Blender Podcast Episode 12 has been released.
Category Archives: Miscellaneous
Blender Podcast Episode 11
Real-Time Robot Arm Control
A combination of Blender, Python, Processing and Ardiuno hardware controls a robot arm in real time.
Blender Podcast Episode 10
Keepworthy Creations: Using Blender for Prototyping Gift Designs
Childrens publisher and gift company Keepworthy Creations have been using Blender to prototype collectable gifts they produce to accompany their books. They started by using Blender simply to aid creating technical drawings to send to their manufacturer, but liked the process so much that for their next project they persuaded their manufacturer to accept .blend files directly. Continue reading
Blender Podcast 9
Blender Podcast Episode 8 With Nathan Vegdahl
FreeStyle Sculpting Tech Demo
A very interesting tech demo by Lucian Stanculescu for his PhD, that allows adaptively tessellating topology à la sculptris, but with the added twist that the user can also punch holes in the topology, changing the genus of the mesh using only the brushes. He plans to develop the demo into a standalone application in future. More links can be found from the videos vimeo page.
Ramen Compositor Lives On
Some of you may remember Ramen, a standalone, node based compositor with a promising set of features, that unfortunately ceased development a little while ago. Thankfully development on the project has resumed (but is now closed source) and some new features including tracking have been added. Version 0.8.15 is now available for 64 bit linux, with windows 64 bit releases on their way.
Blender Keypad App for iOS
If you’re a laptop user who misses having a proper number pad for navigating in blender and you have an iOS device, this free app is just what you need. It connects to mac and windows computers wirelessly and features both a number pad and specific hotkeys for using blender.


