Workshops

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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.

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.

Past events

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, emmelene
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 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, John
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, User:JasperWallace
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
From Arduino to AVR earthshine 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, 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
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) emmelene

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
Introduction to Astronomy dsikar, emmelene
SMD Soldering Workshop Martin Ling earthshine, PJ, Lester, Elliot, mars, JasperWallace, John
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, 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 Ciemon, grifferz, Elliot, Spike, Alex Muller, Jasper, Kevin, Cass Johnston, Adrian

Workshops Requested

Workshop Volunteer Interested?