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. During this time,…

Pumpkin carving is a popular festivity around Halloween, but after a couple days, the pumpkins are left rotting on your porch ready to be thrown away. What if you did not have to throw away your pumpkin after Halloween was over? Greg will demonstrate how to make a metal pumpkin, and then, attendees of this…

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…

This month's DEFCON865 meeting is taking place at Knox Makers! Issac will lead a hands-on introduction to lockpicking with an informative talk followed by free time to experiment with a variety of practice locks and picking tools. We will meet at 6:00PM, eat some pizza, and hang out. The talk will begin around 6:30PM, and…

Join us, if you dare, for the annual Knox Makers Halloween Spook Show, hosted by horror aficionado issac! The evening will start out light, with a unique staging of a fun, 1960s-era horror flick and various short subjects. This material will be suitable for all but the faintest of heart; young folks are welcome. We'll…

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…

WordPress is an open source platform for building websites, and Knoxville's Wordpress group will gather for their monthly meeting to discuss Wordpress topics. Presenters are still needed for this month. If you are interested in leading a lightening talk or a main presentation, please contact the Wordpress group on Meetup. If no presenters are found,…

Due to low attendance, this event has been canceled.

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…

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…