For thousands of years—maybe for as long as we've been human—we've offloaded our thinking. We've counted on our fingers. We've carved tallies into bone. We've invented a long series of tools to help u...

Spent a bit of the bank holiday weekend having a play with Desert Island Discs data. Have been thinking about creating a map visualisation of the guest data for while, often while doing laps at the li...

Last weekend I rode around the London Marathon and down to Peckham for Bespoked, a bicycle show for those who like to build bikes rather than buy them. Some amazing craftsmanship on display. The event...

Some time off over Easter meant I was able to spend some time getting started with the Bantam NextDraw 8511. This week was mostly about setting up the plotter in a slightly more accessible location and getting started with setting up inkscape and place to record progress. Hopefully to make it easier to continue than my false start last time.

Spent a fair bit of time exploring solar battery setups for running EdgeAI applications this week. Turns out the requirements for two different setups came together at the same time. One a 10W system,...

End of term means frosty rides to work, xmas lunches and this year a visit to the V&A storehouse. The week concluded with an interestsing PhD viva on Robotic Cities and a book on Anglepoise Lamps.

Another journey around the sun means it is time to start season 5 of the MSc Connected Environments. This time of year is busy as we try to close off the previous year and get ready for the new. It is...

A UCL alumnus has secured $2 million in seed funding for his startup Camera Intelligence, which is developing an AI-powered camera platform designed to simplify professional content creation.

Hospital operating theatre suites are a particularly resource- and energy-intensive component of the health sector. Reducing their carbon footprint presents a significant challenge due to the necessit...

A mix of making, lido benches and events this week. The greengages on the tree in the garden have started to fall, so I have started the annual ritual of making jam with the ones I can capture before ...

Image from Cities in the Metaverse book cover by Andy Hudson-Smith This time last summer I was focusing on researching and writing a chapter on AI for the Cities in the Metaverse book with Andy and Va...

Spent a couple of days this week flying the new DJI Matrice 4E in Hampshire. The task was to capture orthomosaic data for the WildPosh Grand Challenge project and involved a fair bit of prep with lots...

Continuing learning and preperation for capturing orthomosaic photos of fields in Wiltshire this week as a contribution into a UCL Grand Challenge project. We took delivery of the DJI Matrice 4E so th...

Term 2 came to a close with a week of final group project presentations, voting for the CE 2025 mug design, a last lecture on Dead IoT and a visit to the Hampstead Observatory to see the partial solar...

One of those weeks where you don’t think you have got much done, but in reality many seeds have been planted. I seemed to have a week of meetings - starting with RIBA Festival of the Future, ending wi...

Nudged forward the work on exploring orthomosaics with the DJI mini 4. Mainly exploring the workflow with Agisoft Metashape Pro (we have a floating licence in the lab) and checking to see how well the...

Turns out there is a name for the thing I have been doing more and more over the past year. I have increasingly been turning to Gemini rather than Google when I am trying to work out how to write a li...

This week culminated in tinkering with a few projects to get them live. Weather stations are one of the simplest IoT devices (in theory) since they are well developed products and have easy to underst...

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

DJI Matrice 4T and RC2 plus enterprise Really interesting day out this week with Drone Pilot Academy getting demos of the new DJI Matrice 4 and the DJI Dock 2 (plus DJI Terra). A mix of seeing the ent...