We had a webcam in the arena providing live action! We have recorded different segments of the competition and produced video (see below).

We also have the original photos available (see below).

A CD has been produced with the "Best of Seoul" - it features this complete website and all the videos and images introduced below. It is free and is available from your nearest Festo Didactic office or by emailing the webmaster.

• Venue
• Korean scenery
• Setting up equipment
• Experts finalising details
• Opening Ceremony
• Team briefing prior to competition
• Day 1 action
• Day 2 action
• Day 3 action
• Day 3 action - page 2
• Day 4 action
• Day 4 action - page 2
• Party
• Sight-seeing & relaxation
• Closing Ceremony
• Festo airfish
• Video & extra photos

(Many thanks to Nils Karlsson, expert Sweden for producing the video)

Please note: your media player may not play this file and you will get an Error Message "unable to download an appropriate decompressor". In this case you will need to install the following codec* file DivX4CodecInstaller.exe. Click here for the install file and follow the default installation and then click on the movie again.

Short video of the German National Mechatronic competition held at the
Bildungsmesse (Education Fair) in Hanover in February 2001. 17 teams from
German companies took part. Parallel to the event was a Forum for experts
on the Mechatronics WorldSkills Competition aimed at passing on best
practices to new member countries.

Short video of the Festo Airfish that flew gracefully around the COEX sporting the fabulous new WorldSkills logo - delighting everyone – the young and the old, the casual and the professional visitor..

The photos used on this website have been re-sized to 280 pixels wide and to be 25Kb in size. All the original photos are available and provided on the CD. Note - there are more original photos than used on the website!

A special thanks to Dr Sidney Ho, Nils Karlsson and Martin Williams for providing the digital photos and making them available to everyone.

NB - all original photos from Seoul are in the folder "photos_seoul_original" (see left). The re-sized photos used on the web are in the folder "photos_seoul".

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SMS - example 1 (.mpg file)

SMS - example 2 (.mpg file)

Here are 2 interesting examples from Megatech in Sweden (submitted by Nils Karlsson) - messages are sent to and from the control system via SMS (short message service) on the mobile phone - production management from the beach!

* A codec (short for compression - decompression) is the technology that is used to compress a digital video file and is therefore necessary to have installed to playback. Your PC will accumulate a variety of these depending on what product was used in the initial conversion (check out Control Panel > Multimedia > Devices > Video Compression Codecs) - DivX is just another one!

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