Physical Computing

In addition to an electronics workshop—equipped with soldering stations, lab power supplies, multimeters, and essential electronic components—a wide range of microcontroller boards (e.g., Arduino, ESP32), single-board computers (e.g., Raspberry Pi), sensors, motor drivers, LED strips, etc. are available. If interested, these materials can also be borrowed by students.

Machine Learning Workstation

The Coding Lab is equipped with powerful workstations that can run various machine learning applications and algorithms for inference and training. After a brief introduction in the lab, students can request remote access to work with this technology. We can provide local runtimes for Jupyter & Colab notebooks, Stable Diffusion pipelines (Comfy UI, etc.) and other Python based setups.

Axidraw

The AxiDraw is a two-axis pen plotter : it moves a tool clamped in a holder – such as a pen, brush or marker – along predefined vector paths in a Cartesian coordinate system. All outputs are based on mathematically described lines, curves and polygons, which are transmitted to the device either directly as vector data (e.g. in SVG format) or via generative or procedural program code. In essence, the machine has only one capability: the controlled tracing of paths in the plane. However, this elementary operation results in a wide range of possible applications. In principle, anything that can be formulated as a linear structure can be drawn – from technical sketches and generative graphics to calligraphic experiments.