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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…
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ROS2 Jazzy with UR Robots and MoveIt
Recently I have returned to Robot Operating System (ROS) after many years. A lot has changed and its a way bigger framework that the last time I used it. Working out which version to use, and how to set it up caused days of banging my head into the keyboard. Essentially, its very open source,…