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Powering on the laser cutter

Facilities 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: Prepare Screen

Facilities 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

Facilities 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

Facilities 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

Facilities 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

Laser Safe Materials

Facilities Laser Cutter

Only approved materials can be used in the laser cutter. If you are unsure please visit the CCI t...

Updated 1 year ago by Tom Lynch

Ruby: Introduction

Facilities Laser Cutter

This is the first of several pages that will guide you through how to use Trotec Ruby to prepare ...

Updated 1 year ago by Tom Lynch

About the Prusa 3D printers

Facilities 3D Printing

We operate a number of Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) 3D printers. 3x Prusa i3 MK3S+ 3x Prusa...

Updated 1 year ago by Matt Jarvis

Hackspaces & Services

Physical Computing

Here are a list of places around London that can help in production of your projects. Jump to: La...

Updated 1 year ago by Matt Jarvis

Adding a Processing Library

Creative Code How To Guides

Processing libraries allow us to use code other people have written within the Processing environ...

Updated 1 year ago by agnes cameron

Safety

Facilities 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

Running a job

Facilities Laser Cutter

Once you've designed, prepared and queued up your job it will appear on the touch screen ready to...

Updated 1 year ago by Tom Lynch

Focusing the laser

Facilities 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

Ruby: Produce Screen

Facilities 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

Who can use the laser cutter?

Facilities Laser Cutter

Only people in the following groups of students and staff are permitted to use the laser cutter a...

Updated 1 year ago by Tom Lynch

Knitting With Conductive Yarn

Facilities Digital Knitting Machine

Knitting is a really versatile and flexible way to integrate sensors and other conductive materia...

Updated 1 year ago by agnes cameron

Using a Sparkfun MP3 Trigger

Physical Computing How To Guides

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

Updated 1 year ago by Tom Lynch

Using an MPR121 capacitive touch sensor

Physical Computing How To Guides

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

Updated 1 year ago by Matt Jarvis

What is on the electronics bench?

Facilities Soldering & Electronics Bench

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

Updated 1 year ago by Tom Lynch

Where to buy materials & parts

Physical Computing

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

Updated 1 year ago by Tom Lynch