Basilio Vieira@baiavieira

1982 - Basic / ZX SpectrumStarted programming at the age of 12 and couldn't stop since.Can't do anything else either.

Worked with a couple of punched tape machine in my childhood.Most expensive thing I disassembled back then: a ferrite core memory board.

Loved the Mac in the first 5 years when it was a really different machine.Then waited 5 more years to be able to work in colour (too damn long.)

Used a FDD 3000 from Timex to transfer books from the ZX Spectrum to the Mac (my dad had a job in typesetting) so I managed to avoid retyping thousands of pages :)

1990 - Pascal / Cobol / Unix / CHad a couple of bad years in the '90s so had to resort to program in RM-COBOL/85 for food. In a Unix machine. Life has improved since.

Lived across the street from Visus BBS but still felt the need to use a "different way" to connect my Hayes modem to the landlady's telephone line.

Got my X3 NUI from Telepac (then Transdata). Used it to connect with compuserve and download a "free copy" of my personal bible: "Inside Macintosh". Spent a lot of time connected to Xerox PARC absorbing their inovative spirit.

Managed not to get arrested by the PJ in the "great hacker ride" of 1991. Looking back, it was probably a bad move as everyone who got arrested turned up better.

1995 - VB3 / [email protected] stopped calling me "maluquinho dos computadores" because everyone else became "maluquinho dos computadores". Blame it on the Internet :)

Started my biggest application in VB3: "DAV - Declaração Aduaneira de Veículo" to handle the customs requirements for assigning licence plates in Portugal. Been improving it for the last 20 years.

1998 - Marriage / BeOS / Panoramic photosBeOS was a funny idea from Jean Luc Gassé (former Apple France president): leave Apple, make a new machine and a new operating system. Sell everything back to Apple: #fail Steve tried the same thing: #win. FunnyManaged to cover most of Samouco in 360º panoramic photos using PTGui, a frontend to Helmut Dersch's Panorama Tools. Played with HDR for a while and realized the noise and dynamic range are the last two major problems with digital cameras.

2000 - Survived Y2K

2001 - SQL / Wish I had a Segway

2002 - Survived the Euro

2004 - C# / Sketchup / Unicycle3D modelling became a major productivity killer. I am very proud of my 3D model of Panteão NacionalFirst attempts of building a miniature segway using steppers and a Arduino. It's a work in progress…

Replaced my personal website with a blog, acidentenoic19.blogspot.com.

Learned to ride a unicycle in 1 and 1/2 months. Most people take only 3 weeks.Wired a r/c car to a remote PC and used TCP/IP and a webcam to crash it down the stairs 10km away. In VisualBasic.

2010 - iPhone Still trying to make my first iPhone app.

Codebits V, VI and VII

▪ Project “Terrasentes ”(2012) - Team placed 7th with a project of a earthquake early warning system by collecting accelerometer and gyroscope data from a major telco operator set top box

Codebits V, VI and VII

▪ Project “ePutty” (2013) - Team placed 4th with a human interface device to capture pressure on the X, Y, and Z axis along with position and orientation thus creating a "digital putty" equivalent and enabling inexperienced users to create and print 3D models

Codebits V, VI and VII

▪ Project “NeLo - Knee Lock” (2014) - Team placed 1st with a project for a smart leg brace to improve the life of poliomyelitis patients through the use of an Arduino microcontroller to automate the locking and unlocking of a textile support for the knee joint▪ Featured on Wired UK magazine.

PixelsCamp 2016

▪ Team placed 6th with “Fit Me Up!” a Microsoft Kinect based motion capture solution for tracking Cross Fit exercises in a health center

2018 was the year for Information Security auditing.