Garage Interns Archives | Microsoft Garage http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/garage/blog/category/garage-interns/ Tue, 25 Aug 2020 13:04:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 MIT students build Mosaic to explore art across cultures at Microsoft Garage http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/garage/blog/2020/08/mit-students-build-mosaic-to-explore-art-across-cultures-at-microsoft-garage/ Tue, 25 Aug 2020 13:05:17 +0000 http://approjects.co.za/?big=garage-en-us/?p=8600 Art is one of the few languages which transcends barriers of country, culture, and time. Most people view art subjectively through a lens shaped by their experiences and environment. Finding commonalities among pieces from different eras and mediums calls for an open mind and a sharp eye. The Mosaic project is taking this intellectual and human approach and augmenting it....

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]]> Device Simulator Express expands to the BBC micro:bit and Adafruit CLUE http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/garage/blog/2020/04/device-simulator-express-expands-to-the-bbc-microbit-and-adafruit-clue/ Wed, 15 Apr 2020 19:37:21 +0000 http://approjects.co.za/?big=garage-en-us/?p=8226 Last summer, a group of Garage Interns teamed up with Adafruit to create Device Simulator Express, a Microsoft Garage project. The VS Code extension enabled makers, hobbyists, and student developers to program the Adafruit Circuit Playground Express, with or without the physical device. Today, we’re excited to announce that a second team of interns has built upon the original Garage....

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]]> Minecraft now more autism friendly with accessibility features built by Garage Interns http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/garage/blog/2019/10/minecraft-now-more-autism-friendly-with-accessibility-features-built-by-garage-interns/ Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:19:45 +0000 http://approjects.co.za/?big=garage-en-us/?p=8130 Anyone who has joined an online game knows chat can be a fun, engaging, and useful tool in teaming up, but it can also be an intimidating, cumbersome mechanism to utilize when there are many things on screen vying for your attention. Sometimes you want to turn chat off, mute certain players, or it may be too difficult to read....

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]]> New VR Garage project Microgravity Lab takes students to space http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/garage/blog/2019/09/new-vr-garage-project-microgravity-lab-takes-students-to-space/ Thu, 19 Sep 2019 13:21:51 +0000 http://approjects.co.za/?big=garage-en-us/?p=7993 Virtual reality can transport us to new lands that are near, far, or imagined. As a team of Garage interns found partnering with the Microsoft Hacking STEM and NASA Stem on Station teams, it can also demonstrate physics concepts and spark an interest in STEM careers. For the back-to-school season, we’re excited to announce the opportunity to try Microgravity Lab,....

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]]> Built by Garage Interns, find the best movie, powered by the Microsoft Recommenders collection http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/garage/blog/2019/09/build-by-garage-interns-find-the-best-movie-powered-by-the-microsoft-recommenders-collection/ Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:55:18 +0000 http://approjects.co.za/?big=garage-en-us/?p=7978 Challenged with rethinking how to build a movie recommendation experience, a team of Garage interns based out of Cambridge, MA created a sample app and corresponding documentation that shows how to use recommendation algorithms in an app experience. Today, we’re excited to share their project ahead of its debut at the RecSys’19 conference next week: Recommenders Engine Experience Layout, a....

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]]> Adafruit and Microsoft Garage interns team up to create Device Simulator Express http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/garage/blog/2019/08/adafruit-and-microsoft-garage-interns-team-up-to-create-device-simulator-express/ Wed, 28 Aug 2019 17:34:43 +0000 http://approjects.co.za/?big=garage-en-us/?p=7925 This summer 16 groups of Garage interns tackled interesting engineering challenges ranging from making apps more accessible to VR solutions for cybersecurity. One of them was sponsored by the Python Tools for AI team and electronics paragon Adafruit to and set out to make programming embedded solutions for IoT devices simpler and more available to a broader audience. Device Simulator....

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]]> Garage Interns add a summer’s worth of new features to release Web TS 2.0 http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/garage/blog/2019/08/garage-interns-add-new-services-launching-web-template-studio-2-0/ Wed, 21 Aug 2019 13:38:57 +0000 http://approjects.co.za/?big=garage-en-us/?p=7870 Following the initial release of Web Template Studio in May earlier this year, Web Template Studio 2.0 is now available with additional services, inspired by community feedback and built by a second team of Garage interns. The VS Code extension helps hackers create full stack web apps quickly, now with a broader range of front and back end service options.....

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]]> New Garage project Smart Tagger makes finding and tagging documents easy http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/garage/blog/2019/06/new-garage-project-smart-tagger-makes-finding-and-tagging-documents-easy/ Wed, 26 Jun 2019 12:41:12 +0000 http://approjects.co.za/?big=garage-en-us/?p=7768 We’ve all experienced that moment of frustration when we can’t put our hands on that document we worked on just a month or two ago. Did I save that under Proposals or April 2019? That problem multiplies when you’re working at a large organization, trying to collaborate across multiple teams whether they’re just across the building or a few oceans.....

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]]> A new kind of focus group fuels innovation and iteration http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/garage/blog/2019/06/a-new-kind-of-focus-group-fuels-innovation-and-iteration/ Wed, 26 Jun 2019 12:40:33 +0000 http://approjects.co.za/?big=garage-en-us/?p=7770 How much time do you spend searching for documents? The answer is probably somewhere between more than expected and far too much. Finding files in your immediate work group can sometimes be tricky, but finding shared files by other teams becomes more complicated when you don’t know who the author is, what the title is, or where to find the....

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]]> Learn vocabulary from the world around you with new Microsoft Garage project http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/garage/blog/2019/05/learn-vocabulary-from-the-world-around-you-with-new-microsoft-garage-project/ Thu, 23 May 2019 14:25:42 +0000 http://approjects.co.za/?big=garage-en-us/?p=7411 In the first week of their Garage internship in Vancouver, eight interns were inspired by a Microsoft Education team challenge to build an app that could empower literacy. Today we’re excited to announce the opportunity for literacy NGOs and nonprofits to participate in an experiment that will test their work. Read My World, a Microsoft Garage project, is an app....

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