Ever wanted to learn how to animate Mulan? or Winnie the Pooh and Tigger too?!
The opportunity is now! Carnegie Mellon University and Disney jointly support Panda3D. By visiting their web site, you can download the software, instructional webinars (two files … 700 MB each), and manuals.
What’s preventing you? It’s free!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
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You, my readers, have pushed my eContent blog into the big time. For us bloggers, the holy grail is to break into the top 100,000 blogs in the world. While the number may seem large, you need to realize:
I don’t know how long I’ll stay ranked this high, but for a blog focused on engineering knowledge management, and not Brittany Spears, not bad. Thank you!
Okay, this site is hot … and deserving of a second post. LegoEngineering.Com (hosted by Tufts University) has some great resources (see my first posting).
Here are the links to the promised (free) eBooks / Manuals:
Here is the root link for the Lego eBook Library. Finally, check out my Google Co-Op eBook Manual Search Engine.
(and because I understand how search engines work: Lego Mindstorms, Lego NXT)
While searching for engineering podcasts, I found this great page of Lego podcasts … which is really a misnomer as all the links are really downloadable videos. Having said that … the high school robotics coach in me says "neat"! Here are a few examples:
Finally, on a different topic, but still educational in nature for children … Florida State University has a great site named: Molecular Expressions – Science Optics and You. You will find many resources including JAVA interactive tutorials. It’s worth a visit. (my thanks to Lisa T.)
The title may sound scary, but the video is not. The audience at Ted Talks, most of them non technical were wildly cheering after seeing the demonstration. This technology is coming down dramatically in price, and will change how we use computers … in fact, we won’t even recognize the devices as computers. Whether you are an engineer, or NOT … you have to watch this 9 minute demo. Do I sound excited? Yes, I am! Devices based upon this technology could alter the product landscape in a manner we can’t begin to understand.
"Jeff Han is a research scientist for New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Here, he demonstrates—for the first time publicly—his intuitive, "interface-free," touch-driven computer screen, which can be manipulated intuitively with the fingertips, and responds to varying levels of pressure." (from Ted Talks description)
As a fyi … It is reputed that Apple Computer has tried very, very hard to hire Jeff Han. When you see the demo you might even believe mathematics can be cool.