Hacking Sessions #4 – Sensors Party – 13.12.14

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Discover our sensors collections, join the #4 session! Test and play with our proximity, pressure, vibration, capacitive, light & temperature sensors! This session is for who want to activate objects according to certain conditions. Join our sensors & actuators party on Saturday 13th December!

Hacking Sessions #3 – Hack a Projector – 06.12.14

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One more session again! Now that you’re more skilled, let’s introduce a new way to interact using Arduino+processing to control a video projection. The first attempt will consist in showing/hiding a video according to the sensor output, in order to explore a new field of the physical interaction. This is very useful, specially when the… Read more »

Robot behaviour: complexity is in the eye of the beholder // Feb 19-20, 2015

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Andrea Roli, from Bologna University, will introduce us into the simple and the complex of a robot behaviour—designers, computer scientists, you are all welcome! Programming a robot can be easier than expected and the behaviour of a simple robot can be more complex than expected! The goal of this workshop is to introduce the principles… Read more »

Hacking Sessions #2 – Hack a Bongo – 29.11.14

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Let’s continue with new Hacking Sessions, 4 hours on Saturday 29.11 where we’ll learn how to use Arduino to control and interact with real objects. We’ll provide the Arduino kit and the sensors; you’ll bring the objects. The second chapter is focused on beating an object (bongo) using a servo motor, and controlling it with… Read more »

Hacking Sessions #1 – Hack a lamp

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Let’s start with new Hacking Sessions, 4 hours on saturday where we’ll learn how to use Arduino to control and interact with real ojbects. We’ll provide the Arduino kit and the sensor, you bring the objects. The first chapther is focused on controlling a lamp, how to switch it on/off touching, shaking, shouting it and… Read more »

Co-design and Children: Who, Why, How // Sep 29 2014

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by Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano September 29th, 2014 // 12:30-13:30 // Seminar Room, 1st floor, Faculty of Computer Science of UniBZ, Piazza Domenicani 3, Bolzano OVERVIEW «Up to age 16, kids are determining most expenditures in the household. This is very attractive to marketers — See more» But how to design for nowadays children?… Read more »

Workshop: OPEN DRONES 22.-27.9.2014

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Drones for war, drones for surveillance, drones for commerce, drones for comfort … Industry and military invest billions in research related to intelligent drones. We want to understand the topic from a hands-on perspective. We will tinker with drones, using them for interventions in public space. Karen Eliot will conduct the workshop. The Name “Karen Eliot” is… Read more »

Videogame programming 101 // Sep 1-4 2014

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—copyrighted image by TERENCE— VIDEOGAME PROGRAMMING 101 – Drama Läb: DAY 1 A workshop concerning videogame design and development for user experience design by Maurizio Cerrato—thank you, Maurizio, for this very nice crash course into the realm of videogame programming! Sep 1–4 2014, UniBZ, Main Building Follow us on Facebook OVERVIEW You heard you can… Read more »

Arduino for dummies & smarties #2

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Ehi! Just three saturday sessions are left before the summer (24-31.05 + 14.06), if you need an Arduino help for your diploma or your project, this is the time. Don’t be shy, come – ask and play!