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Last summer I attended two conferences in China. The 2014 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA), in Hailar and the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), in Tianjin. On my way to Tianjin, I took this amazing super fast train. The train is able to reach speed peaks of about 400 km/h. And it makes almost no noise, at all! Enjoy the video :)

Ocean Talent Camp is an event that encompasses all offshore industries, and a wide variety of businesses from all around the region of Sunnmøre . Recruitment is the main focus. This event is organised every year by Aalesund University College. During this even all the researchers and PhD students are invited to present their ongoing work by means of a poster exhibition. Quite unexpectedly, one of my poster has been awarded with the price for "Best PhD poster". Here is the awarded poster.

Here a small presentation that I have prepared for our students so that they can learn how to program modular snake robots.

In 2011, when I started assisting Professor Houxiang Zhang in teaching the Mechatronics course at Aalesund University College (AAUC), I proposed a new idea which, at that time, I was not totally aware of its power. I proposed to introduce the use of Open Hardware and Open software platforms for teaching. Professor Zhang supported my idea. It was the beginning of a small revolution.

Here some shots taken during the last storm in Ålesund by using long exposure photography.

Storm hits Ålesund, impressive waves and clouds. Here some photos!

Some of my students had some troubles when using the PmodACL accelerometer sensor with the I2C protocol to communicate with Processing. Basically, from time to time the accelerometer sends some extra information concerning the state of the I2C channel. From the Processing side, we need to clean up and ignore these extra data before parsing the information. Also, from time to time, it seams that not all the values are transmitted by the accelerometer. Here a possible solution.

Here in Ålesund, we get pretty amazing sunsets even in September :)

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Ålesund is the perfect place for reflection photography. Using reflections in photography can lead to some amazing effects and beautiful images.