Post on 01-Sep-2014
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hello. my name is Andrew Dobsonand I’d like to talk about fulfilling your geek dreams on the company R&D clock
//TODO
Sass, Less, Compass, HAML, BEM, Require,
Underscore, Backbone, Ember, Angular, Spine, Dojo, Knockout, Gridly, Foundation, Bootstrap,
createJS, Three, god I miss Actionscript, Gumby,
Markdown, Sinatra, Rails, Node, Clojure, GIT, Qunit, Responsive Design, SVG, @fontface, Air, Starling, Cadet3D (ftw!), WebGL,
Python, ofx, Cinder, Processing, Arduino, NUI,
Kinect, Leap, 123D, Corona, Lua, Blender,
Unity, Hexagon, Makerware, Tinkercad,
OpenSCAD
That’s no moon…
Organisational HackingExploiting the inefficiencies in a given working day to do something less boring instead
Invoke the power of geekery
Seriously dude, it’s a 2 hour toy advert, get over it and grow up
+ =That’s the dream!
Getting Von Neumann up in this piece
Skills learnt:
Product engineering
Extending models
Openscad
Controlling blender’s camera (seriously wtf)
Building a better mousetrap
Skills learnt:
Legitimate uses for a dremel
Creative uses for masking tape
The physics of plastic melting points
Moving beyond boolean modelling
Did we just debug advanced electronics?
Skills learnt:
Advanced soldering skills
Ground up understanding of how the machine works
Using a voltmeter for fun and profit
Dealing with american customer support
Using kinect to pull a point cloud
Skills learnt: Building a mesh from point cloud, healing models, Skanect, blueprinting a human turntable.
Photogrammetry Skills learnt: 123D suite, mesh healing, NetFabb studio, what the hell a ‘normal’ is, how to photograph a subject with an even contrast
Finally, after nearly 3 months of pissing about…
Thank you(with grateful acknowledgement of my awesome team who I couldn’t have done it without)
@andrewdotdobson