A Handful of Useful Tools

This post was based on an email to Golan.

I’m pretty interested in the tools of the creative tech trade, and there are a lot of tools that I’m interested in or have used that I can recommend as helpful for this course.

DAIN executable from itch (Windows only, I think?):
Windows 10 Copy for CMU Students:
There are a few bread crumbs required for this one —
First following the “personally-owned computer” instructions from https://www.cmu.edu/computing/software/all/operating-systems/windows.html
Leads to Azure Dev Tools for Teaching (of which all students in ExCap should qualify)
This leads to
Which you use a CMU email to log into
After sign on you can go to the the “Learning resources” section and click “Software,” which gives one a license for Windows 10 Educational Edition.
A little bit of a hassle, but free bootcamp is nothing to scoff at, and we might as well get it while we have the chance.
Monodepth2:
Convert regular RGB video to depth using ML
You put me onto Installation Up 4evr, but they’re classic and totally helpful for this context if someone needs something to run for a while:
Hopefully this helps a person or two in the class 🙂