Wild dogs are a massive problem for farmers in Queensland. In the short to medium term future, drones will be employed to tackle this issue. We took a small step towards this solution with an MVP drone baiting system. Currently farmers use a few strategies to mitigate the issue: dropping...

When I was working at UQx one of the big buzzwords was ‘active learning’. When polled, 78% of lecturers said their courses involved active learning. However, only 43% of students agreed. The Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation wanted a way to quantify the active learning occurring at UQ. This...

Through Dispatch Media I was tasked with livestreaming a birds-eye view of the UQ college rowing regatta. The neat thing abut this project is that not long ago it would have been so prohibitively expensive that it wouldn’t have even been considered. However with the proliferation of consumer drone technology...

TEDxUQ is an annual conference hosted at UQ, designed to showcase social and technical innovations in and around the university. An event of this scale and prestige would normally be run by the university, however this is 100% student organised. From sourcing sponsorship and coordinating marketing to training speakers and...

One of the goals of the University of Queensland’s learning innovation lab where I spent my summer is creating engaging videos for MOOCs and the flipped classroom. We have a multiplicity of tools to accomplish this, from basics like chroma keys and tablets to advanced 3D animation, but we’re always...

Over the summer I had the fantastic opportunity to intern in the University of Queensland learning innovation lab. The UQx lab is part of UQ’s contribution to the edX consortium, a group of leading universities developing an online learning platform. While many of the staff in the group are developing...

I’ve been dabbling in the aerial video field for a while now. I have some friends who build multirotors so adding a gimbal and a GoPro isn’t too difficult. Personally I’m not skilled enough to fly and think about shots yet, but I’ve been practising on a Blade Nano QX...

I have a fetish for flashing lights. LEDs in particular take my fancy, and with the constantly dropping price of LED strips I decided it was the perfect time to add some mood lighting to my bedroom. But using LED strips for mood lighting is nothing new, and not really...

The Gold Coast very much has a canal estate culture, and as such watersports enjoy pretty high popularity. There’s a great team over at Seahorse Ski who are developing a tool that teaches beginners to barefoot ski. As someone who has now tried to ski barefoot with and without this...

One of my subjects this semester is CSSE1001: Introduction to Software Engineering. While for the most part it is a simple Python course, it offers an optional project to extend students and let them work on some code they are passionate about. I document my life extensively through the wonderful...

I’m really not an event manager. But for the last few weeks that’s what I’ve been doing. The Cinema Shindig is a school film festival. But whereas most schools will put up a projector in a lecture hall and call it a film festival, we strive for a more cinematic...

These days SMS voting services are a dime a dozen, and they’re generally pretty cheap. The downside of using such a service is lack of flexibility, long voting strings and the fact that they’re no fun. This is the second year we attempted to roll our own voting system for...

Last night the Gold Coast Titans had their end of year awards ceremony, a large event held in the function room of Jupiter’s Casino. While the event is not big enough for a TV broadcast they want to get fans in on the action and they decided a livestream was...

Organising a temporary drive-in movie theatre for 200 year 12 students is a big undertaking, but I can very happily say that last night it went off spectacularly. Some friends approached me about this project months ago, and, having never been to a drive-in theatre myself, I spent some time...

Over the last few years I’ve spent a lot of time working for the Gold Coast Titans. I previously documented livestreaming an event but mostly I’m working on the field before the game or recording the post-match press conference for the website. The Titans do a pre-game show called Titans...

Recently I was hired to shoot All Saints Anglican School’s Guinness World Record attempt at the largest human star, part of their annual charity event Giveathon. This is my second time documenting a world record attempt (the first being a 100 x 100m freestyle relay, which still holds the record...

This year I had the enjoyable experience of writing and directing the promo video for the annual Shindig Film Festival. We had lots of ideas, but ended up creating a parody of the famous Old Spice ad “I’m on a Horse”. Unfortunately we didn’t have the amazing ‘shifting set’ that...