The schedule for 3Dcamp 2013 is now available to view here. And to download (PDF) here.

Please note: the ‘barcamp’ format is fluid and flexible and the schedule of talks quite likely to change on the day.

Gavin Duffy will demo RealSim’s latest city simulations, their associated tools and how they are being used.

We want to say a huge thanks to Carambola Kidz who are providing complementary lunches to this year’s 3Dcamp. Healthy and delicious!

As a result of years of digitalization, a wealth of digital cultural heritage content is currently available in on-line repositories and archives. It is however accessed only in a limited way and utilised through rather static modes of delivery, such as database searches and touch interfaces. But is this really all we can expect for the dissemination of this content? Do we want to continue engaging with our cultural heritage using a computer screen? Or can we better address the gap between materiality and digital cultural heritage?

Some recent trends – such as the Rijks Studio as part of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and the Chrome Web Lab at the Science Gallery, London – highlight a new attention to a more material and personalised approach to our digital cultural heritage. This changes our expectations of the digital content and encourages a deeper level of visitor engagement.

In this talk Fiona McDermott will illustrate how the meSch project aims to provide cultural heritage professionals with the tools to merge this digital information with corresponding physical artefacts so as to encourage the public to engage and appropriate cultural heritage through novel means.

2012 saw the release of the Raspberry Pi, a $35 credit card sized computer. The primary aim of which was to put a cheap but powerful general purpose computer in the hands of children, to allow them to understand at the lowest levels how computers work, and perhaps even inspire a few to consider further education or careers in Information Technology and related fields. This has been enthusiastically welcomed both in education and in the wider ‘maker’ movement, which use this miniature computer in many varied and interesting ways. In this session Chris Collins will discuss some of the motivations behind the development of the Raspberry Pi, what it is, what it is capable of, and some of the more interesting uses it has been put to. Chris will have an RPi with him on the day for a hands-on demo.

In this session Dave Head will talk about 3d printing in general and also demo his Ultimaker printer.

Irish people are always discussing the weather because it varies so much from day to day and also from one part of the Ireland to another. People often complain that the official weather reports don’t adequately cover the place where they live. The only solution to this is to build your own! In this talk Brian O’Donovan will describe how he built his own personal weather station with its own web site and Twitter feed @llweather. Brian will provide advice to anyone who would like to do something similar.

“The world around you is not what it seems.” that is after you start playing the new augmented reality game called Ingress. Developed by Google, Ingress sits on Android technology and utilises GPS and Google Maps. In this talk John Jennings will demo the game and discuss its relevance and possible future impact. One invite to the closed beta will also be given to a lucky attendee

Our thanks to Conn and Michele (and Blacknight) for interviewing Gabriela about 3Dcamp for the Technology.ie podcast. You can download the episode here.

[Blacknight have been great supporters of the barcamp scene in Ireland and provide complementary hosting for this very website].

Registration is now open for #3Dcamp - please visit our Eventbrite page to get your ticket(s).

Regardless of your views on the Bitcoin economy and the market bubble/burst of recent weeks, the distributed crypto-currency is a fascinating topic from a technical viewpoint. And lots of fun to debate

So we’re going to hold a Bitcoin discussion / panel at #3Dcamp and look forward to some lively discourse.

We’re also now accepting tips for #3Dcamp attendance in Bitcoin

Our address is - 13QQb5pY72FwYt2Lvv8L6LzM7v2GH18U6B

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Gothic fiction has been reinvented several times, most recently in the 20th century for cinema and video games.  In this talk Mads Haahr of Haunted Planet presents a snapshot of their ongoing attempts to reinvent Gothic fiction once again, using the distinctively 21st century medium of the Location-Based Augmented-Reality Game. Their games cast players as paranormal investigators who equipped with paranormal detection devices explore the real world in search for paranormal activity.  By collecting and analysing an increasing body of paranormal evidence, players gradually construct the story in their minds.  Mads will examine the way in which characters and techniques from Stoker’s novel were adapted for their recent game Bram Stoker’s Vampires and reviews the specific challenges associated with this adaptation.  He will discuss how the novel’s form as a deliberately fragmented collection of ‘evidence’ with pretension to veracity was reinvented for the purpose of immersing the players into the game world, and also review how they adapted Stoker’s use of transgression and transformation from the novel.

UPDATE: We’re sorry to announce that this talk has had to be cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.

Oculus Rift is a new virtual reality (VR) headset designed specifically for video games. After a very short run through his bio as a writer/designer and experienced developer of computer games, Michael J. Maguire will give a short introduction to, and demonstration of this latest technology. Afterwards Michael will make the system available to others to have a ‘hands-on’ experience in the demo area. Michael will also specifically speak about some future uses for the technology. This talk is made possible by the generous support of Cando 3D in Belfast.

A special word of thanks to Blacknight for hosting this site free of charge. Fair play to them for their long standing support of grassroots events, like this, in Ireland.

Sorry for any confusion but it was pointed out to us that denoting the year in the hashtag was kind of superfluous, and we had to agree, so the official tag for this year’s event across all social media will simply be #3Dcamp

At #3Dcamp13 hackerspace guests will visit the miLKlabs hackerspace in UL from 5-7pm. And the plan is to go for drinks and/or a meal in the Stables afterwards.

What kind of new experiences can we expect from mobile gaming?  How do we design games that take into account the what the user is experiencing in the real world and incorporates that into the game world? Using theories of theatre, Máiréad Ní Chróinín will outline the main challenges and possible solutions to designing new gaming experiences using smartphones.

Máiréad Ní Chróinín is a PhD student at NUI Galway.  In 2012 she created a location-based smartphone game called ‘Just In Time’ for the Dublin Fringe Festival.

In this talk Chris Bollard (Associate - Technology/IP at Arthur Cox) will give a brief overview of some of the potential legal issues associated with the widespread roll-out of 3D printing. Chris hopes to give an overview of the various intellectual property law protections that physical objects can have and they way in which ubiquitous 3D printing might affect these rights.

Ireland is full of fabrication potential. Fablabs and makeshops are popping up all over the country. Open-source 3D printers, laser cutters and CNC machines are becoming affordable to the point where scores of individuals and clubs have their own. All of this, coupled with the facilities of university workshops and private Irish fabricators, presents a rich landscape of capabilities and possibilities, both in terms of raw tech and expertise.

However routes into this exciting world are complex for the general public, requiring technical experience most people don’t have. To realise it’s potential, the future of digital fabrication must connect technical possibilities with the needs and desires of everyday people.

In this talk Tara Whelan will discuss Workbench Network, a simple low cost route into digital fabrication for the general public, currently in development. She will share ongoing experiments, lessons, and next steps as well as her thoughts on the future of mass digital fabrication.

In the last 12 months the School of Architecture at the University of Limerick has built a low-cost Fabrication Lab. All the machines have been assembled by architecture students as part of the School of Architecture’s elective programme. In this talk Javier Buron will describe their experience and discuss how low-cost self-built fabrication technologies can change design related education.

John O’Donnell, CEO of MGF Vision, will speak about applying web collaboration concepts to global high volume manufacturing.

Design and Manufacturing are changing at a fundamental level.  These industries are being revolutionized by the ability of individuals to personal fabricate products. Emer O’Daly from Dublin’s FabStudio will cover the translation of digital data into physical objects using 3d printing and other CNC technologies - technologies so disruptive they have begun what has been coined, the Third Industrial Revolution.

#3Dcamp13 will include a meeting for members of Irish hackerspaces, from 5pm-ish to 7pm-ish. Please use this padlet to suggest topics, people to chair it, etc.

Dr. Conor MacCormack is co-founder and CEO of Irish firm Mcor Technologies, a pioneer in paper-based 3D printing. Global office supplies player Staples recently went live with a new 3D printing Experience Centre in the Netherlands, which is powered by Mcor’s printers. And the company recently closed a $1m funding round. As well as telling us the story of Mcor Conor will talk about the present landscape, and the future of 3D printing.