Workshops

An Arduino workshop in progress

We currently have a few workshops at our space every month, and we're always interested in running more. If you want to give one of these, or you've got a suggestion, this is the place to let us know.

Important

Please announce workshops/events on the mailing list and add them to the calendar.

Organising a workshop

Planning an event. If you want to organise an event/workshop (or have been volunteered to) please read our guide.

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.

• Crash Course in Cancer Biology - 19:30 on Wednesday, 20th April
• Introduction to creating USB HID class hardware interfaces - 19:30 on Thursday 28 April

Past events

• Git - 18 March
• Git - 23 February
• Programming in C and Arduino for beginners - 19th/20th February
• 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 ?
RAL Day trip	SamLR
OpenStreetMap - Mapping Party	Ciarán
Stencil & Graffiti Art for Beginners - open workshop to learn the basics of stencil making, single or multi-layered and some basic graffiti skills. including using the lasercutter or vinyl cutter	layer1gfx	iktomist , haywardgb , layer1gfx+3, spooq, Montyphy
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, DavidC, Ten
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, Daniel, earthshine, maco1717
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, Dave Durant John.
HTML/CSS for beginner/intermediate	Oni | Davids | Chris Adams	Kevin, varoudis, Johannes
Microformats for beginners	Phae	Spike AndrewBlack
Servo programming with Arduino	Michael Margolis	Phil Jones, Andy, varoudis, Kieran, John, Memo
Meta Workshop - As many useful tips for a successful workshop/training session/presentation as we can fit in the time.	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, maco1717
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, earthshine, maco1717
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, Dave Durant, John, emmelene, maco1717
Very restricted 'basic rules' electronics evening talk - Ohms law, resistors, diodes, transistors. Sometime in February 2011	Artag	John
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 DavidC 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!), Dave Durant, +1 HalD. John
Python for beginners / 2 Day Version / The Return	Oni '	varoudis, John , earthshine
Introduction to iPhone Programming and Hacking	Oni	dsikar , varoudis, Daniel
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, chio, scary, Layer1gfx, Dave Durant, Montyphy, earthshine
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, User:JasperWallace, Lester, Memo, maco1717
Android OS / application programming	chrisf, dmi	MattVenn MattP V21 John 15:03, 2 August 2010 (UTC)Bugs Nigle Dave Durant Lester tajasel, bmalee, maco1717
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, Dave Durant, Kieran, Anthony, varoudis, Gilda, Lester, Memo
Blender in more detail (a few evenings)	chrisf	Anthony, varoudis, Memo
Arduino for Beginners	earthshine	Bugs, AndrewGee, HalD, SamLR, Ciarán Daniel, Ciemon, Dave Durant
From Arduino to AVR (or Beyond Arduino)	earthshine	Ciarán Solexious, Memo
Introduction to openFrameworks	matthewvenn	earthshine, Jonty, varoudis
PCB Design with Eagle CAD	dsikar	earthshine, Jonty, varoudis, John, SteveW, Ciarán, Memo, asc, Elliot, maco1717
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, emmelene
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, Daniel, Dave Durant, Bugs, Memo, maco1717
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, bmalee, Bugs
Jewelery Making - feathers, beads, ribbon (More info soon!!)	emmelene
OpenGL and Programming Computer Graphics	Oni	Jonty, varoudis, Lester, earthshine
Introduction to Regular expressions (or a more detailed talk if prefered)	Andrew Black	dsikar, Memo
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) emmelene SamLR Have some Vietnamese coffee
Texas Hold 'Em Poker - how to play & basic strategy	Kieran	emmelene
DIY PCB Making	ChrisMc 23:18, 20 December 2010 (UTC)	Jonty, Kevin, Billy, varoudis, Kieran, Evan (potential member), John, earthshine, SteveW, Ciarán,danny-orion, Memo, maco1717
Introduction to Astronomy		dsikar, emmelene
SMD Soldering Workshop	Martin Ling	earthshine, PJ, Lester, Elliot, mars, JasperWallace, John, Radek, SteveW, Ciarán,danny-orion, maco1717
Introduction to Bioinformatics	Cass, Andrew, Nathan	martind Gilda Dave Durant Bugs, maco1717
Homebrewing (beer): Full mash process, recipe design, could also do a bit on judging and/or food pairing	Ben F
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, emmelene
Introduction to Japanese Sound FX in Manga Comics - a short talk and drawing workshop in japanese and english	chris henson aka layer1gfx
Git Workshop - the version control system	chrismear	grifferz, Elliot, Spike, Alex Muller, Jasper, Kevin, Cass Johnston, Adrian, SamLR, Radek, Johannes, Dave Durant
Bookbinding - beginners class to make a simple book from scratch, possibly a small amount of coverage of restoration at the end	Lester Hawksby	No more than 6 please! SamLR Adrian Sam K, earthshine, Errant. Interest expressed on mailing list by earthshine, Adrian, Katie, George, Billy and possibly others. Frank (not a member yet)
Hypnosis 101 - Starting point for learning about hypnosis. Let's hack the mind!	Hypnoeyes	DMI, bmalee, Bugs
BASH and basic terminal stuff	SamLR unless someone with more knowledge wants to do it (serious I'm pretty poor at this)	Bugs
GSM/Mobile phone networks - what they use/how do they work/what I do for a day job, LTE/WiMAX and onwards with help from Aden?	Paul	PaulR, Ten, maco1717
Radio basics - Run through various radio systems, radio propagation, suggestions/help welcome	Paul	PaulR, maco1717
This workshop introduces you to USB. We address the most important issues of the design and how to build a USB interface focusing on the HID class. We also examine how you want a Hackspace USB group to work.	PaulR	asc, Mike, bmalee, Matt Peperell, Adrian Godwin, danny-orion, Dave Ingram, Phil Jones, Billy Smith JasperWallace, maco1717
Django - An introduction to Django for people who've done some programming before, and have a rough idea of how web programming works.	andrewgodwin	SamLR, chrismear, Johannes, JasperWallace, Dave Durant, Alex Muller, bmalee
How to build Nanode - low cost network node, aimed at Arduino enthusiasts	Ken	-
Spinning for beginners: build and learn how to use a very basic drop spindle in a most ancient of fibre crafts!	Liedra	Johannes

Workshops Requested

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