Categories Misc.

18 Years at Autodesk Today

Autodesk has since it’s founding been a well known dog friendly workplace in the Bay area so I think it is fair to say I have worked for Autodesk 18 years or 126 dog years (18 x 7.) I joined Autodesk back in 1998 after being an Autodesk…

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Categories Technology

UAV/UAS Registration in the United States

The deadline is approaching and on this Wednesday January 21, 2016 at midnight when the mandatory registration will no longer free and be $5 and they must be registered by February 19, 2016. We all knew that the FAA would at some point start addressing the fast increasing…

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Categories Autodesk

Dynamic Drawings on the Web with Project Draco

Bring you art to life using the Technology Preview of Project Draco developed by Autodesk Research.  Project Draco is different and much better and makes animation as easy as sketching. Project Draco aims to bring the power of intricate animation effects and interactive graphics to the creative hands…

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Categories Autodesk University

Run a Half Marathon Before AU 2016

I received a great deal of good feedback about running early mornings at Autodesk University 2015 with over 20 AU attendees each day running up to 4 miles. Ron Nightingale who ran mornings with us at AU 2015 said “it was the healthiest thing I did at AU”…

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Categories Hardware

FIRST Robotics 2016 Kicked Off this Weekend

The start of the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) 2016 was revealed Saturday with the new game challenge named STRONGHOLD by FIRST Founder Dean Kamem. This years revealed game field is one of the most challenging for the robotics competition of high school students according to the many experienced…

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Categories Misc.

Nikola Tesla Helps You with Math

Not only was Nikola Tesla one of the most brilliant inventors in history so many scientific fields, he also figured out an interesting way look up solutions to mathematics. Reads More Long lost Nikola Tesla drawings reveal genius map for multiplication  

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Categories AutoCAD

Throwback Thursday – AutoCAD 86 Floppies

You may have seen a 5.25” floppy in the 1980’s, but what about a 8” floppy? Back in 1984 AutoCAD-86 version 2.40 was released for the NEC platform on 8” floppy disks. Increasingly these days most under the age of 30 have never seen a floppy disk and…

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Categories Autodesk

Autodesk Releases Wet Lab Accelerator to Open-Source

The Autodesk Bio/Nano Research Team has released a new wet lab tool to open-source on GitHub at https://github.com/Autodesk/bionano-wetLabAccelerator. This tool is for researchers working in synthetic biology and virology to design robotic wet lab protocols using a visual UI without coding. https://wla.bionano.autodesk.com

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Categories Autodesk

Autodesk CEO Carl Bass Speaking at CES 2016

After Carl Bass said he would not be interested in going to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) ever again, he changed his mind after he was asked by the United States White House. Megan Smith, the U.S. Chief Technology Officer with the White House and Thomas Kalil, Deputy…

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Categories Photography

The Hydrous Maldives 2015 Expedition

Such a visually stunning story with a very important educational angle about the ocean by Sly Lee and the 501 (c)3 non-profit organization The Hydrous. The  Hydrous do what they proclaim by “communicating science beautifully.”  They were recently in the Maldives in December 2015 and generated highly detailed…

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