Trying all the free Photogrammetry!

In which I tried - and failed - to document pros and cons for about a million different combinations of software.

14/09/2016 43

Installing Bash on Windows 10

The recent update for Windows 10 enabled a feature that I’m sure has gone unnoticed by many: You can now install a native linux terminal in Windows. Who cares? I hear you ask. Well, I’ll be writing up guides on some open source software soon, and using Bash on Windows 10 is waaaaay easier than... Continue Reading →

16/08/2016 6

Getting good supports, printing with Dremel Idea Builder 3D20

**update 21/2/19: Not only has Dremel moved to a waaay better slicing software (based on Cura), but the latest firmware (v1.5, 20180611) has enabled standard *.gcode support for the 3D20 model. Finally...** Last year I got hold of a Dremel Idea Builder 3D printer. It’s been great, and I’ve been able to print a... Continue Reading →

03/05/2016 33

Why Windows 8.1 and Onedrive are awesome (and Windows 10 is RUBBISH)

My extolling the wonders for productivity given by windows 8.1 and Onedrive, and my disappointment with Windows 10

07/09/2015 0

[Academic Tech] Free software I use (2014)

Being a computery type of palaeontologist, a lot of what I do requires pretty specialist software, and ideally pretty beefy hardware. Being from Yorkshire, I begrudge paying the exceedingly large amounts of money that a lot of the professional software packages demand. But there are better reasons for my thriftiness – using freely available software... Continue Reading →

05/06/2014 20