America's Fiber Optic Future: Susan Crawford on how America's wired future is slipping away.

About this Event

An educational and fun event to learn about fiber optics and America's digital future with a reading and Q&A with Susan Crawford, author of "Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution―and Why America Might Miss It".

Light refreshments from 6-6:30pm, author reading and Q&A from 6:30-7:30pm, and networking and book signing from 7:30-8pm.

This is a family-friendly event and all are welcome.

Personally author signed copies of "Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution―and Why America Might Miss It" book will be for sale for $30.

Hosted by Municipal Broadband PDX, Make + Think + Code and the Digital Commonwealth Alliance.

Instructor: Amber Case

Calm Technology is a framework for designing ubiquitous devices that engage our attention in an appropriate manner. The aim of Calm Technology is to provide principles that follow the human lifestyle and environment in mind, allowing technology to amplify humanness instead of taking it away.

The difference between an annoying technology and one that is helpful is how it engages our attention. This workshop will cover how to use principles of Calm Technology to design the next generation of connected devices. We’ll look at notification styles, compressing information into other senses, and designing for the least amount of cognitive overhead.

Structure and activities

Students will work in groups to solve a series of design challenges, including designing new products, ‘calming down’ a complex ones, communicating the principles of Calm Technology across an organization and team, and entering a product successfully into the marketplace.

You’ll learn how to:

Use principles of Calm Technology to design the next generation of connected devices.

Design appropriate notification systems into both physical and software products

Communicate the principles of Calm Technology to your across your organization and team

Use methods of Calm Technology to design technology for generations, not seasons.

Enter your product successfully into the marketplace.

Who is the workshop for?

This workshop is for anyone that actively builds or makes decisions about technology, especially user experience designers, product designers, managers, creative directors and developers. Attendees are encouraged to have some background in user experience design and look at http://calmtech.com/ or Designing Calm Technology before the workshop.

Bringing a laptop is not required, as work will be done on paper and in groups.

We have a limited number of scholarships for our workshops. If you need an application, please send an email to [email protected] with your complete name and contact information.

If you need academic credits for the workshops, please contact [email protected].

Instructor: Amber Case

Sound is one of the most commonly overlooked components in product design, even though it’s often the first way people interact with many products. When designers don’t pay enough attention to sound elements, customers are frequently left with annoying and interruptive results. This practical workshop covers several methods that product designers and managers can use to improve everyday interactions through an understanding and application of sound design.

Understand the place of sound in design, and how it can make a difference in your product

Learn key concepts in sound design, with patterns and principles you can use to improve user experience

Learn how to integrate sound design into a project

Use exercises to help evaluate sound design

We have a limited number of scholarships for our workshops. If you need an application, please send an email to [email protected] with your complete name and contact information.

If you need academic credits for the workshops, please contact [email protected].

CyborgCamps are small, in-depth unconferences about the future of the relationship between humans and technology. Attendees discuss a variety of topics such as the futures of identity, privacy, surveillance, hardware to wetware, drones, 3D printing, cyberpunk, human augmentation, constructed reality, the second self, ethics, robot rights, sexuality, urban design, and anthropology. Topics are discussed the morning of the conference and scheduled into the conference grid by attendees themselves, making it a DIY conference experience.

In addition to the above topics, the following has been discussed at CyborgCamps around the world: cyborgs, wearables, prosthetics, sensors, control systems, assistive tech, transcendence, transhumanism, technological singularity, artificial intelligence, intelligence amplification, utopia / distopia / weird topia, identity, quantified self, exocortex, ubicomp, robots, sensory augmentation, steam punk, philosophy, ethics, intelligence, the borg, hackerspaces, telepresence, science fiction, DIY, cryonics, cybernetics, open source, nanotech, augmented reality, brain-computer interface, artificial life, functional electrical stimulation, and neural science. Each CyborgCamp has its own mix of topics created by what the attendees want to discuss. All CyborgCamps follow a Code of Conduct.

A party for hacking, discovering, and sharing hardware Teardown is an event put on by Crowd Supply in association with Make+Think+Code @ PNCA. You can think of Teardown as live-action Crowd Supply, but with fewer cardboard boxes and packing peanuts. We’ll be bringing together hardware aficionados from around the world to celebrate, inspect, create, and, of course, tear down hardware. There will be long-time Crowd Supply creators and backers, as well as people we’re meeting for the first time. There will be hardware, art, food, drink, puzzles, workshops, tutorials, talks, music, field trips, and friends. Most of all, there will be ideas and projects to explore and inspire. We hope you’ll be there too!

Just the Facts
Who? Anyone interested in hardware: engineers, designers, artists, students, teachers…
What? A three-day line up of talks, workshops, demos, installations, and puzzles
When? Friday - Sunday, May 11 - 13, 2018
Where? Beautiful Portland, Oregon on the campus of the Pacific Northwest College of Art
Why? Shipping great hardware to you is rewarding, but we miss seeing you in person
How? With lots of help from our friends, including our partner, Make+Think+Code @ PNCA

For complete information please view the Teardown information page - https://www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/portland-2018

Meet the community team from Ultimaker, a prosumer 3D printing company.

Participate in the GrowLocal design Competition to win some amazing prizes. Full details at our website.

The theme of the competition is Growing Local, you can find some inspiration for what this entails at http://3dp.li/umgrowlocal . For the competition we are focusing on indoor and window gardens. There are no physical dimension limits but remember that you'll want to transport the garden design to the meetup on April 19th for display and judging.

The Portland 3D Printing Lab is kicking off 2018 with a very special guest- Carbon (formerly Carbon3D) will be hosting our Meetup and talking about their unique technology and partnerships in shoes, cars, and high tech. This company is expanding well beyond prototyping with 3D printing and are creating finished products on their technology. Learn all about it here and meet with the amazing Portland 3D printing community while you're at it!

NOTE: As of June 2017, we have moved the monthly meetup to the Pacific Northwest College of Art just a few blocks from OSB. Thank you to Oregon Story Board for being a fantastic host for the past 1.5 years! We greatly appreciate it.

August 2017 Agenda:

• Overview of HoloLens news and announcements

• Other Presentation(s) TBD - if you have any ideas for speakers, please email [email protected]

• Open Mic / Q & A

• Networking

NOTE: As of June 2017, we have moved the monthly meetup to the Pacific Northwest College of Art just a few blocks from OSB. Thank you to Oregon Story Board for being a fantastic host for the past 1.5 years! We greatly appreciate it.

July 2017 Agenda:

• Overview of HoloLens news and announcements

• Other Presentation(s) TBD - if you have any ideas for speakers, please email [email protected]

• Open Mic / Q & A

• Networking

Our October Meetup will give you an intimate glimpse into MarkForged, who are delivering FDM 3D prints with high-strength carbon fiber and kevlar cord incorporated into into Nylon. Our sponsors - Engitype and MarkForged - will be there to speak about how the technology works, the materials available, the many different applications, and they might even reveal the Mark X, their newest machine. If you're interested in high-strength, functional 3D prints, you should check this out.

We'll have four presentations covering the new :

715p - MarkForged Materials. - Onyx - Carbon Fiber Filled Nylon and beyond.
735p - Eiger Software - Staging and more - Jacob
755p - MarkX - Presentation - Savage
810p - MarkForged VS The World - (How does the MF printer line-up compare to other printers) - Fred

We'll have food, drink, beer at this meetup, courtesy of Markforged and Engitype. Sign up soon, as space is limited! Please bring your 3D printers, prints to show off during the networking portion!

Who: DIYers, Professionals, Designers, Beginners
When: Wednesday, Oct 26, 2015 6:00 PM
Where: PNCA

Agenda: 6:00pm - Networking & Check out the Mark X 7:00pm - Introduction & community time. 7:15pm - Presentations 8:30pm - More networking

Civic Data Design Challenge

A project with Hack Oregon and PNCA

In our Civic Data Visualization Workshop, Hack Oregon and PNCA students have been working on a project to redesign the way Oregonians understand and interact with campaign funding in our state.

Join us for a day of creative co-working as we invite the community to use our API to tackle other creative challenges with data surrounding this election year.

We'll also show a sneak peak of our beta product before the official launch in May.

Don't worry if you're not technical-- every person has a valuable perspective and we'll have mentors from the politcal, tech, and design community to help bring ideas to life.

Register your own team, bring your own project pitch, or join others at the event.

Want to know more about our project and design workshop?

Follow our blog at hackoregon.org

Hack Oregon is diving deep into local election data!  
They just wrapped up a workshop at Pacific Northwest College of Design where they were program to visualize the flow of campaign money in Oregon.  
To celebrate the end of term, they are hosting a hackathon and inviting the community out to come build more civic-inspired projects with the data they've collected.  
Sources include ORESTAR database (campaign expenditures and contributions) voter registration database and more! 
Some people are coming with their own pitches and others are looking to join a team that inspires them.  
Register early on eventbrite.  Contact [masked] if you have questions about pitches or possibilities.  
See you there!

The Founder Institute is the world's largest early-stage accelerator. Join us for a informational event where you can meet the local Directors, ask questions, and learn how you can launch a startup with the Founder Institute's help.

Pitching your startup ideas effectively is a crucial skill that will help you acquire financing, customers, partners, and top talent. In just three hours, the Startup Pitch Bootcamp will help you improve your pitching skills and recruit potential co-founders. This intensive, collaborative workshop begins with talks by leading startup Founders designed to help you understand the key ingredients of a successful pitch. Then, you can apply that learning and pitch to both experts and peers to receive constructive feedback in a relaxed setting. Join us for a fun evening!

The MFA in Collaborative Design welcomes David Aycan as part of the 2012-2013 Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series. David Aycan is the Business Design Director at IDEO and has experience integrating a strategic business perspective with a human centered approach to design. During his seven years at IDEO, his experience has ranged across several industries from commercial real estate to technology and food and beverage to insurance. Prior to joining IDEO, David co-founded and ran skateboard company Wongneto and clothing company Dull Clothes.

http://www.ideo.com/people/david-aycan

Event is free.

FEE: $35

This is a an opportunity for 20-30 people to build their own arduino compatible "Dorkboard", A complete microprocessor based development environment which is very popular with artists and other creative people. Tempus Dictum and DorkbotPDX have put together a kit and a programmer as a local resource at a very low cost. This seminar is to walk you through putting one together and programming it.

You Bring

-A laptop -A soldering iron (20-30W Pencil type) -A standard (not mini) usb cable (A->B) -A pair of dikes (wire cutters/nippers) -$35

You will get

-A duce usb to serial programmer -A Dorkboard! (an Arduino clone) Kit -An introduction to the Arduino and microcontrollers in an artists setting -Help when you need it -To know that what you built worked at least once

How do I rsvp? Via paypal -- Select the session on the TDI Products page: (http://tempusdictum.com/tdproducts.html)

Cost: $8

Please register by emailing jim at jimeastman dot com

Learn how to work with surface mount technologies. This workshop is suitable for newcomers to SMT as well as more experienced hobbyists who are looking for a reliable method for building projects using SMT. We will cover the basics of surface mount parts and the tools necessary to work efficiently with them, including a temperature controlled hot plate reflow system which you can build. And we will offer a hands on build session where you will go through all the steps in populating a PCB with parts and doing the reflow soldering process to end up with a working project.

No tools or prior experience is required although, if possible, please bring a soldering iron, some type of magnifier (reading glasses, visor, etc), a desk or work lamp and a good pair of fine point tweezers. We will have some tools available to use during the workshop.

You will get a circuit board and parts kit for use during the class that is yours to keep.

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A unique, free workshop geared at teaching sound synthesis fundamentals as explored and demonstrated through Pure Data.

Fascinated by orgies of towering analog synthesizes from the 60s? Mesmerized by how computers can generate sound that offends and elates? In this causal yet intense session, we will cover the basics of audio signal theory while exploring the common techniques and tricks used by sound designers and synth builders.

We will progressively cover theories/techniques from the ground up, so no formal experience is required. We will make some noise.

When?

Sunday, May 29, 2011 1-5pm PST

Where?

Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) Room 205, Portland, OR, US

Participants should bring:

• A mac/linux/windows laptop with a functioning Pd installation.
• A basic/rudimentary knowledge of Pd
• Headphones
• An eagerness to learn, develop, and share!

The Pd synthesis workshop is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Seating is limited (to about 30) on a first-come, first-serve basis.

The PNCA workshops are at the Pacific Nortwest College of Art (1241 NW Johnson St.) from 1-5 in the afternoon, usually in room 205.

FEE: $35

Please join us on the last Sunday of the month for one or more of these opportunities to learn. This may change somewhat given schedule conflicts withe PNCA which has graciously hosted these classes for the last 3 years. I will be at the open lab Sunday and would like to discuss what could be done to make the workshops and workshop schedule better serve the community.

The PNCA workshops are at the Pacific Nortwest College of Art (1241 NW Johnson St.) from 1-5 in the afternoon, usually in room 205.

FEE: $35

Please join us on the last Sunday of the month for one or more of these opportunities to learn. This may change somewhat given schedule conflicts withe PNCA which has graciously hosted these classes for the last 3 years. I will be at the open lab Sunday and would like to discuss what could be done to make the workshops and workshop schedule better serve the community.

The PNCA workshops are at the Pacific Nortwest College of Art (1241 NW Johnson St.) from 1-5 in the afternoon, usually in room 205.

Open to the Public Workshop free balloon building supplies

Introduction to DIY Aerospace

Mathew Lippincott will be giving a lecture and demonstration of aerospace in the arts and Grassroots Mapping Tools

Expect a fascinating lecture followed by discussion and 2 hours of hands on balloon building. supplies and tools provided.

contact: mathew dot lippincott at gmail dot com for questions or over enthusiastic support if you can't sleep the night before.

Please join us on the last Sunday of the month for one or more of these opportunities to learn. This may change somewhat given schedule conflicts withe PNCA which has graciously hosted these classes for the last 3 years. I will be at the open lab Sunday and would like to discuss what could be done to make the workshops and workshop schedule better serve the community.

The PNCA workshops are at the Pacific Nortwest College of Art (1241 NW Johnson St.) from 1-5 in the afternoon, usually in room 205.

What: This is a an opportunity for 20-30 people to build their own arduino compatible "Dorkboard", A complete microprocessor based development environment which is very popular with artists and other creative people. Tempus Dictum and DorkbotPDX have put together a kit and a programmer as a local resource at a very low cost. This seminar is to walk you through putting one together and programming it Where: PNCA -- 1241 NW Johnson Ave, Room 205 When: Sunday Jan 30, 2011 from 1 to 5pm (other sessions to be scheduled soon) You Bring

A laptop A soldering iron (20-30W Pencil type) A standard (not mini) usb cable (A->B) A pair of dikes (wire cutters/nippers) $35 You will get

A duce usb to serial programmer A Dorkboard! (an Arduino clone) Kit An introduction to the Arduino and microcontrollers in an artists setting Help when you need it To know that what you built worked at least once How do I rsvp? Via paypal -- Select the session on the TDI Products page: (http://tempusdictum.com/tdproducts.html)

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On Sunday September 26th Jim Eastman will be presenting an electronics course for artists, dorks and musicians.

Course short description: Blinkey lights and strange noises! With some brief lessons on electronics, you can do this and more!

This class will be a combination of theory and hands on building a circuit which will be used as the focus of the workshop.

Topics to be covered:

• Fundamentals of electronic theory
• Basic electronic devices
• How to work with electronic components
• Things that go blink: optoelectronics
• Things that go buzz: audio electronics (including kit building time)
• Resources for future electronics projects

About Jim Eastman: Jim has been studying and building electronics since his early days of geekdom. After two engineering degrees, he now gets to fiddle with these things full time. He spent several years designing electronics in the medical devices industry while working on audio side projects on his time. He now teaches electronics in the Portland area.

When:Sunday, September 26th, from 1-5 pm.

PNCA NW 12th and Johnson room 205

What to Bring: A soldering iron and some basic tools.

How to RSVP: you can rsvp for this class at http://www.tempusdictum.com/tdproducts.html if you are unable to paypal for the course you must make some arrangements so that enough materials will be present at the course. The course will be limited to 25 seats.

The cost of the course is $35 and it includes a mic line tester kit that you will build as a focal part of the lecture.

Come work on electronics projects!

There will be a mini surface mount soldering workshop, and an introduction to XMegas.

..or bring your own projects to work on!

This is a an opportunity for 20-30 people to build their own arduino compatible "Dorkboard", A complete microprocessor based development environment which is very popular with artists and other creative people. Tempus Dictum and DorkbotPDX have put together a kit and a programmer as a local resource at a very low cost. This seminar is to walk you through putting one together and programming it.

The group will meet in room 205 of the PNCA.

A DorkbotPDX Un-workshop.

We will be focusing on interfacing PD physical world. You will use knobs, buttons, and lewd gestures to control patches within Pd. Similarly we will teach you how to reverse this process and use your Pd patch to control the entire world. We will interface with MIDI devices, off the shelf USB devices, other computers and custom hardware/sensors using the Midi Monster designed by Don D. Davis.

http://dorkbotpdx.org/workshop/pd/2-interfacing_with_the_world

This is a an opportunity for 20-30 people to build their own arduino compatible "Dorkboard", A complete microprocessor based development environment which is very popular with artists and other creative people. Tempus Dictum and DorkbotPDX have put together a kit and a programmer as a local resource at a very low cost. This seminar is to walk you through putting one together and programming it Where: PNCA When: Sunday January 31th from 1 to 5pm (other sessions to be scheduled soon) You Bring

* A laptop
* A soldering iron (20-30W Pencil type)
* A mini usb cable (MINI A->B)
* A pair of dikes (wire cutters/nippers)
* $35

You will get

* A Benito compatible usb to serial programmer
* A Dorkboard! (an Arduino clone) Kit
* An introduction to the Arduino and microcontrollers in an artists setting
* Help when you need it
* To know that what you built worked at least once

How do I rsvp?

* Via paypal -- Select the session on the TDI Products page:
  (http://tempusdictum.com/tdproducts.html)

DorkbotPDX Open Lab, a place for people to do strange things with electricity.

Bring your projects and ideas for help, or bring your expertise to help others. Or just talk geek with a bunch of crazy dorks.

DorkbotPDX introduces free Pure Data workshop series

We are excited to announce a new workshop series devoted to Pure Data (Pd). http://puredata.info.

"Pd (aka Pure Data) is a real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing. It is the third major branch of the family of patcher programming languages known as Max (Max/FTS, ISPW Max, Max/MSP, jMax, etc.) originally developed by Miller Puckette and company at IRCAM."

Pure Data is free [FLOSS] software - meaning there is no charge for the download and it is open source, (free/libre). It runs wonderfully on Mac, Linux, Windows - so bring any laptop. Come with Pd-extended installed if possible - otherwise come a little early for installation assistance. The workshop is free as well!

We will will be doing several workshops starting from the ground up - and ranging topics as advanced as there is interest for.

Workshop One will be held May 17th. No prior Pd or programming knowledge is required, but expect to leave with functional knowledge of how to use Pd. The outline in progress can be found here: http://dorkbotpdx.org/wiki/pd_workshop_2009_outline.

But we want to hear from you! We'd love to get a rough idea of how many people are interested in attending.

Do you use Pd? Do you use similar commercial software like Max/MSP? Are you interested in learning Pd? Why? What are some of your ideas?

Pd is an incredibly open-ended platform so we're trying to get an idea of where the majority's (if there is a majority) interests lie.... Physical Interfaces for music? Live DSP? Generative composition? Video? Dance? Robotic cat toys? Feedforward most welcome!

Bring a laptop with Pd-extended installed, if possible. Otherwise come a little early for installation help! http://puredata.info.

Seating is limited to about 35, so please rsvp at http://dorkbotpdx.org/pd_rsvp or email jason@noisybox_net or coldham@mac_com.

• When: May 17th, 2009
• Where: PNCA room 205 (Portland, OR)
• Time: 1-5pm

ECONOMY: BAD. FREE WORKSHOP: GOOD!

  Come join Dorkbot Portland for a four-hour geek-a-thon in the heart of the Perl (yes, I went there) District. Isotopes not required.

  What's all this then? A bunch of us will gather in the drawing studio in room 205 on 3/29 at 1pm to partake in a free-form workshop. Bring a pet project, tools, or simply your curiosity and desire to force technological constructs to meet your expressive inner nature. We're nice, open-minded, artistic people with a bubbling technolust, a hot soldering iron, and stinky armpits.

  This is a place to brainstorm, but really to handstorm. Bring your ideas, let's share and explore together. Feel free to gloat, show-off, scorn, mimic, embrace, or destroy. Hi.

PNCA, Room 205 $25 to cult-at-tempusdictum.com

As previously announced this months focused workshop is about prototyping and it is intended to go with a second focused workshop on fabrication (in may). We will go over breadboarding, point to point wiring, breakout boards and a variety of techniques to get your projects prototyped. In the process we will build a "Sanguino" on a breadboard, add the core to our arduino environment, and program it. Then we will look at the next step of putting it on a protoboard. For more information on the "Sanguino" you can look at http://www.sanguino.cc this project was created by the reprap folk who needed more I/O for their projects. I will also be presenting as an example a small (as in tiny) project that I will be doing using breakout boards to make prototyping possible.

The workshop as always will be $25 and participants will walk away with a breadboard and all components necessary to build a bare bones "Sanguino" during the workshop. It will also include other items including a a protoboard and socket to move the design to something more permanent.

It is my hope that in between this months focused workshop and the fabrication workshop people can collectively look at how the hardware design can be improved on (see: similar designs such as laday ada's FuzeBox ( http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=133 ), and the pre-arduino Number 6 board ( http://six.media.mit.edu:8080/6/direction/get-your-board-ready/numberSixStuffed.jpg/view ).

In the fabrication workshop (31May09) we will lay out and etch a board based on this work. Additionally I will follow up the prototyping example from this months workshop by sending the design to be fabricated.

I am sorry that I wasn't able to get this finalized sooner but the extra cult induction kept me busy. Both inductions sessions went extremely well so I think it was worth it..

As usual you can RSVP by paypalling cult /at/ tempusdictum.com

[Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1513907/ ] This is a an opportunity for 20-30 people to build their own arduino compatible "Dorkboard", A complete microprocessor based development environment which is very popular with artists and other creative people. Tempus Dictum and DorkbotPDX have put together a kit and a programmer as a local resource at a very low cost. This seminar is to walk you through putting one together and programming it. Please see the event page for full description, what you'll build and get working, and how to pay.

[Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1506984/ ] This is a an opportunity for 20-30 people to build their own arduino compatible "Dorkboard", A complete microprocessor based development environment which is very popular with artists and other creative people. Tempus Dictum and DorkbotPDX have put together a kit and a programmer as a local resource at a very low cost. This seminar is to walk you through putting one together and programming it Please see the event page for full description, what you'll build and get working, and how to pay.

PNCA, 1241 NW Johnson St, Room 205, Portland, OR

The open lab is a chance to bring your projects to a group setting. Collaborate, interact or just seek sanity (or insanity) as you try to solder that one last component. If you've been to the Arduino Cult Induction, this is your chance to get help on anything was still unclear. If you are working on something entirely of your own devising, this is a chance to bounce your ideas of others. Get help with your soldering technique or just hang out and bask in the geekdom of others. Bring tools and parts and throw something together. We'll be there and we want to see what you're working on.

As a part of the ongoing Arduino Cult Induction workshop series, this month we will be focusing on sound.

In particular Don will be going over creating sound using the Arduino's built in Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) and Direct Digital Synthesis using resistive ladders. We will investigate using the Piezo element as both a simple speaker and an input trigger. We will review the Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) from a hardware and software perspective, and look at a couple of useful integrated circuits (the lm324 and the lm368).

The workshop will cost $25 and participants will recieve a complete midi interface board for the dorkboard/arduino and a piezo element which will be used to create a midi drum trigger. Participants will also take with them parts for an r2r ladder, an op amp and an audio amp capable of driving small speakers or headphones.

Participants should leave the workshop with a better understanding of how micro-controllers such as the Arduino can be used to create and control sound, they should have built at least one working musical controller and they should have the foundations for several sound related projects.

Please bring your dorkboard, rbba, or other arduino compatible board, a soldering iron or breadboard, and a laptop. The workshop will be held at PNCA (NW 12th and Johnson) in room 205 from 1-5pm on Sunday, November 30.

To reserve a space you can paypal the workshop fee to [email protected] and you can feel free to email that address with any questions.

The Arduino Cult Induction series of workshops are Sponsored by Tempus Dictum, Inc . in support of DorkbotPDX. (graphic by Jason Plumb )

"PDXplore: Designing Portland"

Five local members of the architecture and design community explore ideas about how Portland will grow and change in the years ahead.

The five participants are Rudy Barton, an architecture professor at Portland State and longtime chair of the school's architecture department; Rick Potestio, one of the city's most talented architects; Mike McCulloch, former head of the city's Design Commission and a veteran architect; Carol Mayer-Reed, a founding principal of landscape architecture firm Mayer-Reed; and William Tripp, another venerable local architect.

Pdxplore Barton's focus will be Portland's relationship to the Willamette River. Coming to Portland from New Orleans, he knows the tremendous opportunity but also the risk facing such environments. Reed will use a variety of aerial photos and other research material to try and define what makes the city unique from a topographical and natural perspective. McCulloch is creating a series of diagrams for the city called "River, Ravine and Ring". Tripp will present in his drawings the potential of what he calls "ritual space", the outdoor public areas essential to creating and fostering community. Potestio also loves to draw, and his illustrations will present a look at a Portland of tomorrow and how it can be far more dense without sacrificing what makes us unique.

On Tuesday, July 8 from 6-9PM, there will be a panel discussion in which the five designers discuss their work and ideas.

Workshop: Hands On Introduction to the Arduino.

This is a an opportunity for 20-30 people to build their own "Arduino", A complete microprocessor based development environment which is very popular with artists and other creative people. DorkbotPDX has put together a kit and a programmer as a local resource at a very low cost. This seminar is to walk you through putting one together and programming it