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CCI Stickers, a history...

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We print stickers on a regular basis. However, we rarely reprint an old design, so you can date y...

Updated 1 month ago by Tom Lynch

Knitting With Conductive Yarn

eTextiles Lab Working with Conductive Yarns and Threads

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

Updated 1 month ago by Rosie Walker

Crimping: How To Make Custom Cables

How To Guides Electronics & Physical Computing,

What is crimping? Cable crimping is the process of mechanically terminating a wire. It is not the...

Updated 1 month ago by Chris MacInnes

How to pick a new computer

How To Guides IT

This information was updated in Summer 2026 for the 2026-27 academic year. You can see a list of ...

Updated 2 months ago by Tom Lynch

Keyboard secrets (Windows)

How To Guides Computer Use

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Updated 2 months ago by Mayra Cristina Berrones Reyes

Intro to Exif Image Metadata

How To Guides Creative Coding

Image files captured using digital cameras often contain a large amount of information about how ...

Updated 2 months ago by agnes cameron

Fair Isle

eTextiles Lab Knitting

Fair Isle is a knitting style used to create patterns with multiple colours. It is traditionally ...

Updated 3 months ago by Rosie Walker

Other Techniques

eTextiles Lab Knitting

Platting Platting is when two different yarn colours are knit together. One appears on one side w...

Updated 3 months ago by Rosie Walker

Taught Course Ethics Procedures (aka Educational Ethics)

Research & Knowledge Exchange Ethics

All students at CCI are required to adhere to the UAL ethical policies and procedures when conduc...

Updated 3 months ago by Yasmine Boudiaf

About

Digital Fabrication Lab Laser Cutter - Trotec Speedy 400

The laser cutter was purchased in 2021 by UAL Creative Computing Institute and partly funded by t...

Updated 4 months ago by Rosie Walker

Getting Started with Git and GitHub

How To Guides GitHub

What Does Git Do? Git is a version control system. It lets you snapshot a set of files and store ...

Updated 4 months ago by Nick Rothwell

Filaments

Digital Fabrication Lab Bambu - Advanced 3D Printers

Bambu H2D Pro: Materials and Filament Rules The Bambu H2D Pro printers currently support a limite...

Updated 4 months ago by Yuwei Chen

Tolerances

Digital Fabrication Lab (Archive) Ultimaker S7

Dimensional Accuracy and Tolerances Bambu printers' details refer to https://wiki.cci.arts.ac.uk/...

Updated 4 months ago by Yuwei Chen

DesignaKnit

eTextiles Lab Knitting

To learn how to use DesignaKnit, you can attend one of the Advanced Knitting Workshops - bookable...

Updated 4 months ago by Rosie Walker

Intarsia

eTextiles Lab Knitting

To learn how to knit intarsia , you can attend one of the Advanced Knitting Workshops - bookable ...

Updated 4 months ago by Rosie Walker

Filaments Settings

Digital Fabrication Lab (Archive) Ultimaker S7

PLA Basic but Important Printing Guide Default settings won’t work, make sure you set them correc...

Updated 4 months ago by Yuwei Chen

Repair your model

Digital Fabrication Lab (Archive) Ultimaker S7

To fix your model, try the website https://www.formware.co/onlinestlrepair

Updated 4 months ago by Yuwei Chen

Blender Object Preparing

Digital Fabrication Lab (Archive) Ultimaker S7

Fusion360 is recommened, and Blender for 3D Printing would be harder but not banned, here are som...

Updated 4 months ago by Yuwei Chen

Create Python environment (conda, venv)

How To Guides Python (set up)

Conda environments IMPORTANT: Anaconda and miniconda both use the conda command on...

Updated 5 months ago by Mayra Cristina Berrones Reyes

Python environments

How To Guides Python (set up)

If you have not read the last post about Python we strongly recommend you have a read, just for t...

Updated 5 months ago by Mayra Cristina Berrones Reyes