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BU Club Explores AR and VR Technology
Do you know the difference between augmented reality and virtual reality? Are you interested in discovering how to build things using AR and VR technology, or finding out how they can advance entertainment, education, and industry? That's what [...]BU’s AR/VR club is all about. Open to all majors and to students at all levels of expertise, members experiment and play with virtual reality systems and VR software, augmented reality devices and AR apps. The club also hosts workshops on using AR and VR development software like ARKit.
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Engineering Students Compete in Third Annual Tinker Catapult Challenge
Watch as teams of Boston University College of Engineering students build and launch catapults for the third annual Tinker Catapult Challenge, hosted by The Imagineering Lab. Seven teams of College of Engineering students spent a weekend building [...]catapults, which they launched the following weekend at Nickerson Field: at stake, a $500 cash prize and bragging rights as Catapult Challenge winners. The event is intended to get students into the workshop and get hands-on experience.
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Schon Horology: The Art of Watchmaking
Like most engineers, Boston University alumni Ian Schon (ENG'12) has always loved tinkering. He began tinkering with watches in 2013, after purchasing a watch online that was not as advertised. He took it apart and decided to use the metalworking and [...]machining skills he had developed as a mechanical engineering student at BU to build a new case for it. He opened Schon Horology earlier this year to sell wristwatches he designs and makes himself.
In this video, follow Ian Schon's deeply personal journey into the world of horology as he designs and machines his own watches in his Allston, MA studio.
Read a profile of Ian Schon on BU Today: /today/2018/schon-horology-watchmaking/
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Looking for Narnia at Warren Towers
Eugenia Camacho and Chris Ackerman might never have met if it wasn’t for the ukulele Chris brought to dinner one night at Warren Towers. They didn’t know it then, but that instrument was the beginning of a very special friendship, as [...]they recount in this animated video.
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Battling Drug Subs with Boogie Boards
Since the early 1990s, at least 60 “drug subs†have been captured. They’re sophisticated contraptions, with multiple crew members and GPS navigation—and their sole purpose is to sneak massive amounts of cocaine, heroin, and [...]other illegal drugs into the country. They’re exceptionally good at their job. To combat this menace, Boston University engineering professor Greg McDaniel is building a swarm of autonomous microboats. These machines would travel around an area of open ocean independently, listening for suspicious sounds. If an individual drone hears a noise, it can alert its robotic colleagues and invite them to collectively hone in on a target. This could help detect narco-subs and other small underwater threats more reliably—making the concept particularly attractive to the US Navy.
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A Record Gift from Rajen Kilachand
University leaders, researchers, and donor Rajen Kilachand talk about the importance of philanthropy and the promise of the interdisciplinary research that will be conducted at the Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering.
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Time-lapse: Blue-Green Brainbow Art Installation by Carson Fox
In this time-lapse video, artist Carson Fox and her assistant, Cara Lynch, install Blue-Green Brainbow by Carson Fox over the course of six days in the lobby of the new Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering.
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