New Unity Learning Content Coming Soon

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The good people over at Unity are currently developing a new curriculum for learning their software. Currently, the Unity learning material is broken up into a handful of projects that come with tutorial documents, which walk you through the ins and outs of Unity and game design. The Unity team is reworking their learning tutorials and will be providing a … Read More

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Interesting Lab Activities Powered with LabVIEW

kristielAll Topics, NI | National Instruments

Teachers are always looking for new ways to engage students in lab activities. The Infinity Project offers complete solutions for STEM technology. They have developed a number of interesting projects that utilize the graphic software, LabVIEW, and hands on implementations with the myDAQ. Another great feature of the Infinity Project is that they provide a full year of curriculum with … Read More

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Unity3D announces Graphics Engine support for Windows 8 & Windows Phone 8

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Unity3D has announced at their UNITE 2012 Conference in Amsterdam, that they will be supporting Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. Unity CEO David Helgason stated, “Our mission at Unity has always been to provide solutions for developers to effortlessly bring their work to as many different platforms as possible,” Helgason said.  “The Unity community has been asking for access … Read More

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Free Educational Webinars Coming Up

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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