Workshops
From London Hackspace Wiki
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 | 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.
- Python for Beginners The basics and not so basics of the Python Programming Language -- Oni, Mark and MattP
Past events
- 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 ? |
| Entrepreneurship: UK company formation, raising finance (or not), tax and accounts, market sizing and research. Approx 2 hrs. | AndyE | |
| 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 |
| Introduction to Hardware Hacking/Arduino incl live demo | Andy "Bob" Brockhurst | Ken(des) - quite interested in a mid-week evening option,Me too HalD. |
| HTML/CSS for beginner/intermediate | Oni | Davids | Chris Adams | |
| Microformats for beginners | Phae | Spike AndrewBlack |
| Servo programming with Arduino | Michael Margolis | Phil Jones, Andy |
| 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 | SamLR |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Introduction to Amazon AWS Services - S3, EC2, SimpleDB, etc. using boto | Rlotun 11:13, 12 January 2010 (UTC) | MattP TimHughes, Phil Jones AndrewBlack, Andy |
| 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. |
| Python for beginners | Oni update I have started to plan this. Will need one extra helper at least for the class! 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 Also happy to help --Mark |
TimHughes, AndrewBlack, earthshine, Bugs, Andy, john, meurig, AndyMadge, alexmuller, tomwj, m00, dsikar, m8roberto, Johannes |
| Introduction to iPhone Programming and Hacking | Oni | |
| Vector graphics in Inkscape | chrisf | Phil Jones, earthshine, SamLR |
| Photo editing in Gimp for beginners | chrisf | AndrewBlack |
| Introduction to programmable logic (VHDL, FPGAs & CPLDs) | ChrisMc, SamLR (I can help at least) | Artag, earthshine, Andy, dsikar |
| Series of lightning talks on language. (e.g. etymology, conlangs, computer based language processing) | Mark, MattP, (JamesHarrison?) | emmelene, dsikar |
| Android OS / application programming | chrisf | MattP V21 John 15:03, 2 August 2010 (UTC)Bugs |
| 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 |
| Blender in more detail (a few evenings) | chrisf | |
| Arduino for Beginners | earthshine | Bugs, AndrewGee, HalD, SamLR |
| Introduction to openFrameworks | earthshine | |
| PCB Design with Eagle CAD | dsikar | earthshine |
| 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 |
| Physics (Or what I do for a day Job): focus on particle physics | SamLR | |
| Jewelery Making - feathers, beads, ribbon (More info soon!!) | emmelene | |
| OpenGL and Programming Computer Graphics | Oni | |
| Introduction to Regular expressions (or a more detailed talk if prefered) | Andrew Black | |
| Coffee? |
