by Amneet Sanghera | Oct 29, 2017 | News
Last week, we held our first Halloween-themed Arduino workshop. Our computer electronics expert, Tiffany Chan, led participants through the process of creating a box monster using an Arduino (a credit card-sized computer), crafts materials, and a plain old shoe or...
by Richard McCue | Oct 18, 2017 | News, Research
A member of our DSC Makerspace team, Rich McCue, had the opportunity to participate in the 2nd annual International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces (ISAM 2017), at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland at the end of September. Rich wrote a research paper...
by Dani | Oct 16, 2017 | News
Research Computing Services, Digital Scholarship Commons, and Compute Canada invite all researchers on campus to an open office hour session. Faculty members, postdocs, researchers, and students are encouraged to bring their questions, codes, and data and get help...
by Amneet Sanghera | Sep 22, 2017 | News
During the summer, the DS Commons had the opportunity to help a team of UVIC engineering students 3D print part of their award-winning capstone project. The group, Psiren Technologies, designed an emergency underwater notification device which will emit distinctive...
by Richard McCue | Sep 1, 2017 | News
We have some good news for those on campus needing to do 3D printing this fall. We’ve purchased a second MakerBot Replicator printer in order to handle the steadily increasing demand for 3D printing we saw over the summer. We now have two MakerBot Replicators...
by Amneet Sanghera | Jul 24, 2017 | News
Last week, participants had a chance to gain some hands-on experience with interactive story-telling at our first Twine workshop. We also had one participant create a lightweight expert system using Twine to help researchers navigate funding and grant options. If...
