Matterport: Should I Use iPhone Instead of iPad?
You can use the iPhone instead of the iPad Pro to scan using a Matterport camera. It works great– with a few caveats.
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Author: Nat M. Zorach
Better Living With Robots: Scanning Buildings For Energy Efficiency
Fraunhofer, Signetron, RMI, and ADL Ventures talked about energy efficiency in building retrofits at a recent webinar.
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Fire Code Reform, The Vital Housing Solution You’ve Never Heard Of
Housing abundance advocates have set their sights on a relatively esoteric hindrance to development that, they say, unnecessarily drives up costs without improving occupant safety: fire code.
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NPC24: Yes We Plan, Minneapolis-St. Paul!
Nat returns to the Land of the Rising Passive Aggression to log some CEUs and talk about housing innovation.
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Burgerbanism: Coal-Fired Pizza, The Latest Front in the Culture War?
New York City has banned coal-fired pizza ovens unless they’re equipped with industrial-grade pollution treatment systems. Pizza didn’t do anything to deserve this.
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Let’s Not Spray Paint Swastikas on Synagogues. Okay?
Hate crimes do absolutely nothing to make the world a better place. Do you even have a good point, though, by using the swastika to liken a government of right-wing extremists to another government of right-wing extremists? Also no.
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NREL Prizes for Energy Innovation
The Department of Energy and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory are teaming up to produce a series of competitive prize programs to facilitate innovation in energy and decarbonization.
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Burgerbanism: Ghost Kitchens, The Latest Wild Idea In Restaurant Innovation
The delivery app industrial complex has some interesting new models for how to brand, sell, and prepare fast food.
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YIMBY Meetup in April!
On April 4th, The Handbuilt City and ADL Ventures will host an event at Batch Brewing Company in Detroit to talk about how we can unlock housing opportunity using industrialized construction and regulatory innovation.
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