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Autodesk Design Night – Material World

If you haven’t yet attended an Autodesk Design Night event in San Francisco or locations around the world, you are definitely missing out. For the low ticket cost to attend these fast sell out events you get great food and drinks, music, exhibits, hands on activities, and top industry…

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Categories Autodesk Products

Most Popular Speaker at Autodesk University 2017

The most talked about and lined up for speaker at Autodesk University 2017 was, well a real speaker this year that you could build yourself. At Autodesk University, a group of attendees participated in a Product Innovation Platform track organized and designed by Autodesk’s Garin Gardiner. Participants designed…

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Categories Events

Big Robot Fight October 17th

Watch the Giant Robot Duel on October 17th at 7:00pm PDT MegaBot was designed using Autodesk software such as Inventor and Fusion 360. Team MegaBots: Autodesk The Giant Robot Duel will premiere on twitch.tv, the world’s premier live-streaming platform. Subscribe to our twitch channel to watch the Duel…

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Categories AutoCAD Products

Fidget Spinner in Fusion 360

Fidget Spinners are all the rage, whether you love or don’t care for them, they are here. A couple weeks ago at the Autodesk Lake Oswego Oregon office we held our annual Kids at Autodesk Day, where employees brought their children to work where we have several activities…

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Categories Autodesk

Kids at Autodesk Day

This has to be one of my favorite days of the year at the office, and I remember my grown children attending back in the San Rafael HQ office many years ago. Our employees bring their children in and each office organizes a series of activities. In our…

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Categories Autodesk

Premiums Instructables for Teachers and Students

Students & teachers get free premium Instructables memberships! Take online classes & explore educational projects. Examples of Instructables for teachers and students: 100 STEAM Projects for Teachers Instructables for Young Engineers If you are not aware, Instructables is a gem for learning how to make almost anything. With…

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Categories Autodesk Products

FIRST Robotics World Finals

This weekend hundreds of teams from around the world will descend on Houston Texas for the FIRST Robotics World Finals. This year the finals will be split into two cities, Houston this weekend and St Louis next weekend. The team I have worked with for 2 seasons now…

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Categories Design

Designing More than Robots – The JuiceBox Project

For almost two seasons I have have had the pleasure to work with an amazing and inspiring group of young high school students involved in the FIRST Robotics competitions at Catlin Gabel in Portland Oregon. The FIRST Robotics Team 1540 the Flaming Chickens are also looking for ways…

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Categories Maker

Autodesk – Making Starts Here

Teachers, get the Maker Program Starter Kit and help your students get into the STEM/STEAM maker culture and making things by developing your maker program. Makers are better problem solver and better prepared for success in the world. “The Maker Program Starter Kit provides step by step instructions…

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