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Knitting With Conductive Yarn
Knitting is a really versatile and flexible way to integrate sensors and other conductive materia...
5V Air Pump Guide
We have a number of small 5V air pumps and silicone tubing available for students to borrow for s...
Workshop: How to make Cast Inflatable Soft Robots
The general idea of cast silicone actuators is to create an air pocket that will change the inter...
Materials For Soft Robotic Casting
We stock a range of materials for making soft robots, and there are also a number of materials yo...
Soft Robotics Example Projects
CCI Projects External Projects Research Papers / Experimental Work 3D Knit for Pneumatic Soft Rob...
Intro To Soft Robotics
Soft robotics is a branch of robotics that makes use of compliant (e.g. soft, stretchy, flexible)...
About the eTextiles Lab
The eTextiles Lab is located on the 5th floor of Peckham Road, in PR_B502B. Opening Hours Op...
Creating Digital Knitting Patterns with DesignaKnit
DesignaKnit is a pattern drafting, garment design and interactive machine control software. It is...
PE Design 11
PE Design 11 is Brothers software used for creating digital embroidery patterns. The interface is...
Basic Skills and Techniques
This page gives an overview and step-by-step instructions for some basic skills and techniques fr...
Inkscape and Ink/Stitch
Inkscape is a free vector graphics software similar to Adobe Illustrator. It has an extension cal...
Using the Silver Reed SK840 Knitting Machine
Overview Please be aware that the knitting machine will be in use for inductions on Thursdays and...
Computer specification (Windows and Mac)
There are many softwares that require you to know the specifications of your computer hardware. F...
Meet the Technical Team
The technical team at CCI can be contacted on Slack during office hours. However, new questions s...
About the Digital Fabrication Lab （ReadMe）
👋 Hey there! Welcome to the Digital Fabrication Lab — our little playground of ideas and ...
Print Setting
Model Setup Scale & Size – Too small → loss of detail; too large → longer print time Orientation...
Create a Python Environment with Anaconda
There are different ways to build Python environments. Deciding which option is the best one for ...
Digital and e-textile design at the CCI
This page is a guide to different techniques that can be used in digital and e-textile design, re...
PEmbroider
PEmbroider is an open-source library for embroidery design, maintained by CMU's Studio for Creati...
Filaments Settings
PLA Basic but Important Printing Guide Default settings won’t work, make sure you set them correc...