The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
We are pleased to announce that the Album – Place and Space is now available across all streaming formats or to purchase via Apple Music/Amazon. Simply search for Digital Urban…
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Continue reading »The latest upload to the Open Gauges Github is a Linear Gauge, using a timing belt to provide a full 1 metre range for the data visualisation. It uses a…
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Continue reading »Our MicroPython project turns a strip of NeoPixel LEDs into a “ship’s lamp” style wind speed gauge. It connects to an MQTT broker to receive real-time wind speed data and…
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Continue reading »It’s an exciting time to be a Pebble fan. After years of being kept alive by the dedicated Rebble community, the Pebble is officially back. The new Pebble 2 Duo…
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Continue reading »We are pleased to announce the publication of our new book – Cities in the Metaverse: Spatial Computing, Digital Twins, Avatars, Economics and Digital Habitation on the New Frontier and…
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Continue reading »We are about to release ‘TIME,’ our fully 3D-printed mechanical clock, on Printables. This post provides insight into both its creation and development.
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Continue reading »From Adobe Flash through to Vibe Coding and back again to Physical Displays
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Continue reading »Back in 2023, I wrote a blog post over on DigitalUrban.org creating an app called Frame-IT. It turns out I was using ‘Vibe Coding’ and it’s changed the way I view the creation of almost everything…
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Continue reading »Effective Date: [19th March 2025] Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how MQTTFrame (“we,” “our,” or “us”) handles your information. Information We Collect MQTTFrame does not collect,…
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Continue reading »SHIFT, in collaboration with Arup and the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Connected Environments Group at University College London (UCL), have released the “SHIFT Digital Frontiers” report, a visionary roadmap…
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Continue reading »The Concept of the Literary Clock A literary clock is a unique fusion of literature and timekeeping. Every minute of the day is represented by a corresponding quote from a…
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Continue reading »Sometimes there is a need to step back and do things as simply as possible. EInk / Epaper screens are amazing, they carrying on showing…
Continue reading »Following on from our Little Book of Connected Environments and the Internet of Things we have a new publication – The Little Book of Public…
Continue reading »At The Connected Environment Lab, part of The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, here at University College London we are designing and building a…
Continue reading »Our Little Book of Connected Environments is about opening up the potential of Internet of Things (IoT) devices to provide information about our environment. From city-wide systems and the idea of the Smart City through to bui…
Continue reading »‘THE’ is a mini MQTT Information Display for Time, News and Environmental Information. Using a 4.2-inch eInk screen, its concept is simple – to display information on a rotational basis, updating every coupl…
Continue reading »Three years in its creation, our new MSc in Connected Environments at University College London is now open for applications to study. Based at the world leading Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, part of the Bartlett Facul…
Continue reading »Part of creating a new insight into ‘Connected Environments’ (more on that term in future posts) is understanding the function, design and nature of devices….
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The Weather Flow ‘Smart Weather Station‘ is arguably one of the most innovative weather sensors on the market. Launched via a kickstater campaign in 2017,…
Continue reading »The increasingly availability of bandwidth along with advances in computer hardware and Internet services is making it possible to stream HD content, live from multiple…
Continue reading »Particle Flow is a versatile, powerful particle system for Autodesk’s 3ds Max. It employs an event-driven model, using a special dialog called Particle View, allowing you to combine…
Continue reading »Earlier this year CASA was invited to create a virtual reality exhibit for the Walking on Water exhibition, partnered with Grand Designs Live at London’s…
Continue reading »In the corner of our apartment we have an old 1940′s radio, picked up a few years ago the original valves had already been removed, leaving it modified with a then transistor radio. As such it made the perfect project to remodify and bring up to date via a mix…
Learn the New Science of Cities at University College London with the MSc in Smart Cities at The Bartlett’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis from September 2014. APPLY NOW FOR SEPTEMBER ENTRY As Course Director, i am pleased to announce the new MSc and MRes in Smart Cities, here at…
Cities have always been places where new technologies are invented but as more and more of the world’s population is living in cities, it is ever more urgent to consider their future. Cities are also being reinvented using new digital technologies and this one day conference will explore how CASA…
In June 2013 The Bartlett held a conference entitled ‘Pedagogy meets Big Data and BIM’. The conference brought together over 100 participants from across the United Kingdom, European Union and the United States from diverse backgrounds such as academic institutions, government and industry – including ARUP, Autodesk, Balfour Beatty, BAM, and…
Cities have always been places where new technologies are invented but as more and more of the world’s population is living in cities, it is ever more urgent to consider their future. Cities are also being reinvented using new digital technologies and this one day conference will explore how CASA…
What if London’s buildings grew according to the amount of data they generate? Stephan Hügel (@urschrei) and Flora Roumpani (@en_topia) two of our PhD students from The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, have been working on a system to read in twitter data to CityEngine and link the geo…
We are pleased to announce two new lecturer posts here at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis: Lecturer in Urban Analytics- Ref:1345485 and Lecturer in Spatial Modelling and Complexity – Ref:1345477 Closing Date 12 Jul 2013 Latest time for the submission of applications 2pm About CASA The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA)…
UCLive is an Augmented Reality Map of UCL developed by students on the Masters in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation at CASA. Featuring live data, the augmented reality android app works by simply pointing your mobile device at any of the UCL maps across campus. Running in Unity and mixing a number of GIS and…
The Quadrangle at University College London was designed by William Wilkins and constructed between 1827 and 1828. It is a natural building of urban research as its surroundings provide a mix of architectural styles. The 3D model of the quad was built using SketchUp with photos grabbed via a mobile phone – quick and…
Sung-Hyun Jang, one of my Ph.D. students here at CASA, has launched an Android app called AR Navigation System for Pedestrians. The app is a part of his Ph.D. studies, and is an attempt at visualising geographic information via an augmented reality interface. Specifically, the app provides navigation information via…
CASA Working Paper 191 – Developing classical and contemporary models in ESRI’s City Engine – is now available to download. By Flora Roumpani, The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London: Abstract In this paper we describe the development of projects which aim to explore the use of…
Here at The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis we run a Davis Vantage Pro 2 unit with Solar and UV sensors from a rooftop on Tottenham Court Road. The current output is via our live ‘Weather Dials‘ page, which is all singing and dancing, complete with graphs and updates every…
Its not something many academics admit – but writing is hard, not for all, there are some academics who simply flow words but for many its a challenge. There is nothing worse than the blank page of a Word/LaTeX document, knowing you have 10,000 words to go and only a…
We present our working paper entitled ‘Virtual Cities: Digital Mirrors into a Recursive World‘. The paper comes in at approximately 9000 words and explores visualisation in cities ranging from Twitter to Second Life and through to NeoGeography and The Paraverse. The abstract is below, we have added it as new…
Games engines such as Unity are the perfect platform for agent based modelling, they allow a combination of 3D urban cityscapes and navmeshes/grid graphs/point graphs and local avoidance systems. The A* Pathfinding project features an array of techniques for rapid pathfinding or AI development using a low memory footprint. We…
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