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The CCI technical team runs a program of technical skills workshops focused on developing essential skills for working in the CCI. These cover various practical topics, including electronics, fabrication, networking, server programming and more. Workshops are...

Here at the CCI, only a few courses require students to go beyond breadboard prototyping of circuits, and in lots of cases this might be all you need to develop your prototypes. However, for students that are interested in developing their hardware work, eithe...

For projects requiring greater complexity, or more specific features than is possible with an Arduino (particularly: anything requiring image processing, handling multiple peripherals, multithreading) you might want to explore some of the other boards (both mi...

MQTT is a networking protocol that uses a 'publish-subscribe' model (where some machines 'publish' data to an endpoint, and others subscribe to that data stream) to share data. It's commonly used to share networked sensor data. We run a MQTT server at the CCI,...

These notes are based on a workshop run by Agnes Cameron, and were developed as part of B Claxton and Eva Sajovic's Hack'n the Knit workshop series. These instructions are based on a tutorial for making two-stage astable oscillators on the website Electronics ...

Image files captured using digital cameras often contain a large amount of information about how and where they were taken, the type of camera that took them, and other information about the image. This is called the 'exif metadata', and it is standard across ...

There are loads of different ways to put your work online, and trying to figure out what will work for you can be quite overwhelming. The good news is, depending on what you are trying to do, most approaches will work! The approach you take will depend on what...

Looking at a range of different ways to deploy and host websites, use custom domain names, and set up servers. Talking about both web technologies, and different approaches to hosting. Wiki page here

Many classes in the CCI will either require or encourage you to use git and github in your work. These can be complex and confusing at first, and how you use them depends a bit on what you need to do. git vs github The first distinction that's normally quite i...

In the CCI we have a large number of pre-configured Raspberry Pi 4 boards for use by students, as well as a range of other boards (some Pi Zeros, a couple of Pi 5s). We often recommend these to students who are pursuing installation / physical computing projec...

For summer 2024, we are alternating workshops between Peckham Road and High Holborn. As ever, if you have questions, send them to Agnes.

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...

For the first time in 2024, the CCI technical team have organised a treasure hunt to get to know about resources, expertise and equipment across our different campuses. To take part in the treasure hunt, grab a card from one of the opening events, from the wor...

In the Peckham Road Physical Computing workshop we have a number of components that are freely available for use. In many cases, you might want to locate some of these components to complete projects for class or in your own time. This is a short guide to what...

Welcome new students and welcome back returning ones! This term we are holding one tech skills workshop per week in South London (in the Greencoat building), and one every two weeks at High Holborn. Do get in touch if you have questions about the program. As e...

We are experimenting with running a series of more advanced 'exploration workshops' alongside the tech skills workshops, which use sound as a basis for developing creative coding and physical computing skills. Exploration workshops run in Peckham Road, once ev...

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...