Finally, Christmas has arrived and Dr. Stetter has invited us to Germany to have a dinner all together! We’re taking off the 6th although some us are leaving the island the 2nd of December and coming back the 9th so we’ll have a lot of days to e ...
When: February 20 - 23, 2019 Smart Green Island Makeathon is the largest Gran Canaria's maker event. Last year we brought together more than 200 participants and in February 2019 we expect around 300 of the most motivated and creative makers from ...
Hello starshine. It's Ursula, returning as storyteller to the Project Mi5 blog for the second and final time. I'm now down to my last few days in the ITQ office in Las Palmas and the time has come to dot the is and cross the ts, to close those las ...
Hello friends! I’m Ursula and today making my debut post as ITQSummerIntern18 v3.0. Daydreamer, Froyo lover and Reggaeton enthusiast, I’m a soon-to-be-third-year Engineering Student on loan for four and a half short weeks from the University ...
Today was my last day at work and it was very sad to leave. The team is smaller than when I started so I have had more freedom to develop my project but there are also fewer people to play table football with at lunch! As promised, I will talk a b ...
Hey, this is Martí again. During my last days in Gran Canaria I went to the south to discover a beach with dunes, in Maspalomas. The landscape was amazing! I visited Playa del Inglés, swam in the sea, sunbathed, and then walked for a ...
Hi, my name is Robbie and I’m from Cambridge in the UK. I am on an internship with the company for 6 weeks this summer working on several smart farming projects which I will go into more detail in my next post. I am studying engineering, and this i ...
Hi guys, This is Martí. As Úrsula explained few posts before, I’m from Catalonia and I’m doing my Mechatronics Engineering Internship here in ITQ - well, just finishing. I’ve been working since 20th of June and I’ll end in two weeks, at ...
The summer is here and once a year all ITQ people coming from Germany and Spain pack our bags and go on holiday together thanks to Dr. Stetter 😎 . We meet in some nice Bavarian spot, this year Ruhpolding, and have lots of fun and a good ...
Hola amigos, I am Eric from Germany and I am going to write about my Bachelor Thesis here in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. First, I have to say – this island is AWESOME. But if you ask me why, puuuh, that’s a lot to tell. My first motivation ...
Today we present Martí Solà! He has come from Vic, Barcelona, to do his internship. He is going to stay with us for two months! We hope this is enough time for him to enjoy and learn more than he already know 😉 He is studying mechatronics, a m ...
Last week we told you that the Science and Technology Park Foundation where we work is celebrating its tenth anniversary. We were selected from more than 50 other companies to appear in their promotional video. Isn't it awesome? In the event where ...
Hi guys! Today I come to talk about the Science and Technology Park Foundation where we are located and where we have our offices. 😉 This year is their tenth anniversary and they will be exhibiting a video about the Foundation, the Science and Te ...
Good morning guys! As you can see from the title, in the Canary Islands we are celebrating and today we want to tell you a little about our history and culture! Every year, on 30th May, we commemorate the anniversary of the first session of the Ca ...
Good morning guys! Since the good weather is coming and we like to show off 😉 , we are going to show you what our team in Gran Canaria does every day. Some of you have probably already seen some of these photos in our Instagram, but if not, follo ...
Do you remember Giovanni from the Face Recognition project? Well, he is here today to do a little tutorial for us! We wondered how the mobile app of this project could be cooler and one of the ideas we came up with was this: AN ANIMATED SPLASH SCR ...
A few weeks ago, we told you about the Face Recognition System that is installed in our Smart Villa and we told you there were more projects there... So today we're going to tell you about another one: our GardenBot! 🙂 David, who is in charge of ...
Good morning guys! How was your week? Today we are going to find out who we are behind the Marketing team. 🙂 María was doing her internship with us for three months and now she is going to México! She is studying two careers at the same time, ...
What’s up guys! Today I’m going to introduce you Goretti ? She is our new girl in our ProjectMi5 team!! She studied at ULPGC and she will move to Germany for learning there. She is very smart and loves artificial intelligence and machine learnin ...
Last week I told you about our search for more brilliant minds to join us in our daily lives, and today, I want to tell you about the brilliant minds we already have in our company. We are creating a recognition system to put it in our Smart Villa ...
Hi surfers of internet! How was your week? Today, I'm going to talk about our team and our company, and, if you like it, I hope you can share this little post with your friends and family 😉 We are a little international family of engineers who ...
Hi guys, how is it going? 🙂 Some weeks ago, we incorporated three new members to our team, and I am going to introduce them to you! First, we have Jesús. We is form Lanzarote and staying a few weeks in our Las Palmas office he went for working i ...
Heeey, what's up guys?! Do you remember our Makeathon? (I hope the answer is "of course" 😉 ) Today we want to show you some pictures of the evening our visitors spent on our amazing ITQ Smart Villa! In the Smart Villa we welcomed the sponsors and ...
Yeeeeah here it is: The SGI Makeathon AFTERMOVIE !! We hope you enjoy the video as much as we do Like, comment and share with all your friends.. that next year even more people can participate in the Makeathon!! And guys ...
Hi guys, first of all, thanks to all the great Makers for taking part in this amazing event!! It was super nice to meet all of you in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria during the Makeathon 🙂 We are really proud how the story "Smart Green Makeathon" d ...
Hey guys!! How is it going? Today our work teams started to build the projects. It's a sunny day and we have started with a lot of motivation to work with the projects that the participants presented yesterday evening. Our young talents had beg ...
Hi guys, yesterday we were so busy preparing everything for today! We were so excited and a little nervous, but now all it's done and the Makeathon is officially started. This morning, the President of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria came to visi ...
Yeah!! The third Smart Green Island Makeathon is getting closer and closer. In only one week it takes place in Gran Canaria and we expect more than 200 people. Really amazing!! We are supported by great companies, with their strong cooperation we wi ...
Hello world, we hope you had a great week! We want to share with you what we have been doing this week. Yesterday, we went to the Gabinete Literario to a conference of Claudio Alonso, the CEO of Domingo Alonso, who told us about the "Mobility in c ...
Hey guys! How was your weekend? We hope you enjoyed it and we hope too you started the new week with the biggest smile!! 🙂 Throughout the last week, we have been busy with our projects, some preparing details for the Makeathon, such as inventory ...
Hey guys, we hope you had happy and relaxed Christmas and we wish you the best for this new year. May this New Year bring you the dreams and hopes you need to start each new day afresh 🙂 We are very proud of all the projects in which we have bee ...
Last week we took part in the great Think in Innovation event celebrated by Lopesan Hotel Group, where we had the opportunity to program and implement cool ideas provided by Lopesan employees in our smart robotic mate, Pepper, sponsored by Plexus. ...
Hola!! from the great Lopesan Think in Innovation event. Several makers are coming together this week in the Innovation Offices of the Lopesan Hotel Group. One of the main actors in this event is the really smart and cute Pepper robot. One ...
Dr. Stetter ITQ announces Makeathon 2018 We are proud to announce our third Smart Green Island Makeathon 2018, that will take place in February. ITQ has the commitment to educate and teach young people for preparing them for the challenges whic ...
We are proud to announce our cooperation with the Lopesan Hotel Group! Lopesan´s luxury hotels are situated in Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, Punta Cana, Germany and Austria. Featuring more than 5000 rooms available in 4 different cou ...
Our first “Smart Home” Summercamp was really successful!! Very motivated participants joined us. They had 5 days for developing innovative ideas as well as prototypes on the topics of Smart Home, Smart Garden, Smart Mobility and Smart Live in gen ...
The last week we celebrated our first amazing ITQ MI5 Summer Camp!! It has been 6 great days, with great creativity and energy, but also exhausting, where some nights we have not slept to take advantage of this unique opportunity and impleme ...
Hey guys, we have been telling you the last few weeks that we are going to celebrate the Summercamp in Maspalomas, in Gran Canaria. Well, you know what, we've already started. Dr. Stetter has given us a crazy wish list to make La Smart Villa the most ...
There are only a few hours left until our first Project Mi5 Summercamp starts. While the first participants are already going to arrive today, there was a lot to do during the last days. [gallery ids="7705,7694,7699,7680,7692"] ...
The Project Mi5 Summercamp is coming closer and closer and we have got our hands full with the planning and organising processes. The finca – our future smart home – has to be prepared to welcome all of our guests and to be them a home for one ...
We’re in the middle of August and summer has reached its peak – that means: empty offices, people on holidays and no new tasks, right? Even though the temperatures in Gran Canaria are on a constant rise, the sun is shin ...
Itchy feet, summer holidays, plenty of time and a creative mind? You found yourself in the description? Maybe it’s time for a short break and a change of the location? Join us! Spend awesome days at the beautiful island Gran Canaria and exeri ...
After all these events during the last weeks we had time to focus on our Smart Farming and Autonomous Driving projects again – and we make good progress! Last weekend we presented our Autonomous Driving project at the MOVELEC Salón del Vehícul ...
The MOVELEC Salón del Automóvil Eléctrico comes to its end and we finish a busy weekend. The best Gran Canarian summer weather awaited the visitors and us at the INFECAR. Therefore there was quite a big rush at the fair as many visitors decided to ...
The first day of the MOVELEC Salón del Automóvil Eléctrico is almost over and was really successfully. Beside many interested visitors the president of Gran Canaria, Antonio Morales Méndez, the minister for the Consejería de Desaro ...
The next fair awaits us tomorrow! From the 7th to 8th of July the Cabildo de Gran Canaria organises a huge fair at the INFECAR: the MOVELEC Salón del Automóvil Eléctrico, a fair for presenting new approaches in the electric vehicle industry. Th ...
Last week we already presented you the people we work with, here in the Parque Científico Technológico. Now we want to take you on a trip around Las Palmas and our offices. The Parque Científico Tecnológico is located at the universi ...
Tesla, Google and co. are already trying, performing and showing their first results in this field – Autonomous Driving. As we are also aware that this would be the future of how transportation will look like in a few years, we are currently doing ...
Yesterday was the final day of ur Deep Learning Workshop here in Gran Canaria and we really enjoyed it! As our participants received the basic theoretical knowledge yesterday, today was all about being practical and put th ...
The weekend of our Deep Learning Workshop finally arrived and it is still ongoing! Many interested people joined us on the first day to get an introduction into Artificial Intelligence and Neuronal Networks. [gallery ids="6931,6929,6930" ...
About four weeks ago we were able to announce our next event – our Deep Learning Workshop here in Gran Canaria. The last weeks we were busy working at the program for the workshop as well as optimizing it in collaboration with our partners from ...
Gran Canaria - summer, sun and beaches. The reasons for the increasing tourism on the island are also reasons why this beautiful island is a perfect place to develop new approaches in the field of agriculture. Therefore we spent the last two days at ...
Hola from the farming fair in Arucas 🙂 !! We prepared everything for our fair presentation at the Concurso Exposición de Ganado Selecto 2017 and this weekend we can proudly present our stand. Many people already visi ...
We are really delighted how our upcoming projects and our networks are increasing and developing. This weekend we are going to present our Smart Farming project at the Concurso Exposición de Ganado Selecto 2017 here in Gran Canaria. ...
After more than 5 months it was time for a team trip to Bavaria again – thanks to Dr. Stetter we got an Invitation to the ITQ Summer Event. Therefore nine of us had the possibility to enter the airplane to Munich last Wednesday. That meant from the ...
It’s that time again – Project Mi5 is organising the next workshop! This time we want to give you an insight into the topic Deep Learning and Neuronal Networks. Therefore we are going to offer a Deep Learning workshop in cooperation with the d ...
It’s showtime – well, nearly. From May 4 till May 10 the Project Mi5 team will join the Interpack fair in Düsseldorf. The German team and members from our Gran Canarian team are going to present the ITQ IoT demonstrator with its different compon ...
Have you ever thought about how you, as a human being, learnt how to react to different stimuli? (As this is a quite complex process and we are not biologists, we hope you don’t mind that we don’t explain this.) We rather like to focus on compute ...
Have you already searched for some easter eggs this weekend? During the last week, the Semana Santa, we have worked a lot on our projects but now it is time for some rest - and especially for an easter egg hunt! We have found some awesome gifts an ...
The sun is shining, the plants are growing - the summer is almost here in Gran Canaria! And we can't wait to use this perfect weather to start our Farmbot project! Thanks to the great support of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria we are going to receive a s ...
Ever tried to control a robot that’s right next to you? You have to find the bugs in your code, adding a missing comma or finding the error when your simulation suddenly crashes. But at least you can physically go to your robot and adjust small cha ...
As our projects are constantly growing and growing and we are getting more teammembers nearly every week, it’s quite hard to keep the overview. Therefore we organised a small team meeting for everyone to present all proje ...
With the move to our new office room, a main actor of our current work also moved to its new home: our delta robot. The connection to Munich is ready, the final tests are done - everybody is waiting to start the demonstrati ...
Our successful Makeathon permitted us a unique networking possibility last Friday: we had the chance to meet Antonio Morales, the president of the government of Gran Canaria. He is delighted about our engagement and our work with new technology in di ...
As the post-Makeathon preparations are almost finished, we nearly went back to our „normal“ life – but what means a normal life. This week we rented a new office to set up our robot and our other new toys there. [gallery ids="55 ...
It is day number 5 after the Smart Green Island Makeathon and we are still busy with the post-event preparations. Nevertheless we still want to take some time to sum up the last weekend. Last Friday we welcomed a total of 1 ...
Having the possibility to ask representitive from Tesla and the Honda Research Institute is a privilege not everybody has. Our participants had this unique chance to get an overview about the companies and their activities in the fields smart home, s ...
We`re already past half time of our current Smart Green Island Makeathon in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the teams are making great progress! The participants at the Robotic Workshop had the opportunity to f ...
Our Makeathon participants are facing their second day of this year’s ITQ Makeathon – this means constructing the protoypes, finding errors and improving the already existing material. Meanwhile a group of 35 peop ...
The first day is still ongoing but we’re doing our first resumé. We are very happy about the start of our Makeathon: the sun is shining, it is T-Shirt weather and everyone is dreaming about lying at the beach. But, to be honest, having the possibi ...
Roadtrip completed! This morning our travellers arrived at the harbour of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and therefore an amazing trip finds its end. Night impressions during a small walk around the deck. After spending ...
We are happy to announce new partnerships with the University of Las Palmas. Last week we our teammates Fatima and Lars had the opportunity to meet some of them. Juan Luis Navarro Mesa – Director de la EITE (Escuela de Ingeniería ...
The roadtrip from Munich to Las Palmas is nearly done – they reached the last stop on the Spanish mainland. After another city trip in Córdoba they went back on the road. The final kilometers on the highway. ...
A trip across Spain! After leaving Barcelona the way to Las Palmas led through the big Spanish cities Zaragoza, Madrid and Córdoba. Yesterday the travellers reached Zaragoza and had the chance to visit the beautiful historic cen ...
Yeah thats not a joke - yesterdays destination was Barcelona. More then 1500km driving in one day. Night impressions of Barcelona through the cars screen. at 23.30 they reached the hotel in Barcelona: ...
Well there are happening too many things at the moment so thats why we have to publish more posts this week to keep you updated. People start out this week to come to our amazing Smart Green Island Makeathon in Las Palmas. While most of them just ...
The countdown is running: in only two weeks our Makeathon in Gran Canaria will take place. We are supported by great companies. In this way we would like to thank all sponsors for their support and cooperation! Gold Sponsors: AMK Group Sil ...
As part of our next major February Makeathon, we would like to reveal that we will have a great robotic workshop which will take place on the 18th and 19th February in Infecar. Participants will get the chance to learn and understand how to set u ...
This week we were super busy with the preparations of the upcoming Makeathon. It has been a really busy, chaotic and enjoyable week! We are expecting more then 150 particpants thus we have ordered more than 3000 bottles of water and 1500 soft dri ...
Throughout this week, we carried on working and fixing little errors in relation to the VDMA Industry 4.0 Demonstrator. Some were related to the Image Recognition Module, whereas others were linked to the Simulation. Additionally, the Student Gran ...
As we promised in the previous post, we will tell you about the short preview you saw in relation to the VDMA Demonstrator. We are now pretty much in a very good line. Throughout this week, we have continued adding and fixing little errors in o ...
Last week we were invited to join the rest of the VDMA Demonstrator team in Munich, thanks to Dr. Stetter's kindness. As unbelievable as it may sound, it was the first time abroad for some of us, so this was not only an opportunity to meet our oth ...
Yes! That's right! The Mi5 Student Team Gran Canaria is on the way to Germany! A dream come true! Kindly Dr. Stetter has invited our Team to spend some days in Munich. We are looking forward to take part at the hackathon and to meet the other ...
During the time we have been working on the VDMA Demonstrator we have progressed as a Team in various aspects. First, we are now more organized in our day-to-day work thanks to our new weekly meetings, in which we discuss what have been achieved a ...
Throughout this week, our Team made progress in all the modules related to the VDMA Demonstrator. Our German guys, Johannes and Paul, set up the hardware for the Image Recognition Module putting into place the methacrylate glass, the powerbanks and ...
DR. STETTER ITQ FEBRUARY 2017 MAKEATHON As part of Dr. Stetter ITQ commitment with education and new technologies for Industry 4.0, and considering the big success of our previous "Smart Green Island Makeathon" held in Gran Canaria, we are proud to ...
During this week, the Mi5 Student Team Gran Canaria worked on several modules concerning the VDMA Demonstrator. Firstly, we bought a methacrylate crystal for the image recognition of the powerbanks. The benefit of the crystal glass ...
During this week, Dr. Stetter visited us to check on the project. We explained and showed him all of our achievements so far, as well as all the inconveniences we have faced. Additionally, we spoke about the next steps in the project for the followin ...
Since July 2016, the Mi5 Student Team Gran Canaria has been working on the B&R delta robot. As a result, several tasks have been completed during these months: setting up a Simulation of the VDMA Demonstrator. implementing an ...
Aftermovie of our Project Mi5 Makeathon "Green Island" @ ULPGC&SPEGC Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Thanks again to all sponsors and students! Read more on the makeathon event 2016 here.
Wow - what a week! From 27. to 30. September the first "Mi5 Green Island Makeathon" in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria took place. More than 50 Students from Spain, Germany, Austria and Italy participated in our 4 day event with the moto: "How can digi ...
Mi5 Green Island Makeathon 2016 Students from all disciplines & all semestres invited! 27.-30.09. - @EII ULPGC & Infecar Start Presentation: Tuesday, 27.09. - 10:00 - EII Edificio de Ingenería Informatica, Sala de Grados Tuesday a ...
Starting from last weekend we had visits from the University of Applied Sciences in Vienna, Professor Markl and Professor Jacob from University of Applied Sciences in Kempten, who stayed in Las Palmas a few days together with Dr. Stetter. Besides ...
The Mi5 Student Team Gran Canaria is on! As a result of our Robot workshop, some motivated students are continuing their work at our Lab in Las Palmas. We are currently working as an interdisciplinary team of 8 students. Since both, the e ...
Last week there was the first Project Mi5 Event in Las Palmas - the Mi5 Robot Workshop. Some facts: 25 students 9 disciplines 5 Cities and 3 Countries: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Stuttgart, Vic/Barcelona, Vienna, Munich 4 Micro-Robots, ...
Some impressions live from our Robot Workshop @Universtity of Las Palmas / EII: [gallery ids="3402,3405,3401,3404,3400,3399,3403,3382"]
The registration phase of the Mi5 Microrobot Workshop for students from the University of Las Palmas is now open: 24.05. - 26.05. @ Informatics Faculty - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Register now Registration will close at 17.05. - 2 ...
The current week was all about connecting: Connect the Robot Power Supply and connect with people. But lets first take a step back: Weekend A civil engineering student, who I met at the Erasmus dinner, invited me to join a hiking trip in th ...
It has been some intense 6 days for me in Las Palmas. After some minor coordination with the local logistics company, we got a pallet delivered to the informatics faculty. It cointained the B&R delta robot components. ...
Our plans got concrete - as a member of the Mi5 Student team, I started my stay at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria yesterday. Ahead of my 6 months stay, I had to prepare lots of things, such as renting out my room in munich, applicate for the practi ...
As a component for our upcoming Mi5 Innovation Lab on Gran Canaria, we will use a delta robot. It is supplied by B&R Automation and will be shipped to Gran Canaria in the middle of April. In order to be well prepared for the integration, three ...
Last week we took part in an exploration trip to Gran Canaria in order to expand the Mi5 network further in the world. Many things had to be done to start a new team so a lot of work and dedication had to be put into it. However, not everything was w ...
Project Mi5 is expanding to Gran Canaria. We want to set up an Mi5 Innovation Lab on the island as the most southern station of the Mi5 network. Due to that, we, namely Jordi, Bernat and Jonas, went on tour to explore Gran Canaria for six ...
and once a year all ITQ people coming from Germany and Spain pack our bags and go on holiday together thanks to Dr. Stetter 😎 . We meet in some nice Bavarian spot, this year Ruhpolding, and have lots of fun and a good ...
