Concluded the first semester it’s time to take stock. These last 3 months were intense and rewarding. I learnt a lot, both on the scientific and personnal accounts. I developed more effective working habits, gained autonomy and made new friends. I especially liked digital systems because it was something completely new and with a strong […]
Last Wednesday I had the last portfolio MEEC lab. Over the past 3 months we have been learning how to work with the Lego NXT robot. The final project consisted in the creation of a program that made the robot follow a black line (video below). In addition to the main goal, we were challenged […]
Last Friday, November 18, the lab work carried out in SD (Digital Systems) consisted of the “construction” of a variant of the enigma machine. This machine was used by the German military forces during World War II to encode and decode messages. The machine generated ramdom messages (in binary) that passed through an encoder and […]
After learning how to weld I attended the programming workshop (last thursday, November 3rd). This introduced me to some programming notions (in C – a programming language) that I applied to the Arduino built the previous week. The purpose of the workshop was to program a game. For this, we installed in our computer the […]
Thursday, October 26, I attended the welding workshop of NEEC (Núcleo de Estudantes de Eletrotecnia e Computadores). The workshop consisted of a short introduction to the welding technique and the components that make up an arduino. At the beginning of the workshop we were given the various components of the Arduino (the plate where the […]
Hi, I’m Rita Martinho. I’m about to turn 18 and I’m in the first year of MEEC (MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering) at IST – Instituto Superior Técnico. I created this site for Portfolio (one of the subjects of this semester) as a way of introducing myself as a future engineering professional, and also letting you […]