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Making sculpted chair for secondlife part 2

23 August 2009

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Following on from part 1, in this episode we finish modeling our chair, then bake the sculptmap, texture and preview them in opensim. Watch it below or watch it on youtube. Visit Archive.org and download the Ogg video or Avi. Download Making sculpted…

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Makehuman and Blender using Ubuntu Hardy

26 August 2008

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Makehuman Wikipedia article: MakeHuman is a software application that generates 3D humanoids; similar to Poser or DAZ Studio. It is written in C++ and Aqsis is necessary to produce a render. The MakeHuman team work towards correctness both in programming (using…

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Open source scripts in Second Life

18 August 2008

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Chris has found a couple of scripts which may be useful to educators and builders in Second Life. The Linked Prim Animator Lite (LPAL) is a set of open source scripts which enable you to animate linked objects and attachments .…

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Open source tools in Secondlife – Builders Buddy

18 May 2008

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I’ve been thinking about what other useful tools I can introduce to educators in secondlife. Builders Buddy is useful for people interested in building. I put together a small package with a tutorial, you can get a copy of builders…

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Emulating OLPC on Edubuntu

8 January 2007

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Useful Links: OS images for emulation OS images Using QEMU on Troubleshooting $ sudo apt-get install qemu Download the latest stable image. I downloaded this image. Extract the image. $ bunzip2 olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-193-20061203_1727-devel_ext3.img.bz2 Use qemu to launch the OLPC environment. $ qemu -hda olpc-redhat-stream-development-build-193-20061203_1727-devel_ext3.img Press the “a” key when you see…

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Blender models and Star Wars

13 November 2006

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That quote is what I think Master Yoda would say about being trained to use proprietary software at school. One of my young friends likes Blender and Star Wars, I think he is going to be really happy because the…

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Videoblogging with Free Software lesson

12 November 2006

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I put together a lesson on how to Vlog with Free Software. I thought about doing the whole thing as an instructional video but that would end up being a huge file so this is enough to get you up…

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noiesmo Ubuntu/Open Source Podcast no. 1

13 October 2006

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Check out noiesmos podcast. I’ve listened to a lot of podcasts from all kinds of people, experienced public speakers, professional educators, complete newbies and everything in between. I think noiesmo did an excellent job for his first podcast. I’m guessing…

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