January 2, 2014
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 23, 2013
By: Stephen Toback
Despite being limited to what I can do because of no 3G hot spot, I was able to record and share my first video. Navigating around the glasses is "almost" intuitive. I was able...
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By: Stephen Toback
Our test pair of Google Glass arrived today. Tried to download the MyGlass for iOS and thought it was strange that it didn’t appear in the App Store on our iPad 2. It did...
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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 14, 2013
By: Stephen Toback
http://youtu.be/1lQqHcCPE04 Thanks to Sharon Kaiser and the Duke University School of Medicine for hosting the 2013 DDMC Holiday Meeting. Buckle your seat belts for a fast ride through the state of the art Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Center for...
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December 12, 2013
By: Teresa Jennings
Crestron Winter 2013 Integrated by Design Road Show will be held on December 18th, 2013. They will be offering two sessions, one targeted towards the Product and Applications, and the other for Programming and Commissioning Tools. Morning Session (9am -...
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December 11, 2013
By: Stephen Toback
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVviDvsBQ78 Several of us from OIT and Trinity Technology Services met with Cisco and iRobot to learn more about the new Ava™ 500 TelePresence Robot due to be release in early 2014. As mentioned previously, we have a staffer that...
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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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December 6, 2013
By: Stephen Toback
VGo has returned home to OIT. Although we tested the unit a few years ago, we now have an need to connect an OIT Staffer that will be offsite for a while. VGo seems like a great fit to allow...
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