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UAL has a wide range of technical resources built to serve the learning outcomes of the courses in each college, to ensure these resources are available to the students who need it those resources are restricted to certain courses. table {font-size: 9pt;} ...

These are instructions for doing this on a mac -- there are a few extra steps which might be a lot less hassle to do on windows but I haven't tried. If you're a student reading this, chances are you don't have an Atmel-ICE programmer to hand: if you're having...

Soft robotics is a branch of robotics that makes use of compliant (e.g. soft, stretchy, flexible) rather than rigid materials. These kinds of robots are particularly useful in applications involving people and other fragile objects, and they are of particular ...

Have you bought a component that was poor quality, broken or ineffective? Let us know and we can post it here so this doesn't happen to anyone else. Top tip -- go to the ORB catalogue and search for components, if you click the link you can see what we buy. Se...

We have the 42BYGHM809 Stepper motors with the TB6600 Stepper motor microstep driver to the Arduino using the BasicStepperDriver.h library. Connect the stepper and driver as shown: Download and install the driver to arduino from here. (If you need help, c...

A common way to run classes at the CCI is for your lecturer to manage homework through a main git repository that they update with new files weekly, and ask you to make a fork of it to complete the work. Once you have a fork of the repository set up properly, ...

We have a number of small 5V air pumps and silicone tubing available for students to borrow for small-scale inflatable projects, which include the single and inflate-deflate air pump control. These can't fill a lot of space, so for inflatables larger than abou...

The CCI has a small number of Adafruit RTL-SDR software defined radios. These can be used to tune into AM and FM radio bands (like a normal radio), but also to decode other kinds of data sent over radio. If you're a mac user, Adafruit has a useful guide to us...

There are a number of different courses at CCI with different modes of study, obviously students studying on fully online courses will need a reliable internet connection, however since the pandemic video calling has become a part of every course as it allows ...

This information was updated in Summer 2026 for the 2026-27 academic year. You can see a list of course-specific information on the Recommended Kit List page. ❌ Chromebook, Android Tablet We do not recommend students purchase these products because they usuall...

We have several IoT sensors, including AirGradient indoor and outdoor air quality sensors, which log data every 30 seconds via MQTT and are available to students and staff who want to access this data, and power reporting for classroom lecterns. MQTT Server Th...

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...

Continuous servos have a different structure to them than regular servos. A regular servo simply goes to t degree angle to tell it, where as continuous servos of course keep going around, so we must program them slightly differently, like so: // Include the se...

In the Digital Fabrication Lab we have a range of 3D printing equipment for CCI students to use, once they have done an induction, this equipment includes; Six Ultimaker S7 fused filament printers: these printer can print black and white PLA filament as well ...

You will need: Velostat Copper tape Foam Soldering kit Silicon wire (thin threaded wire is also fine) Tape of some sort Arduino wiring: Arduino code: /* Simple code to light up an LED based on resistance sensor Matt Jarvis - Creative Computing Inst...

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...