TOOLS YOU FIND IN THE LAB

The lab has several user-friendly machines and programmable boards for prototyping rapidly novel forms of tangible, embedded or embodied interactions for or with different people, e.g., educators, people with special needs, children.

Photo credits: NOI / Ivo Corrà

EASY-TO-USE FABRICATION MACHINES

  • A compact laser cutter and engraver for wood and similar materials,
  • Digital cutting machines with blades for different materials (e.g., cardboard, paper, felt, silk, vinyl),
  • A compact 3D printer and engraver.
Photo credits: NOI / Ivo Corrà
Photo credits: NOI / Ivo Corrà

EMBEDDABLE AND WEARABLE COMPUTING BOARDS

For wearables, mainly:

  • Tiny 3250
  • XIAO RP2350
  • LilyPad
  • Arduino Circuit Playground Express,…

To embed into tangibles or the environment, mainly:

  • Arduino UNO, Genuino, Arduino IoT boards
  • Raspberry Pi Pico, Rasbperry Pi Pico W, with different expansion boards
  • Raspberry Pi boards, with several hats, e.g., Explorer Hat, Lego Hat
  • ESP32 S3 family
  • micro:bit, with different expansion boards
  • Adafruit Feather, Adafruit Metro Express,…