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Franz Fernandez C.I: 25.492.162 Code: 44

Think robots are complicated? Think again! Sparki is ready to roll right out of the box. The inclu-ded remote control gives you instant command over Sparki And then, when you’re ready to take Sparki to the next level, load up the custom-enhanced Ardui-no software and choose from dozens of sample pro-grams. Or write your own and upload them to Sparki through the USB port.

Sparki comes with a Bluetooth module, an array of onboard sensors (light, ultrasonic distance, acceleration, and more) and precise stepper motors. Sparki even has a motorized gripper – something un-heard of for robots in this price point. For this special Make: Edition, we asked Arcbotics (Sparki’s creators) to make him in “Maker Blue.” Sparki is a really im-pressive full-featured robot that can grow as your un-derstanding of robotics and Arduino programming grows.

Recommended for middle school ages or anyone who’s ready to dive into educational or hobby robo-tics. Sparki Highlights: There is so much this little robot has to offer. Here are just some of the things you’ll learn by experimen-ting with Sparki:

Edge avoidance Line following Maze solving Wall avoidance Room navigation Object retrieval (using the built-in grippers) Follow/hide from light sources Shape drawing (using the marker holder) Computer input (make a keyboard/mouse using sensors) Games you can play with multiple Sparkis.

And here are some of the more sophisticated robo-tics concepts you’ll learn from Sparki:

Ever been looking for your keys, and wanted to call them, before you realize that they are hideously analog pieces of metal? Or wanted to let someone into your house when you’re not at home, without having to lend them your keys?

Lockitron was the solution that descended from hardware heaven – a device that fits over the lock on your door and that is controlled via an app. It raised $2.2M on Kickstarter but missed its original shipping deadline by 1.5 years, leaving its backers in a deadlock (pun!).

Are you one of them? Stop glaring at your empty mailbox and channel all your frustration into making your own awesome smartphone connected lock – The Bean Lock.

The Bean Lock is built around an electronic wireless deadbolt and is controlled by the LightBlue Bean. The LightBlue Bean is an Arduino compatible microcon-troller that is programmed wirelessly over Bluetooth Low Energy so that you can reprogram it even after you have built it in to your project. The lock is opened using the iOS application LightBlue that lets you send serial data to the LightBlue Bean without having to build your own app.

Open Source Bluetooth Door

LockFranz Fernandez C.I: 25.492.162 Code: 44

Cesar Barrios C.I: 25.941.716 Code: 44 You’ve probably stumbled across amazing old vinyl LPs at a friend’s house, yard sale, or record store, but reluctantly passed them up, because in our mobile digital wireless world, vinyl records are about as con-venient as a telephone attached to the wall. Next time don’t pass them up, snap them up. With the Vinyl Digitizer Phono Preamp, you can “dub” records onto your computer and convert the sound files for your phone, MP3 player, car, or anywhere else you need music. The system consists of 5 parts: your record turnta-ble, the Vinyl Digitizer Phono Preamp that we’ll show you how to build, the Diamond Audio USB interfa-ce, your computer, and Audacity software. I designed the preamp to do three things: amplify the tiny signal from the turntable’s phono cartridge, apply a

frequency equalization specifically for vinyl records called the RIAA playback curve, and optimize the gain (volume amplification) to be compatible with the Diamond USB sound card. From there, the sound card converts the input signal to a digital data stream, and the Audacity software nimbly turns those old 45s, 78s, and LPs into new MP3s (or the digital audio for-mat of your choice). Why should you care about a dead medium like re-cords anyway? Because as an inquisitive person you’re susceptible to having your mind blown by what’s on them. Fifty-plus years of Gilbert and Sullivan, ope-ra, rockabilly, Delta blues, prog rock, Lenny Bruce, Beethoven, Balinese gamelan, jug bands, “Yardbird” Parker, klezmer, and much more that you can’t even imagine. .

There are essentially two configurations for a quadcopter: the “+” frame and the “X” frame. Here we’ve chosen to build an “X” frame so your onboard camera can have a clear forward view.

We’ll take you all the way from building the airframe to adding autonomous flight capability with ArduPi-lot. Once you’ve got it working, you could program this drone, for instance, to automatically visit a series of landmarks or other waypoints and take pictures of them.Don’t expect your quad to fly perfectly the first time. You’ll likely need to make some tweaks and adjustments before it flies well. If you’ve never flown a quad before, remember to work the controls gently, as most begin-ners tend to over-steer. Your first goal should be to hover about 24” off the ground for 1-2 seconds and then immediately land. Once you can do that consistently, try to take off, rise above the “ground effect” zone (3’-4’), and then land gently. Work your way up gradually to longer and higher flights.

It is likely that you will crash at some point, especially if this is your first multirotor. Keep a positive attitu-de, pay attention, and try to learn something every time. Crashing, learning, repairing, and improving your skills and your machine is part of the fun and challenge of the hobby.

Cesar Barrios C.I: 25.941.716 Code: 44

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The trick is to modify two paper coffee cups — install the device in one, slide it into the second, and align holes cut in the bottoms of each. Two LEDs can be seen through the standard plastic lid — one illumi-nates when the tilt switch is activated, the other flas-hes twice after a picture has been taken.

Think your cover has been blown? Simply rotate the cups to hide the camera.This project combines several modules into a tilt-tri-ggered spy camera that fits inside a coffee cup. The component which triggers the tilt is the Memsic 2125 accelerometer, a dime-sized component which you can see here: You can read more on the component’s specifica-tions on its datasheet, and a get basic understanding of the accelerometer’s interaction with the Arduino using the pulseIn() function here.

Jose Luis Martinez C.I: 25.817.021 Code: 44

CheerBot: Color-Hunting Room-Roamer Changes Tree Colors

Jose Luis Martinez C.I: 25.817.021 Code: 44

The CheerBot is a robot that roams the house and looks for certain colors using its camera. When it finds one of the colors I’ve told it to seek, it changes the color of the lights on my Christmas tree to match. It also submits the color to the Cheerlights service, which synchronizes the color of participating light displays around the world. It’s a complicated setup, but I’ll walk you through the basics. Most folks will find plenty of opportunities to learn with this project. I know I did.

To summarize the build process, you need to make a robot that can drive around without bumping into things, and then put a camera on it with code analyzing the video and tweeting when certain colors are found. As with most projects, there are near infi-nite ways to go about it. I’ll give you guidance on one way, but I challenge you to learn new things and make the project your own.

Oil bituminous coal to improve efficiency in refining and

exploitation of heavy oil and extra

Camil Reduan C.I: 25.609.177 Code: 50

Oil is the main economic source of Venezuela;  ba-sed on the exploitation and refining of oil-associated gas. Which can be inferred that sufficient tactics and strategies for deepening the concepts involved with in-tensive social bonding; in all educational orders. And in order to develop social behavior of rational con-sumption and human interactions to ensure energy resources for present and future generations. At the beginning of the operation, flowed easily. Squandered opportunities for industrial development conscious and in harmony with the environment, generating a great social debt;still is paying off.  Though Venezuela is acknowledged as a significant source of oil, there is a worrying situation that will persist over time. Until decide Venezuelans face challenges: in haste and without delay. At the risk to non-fulfillment, with unpredictable consequen-ces;  that motivates many experts make predictions availability consumption 

Complex problems that arise in the exploitation of heavy oil and extra like. High viscosities, residual con-taminants and high operating depths. It is inferred as follows: if the current rate of exploitation continues, barely eight (8) available trillion in 2011, would not be enough for two (2) decade, although data can vary, some unexpected event. Although, the most signifi-cant sources of heavy and extra-heavy oil, are: Orino-co Oil Belt (Venezuela) Oil Sands (Canada) and other Latin American countries; on the horizon, difficult to avoid obstacles are observed. It requires creative po-licies to promote initiatives in the development of re-search, new methods and methodology of conceptual understanding.In oil, and much has been written about it many con-tents have been used as speculative trading tactics on international prices. What merits, is to encoura-ge specialists to research to improve the efficiency with new technology innovations; to reduce the cost of intellectual property and royalties. By developing

developing methodologies for assessing the efficien-cy of technological innovations. Developing laws for recovering costs inefficiencies.  Although we persist in attach to developing countries mote inefficient, regardless of the technological deficiencies that are acquired at speculative prices; because it seemed to be easier to buy technology, which to develop their own resources, with timid achievements.

By having the will, knowledge is developed. Newte-chnologies are developed to exploit the heavy and ex-tra-heavy oil, gas and shale oil. And new technologies for processing by heating the bituminous coal coals Zulia. Carbon dioxide used in high content of bitu-minous coal; to be injected into the already exploited wells to a farm benefited by the high cost of oil the same motivators of development are required Bituminosas Orinoco Belt, where sensible reality, embodied in documents developed by companies foreign; of existence in Gaza: light, heavy and extra-heavy oil, which led to rename it “The Orinoco Oil Belt” That’s memories Hammock and Casma arise, to develop projects conviction that makes it possible coal Carbones Zulia, has a different stove, thermoelectric and steam plant. Target

Construction of plants for processing bituminous coal and kerogen rocks impregnated, based

on a reasoned specific social engineering.  In order to extract oil to enrich the synthetic oil product up-grading of heavy and extra-heavy crude; vital for the Venezuelan economy.  Furthermore, carbon dioxide extract; . abundant in the bituminous coal to inject inactive wells, extraction with benefits and to revive economically depressed areas oil.

Keywords: Bituminous coal, efficiency, human inte-ractions.

Laboratory characterization of

shale properties

Camil Reduan C.I: 25.609.177 Code: 50

Shale gas has become a significant resource play in the USA over the past few years and com-panies are now evaluating the shale gas poten-tial of many sedimentary basins, including seve-ral onshore basins within Australia. The renewed focus on rock sequences that have hitherto lar-gely been ignored has necessitated the developm

ent of workflows and methods for characterising sha-les. Along with the deployment of new methods co-mes the need for interpretation frameworks in order to understand properties such as rock source quality, mechanical properties and production performance from a diverse range of measurements. Laboratory characterisation of rock properties is an important part of any resource evaluation and for shale gas, specific properties of importance include silt content, organic matter abundance and type, sta-tic and dynamic mechanical properties (brittleness), micro/macro-fabrics, porosity, permeability, petro-physical properties and anisotropy

A suite of shales from a number of sedimentary basins around the world was collected and characte-rised with a full suite of non-destructive petrophysi-cal methods before destructive geomechanical testing was performed. For each sample, a representative por-tion was analysed for quantitative mineralogy using XRD and XRF, and clay chemical reactivity via cation exchange capacity (CEC) and grain size by centrifu-gation. For many samples, surface area and Mercury Injection Capillary Pressure (MICP) for porosity and pore throat distribution were also performed .

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