Courses

Today, Diego Casado-Mansilla, Juan López de Armentia and Juan José Echeverria will lead an Arduino workshop. The course entitled "How to use Arduino in your everyday life" is included in the e-ghost summer school 2014 series.

The proposed exercises can be downloaded through this link .

Disclosure Talks

MORElab member Diego Casado Mansilla has contributed in the "Bakailao, the power of the senses" exhibition with the digital interaction design and its development. The exhibition will remain open for visiting until april 2014 in the Ria de Bilbao Maritime Museum. The exhibition will be moved then to the Honningsvag's Museum in Norway. The technology used for most of the installations was Arduino-based.

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Last thursday November, 21th 2013, the MORElab's member Diego Casado Mansilla gave a workshop on Arduino as DiY tool within the BIME hack day event at Bilbao Exhibition Center (BEC). The event counted with more than 50 attendees of different technical backgrounds (engineers, coders, hackers, artist, architects, designers, practitioners, etc.). The workshop began with a review of the Arduino basic concepts, pursuing with the use of the Arduino platform as an experimental tool to create and mix music. At the end of the workshop a demo that connected an Android smartphone with an arduino to play remotely a piano was presented. See the video on this link.






The last July, 11th of 2013 Diego Casado-Mansilla, Juan López de Armentia, Juan José Echeverria, Juan Sixto y Adolfo García had lead an Arduino workshop. The course was included in the e-ghost summer school series. The workshop went succesfully with more than twenty attendees of different backgrounds. The whole 3 hours were dedicated to introduce the Arduino world, show cool projects ingeniered with Arduino, and to perform final "hands-on" with the electronic platform.







The slides are available here.
The proposed exercises can be downloaded through this link

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Awards

On friday, 24th, February of 2012 Morelab members Diego Casado Mansilla, Ivan Pretel and Juan López de Armentia have won an award for the best application in the Apps4BetterWorld competition with the project "Verde y Punto!". The idea behind the app is to create an incidence reporting system at registered areas in order to help improve the sustainability and resource saving through colaborative and awareness solution. The approach aims to promote a social mindset change and to contribute towards a better and fairer world.

The app is available to download in the project web site.

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On November 30th and December 1st of 2012 about 10 MORElab members and I organized and participated in the Random Hacks for Kindness (RHoK - Bilbao). RHoK is a global initiative that in this edition counted with thousands of developers in over 30 countries attempting to solve social problems through technology. So as to do this, RHoK - Bilbao gathered problems that local associations and organizations, and presented them to the participants that worked a day and a half in a hackathon and format. The results of this workshop in Bilbao have been amazing, with the three problems targeted solving real problems! See detailed information here.






The proposed projects can be overviewed through this link

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The last July, 26th and 27th of 2012 Diego Casado Mansilla has lead a two days workshop on Arduino. The course was included in the e-ghost summer school series. The workshop went succesfully with more than twenty attendees of different backgrounds. The first day was dedicated to introduce people in the Arduino world, while the second day we devoted the time to perform a Hands-on with the electronic platform.
Special thanks to @jon_lazaro @juanarmentia juanjose.echevarria and @p_curiel for your help to make possible this workshop.






The slides are available here and here.
The proposed exercises can be downloaded through this link

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Last February, 11th of 2012 MORElab member Diego Casado Mansilla attended the Internet of Things Madrid's (IoT) meet-up where he gave a talk about Eco-awareness Social Devices promoting a more sustainable world. The meet-up counted with more than 50 attendees of different backgrounds (engineers, artist, architects, designers, hobbyists, practitioners, etc.). The meeting began with a review of the IoT concepts pursuing with replies to the "where we are?" question in such emerging paradigm. Presented talks have covered real-world IoT examples from local to a global scales, and finally it was broadly discussed the role of human beings on a future IoT world, as well as the social-economics implications that it will entail.

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On wednesday, 23th, November of 2011 Morelab's members Diego Casado Mansilla and Juan López de Armentia have led and organized an Arduino workshop which was held at DeustoTech research centre of the University of Deusto. This event aimed to present the Arduino open platform as an easy and accessible prototyping tool to create, design and share pervasive applications within the Internet of Things ecosystem, and among ambient intelligence environments or the so called smart spaces. The attendees were mostly composed by MORElab's members being the workshop ultimate target to promote the use of such a platform for the ongoing and future research projects.





MoreLab's member Diego Casado Mansilla has led and organized a Semana de la Ciencia studio event entitled "Do-it-Yourself! Open Technology at everybody hand reach" on two different sessions: 8th and 15th November of 2011. The event was organized in collaboration with Mario Vega member of T>SIC-UPM research group (partner in TALISMAN+ project). In line with the speakers research, this studio aimed to offer participants the opportunity to create, design and share pervasive applications within the smart space ecosystem provided by open DiY frameworks (e.g. Arduino). The sessions tried to lower the barrier between the citizenship and emerging technologies by following simple open-technology recipes.





Diego Casado Mansilla attended the ACM Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (ACM TEI 2011) conference that took place between 23rd and 26th of January 2011 in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. In particular, Diego led and organized a TEI 2011 studio event entitled “Do-it-Yourself Creation of Pervasive, Tangible Applications” on Sunday 23rd January. The studio counted with 13 participants whom were divided in three groups to create IoT prototypes aiming to solve three everyday challenges (from the local to global scale). The main idea behind the studio was to materialize an abstract idea to something tangible (enriched with technology) in less than 1 day. Obviously working on groups in a Do-it-Yourself way.