Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Hardware, Photography
Sunday, March 25th, 2012

If like me, you are using your mobile phone for your picture taking, you may have wished for a convenient way to attach it to your tripod. Jin Tsubota has come up with a clever device that will get the job done quickly, the Piquant! The project has been launched on Kickstarter and its production [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Desktop computers, Hardware
Friday, March 23rd, 2012

I thought some of our more senior members here, like myself, might find the Amiga Mini an interesting concept, at least those that got into computing in the mid 80s when the Amiga Commodore was launched. Commodore USA have now launched the Amiga Mini which looks to have taken its design cue from the Apple [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Applications, Mechanical Design, Modeling
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

I’ve just learned from a article by Gopla Shah at Google SketchUp that a very old wish list item in SketchUp is now achievable with SpaceClaim for SketchUp! The past problem! Gopal writes, ‘With SpaceClaim, engineers can convert conceptual designs in SketchUp’s native SKP format (which is optimized for fast performance) into precise solid models [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Google SketchUp, Modeling
Sunday, March 18th, 2012

Our resident Period House Modeler, tadema (John Higgins) has yet again astounded us with another highly detailed period house model, this time its Cragside House! You can check out further details here.
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Modeling
Friday, March 16th, 2012

A SCF member, Elissandre Rodrigues, has just completed a fantastic SketchUp model of the Airbus A380. The texturing looks to be near perfect. Images can be viewed on this topic.
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Podium SU, Render
Friday, March 2nd, 2012

What’s New February 29, 2012 What’s New February 29, 2012 1. EditInPlace 1.1 is free for SU Podium V2 users. 2. SU Podium V2.10 – released 3. SU Podium Image of the month 4. SU Podium Browser – new paid components in February 2012 5. SU Walk – still $89 for SU Podium V2 users [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Presentation
Thursday, March 1st, 2012

A new visualization platform had hit the market, BakeScape by RendoSoft. Full details and demo videos can be had here.
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Competitions
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

Last month I mentioned the innosite design contest. It was a contest for innovative low cost eco ideas for temporary buildings. The winner has now been announced, Pop Up. Pop Up uses scaffolding to create pop up structures, mostly on top of city roofs but I imagine they could ‘pop up’ anywhere. With the building [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Augmented Reality
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

Graziano Terenzi of Inglobe Technologies, a regular here at SFC and one of the developers of ARmedia has just announced the release of ARmedia Augmented Reality Player for iOS on the App Store. Graziano advises, “ARmedia Player” is the first iOS application that allows users to interact with virtual models created by means of the [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Vehicles-Art
Saturday, February 25th, 2012

SCF member, Elissandre Rodrigues, shows us an interesting model he has made of ‘The Big Bus’ based on the vehicle which appeared in the 1976 movie, The Big Bus. You can view further images and a movie Elissandre has made of The Big Bus here.