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Friday, January 15, 2010

Rotating Sculptures in OpenSim

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I've been playing around with overlapping rotating volumes in OpenSim. They make nice sculptures but could also make for nice visualizat...
Friday, January 08, 2010

Virtual Architecture Course in OpenSim

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I've been teaching a week-long class on virtual architecture with nine 10-12th grade girls at my school using one region of our school s...
Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Computers and Hard Work

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This week I'm teaching three special courses for our Winterim session: Virtual Architecture with OpenSim , Mix Your Own Tunes with Audac...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

ScienceSim: Highly Recommended

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I was just trying out ScienceSim , an OpenSimulator project sponsored by Intel and run and maintained by a loosely organized group of part...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Making Robots Real: Constructionism and Robotics

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I'm finally teaching robotics the way I've been wanting to for the last 5 years. Really the way I've been wanting to teach perio...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Wav2Rso: Making it Work Properly

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Wav2Rso (scroll down) is a great program for doing one thing--converting WAV audio files to RSO format so they will play on a Lego NXT robo...
Friday, October 16, 2009

OpenSim in the Classroom: Diva Distribution Makes It So Much Easier

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I have a sim running on XPSP3 on a desktop with a static IP. I set up a network switch so I can run network cables to a class of students...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Diva OpenSim Distribution looks promising

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I've been thinking I will need to upgrade my OpenSim installation from 0.6.5 to 0.6.6 for hopefully some increased stability and reliabi...
Friday, October 02, 2009

OpenSim in the Classroom: Just Avoid Wireless

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An app like this just needs more solid throughput than a wireless connection with at least a dozen clients over a single AP can provide. It ...
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Thursday, October 01, 2009

OpenSim in the Classroom: LAN Party

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Today I tried plugging 14 clients into the school network so they could log in to our sim and we could take the FreeSWITCH voice chat for a ...
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