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PiCapture: Designing the Desktop App Foundation
To partner the motion capture system we need to develop a high quality software application that will be easy to expand with new features over time. As a Mac user with a little experience using Apple's Swift programming language and user interface capabilities, I've...
PiCapture: Designing the Prototype Hub
Due to its proximity to the wearer's body, we need to keep the hub's profile as slim as possible. The result will hopefully be a clear plastic enclosure roughly the size and thickness of a pack of playing cards. A similar sized power bank will power the hub located in...
PiCapture: Building the Proof of Concept
After some rummaging around on the web followed by a gruelling struggle to get the Raspberry Pi Zero to allow code editing and execution over USB I finally managed to set up the Pi to act as my MoCap system's hub. The Pi Zero is a full-blown computer and not set up...
PiCapture: The Hardware Setup
In order to develop the hardware for the motion capture system, I'll need to purchase more specialised sensors needed to capture the motion data. There’s no other way around this, these sensors are tailored for this kind of use case and there are no viable...
Open-Source Motion Capture: A Frugal Education Project
As I mentioned in my previous post, my experiments in AI collaboration for project development have been very successful so far. The success of this initial experiment has inspired a larger follow-on project that builds on the collaboration approach, this time taking...
Creative Collaboration with AI: Designing and Coding Motion Capture Systems with ChatGPT
Continuing from my earlier noodlings with AI and Raspberry Pi for frugal design, I spent the Christmas break delving deeper into my motion capture project. One of the major milestones between family shindigs and country walks was building out the triangulation code...
Low-Cost Innovation: Exploring Motion Capture Sensor Design using Raspberry Pi and AI
Over the past three days, I’ve been immersed in a motion capture lab held across our cluster of research centers. What began as an exploration into experimental MIDI controllers has unexpectedly evolved into a deeper, more ambitious side project: designing a low-cost...
Frugal Design Thinking: Students Craft STEAM Makerspace Project using the Frugal Education Cards
I'm always excited to share stories that showcase frugal education practice in action, and today, I'm delighted to bring you an inspiring tale from a group of masters students at the Asian University for Women in Chittagong, Bangladesh that used the frugal education...
The PlayLab Bus Project: A Journey in Frugal Education Innovation in Malaysia
In the heart of Malaysia, a revolutionary educational project is transforming the way students engage with STEM subjects. The PlayLab Bus project, a cornerstone of the ACES international research project, is an exemplary model of frugal education that creatively...
A Conversation on Frugal Education: Insights from my AACE Review Interview
I recently had the privilege of being interviewed by Stefanie Panke for the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) Review. This was a fantastic opportunity to delve into the ideas and motivations behind my work, particularly the “Frugal...