Free Educational Webinars Coming Up

kristielAll Topics, Unity Game Development, Webinars

Are you interested in incorporating more technical programs to your school’s curriculum? Do you want to review additional resources available to you? Looking for ways to to enhance your schools STEM curriculum? Here is a schedule for free educational webinars presented by Studica. 9/18/2012   Educating for Manufacturing with Autodesk Webcast: This Webinar concentrates on using Autodesk to educate your students … Read More

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Media Composer 6 .5 from Avid Released

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So the big question is “What’s New with Media Composer 6.5?”.  Well, you’ve come to the right place! Avid Media Composer 6.5 is heavily focused on creating efficiency when using multiple file formats, codecs & sources . This is achieve by utilizing a new open standard known as AS-02 and improving upon the Avid Media Access. Cool Benefit for Students: … Read More

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“Battle of the Finalists” Vote for the Best Game

std-adminAll Topics, Competitions & Contests, Unity Game Development

Ladies and Gentlemen – The Battle of the Finalists has begun! You decide who the winner will be. This is a close contest. We are down to two student finalists for the “Robot Games Design Competition” that is being sponsored by Unity Technologies and Studica. The competitors battling it out are Robob and Tiny Bots. Play both these great game … Read More

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How to Remote Control your Car with an iPhone

kristielAll Topics, NI | National Instruments

And you thought texting & driving was Dangerous… it turns out you CAN remote control your car with iPhone. The two dudes from Waterloo labs, Hunter & Doug, made this sick video on how to remote control your car with your iPhone. With the help of LabVIEW software, a couple of motors, a wireless real time controller, an iPhone and … Read More

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How To Build a Solar Tracker

kristielAll Topics, fischertechnik, NI | National Instruments

For this post, Studica’s Co-op student utilized all the skills they have acquired the past few weeks with products such as the National Instruments myDAQ and fischertechnik models. They built and programmed a solar tracker using the fischertechnik Oeco Tech Renewable Energy kit as well as various spare parts as well as National Instruments LabVIEW with the myDAQ and a … Read More

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Need More Color in your Life? New Pantone Colors

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Pantone recently added 336 new Pantone colors to its existing Pantone Plus series! This addition brings the Pantone Plus Series to a total of 1,677 colors. Wow – that’s one chubby rainbow! Not only that, it takes the worldwide standard for accurate color communication to an even higher level of accuracy. Introduced in 2010, the Pantone Plus Series is the … Read More

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Sell Your Work on the Unity Asset Store

kristielAll Topics, Unity Game Development

Unity 3D has a very cool marketplace called the Asset Store. The Asset Store is sort of like an app store for Unity 3D assets. Basically, as a Unity 3D user, you can purchase assets that other people have made and use them in your game. This makes for quick and easy development of a game. However, what I want … Read More

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New fischertechnik Student Contest

kristielAll Topics, Competitions & Contests, fischertechnik

Hello again folks! I’ve got student contests for you! Last time around I announced our all-new, fischertechnik Young Builders Contest 2012, especially designed as a platform for young builders from age 5 to 9 to share their unique creations with the public …and win cool fischertechnik prizes! You can find all the details on this student contest by clicking here. … Read More

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fischertechnik Robotics in Action: How-to Guide

kristielAll Topics, fischertechnik

This week our amazing interns worked with many fischertechnik robotics kits. If you haven’t heard of them, fischertechnik is a company provides robotics kits for students of all ages to learn how the things around them actually work. The 3 different models that we built at Studica this week were: Pinball machine Ball Obstacle Course from the New ROBO TX … Read More

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Save with Back to School Deals from Studica

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As hard as it is to believe summer is coming to a close and school is just around the corner. Don’t fret – Studica has some great back to school deals that will cheer you up! “Like What?” you ask… Well, how about… Saving $100 on Adobe CS6 Master Collection? Saving $50 on Adobe CS6 Design Standard, CS6 Design and … Read More

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