and a big market to feed ...

After reading this article(Let the robots do the house work for you) on a Norwegian newspaper I was thinking to write a comment about it. As computers got into every single home in last 30 years, the robots do have the "same potential" and even more. The computers made their ways to our homes because they were good in some tasks(at least in early years), while robots have the potential to enter every single aspect of our life and simply automate the process. That's why it is important that robot designers are smart enough to discover the needs out there in the market and design the simplest machinery that can do the job :-)

RepRap project, the beginning of an adventure …

The RepRap project; an open source 3D printer, with all the technologies including inside it is a magnificent piece of technology to learn and study deeply. A combination of chemistry, physics, computer science, robotic technology and etc. Something that is produced by prosumers for prosumers(or even consumers as you don’t have to develop it further). A good that belongs to the non-rival(or even anti-rival), non extendable part of the production world. A product of CBPP in the public domain which in 5 years since Adrian came up with the idea, has managed to build a strong community in many different countries all around the world, dedicated developers around it and last but not least three functioning versions of 3D printers. I am honored to say that I am leading this project at Robotica Osloensis. Our first objective is to study and learn the RepRap concept and later take part in the development of this artifact. More updates on this project later.