Workshops
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 | TBC |
| Laser cutter induction | TBC |
Workshops offered and prepared
If you are scheduled to do a workshop, or can definitely give one at no notice, please add it here.
- 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)
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 ? |
| Introduction to Hardware Hacking/Arduino incl live demo | Andy "Bob" Brockhurst | Ken(des) - quite interested in a mid-week evening option, |
| HTML/CSS for beginner/intermediate | Oni | Davids | Chris Adams | |
| Microformats for beginners | Phae | Spike AndrewBlack |
| Servo programming with Arduino | Michael Margolis | Phil Jones |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Decent beginner electronics workshop (probably one or two half-days at the space) | Russ 10:40, 12 January 2010 (UTC) | Ciarán, Phil Jones, earthshine |
| Introduction to Amazon AWS Services - S3, EC2, SimpleDB, etc. using boto | Rlotun 11:13, 12 January 2010 (UTC) | MattP TimHughes, Phil Jones AndrewBlack |
| 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) |
| A workshop on effectively using the scope/logic analyser we have | Artag 13:42, 27 July 2010 (UTC) | |
| Python for beginners | Oni Have taught this before at Leeds Uni.Would love to do it again. 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 |
TimHughes, AndrewBlack, earthshine |
| Introduction to iPhone Programming and Hacking | Oni | |
| Vector graphics in Inkscape | chrisf | Phil Jones, earthshine |
| Photo editing in Gimp for beginners | chrisf | AndrewBlack |
| Introduction to programmable logic (VHDL, FPGAs & CPLDs) | ChrisMc | Artag, earthshine |
| Something on Languages, probably lightning talks on etymology, conlangs, computer based language processing | Mark, MattP, (JamesHarrison?) | |
| Android OS / application programming | chrisf | MattP V21 15:03, 2 August 2010 (UTC) |
| 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) |
| Blender in more detail (a few evenings) | chrisf | |
| Arduino for Beginners | 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. | |
| Knotwork - practical ones and the few ornamental ones I can remember | Sam (SamLR) | |
| Lightening introduction to VHDL and FPGA | Sam (SamLR) | earthshine |
| Biohacking - Crash course in molecular biology concepts, the tools needed and a few project ideas | Bugs | Ciarán, Phil Jones, Jonty, Mark, chrisf |
Workshops wanted
If you've got an idea for a talk/workshop you want to hear, put it here:
If you're willing to speak at or run one of these, put you name in and move it to the list above.
| Workshop | Volunteer | Interested ? |
| Lock Picking, preferably with a wide range of example locks. | Ciarán | |
| Bicycle Maintenance | Ciarán | |
| Linux workshops for beginners/intermediate | Oni | Katie/tajasel crissalida |
| Using it as a desktop | ||
| Using it as a server | ||
| Transitioning to linux | crissalida | |
| Perl for beginners | (Ashb?) | |
| QT/C++ for beginners | Oni | (Jono?) | |
| Introduction to Mercurial (We did one for Git, it's only fair) | ||
| Introduction to Circuit Bending | ||
| Basic soldering lessons always go down well | MattP | |
| RDF / Linked Data - help getting up the learning curve, and intro on public sector and other good hackable data | ||
| Programming for beginners, i.e. What are Ruby/Perl/QT/C++/Python, what do you use them for, how powerful are they, what do they run on, how easy are they to learn, what do they share? | ||
| W.I.N.E Beginners to intermediate. Installation, use, debugging, installing windows programmes and games. | ||
| Displaying Open Street Map within webpages. Openlayers and related technologies | AndrewBlack | |
| Vim magic spells' exchange | ||
| Glow JavaScript Lib -- beginners or intermediates -- Anyone from the Glow team (volunteered, rather than confirmed - Phae/JakeA/Micmath) | ||
| JavaScript Performance | JakeA (volunteered, rather than confirmed) | |
| Introduction to Max/MSP | Anil? | |
| Contributing to an open source project | Krunch / Jonty / ? | |
| SystemTap | Krunch | |
| general Linux kernel debugging-foo (reading an oops, looking around in a vmcore,...) | Krunch | |
| general Linux applications debugging-foo (strace, gdb,...) | Krunch | |
| Beginners Language classes | Ciarán | |
| Laser cookery |
Previous Workshops
- Intro to Brewing Beer -- Andy "Bob" Brockhurst & Russ (21 July)