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Holiday in Germany (Summer’12)

This summer I went to Germany for some german holidays, Currywurst and Bratwurst were really tasty and so was the Beer too  , but now that the summer is almost gone here are some photos that I've taken in Berchtesgaden, Füssen, Afenberg, and München!

Berchtesgaden

Kehlsteinhaus (Eagle's nest)

Afenberg

Neuschwanstein Schloß

München

Prost!

There's something about German Beer

‘Til October Germany

Lufthansa's Airbus A321-100 named Konstanz, from FRA to OPO

See you soon Portugal!

There it is, Lufthansa's Airbus A-321, flight LH 1179 with destination to Frankfurt a. Main!

See you soon Portugal

Raspberry Pi

My Raspberry Pi board just arrived today, and it looks really pretty

And it is ALIVE!!!

Hacklab-Cvl presentation

Today I've made the first public presentation of Hacklab-Cvl in the Techdays'12 an event with lectures and workshops organized by Hacklab-Cvl itself, in cooperation with NINF, UBITEC, and UBI's Microsoft Student Club.

Here is the program of the event:

Workshops day - Wednesday (23rd May) - Room 6.04
9:00 - 11:00 - Android (Orlando Pereira)
11:00 - 13:00 - Windows Phone 7 (Andre Malico)
== Lunch ==
14:00 - 16:00 - Python (Marco Almeida)
16:00 - 18:00 - AT Commands and GSM Modems (Alexandre Pinheiro)

Talks day - Thursday (24th May) - Room 6.01
9:00 - 9:15 - Opening (Prof. Abel Gomes)
9:15 - 10:00 - Domotics (Pedro Pinto - Pplware)
10:15 - 10:45 - Websites security (Gonçalo Pires)
11:00 - 13:00 - Cisco Security (Cisco)
== Lunch ==
15:00 - 14:45 - Clean World (João Dias)
16:00 - 16:30 - Microsoft Student Club UBI
16:30 - 17:00 - Hacklab-Cvl

The presentation I've made will be soon available in the Hacklab-Cvl site.

Arduino Workshop

Last week I've been in an Arduino Workshop organized by Hacklab-Cvl in cooperation with Mozaik and NINF , which was ministred by Filipe Valpereiro from inmotion.pt.

Holiday in Germany

Its Carnival, and this year I've come to Germany to see my parents , unfortunatelly during the time I've been there the weather was really bad and frezzing cold, temperatures were always below -5ºC/-10ºC, at some nights the temperature reached -20ºC, but it was a great time anyway.

Iced river in Würzburg

Snow in Haßfurt

Carnival in Sand a. Main

See you in July Germany!

A new hackerspace has been founded!

Great news!

Hacklab-Cvl has been founded!!!! Hooray!!

I with the help of a couple friends, we have founded the first hackerspace in the interior region of Portugal, Hacklab-Cvl is an hackerspace in Covilhã with the important support of the department of informatics of the University of Beira Interior.

For more information about the hackerspace, check out our brand new website

Second Patent

One more patent has been submitted

 Nuno M. Garcia, Rafael Couto, Alexandre Pinheiro, Francisco Viana; Sistema de Interacção Mista Web+SMS para Monitorização e Treino de Estilos de Vida; Portuguese patent number 105903, status patent pending.