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Faculty of Media, Arts and Humanities - for students and staff

Equipment

Here you will find information on the core equipment available to Digital students at the Â鶹ӳ»­. For a full list of equipment please log into your SISO account. 
Wacom Cintiq Pro Pen 3

The Digital Studio is equipped with a Wacom Cintiq Pro 17 Tablet and a Canon scanner connected to Mac Studio with LG monitor and has animation and visual effects software installed. In order to use this, you first need to book the facility on SISO along with the Wacom Pro Pen 3.

The Wacom Cintiq Pro 17 boasts a 120Hz 4K pen display, a unique offering in its class, featuring both 99% DCI-P3 and 88% Adobe RGB, complete with Pantone Validated certification and HDR Gamma support.

Go Pro Max

360 Digital Action Camera with Unbreakable Stabilisation, Touch Screen and Voice Control - Live HD Streaming Video Capture Resolution: 4K, FHD 1080p Connections: Wifi, Bluetooth Lens: Wide Angle Display Size: 1.95 Inches Max Focal Length: 8.9 Millimetres;

Wacom Pen Tablets

Digital students also have access to other digital drawing equipment, in the form of smaller, more portable Wacom pen tablets, such as the Wacom Intuous and Intuous 3.

These pen tablets feature market-leading Wacom technology and are compatible with all of our workstations and most home systems. Great for both casual artists and professionals, the Intuos line have everything you need to live out your artistic aspirations.

Apple ipad & Apple Pencil

The combination of the Apple Pencil and ipad offers an alternate digital drawing experience when compared to our Wacom pen tablets and displays. It provides users the ability to draw directly onto the screen, whilst also boasting high portability and ease of use. Good for both casual artists and professionals alike.

Light Box

Light boxes, or light tables/pads as they're also known, allow for accurate repeats in pattern or subject matter and are very useful tools for animators and artists alike. In traditonal 2D animation, a lightbox can be used to trace an underlying, original image and then slightly alter its form or position to create another image. These images are then captured, via camera or scanner, to create a sequence of images that form the illusion of movement and animation.

Other uses for lightboxes are: embroidery, appliqués, quilting, needlework, scrapbooking, embossing, tattoos, cut-outs, filigrees and pierced work.

Huion Camvas 13 Graphics Tablet

The Huion Kamvas 13 is a 13.3-inch, pen display, featuring a 1920x1080 Full HD screen, full lamination to reduce parallax, and an anti-glare screen protector. It supports 3-in-1 or single USB-C cable connections to Windows, macOS, and Android devices.

Meta Quest 3 VR Headset

The Meta Quest 3 is a high-performance, wireless all-in-one MR (Mixed Reality) headset featuring the Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 chipset, offering double the graphical processing power of Quest 2. It boasts 4K+ Infinite Display resolution (\(2064\times 2208\) pixels per eye), 110-degree field of view, and color passthrough for immersive MR experiences.

Steam Deck OLED

The Steam Deck OLED is an upgraded, portable handheld gaming PC by Valve that plays your Steam library on a vibrant 7.4-inch HDR OLED screen. It improves upon the original LCD model with a 90Hz refresh rate, significantly better battery life (3–12 hours), faster Wi-Fi 6E, and a lighter design, providing a high-quality, console-like gaming experience on the go. 

Physical Computing Kits

Physical computing kits are interactive systems that can sense and respond to various stimuli. They can often be used to provide a creative framework for understanding our relationship to the digital world. In practical use, the term most often refers to projects that use sensors and microcontrollers to translate analog input into a software system, and/or control electro-mechanical devices such as motors, servos, lighting or other hardware. Physical computing can often intersect a wide range of areas such as; electrical engineering, mechatronics, robotics, computer science, and embedded development.

Digital students can choose from a range of physical computing kits, including:

  • Arduino uno kits
  • Makey Makey kits
  • Grove starter kit for Arduino
  • Littlebits kit
  • Sparkfun Digital Sandbox kits