[MakeLV] Classes & Workshops

[Nathan Powell]

Somewhat tangential, but Boing Boing put up a link to a soldering
instructional comic yesterday. Might come in handy for teaching basic
soldering courses.
Blog entry - http://mightyohm.com/blog/2011/04/soldering-is-easy-comic-book/
Direct to the PDF -
http://mightyohm.com/files/soldercomic/FullSolderComic_EN.pdf

Nathan

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Josiah Ritchie
<josiah at josiahritchie.com>wrote:

> There seems to be a significant interest in MakeLV doing classes and
> workshops. The pinhole one certainly seemed good.
>
> I started a page on the wiki with some ideas of what people might enjoy. Do
> you have something we should add to the list? Would you like to volunteer to
> teach a class or lead a workshop on one of these or something else?
>
> Here is the list I've come up with:
>
>    - *Skills* - Basic Multimeter Skills, Advanced Multimeter Skills, Basic
>    Oscilloscope Skills, Basic 3D Printing, Basic Milling, Basic Laser Cutting,
>    Basic Laser Etching, Basic Soldering, SMD Soldering, Desoldering, Knife
>    Sharpening, Cable weaving,
>    - *Woodworking* - Selecting and Cutting woods, Pros and Cons of various
>    types of wood
>    - *Robotics* - Motor, Servos and Stepper Motor Skills, Wireless
>    control, Chassis Construction, Wheels versus Tracks
>    - *Electronics* - Relays, Transistors, ICs, LED, Resistors, motors,
>    XBee, piezo, lasers
>    - *Microcontrollers* - Arduino Basics, Advanced Arduino, Atmel
>    programming
>    - *Projects* - Line Following bots, Mouse Bots, Bristle Bots, Steady
>    Cam Mount, DTV Antenna, Soft Circuits (conductive play dough), Converting a
>    PC Power Supply into Benchtop Power Supply,
>    - *Salvage Skills* - Opening what wasn't meant to be opened, harvesting
>    raw materials from common items, where to find cool stuff
>    - *Photography* - Creating Custom Lenses, Camera Hacks,
>
>
> JSR/
>
> _______________________________________________
> Makelehighvalley mailing list
> Makelehighvalley at makelehighvalley.com
>
> http://makelehighvalley.com/mailman/listinfo/makelehighvalley_makelehighvalley.com
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://makelehighvalley.com/pipermail/makelehighvalley_makelehighvalley.com/attachments/20110811/836400c2/attachment.htm>