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by Pedro Pinheiro
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Codebits 2009
For those of you who don’t know what Codebits is, it’s a three day international event of programming and hacking held every year by Sapo, with talks, workshops, quiz competitions, a 24 hour team coding contest, and a live music show (this year by pornophonique). It’s free, and it hosts, feeds, and powers (two full time generators for all those multi-core laptops) around 600 participants for three days of fun, work, meeting people, and lots, lots, lots of pizza.
Although I’m not a real programmer, I submitted a LEGO Mindstorms NXT project, and we ended up being the biggest team, with nine members!! Here’s the video:
And besides the project, I had two very unique experiences: first, meeting Mitch Altman and buying a TV-B-Gone kit and assembling it right there and then with his help, and the second, meeting the people from AltLab, Tiago who I had met before at Twittlis, and Catarina, who were demoing their Makerbot Industries open source 3D printer.
Putting 2 + 2 together, I managed to challenge Catarina to design and print an enclosure for my assembled TV-B-Gone, right there at Codebits!
TV-B-Gone inside an enclosure printed on a MakerBot Industries CupCake CNC.
If you have your own 3D printer, you can download the model files here, and print your own TV-B-Gone enclosure!
Kids, *this* is the future, and you probably saw it here first! 
Adorei este projecto, estava tão fixe. Parábens!
Nuno
Yeah, I saw your TV-B-Gone assembled inside that black box (when we took that photo of our TV-B-Gone’s together. Mine was the “Tool of massive destruction”). That was clever, considering how fragile this little toy is.
Until next year!