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What is available in the Computation Lab?
The Computation Lab in High Holborn is open to all CCI students and provides five workstations wi...
About the Textiles Area
The Textiles Area is located inside the Physical Computing Lab on the 5th floor of Peckham Road, ...
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...
Robots and components we have
Robots Item Quantity Image Universal Robot UR5e 1 Dobot Magician V2 2 Adeept Robot A...
Soft Robotics
Soft robotics is a branch of robotics that makes use of compliant (e.g. soft, stretchy, flexible)...
Hackspaces & Services
Here are a list of places around London that can help in production of your projects. Jump to: La...
Useful learning resources
Books Getting Started With Arduino 3rd Edition by Massimo Banzi and Michael Shiloh A short and ...
Using Raspberry Pi for Projects
In the CCI we have a large number of pre-configured Raspberry Pi 4 boards for use by students, as...
Workshop: Knitted Synthesisers
These notes are based on a workshop run by Agnes Cameron, and were developed as part of B Claxton...
Beyond Arduino: Choosing Boards for your Project
For projects requiring greater complexity, or more specific features than is possible with an Ard...
How to build your own flex sensor
You will need: Velostat Copper tape Foam Soldering kit Silicon wire (thin threaded wire is also ...
Mini 360 Degree Continuous Servo Code
Continuous servos have a different structure to them than regular servos. A regular servo simply ...
5V Air Pump Guide
We have a number of small 5V air pumps and silicone tubing available for students to borrow for s...
Stepper motor with TB6000 Microstep driver
We have the 42BYGHM809 Stepper motors with the TB6600 Stepper motor microstep driver to the Ardui...
How to revive a broken Arduino using a Mac
These are instructions for doing this on a mac -- there are a few extra steps which might be a l...
DFPlayer Mini
The DFPlayer Mini is a small (cheap!) and flexible mp3 player unit that can be controlled via an ...
Using Arduino Leonardo to send USB MIDI data
One of the secrets of Arduino Leonardo is the in-built USB MIDI support. This is really useful fo...
Using the serial monitor and serial logger
Serial communication is a type of communication between two devices, normally between a computer ...
How to use a rotary encoder
A rotary encoder is a device used to measure the rotation of something, similar to a rotary poten...
How to connect a Light Dependent Resistor (LDR)
An LDR or Light Dependent Resistor is a component which restricts how much power can flow through...