Author: benjamin winstone
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AI Driven Robot Painting
Back in 2018 I started working with robots to paint with Rob D Naja / 3D (Massive Attack). The initial project was just under a year, which involved setting up two systems, one with paint brushes and one with spray cans. I developed the control software for the robots, network interface, front end apps and…
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Sketching Out New Ideas With A New Robot
Over in the projects section you will find a bit of history of the work I have done making robots paint with brushes, pens and spray cans. This has always been with other people’s robots. Owning your own industrial robot is out of reach for most people, if not just because of budget but also,…
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The Ecosystem and the Algorithm: Collaboration & Cash
Session 6 of the Create Growth programme was a timely reminder that while swimming in code and tech is fun, humans are necessary. The day was a game of two halves: the warm, fuzzy logic of collaboration and the cold, hard logic of grant funding. The Human Approach: Know, Knit, Maintain We kicked off with…
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Creative tech business growth 4/5 – Sustainable Business
The Art of Staying Alive: Sustainability (But Not That Kind) I’ve just wrapped up sessions 4 and 5 of the DCMS Create Growth programme at The Studio in Bath. It was a double-header focused on a word that gets thrown around a lot: Sustainability. Usually, when I hear “sustainability,” I think of eco-friendly materials or…
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3D mesh generation, from gemini banana to blender 3D
I’ve been itching to test out some specific workflows for rapid 3D prototyping. We all know the “text-to-image” game is strong, but I have been curious about how useful this can be elsewhere. Today I ran a quick experiment to see how fast I could go from a vague idea to a 3D mesh using…
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Creative Tech Business Growth 3 – What AI Can Do For ME
AI is a Puppy (and other lessons from Bath) Workshop number three is in the books, and I’m back from The Studio with a notebook full of scribbles and a head full of ideas. If the last session on IP was the “vegetables” of the business diet, this week felt a bit more like the…
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Creative Tech Business Growth 2 – IP
I’m back on the bus to Bath. The frost has cleared up a bit since the first session, but the traffic jams give a sense of panic about arriving late. If you read my last post, you know I’ve joined the business support programme at The Studio in Bath to help level up Octopus Immersive.…
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Creative technology business support programme
I found out recently that my business, Octopus Immersive, has been accepted into the creative technology business support programme run by The Studio in Bath. I applied because the programme promises something I’ve been craving: in-person, hands-on workshops tailored to growing businesses, plus a peer network and access to people who’ve already built successful companies…