Four days of implementation of ideas, teamwork and challenges facing Colombian agriculture occurred in the second version of the Makeathon Colombia. The event held between July 31 and August 3, at the Universidad de los Andes, with the participation ...
After the participation to the 2017 event, professor Giacomo Barbieri came back to Gran Canaria for the third edition of the Smart Green Island Makeathon 2018. The exponential growth of the event is impressive as the numbers can witness. They started ...
Mi5 first meeting, now we start! At los Andes University on wednesday, September 27th, the first meeting between Mi5 teams was held. The goal was to show the teams’ progress and to find advice among the various attendees. At the meetin ...
Mi5 in Colombia – Kick-off Meeting On the 19th of August the Mi5 Bogotá student group started officially the operations with a kick-off meeting. Unfortunately the meeting was held on Saturday and 15 students participated while other 10 ...
Students from different disciplines assumed the risk of designing a prototype in only three days. Is it possible to design a prototype that can solve an agricultural problem in three days? What looks impossible was one of the main bets of ...
We noticed the exhaustion from yesterday upon waking up, and that explained the time of arrival of some. The early birds arrived at 7am to take an optional training to use the manufacturing lab. Unfortunately, due to the fact that there weren’t eno ...
What a day! The first day arriving early was easy. The excitement and expectations were at a peak and we all wanted the event to begin straight away. The organizers arrived at 7am to make sure everything was ready for the arrival of the ...
The first project of Mi5 Team Bogotá concerns a smart farming implementation in Colombian coffee fields. Currently, the harvesting is a fully handmade activity. The two main reasons for that are: Field conformation: Colombian coffee fields are ...