Author: benjamin winstone
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The Final Bow: First Aid Kits and Finding OIL (Conclusion)
The end of one thing means the beginning of another. I’m on the bus back to Bristol for the very last time. This is it. The DCMS Create Growth programme at The Studio in Bath is officially over. It feels bizarre to write that. For months, these frost-bitten mornings and bus rides have provided a…
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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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Bath Session 9: Finding Your Weirdos (and Maybe Perishing?)
I’m back from Session 9 of the Create Growth programme at The Studio in Bath. This workshop had the title: ‘Who do I want to reach?’ I’ve been struggling with the “finance and VC” part of the business recently (as my last post probably hinted). So, coming back to the topic of audience and market…
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Wrestlers & Racehorses: Session 8
I’m back from Session 8 of the Create Growth programme at The Studio. The theme was Story Led Speaking, and the day ended up highlighting the massive tension that exists between being an authentic, passionate creator and the ruthless pragmatism required to scale a business. It was a day of two very different halves: the…
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Session 7: The Uncomfortable Truth About Money (and why I need more than an accountant)
We’ve hit Session 7 of the DCMS Create Growth programme at The Studio, and it was time to tackle the subject that usually makes creative technologists want to hide under their desks: Money. The session was aptly titled ‘Let’s talk about money’, and we were joined by Fractional Finance to dig into finance, tax, 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…