Tate is due to join the Doctor in the Tardis as his new companion in 2008.
But the pinnacle of the day was where I spent most of my time, on the set of the Tardis.
Fans will be able to visit the Tardis in 3D in a special 50th anniversary episode of Doctor Who later this year.
To bring his idea to life, the Silicon Valley-based designer first created a 3D computer model of the Tardis's interior using the free-to-use open source computer software programme Blender.
BBC: DIY Tardis looks bigger on inside with augmented reality
But many Americans only jumped aboard the TARDIS a little less than eight years ago, thanks to the reboot that gave Christopher Eccleston a year in the title role.
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The only problem was that the software needed to latch onto a specific part of the model to be able to map out the appropriate view of the Tardis's interior.
BBC: DIY Tardis looks bigger on inside with augmented reality
With his tongue planted in his cheek earlier this week my colleague Vaughan Roderick wondered out loud whether the sudden appearance of the Tardis in the Senedd was a sign that the government's legislative programme was bigger on the inside than on the outside?
Played by Matt Smith, he journeys through "Time And Relative Dimension In Space" in his aptly-named ship, the TARDIS -- which looks like a blue British police call box on the outside, and is as iconographic a vehicle as the U.S.S. Enterprise, Millennium Falcon or DeLorean.
By utilizing the Blender 3D creation suite (which was a first for Kumparak), Unity 3D engine and Qualcomm's Vuforia AR SDK, the result is an Android app that renders the 3D interior atop the random wave-like pattern -- visible once the door's removed -- on the TARDIS in real time (no pun intended).
ENGADGET: Mini TARDIS really is bigger on the inside, thanks to augmented reality (video)
He does so in the whirling TARDIS, which looks like a bright-blue phone booth but is as large as a mansion once you step inside.
Later, Clara speaks with the Doctor inside his TARDIS, and he invites her to join him.
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This is only the second time in Doctor Who history that the phone on the police callbox-shaped TARDIS has rung.
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Once in a while we'd come across some cool DIY projects inspired by Doctor Who, the world's longest-running sci-fi TV show, but nothing beats this little TARDIS that would actually make you gasp out the classic line: "It's bigger on the inside!"
ENGADGET: Mini TARDIS really is bigger on the inside, thanks to augmented reality (video)
Although the episode starts with the Doctor Who version of The Ring, we soon see the Doctor has been holing up in a monastery in Cumbria, 1207, meditating on the mystery of Oswald, when his TARDIS phone rings.
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As well as a new Doctor and companion, the episode also unveils a new-look Tardis interior.
As well as the 11 stamps of the Doctor, there is a "miniature sheet" featuring a first class Tardis stamp and four second class monsters.
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