Workshops

An Arduino workshop in progress

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.

For tips on arranging a workshop, see Planning an event.

Regular Hackspace workshops

Workshop	When
Hackspace safety induction	Usually available on Tuesdays - request in advance
Laser cutter induction	Usually available on Tuesdays - request in advance

Workshops offered and prepared

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

• Programming in C and Arduino for beginners - 19th/20th February

Past events

• Brain-Computer Interface presentation and workshop - Wednesday 26th January
• Arduino for beginners - 22nd/23rd January 2011
• Biohacking Project Planning - 19:00 Saturday 15th Jan 2011
• Python for Beginners The basics and not so basics of the Python Programming Language -- Oni, Mark and MattP
• 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)
• Biohacking workshop (Moleculer Biol for Beginners, Introduction to Biohacking & Project ideas discussion) - Bugs & Sara - 22nd September 19:30
• Lightning talks on language (e.g. etymology, conlangs, computer based language processing) -- Mark and MattP

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 ?
Infrastructure Hacking - project to explore basics of infrastructure hacking, with monthly workshops.	Kussic, Renski
Web Hacking - project to explore basics of web application hacking, with monthly workshops. Aim is to finish with an audit of One Click Orgs software.	Renski, Kussic	Alex Muller, Will, John
Biohacking - Project planning meeting. We'll choose one or more of the project ideas and finalise arrangements to get the necessary tools/reagents. Probably 2-3 hours.	Bugs, Sara (if ok)	antoan, Nigle, Jonty, Will, Gilda, Cass
Entrepreneurship: UK company formation, raising finance (or not), tax and accounts, market sizing and research. Approx 2 hrs.	AndyE	Oni, antoan, Kevin, Anthony, varoudis, Gilda, Kieran
Pure Data for beginners and some applications including Arduino, DMX-lamps, iPhone apps, RjDj scenes... (Would be in 2nd half of Nov)	Yuli and Ragnar	Mark, Matt H, dsikar, Mike H, Guy J Oni, Nigle, varoudis
Introduction to Hardware Hacking/Arduino incl live demo	Andy "Bob" Brockhurst	Ken(des) - quite interested in a mid-week evening option,Me too HalD, varoudis, John.
HTML/CSS for beginner/intermediate	Oni | Davids | Chris Adams	Kevin, varoudis
Microformats for beginners	Phae	Spike AndrewBlack
Servo programming with Arduino	Michael Margolis	Phil Jones, Andy, varoudis, Kieran, John
Meta Workshop - Tips for a successful workshop	PaulR.	AndyE
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	SamLRWill, varoudis
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 earthshine, Andy, varoudis
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, Andy, alexmuller, Softhook
Decent beginner electronics workshop (probably one or two half-days at the space)	Russ 10:40, 12 January 2010 (UTC)	Ciarán, Phil Jones, earthshine, Bugs, Andy, Johannes, SamLR, Kieran, Jonty, Anthony, varoudis, John
Very restricted 'basic rules' electronics evening talk - Ohms law, resistors, diodes, transistors. Sometime in February 2011	Artag
Introduction to Amazon AWS Services - S3, EC2, SimpleDB, etc. using boto	Rlotun 11:13, 12 January 2010 (UTC)	MattP TimHughes, Phil Jones AndrewBlack, Andy Oni, Anthony, varoudis, Gilda
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), Johannes
A workshop on effectively using the scope/logic analyser we have	Artag 13:42, 27 July 2010 (UTC)	Andy (if pitched at a really beginner level!). +1 HalD. John
Python for beginners / 2 Day Version / The Return	Oni '	Johannes, varoudis
Introduction to iPhone Programming and Hacking	Oni	dsikar , varoudis
Vector graphics in Inkscape *Hint, can use this to make files for laser cutter*	chrisf eb4890	Phil Jones, earthshine, SamLR, Ciarán, pyrhho, martind, Alexp Andrew Black, corinne, Anthony, varoudis, scary, Layer1gfx
Photo editing in Gimp for beginners	chrisf (tajasel could also offer services)	AndrewBlack
Introduction to programmable logic (VHDL, FPGAs & CPLDs)	ChrisMc, SamLR (I can help at least)	Artag, earthshine, Andy, dsikar, Mark
Android OS / application programming	chrisf	MattVenn MattP V21 John 15:03, 2 August 2010 (UTC)Bugs Nigle Lester tajasel
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) Bugs AndyE, Kieran, Anthony, varoudis, Gilda, Lester
Blender in more detail (a few evenings)	chrisf	Anthony, varoudis
Arduino for Beginners	earthshine	Bugs, AndrewGee, HalD, SamLR, Ciarán
Introduction to openFrameworks		earthshine, Jonty, varoudis
PCB Design with Eagle CAD	dsikar	earthshine, Jonty, varoudis, John
Bus Pirate for dummies	dsikar	Jonty, John
Knitting for Beginners	PJ - well my other half has volunteered to do this, I can't knit wren I can do this! Also, crochet & spinning.	Bugs
Knotwork - practical ones and the few ornamental ones I can remember	Sam (SamLR)	emmelene, Jonty, Mark Lester tajasel
Physics (Or what I do for a day Job): focus on particle physics (+ scary can do nano/quantum/other if wanted)	SamLR	Jonty, varoudis, Mark
Statistics (What I really do for my day job): focus on stats for everyday use/ in the media and science	SamLR	dsikar, varoudis, Gilda, Mark, PhilJones
Jewelery Making - feathers, beads, ribbon (More info soon!!)	emmelene
OpenGL and Programming Computer Graphics	Oni	Jonty, varoudis, Lester
Introduction to Regular expressions (or a more detailed talk if prefered)	Andrew Black	dsikar
Coffee?	Mark?	AndyE has an interest in coffee. A tasting could be fun. JimM Artag John tajasel (could possibly provide Monmouth Coffee on the cheap, but no promises)
Texas Hold 'Em Poker - how to play & basic strategy	Kieran
DIY PCB Making	ChrisMc 23:18, 20 December 2010 (UTC)	Jonty, Kevin, Billy, varoudis, Kieran, Evan (potential member)
Introduction to Astronomy		dsikar
SMD Soldering Workshop	Martin Ling	earthshine, PJ, Lester, Elliot, mars
Introduction to Bioinformatics	Cass, Andrew, Nathan	martind Gilda
Screen Printing	Jan from NOID may be able to offer this, but has not explicitly volunteered yet. mars: I can do this.	JimM Artag Solexious Iktomist PJ Errant RichardBeard Scary
Introduction to Japanese Sound FX in Manga Comics - a short talk and drawing workshop in japanese and english	chris henson aka layer1gfx