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Glossary of technical terms
This is a collaborative glossary of technical terms to help students learn the language of technology. Any CCI staff member or student can edit this page. Please follow the format others have given. You can also make suggestions via Slack using the Workflow ta...
How to Debug Web Code
Your code is broken but you don’t know why! What gives? The internet won’t help?? What’s a console? A breakpoint?! This session covers the philosophy and practice of debugging, across a range of different languages and tools. We work through a series of practi...
Prototyping Wearables
Wearable electronics comes with a bunch of considerations about size and power management. We stock sewable battery holders for coin cells and 9V batteries, and we also have higher-power LiFeP04 batteries available in the robotics workshop. We do not currently...
Using the Brother Innovis A150 Sewing Machine
The CCI has a digital sewing machine, in addition to a digital embroidery machine. This machine is for manual use, and is operated using a pedal. Currently, this machine does not require an induction, however, if you have not used a sewing machine before and w...
Virtual Reality
What do we have? We currently have the following headsets and other VR equipment available at CCI: Headsets: Meta Quest 3 Valve Index VR headset Vive Pro 2 Wireless Vive Focus 3 VR controllers: 4x Vive Pro 2 controllers 2x Vive Index ('Knuckles') contro...
VR trackers
The Dark Lab has Virtual Reality motion tracking set up in both main truss grid area and the VR corner, making pretty much the entire lab trackable using our 'Vive VR trackers'. These are little plastic things that you can attach to whatever you want to track...
Projectors
In the Lab We have a selection of video projectors available for use in the Dark Lab. Some of them are permanently mounted in the truss grid - those are ready for you to use! If you would like to project anywhere else in the Lab, please ask a Dark Lab techni...
DMX Stage Lights
What is DMX? DMX (Digital Multiplex), aka DMX512, is the industry standard protocol for controlling lighting and effects in clubs, theatres and tons of other places. At its core, DMX data consists of a list of 512 numbers, each between 0 and 255, usually ref...
3D scanning
splatting grammetry lidar structured light See 3D scanning workshop PPT folder For Photogrammetry, install: - iOS: ‘RealityScan’ ‘polycam’ ‘PhotoCatch’ - Android: ‘RealityScan’or ‘polycam’ - Windows: ‘RealityCapture’, ‘MeshRoom’ or Postshot for splatting - Ma...
Sound System
Dark Lab Sound System How to plug in? We currently have 4 speakers and two subwoofers set up. This gives us either left / right stereo in both Area 1 and Area 2, four channel surround from either area's PCs, or stereo inputs doubled up into all four speakers....
MIDI controllers
DJ Controller
How to use the Numark NS7-III The NS7 is a DJ controller with a built-in mixer. It relies on a laptop running DJ software, connected over USB. It is a quite capable device though! - and permanently hooked up to the Dark Lab sound system. To use it, simply: ~ ...
Leap Motion Controller (hand & finger tracking)
The 'Leap Motion Controller 2' is a little usb-connected hand & finger tracking device made by Ultraleap. The original version was (partly) intended to add hand tracking to VR headsets, but quickly became very popular for hand / gesture interaction in genera...
Cameras and tripods
Basic Skills and Techniques
This page gives an overview and step-by-step instructions for some basic skills and techniques from the knitting machine induction. If you have not completed the induction, do not use this page to try to use the machine, you must have been inducted first. Thes...
How to look after Apple Vision Pro
The Apple Vision Pro headset is a great piece of technology, but it is very expensive and easily broken if not handled correctly. The person who loans the headset is responsible for its safety and paying for any damage. Please read this guide on how to avoid c...
Who can access the Apple Vision Pro headsets?
The headsets are available to the following groups only: Current UAL Diploma Apple Development students Previous UAL Diploma Apple Development students CCI PhD students. CCI staff. Other students are not permitted access due to the need to prioritise these f...