FAST is a very useful software for the simulation of Wind Turbine Generator systems, developed at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL); the program core consists of a non-linear multi-body model written in FORTRAN that can be also implemented in MATLAB/Simulink® as a S-Function.
MIDI2 is a Java socket server that allows MIDI messages to be sent over a connection between a host and a client. It's primary intended to be used with Onyx-VJ, an Adobe® AIR™ live video mixing tool, but soon could support also VISP, a live visual renderer, also in AIR™.
Every year the Outreach Department of ESA, the European Space Agency, organize and promote the Student Parabolic Flight Campaign, a microgravity flights campaign, in which 30 teams from all over Europe are called to carry on their experiment proposals in "weightlessness" environment.
In July 2004 the Popeye2 Team, formerly Gabriele Bellei, Giulio Chiesura, Stefano Cottafavi and Fabio Pignata, all from Politecnico di Milano has been selected to be part of 7th SPFC in Bordeaux, France. The project, realized at Aerospace Engineering Dept. of Politecnico di Milano, involved test and validation of an autonomous flexible robotic arm.
This is a short clip about the project and the Zero-G flight.
