In order to obtain our bachelor’s degree every student had to either write a paper on a given subject or participate in a more practice oriented problem-solving project. I chose the latter one and was assigned to Team Gold. The goal of the project was to program Lego NXT Robots using LeJOS so that they could autonomously participate in a game of Team Treasure Trek. Additionally, a simulator had to be developed to play the game in a virtual environment....

I know few people who study in Leuven and have never been to one of the ALMA restaurants. ALMA is an mensa academica or in English a student restaurant supported by the KU Leuven. They offer students as well as professors and university crew affordable meals while guests pay a bit more. Although the menu is published on their website, it’s quite a hassle to find out what’s available where. Additionally their website isn’t really mobile friendly....

In this post I’ll show how I built an ambilight alike system for my panasonic TV. I did this using and arduino controller in combination with amblone. This is how it’s described on their website: Amblone stands for Ambilight Clone, and it is an open source ‘Do It Yourself’ solution for imitating Philips Ambient Lighting Technology. It projects light on the wall behind your TV or monitor in the colours that are currently on the screen....