Progress on the Intern Videos

I know it has been so long since we've released a new video but we are making headway now. The intern projects from this last summer will be up soon. As a preview here is a screenshot from the first of the three projects. We filmed several of our projects at the ATX Development Center in Austin. They were nice enough to let us use their facilities for our intern projects. If you need space for your projects or start ups and access to 3D printers, Plasma cutters, spray booths and smart people check out their website.

Update from the Interns

Finally, an update from the interns! After a month and a half of design, explosions, and other vaguely engineering-related activities, we've completed our first wave of epic projects. Shooting begins this weekend, so be on the lookout for new videos in the coming weeks. Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel so you can be the first to receive updates about our new endeavors. Remember, this is just a taste of the awesomeness yet to come!

- Tim, Humphrey, Dylan, and Peter

Waterloo Labs Summer Internship is on!

The Waterloo Labs Interns started two weeks ago and are already knee deep in projects. We have some pretty ambitious project lined up for this summer so prepare for the awesome. We also got a chance last week to check out the Austin Dev Center a new project that is looking to give engineering and fabrication start ups and hobbyists. They have a sweet set up just down the road from our office so we will definitely be back to visit. Stay tuned for new videos coming in the next two weeks featuring our new interns. Peter, Dylan, Tim and Humphrey.

-Hunter

Headed to the UK for the Gadget Show Live

Waterloo Labs has been invited to participate in this years Gadget Show Live in Birmingham, UK April 12-17. We will be showing off a new lower cost version of our eye control gaming system in the future tech zone. Be sure to look out for some new videos in the coming days showing off our new system. This will be Waterloo Labs first international trip, hopefully there will be many more.

Want to Join the Waterloo Labs Team?

We have been working on this one for a while, but I can now announce that Waterloo Labs will be hiring four summer interns in 2011. We have so many great project ideas, but we need your help to continue to grow Waterloo Labs. Working with National Instruments we are offering a 10-12 week PAID internship in Austin, TX for summer 2011. The team of interns will work together on a wide variety of projects that will all be documented on our YouTube and our other channels. Since we wanted to get started right away we are looking for well qualified engineering and computer science students who have a passion for projects and a diverse design, fabrication, and programming background. Depending on your schools requirements you may even be able to get a class credit for this internship (bonus).

The application is online and ready to go. Video resumes and web portfolios are highly encouraged so be sure to add links in your application cover letter. We are looking forward to seeing great candidates and will be setting up phone and skype interviews for our best candidates.

Update:

The application deadline has passed. If you want to see the intern team in action be sure to subscribe to the Waterloo Labs YouTube Channel. If you would still like to get involved sign up for our mailing list, so you will be included on our future crowd source projects.

Desired Skills

(You don't need all, but well qualified applicants will have a few)

• LabVIEW Development Experience

• Data Acquisition Experience

• Circuit Design Experience (Analog, Digital)

• User Interface Design

• Microcontroller Experience (Arduino, ARM)

• Sensor Interfacing (Temperature, force, optical…)

• Motor Control (DC, Servo, Stepper)

• sbRIO/ cRIO project Experience

• Mechatronics Design Experience

• Robotics Experience (FIRST, BEST, Class projects)

• Machining / Mechanical Prototyping (CNC, SoildWorks…)

• Control System Design (PID)

• Mobile Development Skills (iPhone , Android…)

• Video production (Writing, Shooting, Editing)

• Web design

Join the Waterloo Labs Mailing List to find out other ways you can stay involved with Waterloo Labs.

Nerd Nite Austin

Waterloo Labs will be presenting our Eye Mario System tonight at the Austin Nerd Nite. The event start at 7:30 at the United States Art Authority, and there will be Beer. For those of you not in the know Nerd Nite is a group that gets experts to speak about topics of every sort. Tonight we are presenting with the Tipsy Texan Talking about Martinis and a student talking about Butterflies and climate change. Should be a great chance to meet some amazing Nerds in Austin. Please come out and join us and you may even get a chance to play Mario with your eyes.

Check out the Nerd Nite Site for more info

Oh Dear...

I found out some both good and bad news today. If you google a certain phrase my picture is the very first thing you see. Unfortunately, that phrase is incredible nerd.