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CCI Technical Treasure Hunt

About

For the first time in 2024, the CCI technical team have organised a treasure hunt to get to know ...

Updated 5 months ago by Mayra Cristina Berrones Reyes

About

Technical Skills Workshops

The CCI technical team runs a program of technical skills workshops focused on developing essent...

Updated 5 months ago by agnes cameron

Autumn 2025 Tech Skills Calendar

Technical Skills Workshops

Welcome new students and welcome back returning ones! This term we are holding one tech skills wo...

Updated 5 months ago by agnes cameron

Autumn 2024 Tech Skills Calendar

Technical Skills Workshops Workshops Archive

Do get in touch if you have questions about the program. As ever, no prerequisites and no signup ...

Updated 5 months ago by agnes cameron

Lab Rules

Robotics Lab

Lab Layout Lab Rules The lab is open from 9:30 - 12:30 and 13:30 - 16:30, Monday to Friday. If ...

Updated 5 months ago by Rohit Ramesh Thampy

DMX Stage Lights

Dark Lab Dark Lab Equipment

What is DMX? DMX (Digital Multiplex), aka DMX512, is the industry standard protocol for control...

Updated 5 months ago by Lieven van Velthoven

Vive VR Trackers (body / object tracking)

Dark Lab Dark Lab Equipment

Vive Trackers are little devices that can track their position and orientation in the room, in re...

Updated 5 months ago by Lieven van Velthoven

Spatial Reality Displays (3D with head-tracking)

Dark Lab Dark Lab Equipment

Our Acer Spatial Labs displays are one type of 'holographic' or spatial reality displays that we...

Updated 5 months ago by Lieven van Velthoven

DMX Lighting Desk (or how to easily adjust the lights!)

Dark Lab Dark Lab Equipment

Turning on the lights, and the DMX controller Use the mains power switches on the wall behind the...

Updated 5 months ago by Lieven van Velthoven

86" Touchscreen Display

Dark Lab Dark Lab Equipment

Viewsonic 86" 4K multi-touch display The Dark Lab has been outfitted with a large, two meter wid...

Updated 5 months ago by Lieven van Velthoven

Microsoft Kinect (body motion sensor / depth camera)

Dark Lab Dark Lab Equipment

What is it? Microsoft Kinect V2 is a full-body motion sensor originally released for XBox One ga...

Updated 5 months ago by Lieven van Velthoven

Leap Motion Controller (hand & finger tracking)

Dark Lab Dark Lab Equipment

The 'Leap Motion Controller 2' is a little usb-connected hand & finger tracking device made by ...

Updated 5 months ago by Lieven van Velthoven

Workshop: Make and Publish a Website

How To Guides Computer Use

Making a site and putting it online In this workshop, we will use a template to make a website, ...

Updated 5 months ago by agnes cameron

Creating a file in Illustrator

Digital Fabrication Lab Laser Cutter - Trotec Speedy 400

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

Updated 5 months ago by Yuwei Chen

About the our 3D printers

Digital Fabrication Lab 3D Printers - Ultimaker S7

In the Digital Fabrication Lab we have a range of 3D printing equipment for CCI students to use, ...

Updated 5 months ago by Yuwei Chen

Workshop: Image, Sound and Video

How To Guides Computer Use

This workshop will cover different types of files and media. We will look at audio, video and ima...

Updated 5 months ago by agnes cameron

Projectors

Dark Lab Dark Lab Equipment

In the Lab We have a selection of video projectors available for use in the Dark Lab. Some of th...

Updated 5 months ago by Lieven van Velthoven

Workshop: File Systems and the Command Line

How To Guides Computer Use

In this workshop we will get to know our computer better, learn about the idea of the filesystem,...

Updated 5 months ago by agnes cameron

Plux Biosignal -- Physiology Kit

Nerve Lab Wearable Equipment

The Biosignal Plux Kit is a compact and flexible system for recording real-time physiological dat...

Updated 6 months ago by Lexin Zhou

About the badge design

How To Guides Learn to Solder Badge

Design This badge was designed in KiCad by Tom Lynch. GitHub Repositiory Bill of Materials (BOM) ...

Updated 6 months ago by Tom Lynch