MauroCerbai

In November 2014 I participated to the Smart Home Hackaton : a competition of ideas and fast prototyping promoted by the Energy@home Association and hosted and sponsored by i3P, the Incubator of the Politecnico of Torino.

In a weekend participants will be able to prototype their idea thanks to the consultancy experts and to pre-commercial prototypes: the connected whitegoods of Indesit Company, the smart meter of Enel Distribuzione, the home gateway and the service platform of Telecom Italia, the home automation devices of Flexgrid and Urmet.

I had the fortune to meet incredible people like Alberto Geniola,Riccardo Diomedi and Francesco Tuveri. They had a great idea in mind an with the help also of Elisabetta Fermo, Andrea Valenzano, Niccolò Giaccaglia, Francesco Tuveri, Tommaso Salvetti, Noushin Alishai, Luca Tarasco we develop a prototype to show to the judges. We presented a device aimed to be a personal assistant living that was able to register every food product and notify about expiry date, recommend the best wash cycle with the his camera capable of reading the labels of dress, to suggest recipe based on food availability, video surveillance and more. You can find our presentation here.


You can find more about the event here.

Just when you thought it was full of competitor, Samsung has announced it will launch its new craft to take tourists into space.

The famous brand announced yesterday during MWC (Mobile World Congress 2016 di Barcellona) he will join the space race to send passengers into space.



It's design for 1 passenger only and will be ready for the summer of 2016.

The price of it is still uknown but it's obvious it wont be suitable for everyone: it is aimed at super rich thrill-seekers and celebrities, as well as researchers and commercial customers.

• Mars Gaming MC115 ATX Middle Tower
• CPU Intel 1151 i3-6100
• Toshiba 1TB
• Corsair SSD 240GB Force LE
• ASUS 1151 B150 Plus
• Corsair Ddr4 2133 8Gb
• Corsair 650W Vs650

With an incredible 5 year of work by Javi Agenjo is born an indispensable tool, in my opinion, for developers who make extensive use of WebGL or for those in search of languages ​​very open and perfect to reach as many people as possible.

WebGLStudio is a platform to create interactive 3D scenes directly from the browser. It allows to edit the scene visually, code your behaviours, edit the shaders, and all directly inside a browser.

The technology of WebGL is nowadays available in every browser and make the most of it is a categorical imperative for the success of a great program. Thanks to the work of Javi Agenjo, a professor of the University Pompeu Fabra at Barcelona, this is simpler: the visual editor designed and implemented throughout the 3d graphics allows the management of objects in real time with the mouse and keyboard and the application of special effects on them like lights and shadows.

I tried the glasses to the "wearable" conference which was held in Turin . I must say I find them very comfortable but their usefulness to me is still unknown . Unfortunately, the software is limited and the functions present are not so useful to consider it a necessary accessory . The battery life is also a great limit of this technological gadget .

Copy the code and insert into a .vbs file starting from a txt created with notepad. Then double click on that. Done.

Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
MsgBox ConvertToKey(WshShell.RegRead("HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\DigitalProductId"))

Function ConvertToKey(Key)
Const KeyOffset = 52
i = 28
Chars = "BCDFGHJKMPQRTVWXY2346789"
Do
Cur = 0
x = 14
Do
Cur = Cur * 256
Cur = Key(x + KeyOffset) + Cur
Key(x + KeyOffset) = (Cur \ 24) And 255
Cur = Cur Mod 24
x = x -1
Loop While x >= 0
i = i -1
KeyOutput = Mid(Chars, Cur + 1, 1) & KeyOutput
If (((29 - i) Mod 6) = 0) And (i <> -1) Then
i = i -1
KeyOutput = "-" & KeyOutput
End If
Loop While i >= 0
ConvertToKey = KeyOutput