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@djdunc.bsky.social

“90’s AI”, sensing and emerging tech in the built and natural environment - Prof of Connected Environments @casaucl.bsky.social www.iot.io

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Fixing clamps and Greengages 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 ...

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03.08.2025 20:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#ucldigifest today looking forward to exploring the digital twin, digital tech for education and the communities developing at UCL - @jamespjh.bsky.social getting us started

15.07.2025 08:48 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Sense, Deploy, Communicate: Connected Environments MSc Show
18 July-03 August
1st Floor Galleries, UCL East Marshgate
Opening night: 17 July, 18:00-20:00

Join us later this month to enjoy Connected Environments MSc students' graduating projects at their final show.

www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...

08.07.2025 16:29 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Day 3 CUPUM “like day 3 at Glastonbury” says @adamdennett.bsky.social so great to sit down to listen to the @casaucl.bsky.social legend Mike

26.06.2025 08:33 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Day 2 at CUPUM up next @fryrsquared.bsky.social and starting with a lovely game! Cc @casaucl.bsky.social

25.06.2025 08:45 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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And here we go with CUPUM @casaucl.bsky.social great intro from conf chair @adamdennett.bsky.social and liking the hat tip to @digitalurban.bsky.social metaverse of posters.

24.06.2025 08:26 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Cities in the Metaverse 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...

www.iot.io/blog/2025/06... New book from the @casaucl.bsky.social connected environments folk will be hitting shelves soon.

07.06.2025 19:59 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The window to register is closing! Lock down your attendance at CUPUM this year before this Saturday's deadline.

28.05.2025 10:12 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Drone in a field 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...

Great blog by @djdunc.bsky.social describing drone surveying of flowers for pollinators near oilseed rape fields last week, in association with our pan-European WildPosh project www.iot.io/blog/2025/04...

29.04.2025 08:15 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
DJI Matrice 4E 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...

Some notes on getting started with the DJI Matrice 4E www.iot.io/blog/2025/04...

20.04.2025 09:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
S4T2 Completed 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...

Term 2 complete and a lovely partial solar eclipse:
www.iot.io/blog/2025/03...

30.03.2025 09:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In the 80's Design Technology was my favourite A-Level - now watching my daughter enjoy it as much as I did - I would have loved to design a pavilion #D&T #designtech

30.03.2025 09:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hello Robin. Only the second time this box in the garden has been used.

30.03.2025 07:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It may feel as though we live in dark times, but here in the UK there are LOADS of science festivals celebrating ideas, sparking curiosity & sharing the latest research (for both adults & kids). Someone told me recently they didn’t know where to look, so I made a list. Here goes… [deep breath]:
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23.03.2025 11:37 — 👍 305    🔁 81    💬 9    📌 6
Transdisciplinary 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...

www.iot.io/blog/2025/03... notes from the week

22.03.2025 09:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Orthomosaic 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...

This weeks side project - orthomosiac experiment www.iot.io/blog/2025/03...

15.03.2025 09:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Congratulations to Prof Michael Batty, whose book The Computable City has won a prize at the recent #PROSEAwards (Professional and Scholarly Excellence). Prof Batty's book was named by @americanpublish.bsky.social as a joint finalist in the category for Architecture and Urban Planning.

14.03.2025 12:48 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Bartlett, UCL has been ranked the #1 place in the world to study architecture and the built environment for the third year in a row in The QS World Rankings by Subject 2025. We also remain #1 in the UK for the 11th consecutive year.

www.topuniversities.com/university-s...

12.03.2025 10:29 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Vibe Coding 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...

have been doing some more vibe coding this week www.iot.io/blog/2025/03...

08.03.2025 22:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Glorious swim in the sunshine this lunch time at Park Road Lido in Haringey. Pity it is closed at prime time given the sunk costs of keeping this running.

08.03.2025 13:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is great, reposting so I can find later.

08.03.2025 09:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Congrats to the new Dr Santiago Martinez Balvanera @ucl-pnl.bsky.social - we even managed a drink outside to end the week! Was lovely to bump into @alex-rogers.bsky.social - a longer chat is needed next time you are around.

08.03.2025 09:06 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Would love to hear about some of the themes for “spaces for teaching and learning”. Currently noodling on teaching requirements for 2035. Is this being written up?

06.03.2025 21:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Thanks @genmon.fyi for being so generous with your time today talking about poem.town with @casaucl.bsky.social students - wise words as always and lovely to end with the mini crit of their live projects.

03.03.2025 21:09 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

HRH the Princess Royal visiting the People and Nature lab last week

24.02.2025 13:54 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Tinkering with weather + birdboxes 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...

This weeks note points to the small things behind the scenes that often end up being the 80% of keeping IoT alive www.iot.io/blog/2025/02...

16.02.2025 10:53 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Deal

15.02.2025 00:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Awesome! You doing a book signing?

14.02.2025 13:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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UCL – University College London 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).

A new opportunity to work with our expanding #eDNA and #biodiversity lab as a postdoc looking at human impacts across space and time with terrestrial airborne eDNA. UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship funded opportunity based at the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

12.02.2025 12:58 — 👍 20    🔁 22    💬 0    📌 4
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Good turnout at Bartlett open evening tonight for enquiries about both CE and USS programmes @casaucl.bsky.social if you missed tonight there is a second open evening next Wednesday at UCL East

05.02.2025 22:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

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