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This week in Maker Events

10-Mar-10

Looking to take a break from tinkering on your latest project this weekend? Here are some fine maker events to check out, from The Maker Events Calendar. Wish your event was on the list? Add it to the calendar!

Coming up this week:

Craft Night @HackPittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Friday, Mar 12, 2010, 7pm – 9pm

Maker Faire Newcastle
Newcastle, UK
Saturday, Mar 13, 2010 – Sunday, Mar 14, 2010

Arduino / Project Night @The Transistor
Provo, UT
Saturday, Mar 13, 2010, 5pm – 8pm

Breadboard Arduino Classes at All-Con 2010
Addison, TX
Saturday, Mar 13, 2010, 2pm – 4pm

Introduction to Electronics @Metrix Create Space
Seattle, WA
Sunday, Mar 14, 2010, 2pm – 4:30pm

AVR Programming Class @HacDC
Washington, DC
Sunday, Mar 14, 2010, 6pm – 7:30pm, then repeats

Project Lab with Expert Included
Berkeley, CA
Tuesday, Mar 16, 2010, 3pm – 6pm

Drop-in Arduino and Electronics classes
Berkeley, CA
Tuesday, Mar 16, 2010, 7pm – 9pm

Take Apart Tuesdays @Crash Space
Culver City CA
Tuesday, Mar 16, 2010, 8:30pm – 9:30pm

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Dorkbot SoCal 39
Los Angeles, CA
Saturday, Mar 20, 2010, 1pm – 3pm

Arduino NYC Meetup
New York, NY
Saturday, Mar 20, 2010, 12pm – 6pm

Bob Ross Paint-Along 2 @i3Detroit
Royal Oak, MI
Saturday, Mar 20, 2010, 2pm – 4pm, 4pm – 6pm, 6pm – 8pm

Using Transistors @Metrix Create Space
Seattle, WA
Sunday, Mar 21, 2010, 2:30pm – 4:30pm

Handmade Music: Minneapolis
Minneapolis, MN
Thursday, Mar 25, 2010, 7pm – 12pm

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Make:PGH first meeting is Mar. 9th, 2010

08-Mar-10

We’re excited to announce the first meeting of Make:PGH, a new Make city group based in Pittsburgh. After the first attempt was thwarted by the snowpocalypse, we’re eager to get started. In the area? You should definitely stop by!

Action! Excitement! Danger!

We’re excited to announce the inaugural meeting of Make:PGH, the Steel City Makers! Interested in making stuff? Like the stuff that you see in MAKE magazine? Got cool projects to show off, or grand ideas that are soon to be realized? Want to hang out with other like-minded people? Then you should definitely come out to the meeting on Tuesday, February 9th, at 7pm!

We’ve got some good things lined up: presentations on the Makerbot, a laser harp, and an awesome activity, so be sure come out!

Marty McGuire: Makerbot

Marty McGuire is a research programmer at Carnegie Mellon and a council member for HackPittsburgh. He hopes one day to make “mad bank” thanks to open source hardware and the desktop fabbing revolution.

Marty will talk briefly about the MakerBot open source 3D printer, where it came from, and how it works. He’ll also give a short printing demo, and answer your questions!

Andy Leer: Fighting Domo

Andy Leer will share with us his experiences using the ioBridge to create fun interactive web enabled dioramas. Find out how with a few minutes and some simple hardware you too can put almost anything on the web.

Mystery Activity

Following the two fine presentations will be an activity of great interest and possible import!

Make:PGH Meeting 1 (take 2)
Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 7pm – 9pm
Hack Pittsburgh
1936 5th Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Cost: Freeeeeeeee

Want to see a Make: City group in your area? Gather some friends and some ideas, and make it happen! Be sure to let us know, and we can help you get started.

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“Ask an engineer” TONIGHT 10pm ET – Special guest Amanda “w0z” Wozniak

06-Mar-10

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I will helping out Ladyada with her weekly “Ask an Engineer” show again, tonight is a special treat – special guest Amanda “w0z” Wozniak – she designed the ICE TUBE clock enclosure that’s in the Maker Shed. W0z is a staff Electrical Engineer at Wyss Institute and formerly an applications Engineer at Analog Devices. This will be a great show, stop by at 10pm ET.

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Handmade Music Brooklyn 3/8 – Musical sewing machines, electro-country, + new venue!

06-Mar-10

Attention NYC noise-lovers – Handmade Music Brooklyn returns at our new venue, Galapagos Art Space!

Science fair, party, variety show – Handmade Music celebrates unusual DIY creations in music, with people who make their own tools to make their own music.

This month, Galapagos Art Space means a stage, a bar, and a huge lineup of FREE music:

ELECTRO-COUNTRY + unusual instruments with the Owen Lake band, covering honky-tonk country classics on synths and electronics and showing off Jeff Snyder’s original Manta touch instrument

AUGMENTED SEWING MACHINE + ENSEMBLE with monome and other creations, featuring Lara Grant (sewing machine) + Matt Ganucheau + Peter Kirn
AUDIOVISUAL HYPER-TRUMPET the TOOB, an expressive digital instrument

…plus surprises, hands-on with lots of inventions, plenty of makers and technologists to meet and buy beers in exchange for tips, crafters, inventors, and more.

Hosted by createdigitalmusic.com, the craft marketplace and community Etsy, the DIY bible Make Magazine, and the trend-setters of XLR8R Magazine

In addition to the above listed goodness, I’ll be on hand demoing some new MIDI toys – if you’re in the area, be sure to stop in and say hi!

Where: Galapagos Art Space, DUMBO Brooklyn [directions]
When: Doors open 7pm
Cost: FREE

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Dorkshop NYC: Physical Computing with David Cuartielles

05-Mar-10

Bring your Arduino if you’ve got one, see you there!

About This Dorkshop:

David Cuartielles will be speaking about the past present and future of the Arduino platform, both hardware and software. There will be an opportunity for DT students to share their work in quick 3 – 5 min presentations. What have you made with the Arduino? David’s talk and presentations will be followed by workshops on paper prototyping, hackduinos, and more. This event is free! However, if you plan on attending the workshop, there is a materials fee of $5.

Dorkshop: Physical Computing with David Cuartelles
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 – 12:00pm – 6:00pm
Parsons the New School for Design
2 W 13th Street, 10th Floor Design & Technology Lab
NYC, New York
RSVP at Dorkshop or view the event on Facebook

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Behind the scenes of OK Go’s Rube Goldberg video at Ignite Los Angeles

04-Mar-10

We’re in the middle of Global Ignite Week right now, and the first video from Global Ignite Week is up: a behind the scenes description at Ignite LA of the OK Go music video we covered recently:

Ok Go had a video idea for the recorded version of “This Too Shall Pass”. They approached Adam Sadowsky, president of Syyn Labs, to design a Rube Goldberg inspired machine in which they would base their music video around. After months of preparation and 20 consecutive 18 hr days, they finally got the perfect take. Adam explains all the tedious fun!

Music & Machines: OK Go’s Rube Goldberg Inspired Machine [via O'Reilly Radar]

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This week in Maker Events

03-Mar-10

Coming up this week:

March 2010 Dorkbot: Kit Night
Seattle, WA
Wednesday, Mar 3, 2010, 7pm – 10pm

Arduino Hacknight @HeatSync Labs
Mesa, AZ
Wednesday, Mar 3, 2010, 7pm – 10pm

HeatSync Labs Meeting
Mesa, AZ
Thursday, Mar 4, 2010, 7pm – 9pm

Intro to Metal Shop @i3Detroit
Royal Oak, MI
Thursday, Mar 4, 2010, 7pm – 9pm

Alt-Ignite/Free Software Night @TC Maker
Minneapolis, MN
Thursday, Mar 4, 2010, 7pm – 10pm

First Friday Flash Talks
Atlanta, GA
Friday, Mar 5, 2010, 7:30pm – 9pm

Finishit Friday@HackPittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Friday, Mar 5, 2010, 6pm + (movies at 7pm)

Arduino Intro/Learn to Solder @Baltimore Node
Baltimore, MD
Saturday, Mar 6, 2010, 1pm – 5pm

Introduction to Electronics @Metrix Create Space
Seattle, WA
Sunday, Mar 7, 2010, 2pm – 4:30pm

Maker Monday @CCCKC
Kansas City, KS
Monday, Mar 8, 2010, 1pm – 4:30pm

Make:SF @ reMake Lounge
San Francisco, CA
Tuesday, Mar 9, 2010, 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Project Lab with Expert Included
Berkeley, CA
Tuesday, Mar 9, 2010, 3pm – 6pm

Drop-in Arduino and Electronics classes
Berkeley, CA
Tuesday, Mar 9, 2010, 7pm – 9pm

Take Apart Tuesdays @Crash Space
Culver City CA
Tuesday, Mar 9, 2010, 8:30pm – 9:30pm

Maker Faire Detroit – Community Planning Meeting
Detroit, MI
Wednesday, Mar 10, 2010, 6pm – 8pm

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Maker Faire Newcastle
Newcastle, UK
Saturday, Mar 13, 2010 – Sunday, Mar 14, 2010

Bob Ross Paint-Along 2 @i3Detroit
Royal Oak, MI
Saturday, Mar 20, 2010, 2pm – 4pm, 4pm – 6pm, 6pm – 8pm

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Maker Faire Africa: Call for entries!

01-Mar-10

The fine folks behind Maker Faire Africa have announced that their 2010 faire will take place in Nairobi, Kenya on August, 6th and 7th, 2010, and have put out a call for makers. Last year’s Faire was in Ghana and was by all accounts a huge successes, and we look forward to seeing what happens at this year’s event!

Maker Faire Africa 2010
Friday, August 6, 2010 – Sunday, August 8, 2010
Nairobi, Kenya

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Recycling design competition

28-Feb-10

Background: The Recycling Designprize

It is an „open” competition which invites all creatives and designers with professional or semi-professional education to submit their works and concepts.

We ask for the design of objects made of “garbage” and/or industrial rests of production. The objects should be made for daily use or for décor. The objects should be planned for production in “smaller” or “bigger” series in the frame of an institution of employment promotion. It is not allowed to use materials which are marked with the “green point” (which is a special german collection system for the packing material of consumer goods).

The aim of the designprize

Via the use of “littered things” (from industry, handicraft), garbage, “residual material”, useless things shall become useable. The developed products shall be displayed for sale in institutions of employment promotion and generating so a social usability. The production of “clever”, “beautiful” and “useful” objects which award a prize conduce the environment and are a contribution for employment promotion.

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Tonight 10pm ET – “Ask an Engineer” – Another Make: Electronics night and more!

27-Feb-10

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I’ll be helping out Ladyada with another night of “Ask an engineer” – the weekly LIVE video show about electronics and more in NYC – stop by if you’re around! She’ll be going over some more chapters in the Make: Electronics book!

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This week in Maker Events

Make:PGH first meeting is Mar. 9th, 2010

“Ask an engineer” TONIGHT 10pm ET – Special guest Amanda “w0z” Wozniak

Handmade Music Brooklyn 3/8 – Musical sewing machines, electro-country, + new venue!

Dorkshop NYC: Physical Computing with David Cuartielles

Behind the scenes of OK Go’s Rube Goldberg video at Ignite Los Angeles

This week in Maker Events

Maker Faire Africa: Call for entries!

Recycling design competition

Tonight 10pm ET – “Ask an Engineer” – Another Make: Electronics night and more!

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