Rather Useful Programme Autumn 2013
We are back with a slightly changed logo (it is now orange) and a packed programme of events for this semester. October 16th Making Things in 3D - See a 3D printer in action and find out how you can...
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Printing the Weather Forecast in 3D
We had a good audience for the first Rather Useful Seminar. Some of them were fresh from a first year lecture and must have been feeling a mite peckish. But they stayed to the end and I hope they...
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A Rather Useful Slice of Raspberry Pi
This is a slightly processed picture of the audience. It seems that quite a few people have a taste for Pi. We did another Rather Useful Seminar today. It was all about the Raspberry Pi. I covered...
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XNA for Three Thing Game Rather Useful Seminar
What a great audience to get things wrong in front of…. I did the XNA Rather Useful Seminar today. Slightly enlivened by the fact that I finished the slide deck only a few minutes before the lecture...
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Selling Your Game with Simon Grey
I think Simon learned a lesson today.He learned not to email me and say “I’ve got some great ideas for the Rather Useful Seminar this afternoon about getting your game to market”. I told him I had an...
View ArticleRather Useful Seminar Program Spring 2014
We are back with a sequence of presentations that are tailored at the professional world. All the presentations are at the same time as usual, 1:15 on Wednesday, but the venue has shifted to Lecture...
View ArticleCareers and Internships Conference
Department of Computer ScienceUniversity of HullCareers and Internships Conference2nd April 2014 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm Name * Name First Name Last Name Email Address * Business Card Text * Course and Year...
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October 8th: Fun in the Embedded World with the ArduinoFind out how easy and cheap it is to make your own embedded devicesIncludes a demonstration of remote controlled wedding lightsOctober 15th:...
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Fun in the Embedded World with the Arduino
This is our first seminar of the new session. You can find the notes here.
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Sensing the World with Kinect
The seminar this week showed what the Kinect sensor does, how it works and the improvements that the Kinect V2 sensor brings. We had a splendid turnout. You can find the slide deck for the...
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Creating and Printing 3D Objects from Software
If you are wondering how programs can create 3D objects this seminar will give you some ideas. We are going to look at a couple of things. First off we are going to find out how we can use a C#...
View ArticleXNA and Monogame for Three Thing Game
Did a Rather Useful Seminar all about Monogame and XNA today. I took a screencast of the video which you can find above. If you want the sample program code and the slide deck you can find it here.
View ArticleRather Useful Raspberry Pi
Today it was Raspberry Pi time. I'm trying to remember to make screencasts of all the Rather Useful Seminars from now on. Camtasia makes it really easy.
View ArticlePublishing Apps: How and Why
The title kind of says it all really. This week's Rather Useful Seminar was all about app publication. With special guest appearances of Cheese Lander and Rob's Rednose Game.
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James Croft talks Imagine Cup
James Croft came to see us today. He now works for Black Marble and they were kind enough to let him slip across from Leeds to give a Rather Useful Seminar all about the Microsoft Imagine Cup...
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February 4thRobert Blackburn Building LTAGetting Started with Python· Muyiwa Olu-Ogunleye gives an introduction to the Python programming languageFebruary 11th Robert Blackburn Building LTA...
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Muyiwa talks Python
Muyiwa enters the "Rather Useful Hall of Fame" Muyiwa Olu gave a really good (and Rather Useful) seminar this week about the Python language. It is great to see someone being enthusiastic about a...
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Charlotte Talks Industrial Placements
As soon as I found out that Charlotte Godley, one of our students, had landed a placement at Airbus Industries I made a mental note to ask her to do a Rather Useful Seminar on her experience when...
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Disruptive Development with Rob Hogg from Black Marble
Rob Hogg from Black Marble came to see us today. He was talking about "Disruptive Development". Rather sadly (writes Rob Miles) I was unable to see all the talk, having another commitment for the...
View ArticleRather Useful Research Seminars
Research is not what you think it is. Especially if you think it is something you can't do.Darryl Davies from the department has been explaining that all studies are actually a form of research. and...
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