ISLA Santarem – ISCTE-IUL ACM Student Chapter

February 3, 2017February 24, 2017

A SmartTalk in ISLA Santarem

The new chair (João Aparicio) gave a talk about Programming Arduino and Robotics in the ISLA Santarem.

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