Skills exchange
This page lists both people wanting to give workshops (or other skill transfer) and people looking to acquire certain skills.
Once an event becomes more concrete, it will be announced on the members list and will shop up on the events page.
Skills transfers on offer
List of workshops that members feel they have the skills to give.
| Name | Level | Organiser | Interested | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soldering | Beginner | Brainsmoke | voidz0r | Soldering both through hole and SMD components. |
| Electronic circuit modelling using LTspice | Beginner | Chotee | Julf, voidz0r | Using the LTspice program to model electronic circuits |
| Electronics 101 | Beginner/Intermediate | Julf, Phicoh | Basics of electronics - theory and practice | |
| Principles of digital audio | Beginner/Intermediate | Julf, Phicoh | Basics digital sound recording, reproduction and processing | |
| Programming in Python | beginner / intermediate | Wizzup | mi1es | Learning to program using the python language. |
| (Unix) Programming (in C) | intermediate | Wizzup, Julf, Phicoh | Learning to program with C (also for specific topics: Network programming, etc). | |
| Arduino 101 | Beginner | mr_seeker | Learning to work with Arduino | |
| Hacking OpenWRT routers | Beginner / Intermediate | rad0, webmind | Julf, voidz0r | TBD - probably building your own image, piratebox, GPIO examples |
| USB Reverse engineering | Intermediate | stef | voidz0r | |
| Lockpicking | Beginner / Intermediate | muse | voidz0r | Can do both 101 or tackle more advanced locks, niche bypasses. |
| Defeating Tamper Evident devices | Beginner / Intermediate | muse | Probably costs for solvents, tools, tags, tapes, etc. | |
| Soldering | All levels | ultratux, Phicoh | Soldering and tricks, from XT60 connectors down to SMD | |
| Basic powertool safety and control | Beginner | ultratux | How to best ascertain you control the power tool instead of it controlling you. | |
| Building custom E-cig hardware | realitygaps | voidz0r | ||
| Creating 3d printable objects with OpenScad | Beginner | Chotee | Julf | Using OpenScad to design objects that can be 3d printed. |
| Laying out PCBs for manufacture | intermediate | Brainsmoke | Chotee, Julf, voidz0r, sjaan | I can teach the use of KiCAD (open source), possibly eagle as well, and how to get it printed |
| Creating designs for laser cutter in Inkscape. | Beginner | Brainsmoke | Julf, sjaan | Haven't cut anything with the cutter at techinc yet, but I can explain the things to think about when designing graphics for cutting. |
| SQL and MariaDB | Beginner/Intermediate | voidz0r | MariaDB is easy to pick up, knowledge acquired here allows you to dive more easily into other RDBMSs as well | |
| HTML5 and CSS3 | Beginner | voidz0r | ||
| Debian GNU/Linux | Beginner/intermediate | voidz0r | The universal operating system (and its derivatives, if desired). | |
| Sewing | Beginner | Narya | Operating a sewing machine. Making clothes from a pattern. See Sewing_workshop | |
| Bioinformatics and/or DNA sequencing | all levels | Narya | voidz0r | Theory and/or computer exercises |
Skills requested
List of skills you would want to have that you think Techinc members could give a training in.
| Description | Interested | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Creating objects for 3d printing | Julf | Hands on, not 5 hours of talk. |
| Blender, all things Blender! | ultratux, Julf, voidz0r++ | |
| FreeCAD | ultratux, Julf | |
| Brain-computer interfaces | voidz0r | |
| Pure Data or csynth | voidz0r | |
| Supercollider | voidz0r | |
| pf the OpenBSD packet filter | voidz0r | |
What to expect
Workshops are giving my fellow members who want to share their skills or are enthusiastic about something and want to share that. It is not a professional training.
