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MPR121 Capacitive Touch Sensors
The MPR121 is a capacitive touch sensors that connects easily to Arduino using I2C. This specfic board has 12 channels that can each individually detect touch. It uses capacitive sensing which is able to detect contact with anything conductive (including human...
Example Projects
CCI Students
Outcome: The Feeled - Magalie Bommer and Ivy Langley This award winning (!) project, based on the UKs transformer network and solar storms, used both conductive and UV reactive thread alongside an MPR121 capacitive touch sensor and UV LEDs to reveal hidden d...
Other Artists
The Embroided Computer - Irene Posch The Embroidered Computer is an exploration into using historic gold embroidery materials and knowledge to craft a programmable 8 bit computer. Solely built from a variety of metal threads, magnetic, glas and metal beads, a...
Materials
In the eTextiles Lab we have a range of different materials, both conductive and non-conductive, that can be used when creating projects. For testing and small projects, help yourself to things readily available in the lab. However, if you are wanting to use l...
Metal to Fabric Connections
A big challenge with integrating electronics into textiles is making a good and durable connection between a metal wire/component and the conductive yarn/thread. Below are a few examples of how this can be done. You can find even more examples here. JST cri...
Crimping: How To Make Custom Cables
What the heck is crimping? Cable crimping is the process of mechanically terminating a wire. It is not the same as soldering or soldered connectors as it uses only pressure to create the connection. In most cases a special tool will be used to compress a metal...
Fair Isle
Fair Isle is a knitting style used to create patterns with multiple colours. It is traditionally a hand knitting technique but can be done using a knitting machine as well. Though colloquially this technique is known as 'FairIsle', technically it is called 'st...
Install and use RAVE: Realtime Audio Variational autoEncoder
RAVE is an audio processing/generativity based on deep learning. This guide is specifically to install it. If you need guidance on what RAVE is, you can start with: Transforming Soundscapes: Style Transfer with RAVE (Real-Time Variational Autoencoder) for Inn...
Silver Reed to Brother Translation Guide
We have a new knitting machine!! We have moved over from Silver Reed SK840 to a Brother KH940. These machines function in the same way but some aspects are different. See below for a Silver Reed to Brother translation Guide. The manual for the Brother KH940 ca...
Repair your model
To fix your model, try the website https://www.formware.co/onlinestlrepair
Book a slot
The Bambu H2D Pro printers are not general access machines. They are available only to experienced and approved users who can operate the printers independently and responsibly. Before using a Bambu H2D Pro printer, you must book an equipment slot on ORB and f...
Filaments
Bambu H2D Pro: Materials and Filament Rules The Bambu H2D Pro printers currently support a limited range of approved materials for health and safety reasons. Once you've set the material profiles, the Bambu studio (the slicing software) will set the recommende...
Book Your Digital Fabrication Slot on ORB
Book Your Digital Fabrication Slot on ORB Before using any Digital Fabrication Lab equipment, you must book an equipment slot on ORB. ORB bookings help us manage machine availability, identify users, and make sure the lab is used safely and fairly by inducted ...
USB Printing Guide
Important: Dry the Filament Before Printing Please dry the filament one day before you print anything. Go to the machine, tap the screen, select the filament icon, then tap the small sun icon next to the spool icon and start drying the filament. For quick use,...