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Ruby: Design Array

Digital Fabrication Lab Laser Cutter

One of the most useful features in Ruby is the ability to automatically create a repeating grid f...

Updated 1 year ago by Tom Lynch

Focusing the laser

Digital Fabrication Lab Laser Cutter

Once your material has been put in, you need to focus the laser beam onto the surface of the mate...

Updated 1 year ago by Tom Lynch

Powering on the laser cutter

Digital Fabrication Lab Laser Cutter

The laser cutter key is currently stored in the CCI staff office PR_B503. To turn on the laser cu...

Updated 1 year ago by Tom Lynch

Ruby: Produce Screen

Digital Fabrication Lab Laser Cutter

On this screen you can see the queued jobs and monitor their progress remotely. This is useful if...

Updated 1 year ago by Tom Lynch

Ruby: Prepare Screen

Digital Fabrication Lab Laser Cutter

Once you've pushed your design over to the Prepare Screen you'll see it sitting in the working ar...

Updated 1 year ago by Tom Lynch

Ruby: Design Screen

Digital Fabrication Lab Laser Cutter

Once you open the design in Design Screen you should see the artwork you've created. You will be ...

Updated 1 year ago by Tom Lynch

Ruby: Manage Screen

Digital Fabrication Lab Laser Cutter

The manage view allows you to open, delete or upload files as well as organise them, we'll start ...

Updated 1 year ago by Tom Lynch

Creating a file in Illustrator

Digital Fabrication Lab Laser Cutter

Although it's outside the scope of this guide to tell you how to use Adobe Illustrator, we'll cov...

Updated 1 year ago by Tom Lynch

Safety

Digital Fabrication Lab Laser Cutter

The laser cutter while generally quite safe to use when operated correctly, however it can be a d...

Updated 1 year ago by Tom Lynch

How to trust Trotec Ruby certificate on macOS

Digital Fabrication Lab Laser Cutter

This guide will show you how to trust the Trotec Ruby certificate on macOS to avoid security warn...

Updated 1 year ago by Tom Lynch

How to trust Trotec Ruby certificate on Windows 10

Digital Fabrication Lab Laser Cutter

This guide will show you how to trust the Trotec Ruby certificate on Windows 10 to avoid security...

Updated 1 year ago by Tom Lynch

Where to buy materials & parts

Physical Computing Lab Where to buy components

Electronics, componants Bigger Shops - large and often complex catalogues Supplier Material We...

Updated 1 year ago by Tom Lynch

What is on the soldering bench?

Physical Computing Lab Soldering & Electronics Bench

There are a number of Hakko FX-951 temprature controlled soldering stations available, the solder...

Updated 1 year ago by Tom Lynch

What is on the electronics bench?

Physical Computing Lab Soldering & Electronics Bench

There are a number of electronics benches available with soldering facilities as described above...

Updated 1 year ago by Tom Lynch

Creating Digital Embroidery Designs with PE Design 11

eTextiles Lab Digital Embroidery

coming soon :)

Updated 1 year ago by agnes cameron

Creating Digital Embroidery Designs with PEmbroider

eTextiles Lab Digital Embroidery

PEmbroider is an open-source library for embroidery design, maintained by CMU's Studio for Creati...

Updated 1 year ago by agnes cameron