January 16, 2014
By: Chip Bobbert II
https://vimeo.com/84259861 Jack showed me a cool product called Leap Motion the other day. I took a few minutes to play with it and can definitely see a wide range of applications. What is it? Basically it's a sensor system that...
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January 15, 2014
By: Chip Bobbert II
Along with our 3D printers we received 3D scanner and have had a a few opportunities to play with it and learned quite a bit. At first take our scans weren't really successful and I was actually a little bit...
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January 13, 2014
By: Chip Bobbert II
3D research is still going string in the Media Lab. Today we reviewed a really cool application from from Autodesk called 123D Catch. The concept of the application is simple, basically you use your cameras photos to take panoramic shots...
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January 7, 2014
By: Chip Bobbert II
We've had the better part of a week with the 3D printers. Our printing efforts have been conservative. Much time has been spent reading documentation and using our printing material smartly (our order of filament hasn't come in yet). But...
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January 2, 2014
By: Chip Bobbert II
We spent some time with the new 3D Printers today and managed to create a few small trinkets from the stock files they sent with. Our first impressions are very positive. It took a while to get everything unboxed, setup...
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By: Chip Bobbert II
A pair of new 3D printers has arrived at the Media Lab today as well as a digital scanner. Over the coming semester we will be exploring the use of commodity 3D printing in various educational applications. More posts will...
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December 30, 2013
By: Chip Bobbert II
For those that don't know about FFmpeg, it's a project containing a command line suite of tools that allow someone to convert quite literally any piece of media to any other piece of media. It includes an entire library of...
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December 17, 2013
By: Chip Bobbert II
PrimeSense, the company that developed the technology (and holds the patents) behind the XBOX Kinect was purchased by Apple three weeks ago. It will be interesting to see how this all shakes out. Upfront, this isn't an Apple vs Microsoft...
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December 11, 2013
By: Chip Bobbert II
Airfoil We had an interesting use case come up. A question was posed about being able to listen to multiple audios streams in the same room and be able to select between them. The first thing that popped into my...
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November 4, 2013
By: Chip Bobbert II
Two months ago we were asked to begin exploring 4K streaming. My initial reaction was "well that's not going to work" and "we're years away from 4K streaming services". I was wrong. Today, Netflix began offering a 4K test video...
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