DIY Workshops at METRIX CREATE:SPACE Seattle

METRIX CREATE:SPACE in Seattle, WA, is a maker space for people interested in all forms of DIY. They have all the resources and tools you need including 3D printers. They also have a number of workshops scheduled throughout the year. Their latest is a Light Sensitive Theremin Edition workshop:

"Hey! We've got an exciting series of workshops put together by resident engineer and awesome instructor Morgan Redfield. It's the Light Sensitive Theremin Edition: in three parts!

First up of the series is Intro to Schematic Design. Morgan will guide you through making electronics schematics, which is the first step in both properly documenting and moving from the breadboard to custom made circuit boards. You'll learn how to do this on Upverter, a cloud-engineering platform for hardware design. This is a great chance to ask specific questions about using this platform and discuss how to plan and go about designing your schematic.

Next up is Intro to PCB Design-- you will learn to turn the light sensitive theremin schematic into a circuit board! You will be guided through layout, finding parts and exporting a file that is ready for manufacturing. Fear this step no more, as you will learn to avoid common mistakes and ask an experienced engineer some specific advice that might help your future board-designing self.

The last in the series is Intro to Surface Mount Soldering. Have you become an expert with through-hole soldering and are ready to move further? Surface mount soldering is a powerful skill, you enter the world of tiny components which are used in most devices today. You will learn hands on how to populate and solder an SMD circuit board and go home confident that you have a working board.

You can read up more or sign up for these workshops on our Calendar or Buy & Learn page. You can always email, call, or stop in with questions!"

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Metrix Create:Space is a maker space in Seattle, WA. They have various DIY workshops and tons of tools you can rent out to do your DIY projects including 3D printers. Note the space is not exclusively synth centric so you can find other cool things to do as well. Click here for some posts featured here on MATRIXSYNTH.

Intro to Electronics at Seattle's Metrix Create:Space

"Voltage: It’s not just for making pretty graphs!

Come learn about voltage, current, the various elements it runs through, and how you can make them work for you and your awesome projects.

The Intro to Electronics workshop will cover the basics of building and understanding circuits through a series of hands on exercises that include reading schematics and working with LEDs, resistors, capacitors, buttons, and Integrated Circuits. All materials are included, just come ready to learn!

Tuesday, March 6th: 7-9:30 PM at Metrix Create: Space"

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Arduino Workshop Coming to Metrix Create:Space Seattle

via Metrix Create:Space

"The Intro to Arduino Workshop offers a place for complete beginners as well as those with a bit more experience with electronics and programming. Through a set of quick, hands on projects, we will be going over the basics of the Arduino Uno board and the programming platform. The workshop will set you up with a nice foundation to start creating your own exciting projects, from home monitoring systems to robots that make things happen to flashy lighting designs. We’ll provide the knowledge, you bring the inspiration!"


Update: and Intro to Electronics Workshop was also added.

"Another exciting Intro to Electronics workshop is coming up in a week. It’s perfect both for total beginners as well as those who need an electronics refresher..."

Arduino Workshops at Metrix Create:Space Seattle

via Metrix Create:Space where you'll find additional details.

"Two workshops will be held on Sunday: Intro to Arduino from 2-4 pm, and Arduino Programming from 5-7 pm. The Intro to Arduino workshop will cover the basics of what an arduino is, how it works, and gets you started controlling the world around you (and making lights blink and stuff). An arduino functions like a tiny computer. You give it commands (by programming it) and it executes them one at a time. Only the most basic programming is covered in this workshop.

Arduino Programming goes into more depth about how to get the arduino to do what you want..."

Circuit Bending Makeshop at Seattle's Metrix Create:Space

via Metrix Create:Space where you'll find a number of interesting make events, not just circuit bending and electronics. Be sure to see the rest of the site for more diy ranging from snow flakes to cool Valentine's Day cards to gravity powered, gear driven clocks.

On the Circuit Bending Makeshop:
"We are also super excited to announce another new Makeshop (see the flier at the top) in Circuit Bending. For $40, you will be led by an experienced circuit bender to mod your electronic toy (for $5 you can get a toy to mod if you don’t have one.). We will provide components."

On a general electronics workshop:
"Sunday, February 13 2-4:30pm is our popular Intro to Electronics workshop. For $50, you learn the basics of using simple electronic components. This is the best starting point for making all of those projects you’ve seen in Make: Magazine."