Hassle your teachers to ask to learn to… program – programme

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Happy new year everyone. n.b. I updated the title to use program and programme to avoid confusion as my not so subtle play on words This new years eve over on CITV was the last in this series of Cool Stuff Collective. It is running for the next month on ITV player here
It was [...]

December 31st, 2011 | Tags: | Category: BCS, coolstuffcollective, robots, technical, tv | Leave a comment

Tele-Telepresence

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I hope you all had a good christmas holiday. It’s friday already and I am only just blogging about the penultimate Cool Stuff Collective that started airing on christmas eve! We ventured into yet more unusual tech using a telepresence robot as both the prop and the subject of the piece.
So for this one I got [...]

December 30th, 2011 | Category: coolstuffcollective, robots, tv | Leave a comment

Pandamonium at Cool HQ – Live Mocap

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We have another technically adventurous Cool Stuff Collective this week. Of all the ones we have done it is the one that made me laugh the most. Plus it is highly related to virtual worlds and avatars.
We got Vicky into a sensor laden motion capture suit. The suit using gyroscopic sensors to get positional information and [...]

December 17th, 2011 | Category: coolstuffcollective, metaverse, tv | Leave a comment

Augmented reality – The Cool Stuff Way

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Last Friday we filmed the last in the series of Cool Stuff Collective (booooo), but there are still 3 more to air and the one currently in play (Yay!!!!).
Last Saturday’s was the one with Augmented Reality. We did some AR back in the previous series but it is such a huge subject it deserves more [...]

December 14th, 2011 | Category: augmentedreality, coolstuffcollective, tv | Leave a comment

KASPAR the robot – Something different on Cool Stuff Collective

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The something different in the title refers both to the content of the future tech slot and also the format of it again this week. Saturday saw the first showing of this weeks Cool Stuff Collective (available now on the ITV player) and features the rather unusual KASPAR robot and one of his creators Dr Ben [...]

December 4th, 2011 | Category: coolstuffcollective, robots, tv | 2 comments