Global A Cambridge student named Qui Pan has built a fantastic program that lets the user scan any desktop object with only a webcam. The computer generates a 3D model in real time, all you have to do is move the object in 360 degrees on your desk. This gets me really excited as this [...]

One of the great things about going to an awesome school is the teachers, especially those who will let you borrow microprocessors. I’ve been wondering for several months now if I should buy an Arduino, the relatively low cost microcontroller that has hobby engineers going wild (seriously, wild. You would not believe how much someone [...]

I’ve been following Waterloo Labs for a while now (they even commented on the lecture I gave on passion and science last year), and now it seems they’re doing pretty darn well for themselves. They were recently on BBC radio and a variety of blogs (now this one). Their most recent project is a car [...]

GlobalUnity 3D game companies are starting to pop up all over the internet radar. Once Unity made their Indie 2.6 game engine free, people started going Unity crazy, including me. Micro Speaking of Unity, I’ve been working on my own little project, and here are a few photos of the in game artwork. The 3D [...]

While searching for some sample Unity projects to look at, I came across Muse Games, a really small game company that uses Unity 3D, my new favorite tool, to create 3D games. While I’m hardly a gamer myself, I really enjoyed the unique gameplay though one of their Unity games, Guns of Icarus. This Unity [...]