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 projects 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 intended to help 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, on 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 to 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 YouTube and our other channels. Since we want 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 starts 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.

We're Millionaires!!

In views, at least. Today, the Waterloo Labs YouTube channel has officially surpassed 1,000,000 views with our latest video, eyeMario, pushing us over the edge. Now we can start focusing on our millionaire party.

Since we first started meeting 1.5 years ago, we all agreed that as soon as we had a million views we would dress up in tuxes and go downtown to live like millionaires because we are (sort of). And so to everyone who enabled us to loosely use social definitions as a reason to throw a hell of a party...thank you!

Also if you haven't seen the latest video yet, check it out below.

myDAQ Piano Staircase Video Live

Finally! After waiting a couple months because we were too on the ball, we have finally released our Piano Staircase video, a la Big. Tom Hanks would be so proud. NI myDAQ is a new product that's marketed to college engineering students, something like the TI-83 but for data acquisition and instrumentation. Oh, and piano staircasing. Check out the video (the whole thing cost less than $25 for supplies).