Laurie will help makers of all ages create a fleece monster with a self-love twist. While a younger child can enjoy the art of creating their own personalized toy, teenagers can create an expression of their personality, and adults will enjoy honing their hand sewing and crafting skills in an inventive way. This event is…

Join us as we partner with our upstairs friends at ETTAC to modify toys and make them more accessible for children with disabilities. We will be soldering, sewing, hacking, and packaging these toys back up to help children in East Tennessee have a more magical Christmas. We have plenty of toys in stock, but if…

Knox Makers will host a member onboarding session for new members. This night will start with a brief overview of the resources, rules, and goals of Knox Makers. Afterwards, members should feel welcome to stay and socialize. The focus of this evening will be on members who are new to Knox Makers, but older members…

If you wish to make a roast beef sandwich from scratch, you must first invent the foodiverse! Sean will present a maker's take on how to build the perfect sandwich from the ground up by roasting the meat, making the cheese, baking the bread, and creating the toppings from the most basic ingredients. On the…

WordPress is an open source platform for building websites, and Knoxville's WordPress group will gather for their monthly meeting to discuss WordPress topics. WooCommerce holds the market share for eCommerce and is roughly double the next contenders. What's more, WooCommerce is open source, offers free and premium plugins and extensions, and plugs up nicely to…

Linux is a free and open source operating system that has been in use since 1991. There are several versions available for different purposes, or personal preferences, and plenty of programs to run on this system. Users can navigate many Linux versions and the programs installed on them with graphic user interfaces, but one of…

Come out to Knox Makers for a board game night with fellow makers. Members are encouraged to bring board games and snacks/Thanksgiving leftovers. We hope to see you there!

Regardless of language, much of computer programming uses the same types of logic and reasoning to get our human ideas organized into steps a machine can understand and carry out. Tracy will focus on some of the broad concepts used in programming and teach some of the basic fundamentals to get you started toward completing…

If you have been to our space, you have probably seen the large, light up welcome sign, Farnsworth, hanging in front of the door when you come in. Farnsworth is ready for some new GIFs and pictures, and we would like to invite, to this class, all who are interested in learning how to create…

All makers will approach a project differently. Doug, Issac, Jondale, and Tracy will each describe the path they took, including all of the pitfalls, workarounds, and revisions, in creating their KILLSWITCH robot. Like all other Tuesday nights, this event is free and open to the public. Our night will begin with a Show and Share…

WordPress is responsible for more than a quarter of the browsable internet, and because it is so common, it is almost hard for criminals to avoid. A vast ecosystem of third-party plugins also ensure some percentage of the code will be vulnerable or even duplicitous. The means to scan the entire internet in advance allows…

Knox Makers members are welcome to join us as we hold our monthly board meeting. The board will be discussing pertinent topics happening around the space. All current, paying Knox Makers members are welcome to attend. This event is closed to the general public. Please note, this event will be held offsite. We will be…

This month’s meeting for the Knox Area Robotics Club will be a talk and tinker session. Members are encouraged to bring in robotics projects to work on and tinker with to collaborate and learn from each other. Show and Share will begin prompty at 6:30PM, and the tinkering will start around 7:00PM. Knox Area Robotics…

Knox Makers will host a member onboarding session for new members. This night will start with a brief overview of the resources, rules, and goals of Knox Makers. Afterwards, members should feel welcome to stay and socialize. The focus of this evening will be on members who are new to Knox Makers, but older members…

Have you been interested in working with Arduino but don't know where to start? We have got you covered! Ray will lead attendees of this class in building a digital music box to take home and show off with pride. In the process, students will assemble a battery-powered Arduino, audio amplifier, and speaker. Then, students…

Switching or linear? Ford or Chevy? Microsoft or Apple? Vi or Emacs? We may not settle the most contentious debates of our time, but we can better understand the basics of power supplies. Ray will provide an introduction to the purpose of power supplies and why we need them, the basic properties found in power…

Open hack nights are a chance for people to come out to Knox Makers and hack on anything at any skill level. You can come out to practice a new programming language, get help working on your personal projects, or try your hand at using the 3d printer. You might just come out to see…

Open hack nights are a chance for people to come out to Knox Makers and hack on anything at any skill level. You can come out to practice a new programming language, get help working on your personal projects, or try your hand at using the 3d printer. You might just come out to see…