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Artisan’s Asylum and the Importance of Design 2 Oct 2012 | 07:48 am
Long time, no posts… I’m back! In his Code+Printing post, my friend Vitor Pamplona wrote about the revolution that will happen when we empower local users with ways of printing their own custom circui...
Sobre os Protestos em Teresina (Riots in Teresina, in portuguese) 2 Sep 2011 | 04:45 pm
Discussão que tive com uma arquiteta (via book of faces) sobre o significado dos protestos estudantis que estão acontecendo em Teresina por conta do aumento das passagens de onibus. Ela pediu permissã...
File Systems: from office analogy to obsolecense 17 Jul 2011 | 11:50 am
An opinion on the rise and fall of file systems APIs. In the dawn of operating systems, there was a need to design a hardware and data structures to store persistent information generated (or used) b...
The Open Internet and Content Generation 17 Jul 2011 | 09:41 am
A short opinion piece. There’s much discussion about Google+ placement and strategy, specially when compared to facebook and twitter. I think many people just missed the point and I suggest checking ...
Linux: My First Contact 17 Jul 2011 | 09:23 am
This one is for the nerds, naive and passionate about technology. It’s just something to remember. A snapshot of a time when the term hacker was still used to referring people who just loved knowing h...
NETRA/CATRA Wins Vodafone Foundation’s Wireless Innovation Project Award 13 Apr 2011 | 01:45 pm
I’m pleased to announce that NETRA/CATRA, our project on self-assessment devices to detect and measure eye problems has won the 1st prize in the Vodafone America’s Foundation Wireless Innovation Proje...
CATRA: Detection and Mapping of Cataracts Through an Interactive Approach 11 Mar 2011 | 08:30 am
This is the main research project I’ve been collaborating with during my stay at the MIT Media Lab. It’s the design of an optical device, plus a series of interaction techniques, which for instance ca...
Color Correction 27 Jan 2011 | 08:02 pm
For the trolls who insisted that snow is white, here are the color-corrected versions of some of the pictures from the last post. But the light sources were incandescent bulbs, so it actually looked v...
Winter Photos 27 Jan 2011 | 07:42 pm
Just a bunch of pictures I’ve been taking during the winter at the MIT: Tagged: MIT
Siggraph Post-mortem, part 2 22 Jan 2011 | 08:41 am
Now it’s time to talk about the things that didn’t work so well: File sharing: Yeah, I told that this worked quite well, but we also had our hustles with it. First, we were sharing files with 6 peopl...
