[Epibone] can grow bones from your own cells.
Author: tim
Turn Your Raspberry PI Zero Into A USB Gadget
Adafruit has a [post] on how to turn your Raspberry PI into a USB device that can connect to your computer like a peripheral. This could be useful for a ton of projects.
Idea wall:
1) A custom audio device that can change the pitch using the input from a guitar pickup.
2) A multiple camera device to auto switch to the camera being looked at.
Unity Water Systems
The Unity Asset Store has a couple great looking water systems.
Manual: [Unity Water]
The Unity [Standard Assets] also has water prefabs that look great and perform at 60FPS+.
Movement Animset Pro
[Movement Animset Pro] has a complete set of 179 motion capture animations.
Contains cool animations for such things as:
– Standing
– Walking
– Running
– Crouching / Sneaking
– Getting up from ground
– Jumping
– Falling
– Interactions (button pushing, picking up objects, levers etc.)
– Fist fighting
– Deaths and knockdowns
– Sitting
– Throwing
Sector 13 Greenlit
[Sector 13] has been given green light status on Steam. [KS]
First Emotiv Community Developer Hangout
The Emotiv Insight is a brain controlled input device originally funded by [Kickstarter].
We had our first Emotiv community developer hangout today!
Of course next time, I’ll keep the headset charged and cover some of the pattern detection topics.
Emotiv: [Emotiv G+ Beta Community]
Emotiv: [Insight Control Panel] (Firefox)
Emotiv: [My Downloads]
Emotiv: [Github Emotiv Community SDK]
Google: [Tensor Flow]
Prediction IO: [PredictionIO]
IBM: [Watson Discovery Advisor]
HP: [HavenOnDemand]
Carousels in WP
WordPress is [customizable] with some small changes you can have shortcode to turn a gallery into a carousel.
Ultimate FPS
[UFPS : Ultimate FPS] is a Unity package that provides a First-Person-Shooter platform. [Manual] [Forum]
Substance Painter 1.7
[Substance Painter 1.7] has a bunch of workflow enhancements as well as being able to set a different shader on every texture.
Modo 902
[Modo 902] released with a ton of real world features. Check out the forums for a set of [overview videos] that go into camera matching, projection painting, and a ton of speedy workflow enhancements that make it possible to digitize real life.
Chroma SDK Adds Support for New Devices
The [Razer Chroma Developer Portal] provides the SDK for Chroma development for 4 new mice and 14 Chroma [supported devices].
Cordova in Visual Studio
[Cordova] is an accelerated HTML5 wrapper for apps on multiple platforms and C9 has a great article for [Getting Started with Apache Cordova in Visual Studio].
OpenAI
[OpenAI] is a non-profit organization focused on improving machine learning which is ultimately useful in the pattern recognition that I need to use make the [Emotiv Headset] useful. As the understanding of [brain science] evolves, we will be able to do new and cooler things with the headset.
Mixamo to Unity – Scary Zombie Pack
The available characters in the [Mixamo] store has been expanded. This is the fast workflow that I use to make the “Scary Zombie” animation pack compatible for Unity projects.
To extend the capabilities of in-game characters, import [RAIN AI for Unity] into a Unity project.
Set up a waypoint route for in game characters using RAIN AI for Unity.
Add Mixamo animation pack characters to RAIN waypoint routes.
Automate complex setups for Mixamo and RAIN AI.
Setup Automation for UFPS.
WordPress 4.4 Released
WordPress 4.4 officially released yesterday which adds new [API] features. WordPress is a great content management system for things like websites with blogs.
A recent change to HTTPS has made generating new certificates FREE! HTTPS is necessary if you have a site with logins or private data where you want to encrypt the web traffic. [Dreamhost] has a blog post for adding HTTPS support to Dreamhost hosted domains.
Sector 13 on Kickstarter
[Sector 13] is now live on Kickstarter and Steam [Greenlight]! Check out the live [Twitch] stream. [Kicktraq] shows the potential trends.
Free Web Templates
[HTML5 UP] has a bunch of site templates that are responsive and 100% free.
Query Monitor WordPress Plugin
[Query Monitor] is a WordPress plugin that helps identify performance bottlenecks by displaying a detailed summary on all the components that contributed to loading pages in WordPress.
Perfmap Chrome Plugin
[Perfmap] is a Chrome development plugin that overlays a heatmap on websites to help developers fine tune their web performance.
Unity Asset Store
Looking in the Unity Asset Store today, I found some interesting packages.
Mixamo Fuse CC with Photoshop CC Integration
[Mixamo] announced [Adobe Fuse CC] is now available and integrated into [Adobe Photoshop CC]. Check out the [Intro to Fuse CC] and [Fuse to PS] videos to get started.
OSVR With Oculus Rift
I’m diving into using the Oculus Rift with OSVR. The [OSVR Portal] has a document link to “Migrating Unity applications from Oculus to OSVR”.
Other useful resources:
[Oculus Developer Portal]
[Oculus Beta Runtime]
[Oculus Debug Tool]
[Oculus PC Setup Documentation]
[Oculus Downloads] includes Unity Examples
Video Encoding
[Handbrake] is an open source tool that’s FREE and converts between all the popular video formats.
Mixamo Animation Packs
The [Mixamo Store] made all the animation packs free for a limited time. This includes all the featured characters and characters animated from [Fuse] are now also free.
Rain AI
[Rain AI] is a Unity package that provides an AI engine for game characters. The [Downloads Page] has a starter kit for getting started. The [Community Page] has links to the forums, wiki, and documentation. The [Tutorials Page] has several videos for learning the system. [Expressions] are important for complex behaviour trees.
[Squad Command] has an excellent set of behaviors for team AI.