Geek R&D - Reasons to be Creative 2013 Elevator Pitch
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A 3 minute talk on how R&D can be achieved through fulfilling your geekiest fantasies. In this, I make a model of myself in carbonite!
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Geek R&D - Reasons to be Creative 2013 Elevator Pitch
- 1. hello. my name is Andrew Dobson and I’d like to talk about fulfilling your geek dreams on the company R&D clock
- 3. //TODO
- 5. Organisational Hacking Exploiting the inefficiencies in a given working day to do something less boring instead
- 6. Invoke the power of geekery
- 9. + = That’s the dream!
- 11. Getting Von Neumann up in this piece Skills learnt: Product engineering Extending models Openscad Controlling blender’s camera (seriously wtf)
- 12. 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
- 13. 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
- 14. Using kinect to pull a point cloud Skills learnt: Building a mesh from point cloud, healing models, Skanect, blueprinting a human turntable.
- 15. Photogrammetry Skills learnt: 123D suite, mesh healing, NetFabb studio, what the hell a ‘normal’ is, how to photograph a subject with an even contrast
- 21. Finally, after nearly 3 months of pissing about…
- 23. Thank you (with grateful acknowledgement of my awesome team who I couldn’t have done it without) @andrewdotdobson
Notes de l'éditeur
- Hi. Geek R and D.For the last 5/6 years, I’ve been working in management
- It’s hard to find a balance for my team between the work we have to deliver and exploring innovative new technologies and learning new things.
- Overwhelming!See cool stuff like Carlos and Grant’s work and want to do the good stuff.Play and exploration.Get the impression that they don’t have to deliver too many banner campaigns.Previous job…
- Learnt that even in restricitve, uncreative environments, you can create space to play
- And we developed ways to explore the cutting edge whilst still delivering our work.R&D a culture, not a project
- I like to do this by…Harnessing the obsessional drive that fulfilling my geek fantasies provides.I@m no stranger to this… Kinecthackery
- And so when my boss gave me a copy of this book:
- And told me to order a 3D printer….I knew immediately what I wanted to do.
- I’m going to 3d print a model of myself in Carbonite.
- Turns out it’s not that simple…We’ve got a lot to learn…
- The spool that comes with the printer is rubbish and keeps sticking.Open source community had provided a printable replacement…Extend it
- Air duct causing the prints to curl. Find and print another one
- Complete strip down of the printerFaulty temp sensor
- Already knew how to pull a mesh from a point cloud.Learn new techniques to make a mesh printableNot enough detail in the face.
- Photogrammetry instead gave much more detail
- Yet more software
- Refining our skills
- Experimenting with the printer settings to get an optimum print
- So then, take part A, add to part B right?
- Not quite…and this was just last week. :-/
- BUT…Because I REALLY want to be Han Solo.And because we had to learn so much
- We knew just what we had to do to fix it…And here it is!Just goes to show what you can learn by playing with toys….
- Cheers!Jas, Ed, Chris and the two Sams.