May 7, 2016
Toys come to life with a dash of augmented reality thrown in, and big hitters like Disney and Nintendo have already carved out a multi-billion dollar industry from physical toys coupled with virtual worlds. Franchises like Disney’s Infinity and Nintendo’s Ambiio (reported to have passed $2 billion sales in one quarter last year) use physical […]
April 27, 2016
Robotic Glockenspiel plays Popcorn Canadian James Cochrane created a beautiful prototype for this robotic glockenspiel player built out of solenoids, wooden dowels, paperclips and elastic bands. But this is a completely different bag of computer chips, using servos, an Arduino Uno, MIDI shield and Adafruit’s 16 channel I2C servo driver. “My next project is to […]
January 11, 2016
John O’Hare is a senior researcher and technical director of the Octave System – a VR immersive cave environment – at the University of Salford. He’s got some rather impressive videos of the system at work. In the autumn of 2015 John took his camera into the University of Salford to record projects underway in […]
November 20, 2015
Source: Unboxing 360Fly. The 360 Video and VR Revolution gains momentum <a Mobile and broadcast journalist Glen Mulcahy writes an excellent WordPress blog on the tools available to create multimedia journalism on mobile devices. He also covers emerging technologies and has spoken for the past two years about journalists and documentary makers using 360 cameras […]
November 10, 2015
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Source: Two Turntables and No Microphone on Hackaday Jan Godde built this sexy ‘wooden sensor box with two rotary disks‘ as a sound creation experiment. Just look at the video to see how the platters work with the touch sensitive sliders, a gorgeous piece of interactive design. As Hackaday – where the project is featured – […]
October 20, 2015
Playstation VR keynote speech and hot development talent on show at the November VRTGO Conference in Gateshead. The north east’s burgeoning virtual reality industry takes another big step forward this November with VRTGO’s second annual conference. Organiser Secret Sauce has proudly announced the addition of Playstation VR as keynote speakers, with senior games developer Jed […]
October 8, 2015
Indulge your inner astronaut and Halloween delights with Newcastle Centre For Life’s autumn exhibitions and workshops. On All Hallows’ Eve groans and moans are guaranteed as otherwise sane people don the gore and get ready for Halloween Late’s horrifying antics. Saturday 31 October will be the chance for fans of the Walking Dead to go […]
April 19, 2015
April is Maker Faire UK month. Newcastle’s Centre For Life plays host to the largest maker event in the country and welcomes thousands of visitors there to see creative and exciting projects ranging from 3D print to synthetic biology, gaming to knitting, coding to creative robotics. Make sure the last weekend of April is free […]
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