Back in May of this year I had the pleasure to be in the hot and beautiful Southern California desert at Trona Pinnacles near Death Valley with a group of engineers, scientist, champion Baja 1000 champion race drivers, car builders, mechanics, designers, cinematographers, technologists, and more for a…
Read MoreDon’t miss the chance to meet two BattleBots, Bronco and Mega Tento, in person(robot) at Autodesk’s First Annual BattleBots Watch Party! On the heels of last year’s wildly successful TV reboot of BattleBots, the world’s premier robot sporting event, bots and humans alike will assemble to watch the…
Read MoreIf you were unable to attend the Autodesk Forge Conference this week, you can still watch the keynote on YouTube. Forge is powerful set of cloud services, APIs, and resources for developers to quickly create the data-centric apps, experiences, and services that power the future of making things.
Read MoreRecently I edited a 3D model and created a quick video in Autodesk ReMake (formerly Autodesk Memento.) The 3D model was generated using Autodesk ReCap 360 Pro from photos taken last month using an UAS/drone in the hot windy Trona Pinnacles near Death Valley California. The ability to create…
Read MoreAutodesk has released a new eBook on the future of design. Disrupting giants of industry: The advantage of small engineering teams Future of design Smaller engineering teams have the advantage of being more agile, due to necessity. Their lack of resources require maximum efficiency. With today’s technology, these…
Read MoreThe United States is facing an infrastructure crisis as our roads and bridges are aging and exceeding capacity. “Last December, US Dept. of Transportation (USDOT) Secretary Foxx launched the Smart City Challenge in response to the Beyond Traffic draft report, which revealed that our nation’s aging infrastructure is…
Read MoreI wanted to share and highlight one of our amazing tech previews for Revit users that is getting great feedback in our Autodesk Feedback Community where Autodesk pre-release alpha/betas and Autodesk Labs projects are managed. Project Expo brings Revit models to life in an interactive real-time environment on…
Read MoreOn March 22, 2014, a large landslide in Oso, Washington killed 43 people and destroyed dozens of homes. Heavy rainfall in the previous days and weeks had saturated the soil on a hillside over State Road 530 and the Stillaguamish River. This eventually triggered the slide, burying approximately…
Read More“Computer-gaming pioneer Arthur Samuel once defined “machine learning” as “a field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed.” But for some people, the meaning takes a negative turn—as in what happens in dystopian movies after computers have conquered humanity. But the future…
Read MoreJoin Autodesk CEO and Chief Maker extraordinaire Carl Bass for a live Instructable session on how to build an autonomous go-kart at the Maker Faire Bay Area. Carl, his son and some friends have rigged their electric go-kart with the guts of a drone, and now it can…
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