Hybrid Lab
Making with innovative technology
Location
Hybrid Lab Double Ground (145 Hooper St) Rm. D104
Hours
SUMMER HOURS
email [email protected] for appointments
Upcoming Fall 2026 Hours:
Monday: 10am-6pm
Tuesday: CLOSED
Wednesday: 10am-6pm
Thursday: 10am-2:30pm
Friday: 10am-6pm
Saturday & Sunday: CLOSED
Access
Walk-ins welcome to work on small electronics and to use the electronics checkout center.
Email [email protected] to be added to Hybrid Lab Shared Google Drive for technical orientations
Hybrid Lab General Orientation: Walk-in or watch video (3 min):
*note: video filmed in old hybrid lab, but same zones/materials. To be updated.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rdgb6lCBx0RhdG1aewSX8AQV_2lYhA2N
Soldering Orientation: Walk-in self-guided video tutorial (14 min):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y9hmOQsshnHvkOEzs9KsViJ-UZFtYm2s/view?usp=sharing
Technical Orientation (Arduino - Getting Started):
- Email manager to be added to the Hybrid Lab Shared Drive
- After getting access, check out an electronics kit from us and follow the Hybrid Lab Arduino Orientation Guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bF8YKTT8mOIcfBKZ_NUoRfBIzpsAjcaoAbPVhtcfj4M/edit?tab=t.0
Shop Contact
[email protected]Studio Manager
Sudhu Tewari
Creative Technologist / Hybrid Lab Studio Manager, Studio Operations
Senior Adjunct, Graduate Design Program
About the Hybrid Lab
CCA's Hybrid Lab is a shared interdisciplinary space for making with innovative technology that is built around the principles of being open, fast, and inspiring. Students have access to sensors, motors, and other digital fabrication materials.
Resources
- PAY FINE HERE
- INVENTORY - Check-Out Items
- INVENTORY - Consumables
- GIT HUB LINK
- HL KIT TUTORIALS
- Scratch - block based visual programming
- Makecode
- P5js
- CircuitPython Bootloaders (including Circuit Playground Express)
- Circuit Playground Express Tutorials and Code
- How to Format Audio for Circuit Playground Express
- Circuit Playground Express Repo Library
- Add 3rd Party Boards to Arduino
- Clean Up Heart Rate Sensor Input
- Processing Communication
- Running a DC or Haptic motor Directly from circuit playground
Tutorials
- Bluefruit
- Arduino Coding: Combining Codes and Troubleshooting
- Soldering Tutorial
- P5 Introduction
- Vibration and DC Motor Workshop
- Pseudocode Workshop
- Intro to Schematics and Electronic Components
- Intro to Unity : Materials and Video Textures
- How to add Adafruit Boards
- Othermill Instruction Video
- Using the SoundBoard Workshop Slides
- Leap Motion Workshop Slides
- Matrix & Bar Display Workshop Slides
- MKR1000 Data to Google Sheets
- Connecting Microcontroller to HTML Page
- Integrating Processing with Arduino Workshop Slides
- Distance and Motion Sensor Workshop
- Capacitive Touch Workshop Slides
- Basics of Programming in Python 2 Workshop Slides
- Basics of Programming in Python 1 Workshop Slides
- Servo Workshop Slides
- Neo Pixel Workshop Slides
- UNTZtrument: a Trellis MIDI Instrument
- NeoPix Arcade Kit
- Hack: N3rfgun
Social
Orientation Dates
Faculty using the lab for classes must review the Hybrid Lab Faculty Support Document
- Hybrid Lab Orientation: Watch this 3 min video on the lab
- Soldering: Drop in and follow along with a 10 min Hybrid Lab Soldering Tutorial
- Arduino, Sensors, LEDs Tutorials and Examples: Posters with QR codes to great step-by-step tutorials are posted in the lab along with a physical example of how to make it. Anyone can stop by and learn on their own. We supply the materials!
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