As always, the UM College of Engineering’s Mobile App Hackathon was a great success. Inspired and organized by Professor Eliot Soloway, the event was sponsored this year by North American Bancard (here‘s the promo video). Ten teams completed cool projects. Standby for DL1′s pico-documentary of the event, shot and edited this time by Paul Manganello.
Congratulations Vicki Huang and Chris Sketch! They’ll be appearing in DL1 beginning next week. DL1 regulars will recognize them. Vicki is a Performing Arts and Technology senior, bringing expertise in character animation and drawing, in addition to audio editing and production. The monitor in DL1 has often played her final project for David… [read more]
Way back in ’06, the DMC’s GROCS program sponsored a student-initiated project titled “The Virtual Anatomy Atlas”. Mike Wells, Dorothy Gotlib, Jacob Kurlander and Neda Mirafzel proposed to make high resolution images of specimens from the UM’s Plastination Lab available via the web for anatomy students everywhere. During their funded semester, the students accomplished… [read more]
Last fall, DL1 pooled resources with the DMC’s other cool space, the UM3D Lab, to acquire a set of 3 Emotiv Epoc headsets with all of the developers’ tools. As one group of artists began to gather around the idea of making music with these things, Yahoo! took notice and pitched in cash to support… [read more]