This website is badly in need of some construction love because we’re too busy working on some really cool secret projects that we can’t reveal quite yet.
If you met one of us at the ACSW conference in Sydney and are interested in working with us email info@kaleidolabs.com for more information.
Kaleido Labs is a group of passionate, perfectionist individuals who happen to be a mix of academics, students, graduates and entrepreneurs based out of Melbourne Australia with skills in software and electrical engineering. We are loosely associated with the Australia-India Centre for Automation Software Engineering (AICAUSE).
Our grand long-term vision is to bring disruption into the software engineering and education industries. Education is our first target, especially in the science and engineering disciplines. We plan to disrupt the status quo of “learning” with fun and brilliantly educational learning tools that kids won’t want to give up because they’ll be obsessed by the game or obsessed with the pursuit of creating their own inventions (software and/or hardware).
Some of our past activities are:
- A solar power system and home power management simulation App written in Swift for iOS. This will be released on the App store soon. The core simulation framework will be released as an open-source project as well. This was an industy partnered student project in collaboration with RMIT University. The next phase of this project will be to port the core open source simulation onto IBM’s Bluemix using “Swift in the Cloud" and promote it for innovative businesses to experiment with new technology and new business models for the renewable energy industry.
- We have also collaborated on a research project in the school of computer science (CSIT) at RMIT University as an industry partner to the Computer Science Education Research Group (CSERG). This project built a gamification of a Unified Modelling Language (UML) quiz for students to complete. The feedback was very positive and validated the projects core questions: that providing semantic aware feedback immidiately and in a contecxt sensitive way literally inside the diagram improved student motivation and outcomes. This project used the Digrammatic Framework owned and supported by Kaleideo Labs.
- In addition we have supervised and supported various smaller student projects using Diagrammatic. Some examples of the diagrams that students have created using the framework can be seen below. These highlight the diversity of what can be achieved with Diagrammatic…
project: Simulation of Lego Train Tracks in collaboration with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
software engineer: Michael Doyle
project: Visualisation of message sequence charts in IEC61499 (Future standard for Robotics programming language) in collaboration with RMIT University and Fortis.
software engineer: Christopher Tang
project: Semantic aware UML learning tool with context sensitive feedback in collaboration with The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT).
software engineers: Keith Foster and Cynthia Kwok