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How to install Arduino libraries

Arduino libraries are collections of code that are designed to provide additional, reusable funct...

Powering an Arduino

Here is some resources about powering Arduino or other electronic projects: General How to powe...

Using an MPR121 capacitive touch sensor

The MPR121 is a tiny microchip formerly manufactured by NXP, now under Resurgent Semiconductor, i...

Using a Sparkfun MP3 Trigger

The MP3 trigger is a board made by Sparkfun electronics that provides a way to play MP3 files fro...

Making sounds with a piezo

'Piezo' normally refers to an electrical component which can be used to make sound, however more ...

Using a Sparkfun Sound Detector

The Sound Detector is a board made by Sparkfun electronics that provides a way to detect ambient ...

How to connect a push button or switch

Buttons and switches are a way of opening and closing a circuit, i.e. making and breaking a conne...

Using a HC-SR04 distance sensor

The HC-SR04 is a ultrasonic distance sensor, it uses ultrasound to send out a ping and measure ho...

Connecting a Potentiometer

A potentiometer (often abbreviated to pot) is an electronic component with three connections, the...

How to connect a Light Dependent Resistor (LDR)

An LDR or Light Dependent Resistor is a component which restricts how much power can flow through...

How to use a rotary encoder

A rotary encoder is a device used to measure the rotation of something, similar to a rotary poten...

Using the serial monitor and serial logger

Serial communication is a type of communication between two devices, normally between a computer ...

Using Arduino Leonardo to send USB MIDI data

One of the secrets of Arduino Leonardo is the in-built USB MIDI support. This is really useful fo...

DFPlayer Mini

The DFPlayer Mini is a small (cheap!) and flexible mp3 player unit that can be controlled via an ...

How to revive a broken Arduino using a Mac

These are instructions for doing this on a mac -- there are a few extra steps which might be a l...

Stepper motor with TB6000 Microstep driver

We have the 42BYGHM809 Stepper motors with the TB6600 Stepper motor microstep driver to the Ardui...

5V Air Pump Guide

We have a number of small 5V air pumps and silicone tubing available for students to borrow for s...

Mini 360 Degree Continuous Servo Code

Continuous servos have a different structure to them than regular servos. A regular servo simply ...

How to build your own flex sensor

You will need: Velostat Copper tape Foam Soldering kit Silicon wire (thin threaded wire is also ...

Beyond Arduino: Choosing Boards for your Project

For projects requiring greater complexity, or more specific features than is possible with an Ard...

Workshop: Knitted Synthesisers

These notes are based on a workshop run by Agnes Cameron, and were developed as part of B Claxton...

Using Raspberry Pi for Projects

In the CCI we have a large number of pre-configured Raspberry Pi 4 boards for use by students, as...

Python

Python language

If you are brand new to the Python programming language, you first need to have it properly insta...

Installing Python (Windows)

For Windows: If your laptop is new, and you have never used it to compile a Python file, it is mo...

Installing Python (MacOS)

NOTE: Mac OS no longer has a pre-installed version of Python in their systems (S...

Setting up environments

Global and Virtual environments Now that we have installed Python, we mentioned that it comes wit...

How to enable GPU support with TensorFlow (Windows) (For High Holborn only)

This article will guide you through how to enable GPU computing for Tensorflow on High Holborn DE...

How to enable GPU support with TensorFlow (macOS)

If you are using one of the laptops on loan of the CCI, or have a Macbook of your own with an M1/...

Enable GPU support with Pytorch (macOS)

This tutorial is to enable the use of the GPU in the Macbooks available on the lockers. All of th...

How to install CUDA Toolkit on your personal Windows PC

What is CUDA Toolkit and why do you need it? In simple words CUDA Toolkit allows you to develop s...

Simple PyTorch Project

Overview This guide will walk you through a very simple PyTorch training pipeline. Accompanying c...

Audio Files with Librosa

Code and audio for this article can be found here: https://git.arts.ac.uk/ipavlov/WikiMisc/blob/m...

How to configure Weights & Biases for you ML project

What is Weights & Biases? Weights & Biases (wandb from now on) is a platform for AI/ML developmen...

Dataset Augmentaion

This article will cover how you can increase the size of your original dataset with the help of d...