James Broyles
Loudon County Senior Center Tour
Knox Makers 116 Childress St SW, Knoxville, TN, United StatesLoudon County Senior Center's senior citizens will be visiting Knox Makers. James will be leading a tour and brief presentation, with some light demonstrations planned. This event is free and open to the public. Other senior citizens are welcome to attend for networking, as well as makers of all ages. Minors will need supervision.
Bring Your Own Blog! – WordPress Meetup
Knox Makers 116 Childress St SW, Knoxville, TN, United StatesWordPress is an open source platform for building websites. This event is the monthly 3rd Wednesday Meetup for the local WordPress Knoxville Meetup group. Bring your own blog! We will be looking through everyone's blogs for off-the-cuff advice and reviews. This is a great networking opportunity, and a casual way to get live feedback. This follows our…
Free Community Leader Authorization – Learn to Setup and Use Pablo
Knox Makers 116 Childress St SW, Knoxville, TN, United StatesPablo the Polargraph Drawing Bot is a group build by members of Knox Makers and other community volunteers.
In this hands-on workshop, we will run through how to set up Pablo's pieces, hook up Pablo's pieces together, and how to connect and use the space mini-laptop designated for Pablo.
Pablo uses a Processing sketch to control the coordinates that Pablo draws as well as the chosen writing utensil that Pablo lifts and places on your canvas material while drawing.
KILLSWITCH Lightning Talks – Humility, Thoroughness, & Precision
Knox Makers 116 Childress St SW, Knoxville, TN, United StatesJoin us for 3 Lightning Talks, all about the general theme of KILLSWITCH. Issac, Billy, & Ray will each present for up to 15 minutes each about their robot and KILLSWITCH experience.
A Mad Engineer’s Haphazard Guide to Circuit-Bending
Knox Makers - Electronics 116 Childress St SW, Knoxville, TN, United StatesMasks required, free event.
Help make experimental "circuit-bent" keyboards using a crude and simple "try it and see" approach.
A video of a circuit bent musical instrument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooZCmeGfbEo
We will try to make weird sounds come out of some cheap keyboards that have been donated by a member. These keyboards are reserved for use at a later event, but participants will get their modified keyboards on or after December 21st.
Participants are encouraged to donate to electronics, but this event is free.
Mutant Toy Parade!
Event Name: Mutant Toy Parade! Date: 12/21 @ 8pm Location: W. Church Avenue &, S Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902 @ the Rowing Man statue Free and open to the public! Join us on a special "circuit-bent" sidewalk parade coming to Gay Street this Winter Solstice! Knox Makers teams up with Make Music Knoxville to…