Pictures from Delphi-Tage in Cologne and Delphi Festival in Nieuwegein

Finally I have a chance to post some pictures from the Delphi-Tage in Cologne and the Delphi Festival in Nieuwegein conferences.
I flew to Amsterdam from LAX with KLM:

Then boarded the train to Cologne:

While in the train station in Cologne, I noticed this cool train layout :-)

After a short walk, I was at the Conference hotel:

The Delphi-Tage was organized by Developer Experts .

The Thursday Pre-Conference Workshop was ongoing, so I joined:

After the Workshop I had a short walk to my hotel, and caught a glimpse of the Cologne squares:

At the evening we all gathered in the hotel restaurant, and you can see the great Delphi atmosphere there :-) :

And the great food!

In the morning the city officials decided to give me the royal treatment laying the red carpet on the way to the conference :-D :

Judith Seel from Developer Experts running the registration:

And some of the vendor booths, including Julian from WPTools, and Bruno Fierens from TMS Software :

Marco Cantu opened the conference to a full room:

Detlef  Overbeek from Blaise Pascal Magazine and Matthias Gärtner presenting the development of the new Pascal compiler for Javascript:

During the breaks there were some tasty snacks:

And here is me, during my session on Artificial intelligence with Delphi. Pictures made by Julian from WPTools, and Bruno Fierens from TMS Software :

I was showing how easy it is to create Artificial Intelligence projects in Delphi with IntelligenceLab :

And the crowd in the room during my session:

And again some great food for lunch:

And David Millington - the new C++ Builder product manager at Embarcadero did a great session on C++ for Delphi developers:

And Bruno Fierens covering VCL and FMC controls development:

We had an evening with some Cologne Beer and Schnitzel for me :-) :

The next leg of the trip was boarding the ICE128 for Holland:

While on board ICE128, I even had a chance to post one of my Hackster.IO projects :-)

The Delphi Festival was organized by Blaise Pascal Magazine, and Barnsten.

And here are some pictures done by Andrea Magni:

My booth:

Some of the Arduino projects running on it programmed with Visuino:

And me and Bruno Fierens from TMS Software :

And here is a picture of me doing my session on IoT and Artificial Intelligence with Arduino and Delphi using Visuino, CommunicationLab and IntelligenceLab .

The picture is made by Bruno Fierens from TMS Software :

And the room during my session:

And Bruno Fierens from TMS Software receiving the well deserved 1st Prize for Code Elegance and Design from Blaise Pascal Magazine presented by Detlef  Overbeek:

Followed by a great evening together :-) :

And finally the flight back with KLM:

All in all the events were great! The atmosphere was festive, and there was a lot of energy and excitement in the air. It appears that Delphi is making a comeback big time...

Special thank to Developer Experts, Blaise Pascal Magazine, and Barnsten for organizing the great events!

Developer Experts is also organizing Developer Experts Days in Leipzig, and although I will not be able to attend, I am sure it will be another great event, so check it out ;-) .

Cheers,

  Boian

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Assembling Elegoo Smart Robot Car Kit Step 2: Installing the Line Tracking Sensors

Couple of days ago, I received this great Smart Car kit from Elegoo generously donated to support the Visuino development!Yesterday I posted the steps to install the Smart Car motors on the Chassis.Here I will show you the next steps - installing the Line Tracking sensors on the bottom of the Smart Car.

Here is how the Chassis looks like after the motors and the L298N Motor Driver module were installed:

The sensors are nicely packed, and the screws, spacers and the nuts for them are packed in a separated clearly labeled bag:

Insert the screw threaded side of the spacers into the sensors from the soldering side, and screw the nuts on the component side:

Here is how the sensors should look like after the spacers are added:

Place the first sensor on the bottom of the Chassis, over the holes at the front of the Chassis with the connector pointing toward the back of the Chassis:

Insert the screws from the top:


Use the Hexagon to tighten them to the spacers on the bottom:

Here is how the 3 sensors should look like once properly mounted on the bottom of the Chassis:

And the view from the top of the Chassis with the screws holding them:

The Smart Car cables are packed in a separated bag:


Unpack them, and pick the 3 long 3 wire cables with white connector on one side, and black connector on the other:


Connect the 3 white connectors to the 3 line sensors:


Push the cables through the big hole in the Chassis behind the sensors:

This concludes the installation of the Line Following sensors.

Tomorrow I will post the next step of the building of the Smart Car.