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What is Autodesk Fusion

How To Guides Autodesk Fusion

Fusion or previously known as Fusion 360, is a CAD (Computer Aided Design) software by Autodesk....

Updated 9 months ago by Rohit Ramesh Thampy

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 9 months ago by agnes cameron

Autumn 2024 Tech Skills Calendar

Technical Skills Workshops

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

Updated 9 months ago by agnes cameron

Lockers

Buildings

Every CCI building has lockers for staff and students to store things in for short periods. We do...

Updated 10 months ago by Tom Lynch

Setting up environments

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Global and Virtual environments Now that we have installed Python, we mentioned that it comes wit...

Updated 10 months ago by Mayra Cristina Berrones Reyes

Which VR headsets does CCI have?

Dark Lab Virtual Reality

Valve Index VR headset Vive Pro Eye Wireless Vive Focus 3

Updated 1 year ago by Tom Lynch

Dataset Augmentaion

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This article will cover how you can increase the size of your original dataset with the help of d...

Updated 1 year ago by Ilia Pavlov

Using CCI's MQTT endpoint

How To Guides CCI Server

MQTT is a networking protocol that uses a 'publish-subscribe' model (where some machines 'publish...

Updated 1 year ago by Tom Lynch

Robots and components we have

Robotics Lab

Robots Item Quantity Image Universal Robot UR5e 1 Dobot Magician V2 2 Adeept Robot A...

Updated 1 year ago by Rohit Ramesh Thampy

Soft Robotics

Robotics Lab

Soft robotics is a branch of robotics that makes use of compliant (e.g. soft, stretchy, flexible)...

Updated 1 year ago by agnes cameron

Hackspaces & Services

Physical Computing Lab

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

Updated 1 year ago by agnes cameron

Useful learning resources

Physical Computing Lab

Books Getting Started With Arduino 3rd Edition by Massimo Banzi and Michael Shiloh A short and ...

Updated 1 year ago by Matt Jarvis

Using Raspberry Pi for Projects

How To Guides Physical Computing

In the CCI we have a large number of pre-configured Raspberry Pi 4 boards for use by students, as...

Updated 1 year ago by agnes cameron

Workshop: Knitted Synthesisers

How To Guides Physical Computing

These notes are based on a workshop run by Agnes Cameron, and were developed as part of B Claxton...

Updated 1 year ago by agnes cameron

Beyond Arduino: Choosing Boards for your Project

How To Guides Physical Computing

For projects requiring greater complexity, or more specific features than is possible with an Ard...

Updated 1 year ago by agnes cameron

How to build your own flex sensor

How To Guides Physical Computing

You will need: Velostat Copper tape Foam Soldering kit Silicon wire (thin threaded wire is also ...

Updated 1 year ago by Tom Lynch

Mini 360 Degree Continuous Servo Code

How To Guides Physical Computing

Continuous servos have a different structure to them than regular servos. A regular servo simply ...

Updated 1 year ago by Tom Lynch

5V Air Pump Guide

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We have a number of small 5V air pumps and silicone tubing available for students to borrow for s...

Updated 1 year ago by Lexin Zhou

Stepper motor with TB6000 Microstep driver

How To Guides Physical Computing

We have the 42BYGHM809 Stepper motors with the TB6600 Stepper motor microstep driver to the Ardui...

Updated 1 year ago by Tom Lynch

How to revive a broken Arduino using a Mac

How To Guides Physical Computing

These are instructions for doing this on a mac -- there are a few extra steps which might be a l...

Updated 1 year ago by Tom Lynch