The IDEA challenge returned in May 2023 for its third iteration! This time it was hosted by the University of Zagreb and building on the success of the the challenge’s first two iterations was set to be bigger and better than ever! The challenge saw teams working fully virtually to develop a CubeSat satellite that […]
Read more >This year we’re lucky enough to have three summer interns working with us on the 21st Century Prototyping project. They’ve got a great range of skills – one mechanical engineer, one computer scientist, and one engineering designer – and excellent past experience in a range of industries. They’ll be working on building our toolkit and […]
Read more >In April, thanks to Pump Priming funding from the faculty and the Research Staff Development Fund, Mark and Adam travelled to the Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology (NTNU) to receive training on a Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (FNIRS) headset and to run participants through a collaborative design cognition experiment. Previously, the group had conducted […]
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This week Chris and the team joined the launch event for the new ProSquared Network on the Democratisation of Digital Devices. This 5-year network aims to connect industry and academia to find new ways to overcome production barriers at lower volumes, by making design, prototyping, and manufacture faster and more efficient. Doing so will be […]
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In this post, we discuss the computational requirements in scaling up an agent-based manufacturing service.
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As part of a keynote presentation I was asked to talk about digital twins with particular attention to their history, misconceptions, industry applications and the future. The recording of this has now been edited down into bite size chunks and is available on YouTube as a play list. The series includes a bibliography for those […]
Read more >During the covid pandemic, occupancy in rooms had to be kept to a minimum. It can be difficult to accurately monitor the occupancy of a space, especially when the room is large. CO2 levels in the air in a room can be used as a proxy for occupancy, with values of over 800 parts per […]
Read more >As part of project clean access, we wanted to establish what the response of the maker community had been to the covid pandemic. To do this, we created a catalogue of covid innovations that were published during the pandemic. We then ranked each innovation based on metrics such as Technology Readiness Level (TRL), usefulness, practicality […]
Read more >We at the DMF lab hosted TrollLabs – a research group from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) at the end of November. We’ve worked closely with NTNU for a number of years but unfortunately haven’t been able to host in person due travel restrictions during the pandemic. It was great to host […]
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Prof Ben from the lab joined colleagues from Exeter and Sheffield universities to discuss the future of Digital Twins and the opportunities and challenges for innovation. A replay of the session can be accessed via What’s Next for Digital Twins? Research Perspectives on the Future of Digital Innovation – Innovation Week 2022 by Digital Leaders […]
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