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Powering on the laser cutter
The laser cutter key is currently stored in the CCI staff office PR_B503. To turn on the laser cu...
Ruby: Prepare Screen
Once you've pushed your design over to the Prepare Screen you'll see it sitting in the working ar...
Ruby: Design Screen
Once you open the design in Design Screen you should see the artwork you've created. You will be ...
Ruby: Manage Screen
The manage view allows you to open, delete or upload files as well as organise them, we'll start ...
Creating a file in Illustrator
Although it's outside the scope of this guide to tell you how to use Adobe Illustrator, we'll cov...
Laser Safe Materials
Only approved materials can be used in the laser cutter. If you are unsure please visit the CCI t...
Ruby: Introduction
This is the first of several pages that will guide you through how to use Trotec Ruby to prepare ...
About the Prusa 3D printers
We operate a number of Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) 3D printers. 3x Prusa i3 MK3S+ 3x Prusa...
Hackspaces & Services
Here are a list of places around London that can help in production of your projects. Jump to: La...
Adding a Processing Library
Processing libraries allow us to use code other people have written within the Processing environ...
Safety
The laser cutter while generally quite safe to use when operated correctly, however it can be a d...
Running a job
Once you've designed, prepared and queued up your job it will appear on the touch screen ready to...
Focusing the laser
Once your material has been put in, you need to focus the laser beam onto the surface of the mate...
Ruby: Produce Screen
On this screen you can see the queued jobs and monitor their progress remotely. This is useful if...
Who can use the laser cutter?
Only people in the following groups of students and staff are permitted to use the laser cutter a...
Knitting With Conductive Yarn
Knitting is a really versatile and flexible way to integrate sensors and other conductive materia...
Using a Sparkfun MP3 Trigger
The MP3 trigger is a board made by Sparkfun electronics that provides a way to play MP3 files fro...
Using an MPR121 capacitive touch sensor
The MPR121 is a tiny microchip formerly manufactured by NXP, now under Resurgent Semiconductor, i...
What is on the electronics bench?
There are a number of electronics benches available with soldering facilities as described above...
Where to buy materials & parts
Electronics, componants Bigger Shops - large and often complex catalogues Supplier Material We...