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How to order safety stickers

We use the supplier Diginate.com for these stickers, heres how to place the order: Go to the Dig...

Updated 6 months ago by Tom Lynch

Troubleshooting

Digital Fabrication Lab Ultimaker S7 - Entry-level 3D Printers

🛠️ Troubleshooting Guide Common issues in FDM 3D printing and how to deal with them. Applies to U...

Updated 6 months ago by Yuwei Chen

How To Connect To The CCI Slack

How To Guides

Slack is a workplace communication platform and is the primary way that we communicate at the CCI...

Updated 7 months ago by agnes cameron

Plugins

Digital Fabrication Lab Ultimaker S7 - Entry-level 3D Printers

Go to the Marketplace in Ultimaker Cura (at the right side of the top navi bar). Install the rec...

Updated 7 months ago by Yuwei Chen

Design Your Objects

Digital Fabrication Lab Ultimaker S7 - Entry-level 3D Printers

Design Your Model Recommended software: Fusion 360 or Nomad/Zbrush. (Rhino is nice if you are fa...

Updated 7 months ago by Yuwei Chen

Glossary

Digital Fabrication Lab Ultimaker S7 - Entry-level 3D Printers

Nozzle We have two types of nozzles: AA and BB, and two nozzle sizes available to use: 0.8 mm an...

Updated 7 months ago by Yuwei Chen

How to do working at height training

How To Guides

Read the attached training. Complete the Quiz on ORB.

Updated 7 months ago by Tom Lynch

Using NAO V6

Robotics Lab How To Guides

Broken: NAO V6 is currently not functional due to unknown boot issues. Usage Guidelines Please r...

Updated 7 months ago by Rohit Ramesh Thampy

Robots and components we have

Robotics Lab

Robots Item Quantity Image Universal Robot UR5e 1 Dobot Magician V2 2 QTrobot 1 G...

Updated 7 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 7 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 7 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 7 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 7 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 7 months ago by Rohit Ramesh Thampy

Vive VR Trackers (body / object tracking)

Dark Lab Equipment

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

Updated 7 months ago by Lieven van Velthoven

Spatial Reality Displays (3D with head-tracking)

Dark Lab Equipment

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

Updated 7 months ago by Lieven van Velthoven

Microsoft Kinect (body motion sensor / depth camera)

Dark Lab Equipment

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

Updated 7 months ago by Lieven van Velthoven

Leap Motion Controller (hand & finger tracking)

Dark Lab Equipment

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

Updated 7 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 8 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 8 months ago by Yuwei Chen