Workshops

We try and hold at least one talk at our monthly hack evenings, and we also want to start running more involved workshops at our space. If you want to give one of these, or you've got a suggestion, this is the place to let us know.

Regular Hackspace workshops

Workshop	When
Hackspace safety induction	TBC
Laser cutter induction	TBC

Workshops offered and prepared

If you are scheduled to do a workshop, or can definitely give one at no notice, please add it here.

• Hacking Colour or Why Does My Display Look So Bad? Scheduled 7pm 12/8/10 chrisf
• Arduino for beginners - in planning Andy "Bob" Brockhurst & Solexious (28/29 August)

Workshops offered

If you can give a workshop talk, put it here. If you need more than a week's notice, please say so. Don't interpret the timestamp dates below as projected dates. Actual scheduled workshops will be shown above.

For certain workshops, more than one volunteer may be needed, depending on activities and number of attendees.

Workshop	Volunteer	Interested ?
Introduction to Hardware Hacking/Arduino incl live demo	Andy "Bob" Brockhurst	Ken(des) - quite interested in a mid-week evening option,
HTML/CSS for beginner/intermediate	Oni | Davids | Chris Adams
Microformats for beginners	Phae	Spike AndrewBlack
Servo programming with Arduino	Michael Margolis	Phil Jones
Meta Workshop - Tips for a successful workshop	PaulR.
Ruby and Sinatra for Beginners	James Harrison 16:27, 23 April 2010 (UTC)	V21 15:03, 2 August 2010 (UTC) --3en 15:23, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
Kernel debugging or something on reverse engineering?	Mark
Using TFL APIs	Mark, possibly dom/harrywood/Paul2/anyone else as well?	AndrewBlack
Introduction to ARM microcontrollers. Attendees will work with dev kits during the workshop.	Harry 10:54, 26 July 2010 (UTC)	Ciarán
Ruby for beginners	(Max? Chris Adams) Would be happy to do this JamesHarrison 21:49, 21 April 2010 (UTC)	V21 15:03, 2 August 2010 (UTC), earthshine
Decent beginner electronics workshop (probably one or two half-days at the space)	Russ 10:40, 12 January 2010 (UTC)	Ciarán, Phil Jones, earthshine
Introduction to Amazon AWS Services - S3, EC2, SimpleDB, etc. using boto	Rlotun 11:13, 12 January 2010 (UTC)	MattP TimHughes, Phil Jones AndrewBlack
Introduction to asynchronous network programming in Python using Twisted	Rlotun 11:16, 12 January 2010 (UTC)	MattP TimHughes V21 Phil Jones 15:03, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
A workshop on effectively using the scope/logic analyser we have	Artag 13:42, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
Python for beginners	Oni Have taught this before at Leeds Uni.Would love to do it again. I might be willing to do this, as I'm possibly already doing the same thing elsewhere sometime soon, and so running the same thing will be easy enough - Tom Parker	TimHughes, AndrewBlack, earthshine
Introduction to iPhone Programming and Hacking	Oni
Vector graphics in Inkscape	chrisf	Phil Jones, earthshine
Photo editing in Gimp for beginners	chrisf	AndrewBlack
Introduction to programmable logic (VHDL, FPGAs & CPLDs)	ChrisMc	Artag, earthshine
Something on Languages, probably lightning talks on etymology, conlangs, computer based language processing	Mark, MattP, (JamesHarrison?)
Android OS / application programming	chrisf	MattP V21 15:03, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
Blender introduction (basic stuff, one evening) *hint - this means you can build stuff for the Makerbot*	chrisf	Ciarán V21 15:03, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
Blender in more detail (a few evenings)	chrisf
Arduino for Beginners	earthshine
Knitting for Beginners	PJ - well my other half has volunteered to do this, I can't knit
Knotwork - practical ones and the few ornamental ones I can remember	Sam (SamLR)
Lightening introduction to VHDL and FPGA	Sam (SamLR)	earthshine
Biohacking - Crash course in molecular biology concepts, the tools needed and a few project ideas	Bugs	Ciarán, Phil Jones, Jonty, Mark, chrisf

Workshops wanted

If you've got an idea for a talk/workshop you want to hear, put it here:
If you're willing to speak at or run one of these, put you name in and move it to the list above.

Workshop	Volunteer	Interested ?
Lock Picking, preferably with a wide range of example locks.		Ciarán
Bicycle Maintenance		Ciarán
Linux workshops for beginners/intermediate	Oni	Katie/tajasel crissalida
Using it as a desktop
Using it as a server
Transitioning to linux		crissalida
Perl for beginners	(Ashb?)
QT/C++ for beginners	Oni | (Jono?)
Introduction to Mercurial (We did one for Git, it's only fair)
Introduction to Circuit Bending
Basic soldering lessons always go down well	MattP
RDF / Linked Data - help getting up the learning curve, and intro on public sector and other good hackable data
Programming for beginners, i.e. What are Ruby/Perl/QT/C++/Python, what do you use them for, how powerful are they, what do they run on, how easy are they to learn, what do they share?
W.I.N.E Beginners to intermediate. Installation, use, debugging, installing windows programmes and games.
Displaying Open Street Map within webpages. Openlayers and related technologies		AndrewBlack
Vim magic spells' exchange
Glow JavaScript Lib -- beginners or intermediates -- Anyone from the Glow team (volunteered, rather than confirmed - Phae/JakeA/Micmath)
JavaScript Performance	JakeA (volunteered, rather than confirmed)
Introduction to Max/MSP	Anil?
Contributing to an open source project	Krunch / Jonty / ?
SystemTap	Krunch
general Linux kernel debugging-foo (reading an oops, looking around in a vmcore,...)	Krunch
general Linux applications debugging-foo (strace, gdb,...)	Krunch
Beginners Language classes		Ciarán
Laser cookery

Previous Workshops

• Intro to Brewing Beer -- Andy "Bob" Brockhurst & Russ (21 July)