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Guilherme Martins aka Guibot is a well know designer and robot builder, building crazy robots from recycled parts, unusual materials, and tons of polymorph. He has been a source of inspiration, and their robots are wonderful examples of creativity within robotics. Now, he has given the next step, designing an Arduino Clone, making it even easier to design and build new robots. I truly hope his design will spur creativity among the robot builders.

Guilherme sent me a board to experiment, thank you!!!! I hope to have enough time to make a trough review next week, and post some examples and source code.

Nasceu a impressora3d.com, uma comunidade portuguesa sobre impressão 3D usando hardware open-source com o objectivo de apoiar a comunidade portuguesa na impressão 3D, desde o desenho até à impressão, incluindo a contrução/manutenção/hacking das impressoras. Esta tecnologia permite o desenvolvimento rápido de protótipos 3D em PLA (plástico bio-degradável) ou ABS.

Como exemplo de utilização o Jorge Casainho desenhou e imprimiu este suporte para máquina de filmar utilizando uma impressora 3D que desenvolveu com base na RepRap. Esperamos que esta comunidade cresça cada vez mais com o vosso contributo, feedback e experiência.

Yes, it’s the Arduinome. Above you can see the details from the Button Pad 4×4 Led’s board. Most of the boring soldering has been done. At the moment we are missing the Box (still under construction) and some nice cables. It’s hard when you leave in a country where they charge you 1.98€ for a 16-way connector. So we just decided to buy a few and have them on stock with some nice coloured flat cable connectors.

Bellow the controller board. At this point only the sockets and the resistor net are soldered. Nuno wanted a thinner, portable box. To achieve this we use the shield separated from the Arduino, connected with flat cables to the Arduino. The box will be made in wood with an acrylic front panel (still a work in progress). More pictures will be following soon. 

The first AltLab session took place on the 05 May under the mantra DIY Creativity. This is their first and uber-cool project, the Paperduino, designed by Guilherme Martins in collaboration with the people at AltLab. Build on top of a recyclable cardboard with easy to find components this is a easiest and funny way to build your own Arduino almost for free.

Remember the KISS mantra? It can’t get better then this. All you need is a paper sheet with the board layout, a needle and a soldering iron. Better yet, grab some old hardware, recycle some components and build a recycled Paperduino. We’re going to build a few this weekend for fun and to use them as a low cost development board.

Some photos from our workshop on 28-29 March 2008. Click on them to open the photo gallery viewer.

On the next Saturday (2 Feb.) the DoubleMV and the InMotion will team up to bring you the first Arduino Plugged Workshop focused on wired communication with digital devices. Bring your old “digital trash”and a laptop. Wi’ll supply the Arduinos, the soldering iron and a friendly environment. Start hours: 14pm.