Our Little Book of Connected Environments is about opening up the potential of Internet of Things (IoT) devices to provide information about our environment. From…
Andy18 April 2020
Three years in its creation, our new MSc in Connected Environments at University College London is now open for applications to study. Based at the…
Andy1 November 2019
Part of creating a new insight into 'Connected Environments' (more on that term in future posts) is understanding the function, design and nature of devices.…
Andy31 January 2019
Weather Flow Shield - Fusion 360 Model Render The Weather Flow 'Smart Weather Station' is arguably one of the most innovative weather sensors on the…
Andy21 September 2018
The increasingly availability of bandwidth along with advances in computer hardware and Internet services is making it possible to stream HD content, live from multiple…
Andy12 January 2016
Particle Flow is a versatile, powerful particle system for Autodesk's 3ds Max. It employs an event-driven model, using a special dialog called Particle View, allowing you to combine…
Andy1 September 2014
Earlier this year CASA was invited to create a virtual reality exhibit for the Walking on Water exhibition, partnered with Grand Designs Live at London’s…
Andy26 August 2014
In the corner of our apartment we have an old 1940's radio, picked up a few years ago the original valves had already been removed,…
Andy2 March 2014
Learn the New Science of Cities at University College London with the MSc in Smart Cities at The Bartlett's Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis from…
Andy5 February 2014
Here at The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis we run a simple dashboard view of the weather in London. The background of the dashboard changes colour to…
Andy2 February 2014
2013 has been quite a year for research - the Smart/Future Cities discussion has moved forward with a notable pace, new setups such as the…
Andy19 December 2013
Screens in the Wild is a collaborative project initiated by researchers from the Space Group at University College London and the Mixed Reality Lab at…
Andy19 December 2013
Pigeon Sim is a Kinect powered, Google Earth linked, system to fly around live data - pulling in feeds from citydashboard.org it was developed originally as…
Andy27 November 2013
Cities are clearly the topic of the moment, be it Smart/Future/Sustainable/Computable, the concept is moving towards a new understanding of our urban world and with…
Andy31 October 2013
Cities have always been places where new technologies are invented but as more and more of the world’s population is living in cities, it is…
Andy25 September 2013
The rise in 3D printers and the move towards semi-consumer level models, such as MakerBot Replicator 2, opens up a wealth of opportunity to build…
Andy14 September 2013
In June 2013 The Bartlett held a conference entitled 'Pedagogy meets Big Data and BIM'. The conference brought together over 100 participants from across the United…
Andy9 September 2013
Cities have always been places where new technologies are invented but as more and more of the world’s population is living in cities, it is…
Andy29 July 2013
What if London's buildings grew according to the amount of data they generate? Stephan Hügel (@urschrei) and Flora Roumpani (@en_topia) two of our PhD students…
Andy4 July 2013
We are pleased to announce two new lecturer posts here at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis: Lecturer in Urban Analytics- Ref:1345485 and Lecturer in Spatial Modelling…
Andy3 July 2013
UCLive is an Augmented Reality Map of UCL developed by students on the Masters in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation at CASA. Featuring live data, the augmented reality android…
Andy20 June 2013
The Quadrangle at University College London was designed by William Wilkins and constructed between 1827 and 1828. It is a natural building of urban research as its…
Andy12 June 2013
Sung-Hyun Jang, one of my Ph.D. students here at CASA, has launched an Android app called AR Navigation System for Pedestrians. The app is a…
Andy4 June 2013
CASA Working Paper 191 - Developing classical and contemporary models in ESRI's City Engine - is now available to download. By Flora Roumpani, The Bartlett…
Andy30 May 2013
Here at The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis we run a Davis Vantage Pro 2 unit with Solar and UV sensors from a rooftop on…
Andy23 May 2013
Its not something many academics admit - but writing is hard, not for all, there are some academics who simply flow words but for many…
Andy22 May 2013
We present our working paper entitled ‘Virtual Cities: Digital Mirrors into a Recursive World‘. The paper comes in at approximately 9000 words and explores visualisation…
Andy21 May 2013
Games engines such as Unity are the perfect platform for agent based modelling, they allow a combination of 3D urban cityscapes and navmeshes/grid graphs/point graphs…
Andy14 May 2013
Creating a sandbox style traffic system in Unity is a challenge. As our previous posts have shown agents can use NavMesh and calculate shortest paths but the hit…
Andy13 May 2013