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

Dark Lab Equipment

Turning on the lights, and the DMX controller Use the big colourful buttons on the AV Rack to turn on the DMX stage lights and the rack itself (which powers up the lighting controller). Some fans should come on, and the 'moving heads' will move for a second wh...

Spatial Reality Displays (3D with head-tracking)

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Our Acer Spatial Labs displays are one type of 'holographic' or spatial reality displays that we have at CCI. (see 'Looking Glass' for the other kind) These are glasses-free 3D displays with built-in head tracking, allowing you to view things in full 3D from ...

Meta Quest 3 VR/MR headset

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Meta's Quest 3 is an all-in-one standalone VR / MR headset, running on Android. It can do untethered wireless Virtual Reality (or PCVR through a USB-C cable), but also Mixed Reality using its 'passthrough cameras' that let you see the real world while wearing...

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, but we will also go through the process of setting up from blank files. You can download the template here. Download and unzip the folder, and then right click to ...

Tolerances

Digital Fabrication Lab (Archive) Ultimaker S7

Dimensional Accuracy and Tolerances Bambu printers' details refer to https://wiki.cci.arts.ac.uk/books/digital-fabrication-lab/page/usb-printing-guide Typical accuracy for FDM printers is around ±0.1 mm, but for our Ultimaker machines ±0.15 ~ 0.2 mm is more re...

Design Your Objects

Digital Fabrication Lab (Archive) Ultimaker S7

Design Your Model Recommended software: Fusion 360 or Nomad/Zbrush. (Rhino is nice if you are familiar, and choose Blender only if you have prior experience.) Learning resource: Autodesk Learn Export and Slice Export your design as STL (OBJ also works). Op...

Step 4 - 🌟🌟🌟Check the machine before you started

Digital Fabrication Lab (Archive) Ultimaker S7

3D Printing Workflow Manual From slicing to post-print care — applies to UltiMaker Cura 3D printers. Before You Print Unnamed files will be aborted. Bring your laptop and a USB drive and name your print as yourSlackUserName.ufp before saving to a USB drive....

Microsoft Kinect (body motion sensor / depth camera)

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What is it? Microsoft Kinect V2 is a full-body motion sensor originally released for XBox One game consoles and PCs. It has an RGB colour camera, an infrared night-vision camera, a microphone array that can detect which direction sounds are coming from - and ...

Myo neural trackers

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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 needed! We do record these and put them on Moodle, but you can also ask us about the content.

Troubleshooting

Digital Fabrication Lab (Archive) Ultimaker S7

🛠️ Troubleshooting Guide Common issues in FDM 3D printing and how to deal with them. Applies to UltiMaker Cura and UltiMaker series printers. Model Not Sticking to Build Plate Check build plate alignment — all four pins must be seated properly. Clean the plat...

How to do working at height training

How To Guides

Read the attached training. Complete the Quiz on ORB.

Step 1 - UltiMaker Cura Set-Up

Digital Fabrication Lab (Archive) Ultimaker S7

You don't have to sign up or create a workspace for now. So please skip "Sign in to Ultimaker platform", then click on "Ultimaker printer", "Add local printer", then add an "Ultimaker S7 Machine". Set the basic settings up. 1. Add an UltiMaker printer from t...

Blender Object Preparing

Digital Fabrication Lab (Archive) Ultimaker S7

Fusion360 is recommened, and Blender for 3D Printing would be harder but not banned, here are some Key Considerations, to fix your model, could try the website https://www.formware.co/onlinestlrepair Use Manifold Geometry. Ensure the model is watertight—no ho...

Glossary

Digital Fabrication Lab (Archive) Ultimaker S7

Nozzle We have two types of nozzles: AA and BB, and two nozzle sizes available to use: 0.8 mm and 0.4 mm. So we will call them AA0.4/BB0.4/AA0.8/BB0.8 Different nozzle sizes mean that you can print with different filaments and speeds as well as acheiving diff...

Plugins

Digital Fabrication Lab (Archive) Ultimaker S7

Go to the Marketplace in Ultimaker Cura (at the right side of the top navi bar). Install the recommended and your preferred plugins, then restart UltiMaker Cura. Recommended Plugins Other

Filaments Settings

Digital Fabrication Lab (Archive) Ultimaker S7

PLA Basic but Important Printing Guide Default settings won’t work, make sure you set them correctly in UltiMaker Cura. Material Printing Temperature: 215 °C Build Plate Temperature: 75 °C Support (if the object needs support) Enable Generate Support Set Suppo...

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. It's important to join to find essential information about your course and technical resources, and be able to contact staff. Slack can be installed as both a fr...