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.
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
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 ? |
| Hack The Media | Hamish@visionon.tv | Oscar Laura |
| RAL Day trip (Mk 2) | 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, Oscar |
| 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, Booyaa, an0key |
| 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, an0key |
| 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) -- Eliot |
| Kernel debugging or something on reverse engineering? | Mark | SamLRWill, varoudis, maco1717, an0key |
| 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, [[User:Softhook|Softhook], Eliot] |
| 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, Zoe |
| Very restricted 'basic rules' electronics evening talk - Ohms law, resistors, diodes, transistors. Offered : when > 4 people sign up | Artag | John, Zoe |
| 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, an0key |
| 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, an0key |
| 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, an0key |
| 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, maco1717 |
| 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, an0key |
| Texas Hold 'Em Poker - how to play & basic strategy | Kieran | emmelene, an0key |
| 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, an0key |
| 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, Zoe |
| London *BSD meetup | JasperWallace | |
| Relief printmaking - woodcut & linocut printing, all the way through from design to ink on paper. | Eithin |
Workshops Requested
| Workshop | Volunteer | Interested? |
