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I won 5th place in the Robonir Firefighting Robotics contest a few weeks ago. On April 11th, I’ll be competing in the international finals with the rest of the Israeli team at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
This week I participated in the Safe Cracking Physics Contest at the Weizmann Institute and my team took 2nd [...]

We’re looking for web developers to help out with Zeitgeist’s website. If you have some experience with web development (of any kind) and don’t mind volunteering some time then let me know.
Thanks.

I left Bolzano back for Munich this morning. Here are a few quick thoughts on the Linux Desktop.

Every year I read four or five magazine articles claiming that this year will be “The Year of the  Linux Desktop.” Every article so far has been wrong, but I’m starting to think that this year and coming [...]

Here’s a quick mockup from the Zeitgeist Hackfest.  The code for this should be online later today.

In 12 hours I’m going to board a plane at Ben Gurion Intl Airport for Munich. 8 hours later I’ll take a train to Italy and only 3 hours after that I’ll arrive in Bolzano, Italy for the Zeitgeist Hackfest.
Many thanks go to the GNOME Foundation and Canonical for sponsoring the hackfest and to the [...]

From Google Israel:

I’m not sure where to report a bug for Ubuntu’s download page. My blog is aggregated on planet.gnome.org so I’m sure that the appropriate people will read this:
Ubuntu’s DVD downloads need to be updated. Right now anyone who clicks on them will start downloading Hardy Heron.

Today I met with Clemens Buss (creator of Project Gothenburg) who’s doing research for his masters at the Weizmann Institute. We talked for half an hour about Zeitgeist, Feedgeist, and Gothenburg, along with an entrée of side topics including developer documentation and Mono.
A few highlights:
1. It’s very easy to extract (or log) lots of useful [...]

Yesterday I arrived at the Weizmann Institute for the Amos De Shalit summer program. For the next two weeks, I’ll be working in a chemistry lab which studies nanoparticles.
Unfortunately, sleeping (somewhat) does take priority over open source projects I’m working on, but that doesn’t mean that everything will have to wait until Amos De Shalit [...]

For some educational fun, I’ve decided to build a RepRap with my younger brother.

Here’s the description from the website:
RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper. It is the practical self-copying 3D printer shown above – a self-replicating machine. This 3D printer builds the parts up in layers of plastic. This technology already exists, but the cheapest [...]