October 17th 3D Printing

This is the third Rather Useful Seminar of the sequence for Semester 1. We will be taking a look at the technology of 3D printers and even printing some objects that we will design during the session.

Update on Wednesday, October 17, 2012 at 08:33PM by Rob

Una the Ultimaker did a great job of showing off what she can do. You can find the slides for the talk here.

October 10th Getting Started with Kinect

Gratuitous Book Plug

We will be having our second "Rather Useful Seminar" on Wednesday 10th of October at the usual time of 1:15 pm in Lecture Theatre D. The session will cover the Kinect sensor, how it works and how it can be used in your programs. We'll look at the camera and the depth sensor, and also how to use skeleton tracking. Should be fun.

As an addtional incentive to turn up, a free copy of the book above will be available to one lucky person.

Update on Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 03:01PM by Rob

You can find the slide deck and the demo programs for the session this week here.

October 3rd: Imagine Cup Introduction

In this seminar we are going to take a look at the Microsoft Imagine Cup and how you can get involved. The University of Hull has the best record in the competiton of any UK university. We have made the UK Finals very many times and Hull students have been to world finals in Spain, Brazil, India and Korea. 

The competition this year is going to be very interesting with a new category, Innovation.

Find out more about the Hull story, and how you can take part in the competition, by coming along to the seminar. 

Update on Wednesday, October 3, 2012 at 01:10PM by Rob

Some of the happy customers. You can find the presentation for today here.

Rather Useful Seminars

Welcome to the Microsite for the Rather Useful Seminars that we will be running at Hull University. They will all take place at 1:15 pm on a Wednesday afternoon in Lecture Theatre D in the Robart Blackburn Building. They are open to Hull students from all years. After the session we might all go and play some Team Fortress 2, which could be fun.

Programme

This is the programme for the First Semester. There will be further sessions in the New Year.

Week 02	October 3rd	Launch Seminar – Imagine Cup Intro
Week 03	October 10th	Getting Started with Kinect
Week 04	October 17th	An Overview of 3D Printing
Week 05	October 24th	Creating Gameplay using XNA
Week 06	October 31st	Publishing and Legality
Week 07	November 7th	Presentation Skills
Week 08	November 14th	Creating Embedded Applications
Week 09	November 21st	An Overview of the Unity Game Creation Framework
Week 10	November 28th	Imagine Cup Entry Preparation

 Keep up to date with what is going on by using the Twitter hashtag #ratherusefulseminars