I wish for all of you to attack, in the name of improvement or destruction,
the following set of ideas/observations.
1) We have a lot of people come down to AHA and look around a bit bug-eyed,
agape in wonderment at all the things we do; but a significant proportion
of those people don't seem to connect their imaginations to potential
outcomes with those tools.
2) The zip-tie ceiling was an attempt to shove actualization into peoples'
hands. It kinda worked.
3) I get the impression that AHA unintentionally is a barrier to entry into
hacking. Hacking and creating from nothing is a daunting ideological
realization, and I suspect that many who visit us have apprehension that
they ain't l33t enough to hang with us.
4) Therefore, we need to have a series of courses to introduce layfolk to
hackerology.
5) These courses should cover introductory electronics, PCB design, 3D
modeling, laser cuttering, 3D printering, CNCering, introductory Linux,
introductory programming, and a few follow-up classes to complexify the
former.
I'd like to see AHA spin up a menu of these courses and offer them thrice
yearly: fall, winter, summer.
Blast this idea or contribute to it's realization, yes!
So do you mean maybe more of a set of entry classes? Rather than, First of
the month is 3D printer, 3rd is laser etc. Do more of a set of classes? ie:
***
SO YOU WANT TO HACK?....Well we have a set of classes for you! Feel free to
jump in at any point, each class is both independant and interconnected to
all the others.
We will interchange on a weekly (biweekly?) basis, of having a physical
hacking class and a more intangible hacking class.
**Design Meetup: *What projects do you have to work on? What do you want to
make? Lets meet up and discuss. Following classes will help in supporting
your projects.
1. Group Code Academy, http://www.codecademy.com/. Need a refresher on your
your programming/scripting skills? We'll meet as a group and go over this
useful resource, and try to push you to finish the entire site. Coffee will
be provided.
2. Laser cutter! Never used one? We'll go over the basics, safety
precautions, and let you leave with a nice little bookholder.
3. Arduino 1.0! If you know basic programming, lets put that to work. Make
lights blink, make basic noisees, have a switch turn. Think back, how could
that connect to the previous two classes.
4. Wood working. ....(honestly not srue what to do here....safety class?
make a box for the arduino project?)
**Design Meetup2: *How are your projects going? What could we focus more on
to help.
5. 3D modeling. Next class we'll tangibly make what you modeled this week.
6. 3D printer. Need a box for that arduino project? Want to take that data
you're charting on your website and turn it into a tangible object? Check
this out.
7. HTML/CSS....never have a website before? Well we have servers at AHA.
Lets get ya'll set up with a basic website with the space YOU are buying as
a member.
8. Wireless Arduino. Heat print your tweets. Make a LED that blinks whenver
Apple's stock goes up. Etc.
**Design Meetup3: *Show and tell. Are you done? Lets see!
Something like that?
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Alexander Honkala <
> I wish for all of you to attack, in the name of improvement or
> destruction, the following set of ideas/observations.
> 1) We have a lot of people come down to AHA and look around a bit
> bug-eyed, agape in wonderment at all the things we do; but a significant
> proportion of those people don't seem to connect their imaginations to
> potential outcomes with those tools.
> 2) The zip-tie ceiling was an attempt to shove actualization into peoples'
> hands. It kinda worked.
> 3) I get the impression that AHA unintentionally is a barrier to entry
> into hacking. Hacking and creating from nothing is a daunting ideological
> realization, and I suspect that many who visit us have apprehension that
> they ain't l33t enough to hang with us.
> 4) Therefore, we need to have a series of courses to introduce layfolk to
> hackerology.
> 5) These courses should cover introductory electronics, PCB design, 3D
> modeling, laser cuttering, 3D printering, CNCering, introductory Linux,
> introductory programming, and a few follow-up classes to complexify the
> former.
> I'd like to see AHA spin up a menu of these courses and offer them thrice
> yearly: fall, winter, summer.
> Blast this idea or contribute to it's realization, yes!
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M.S. in Information '13
Human-Computer Interaction
Univ. of Michigan School of Information
Partial M.Arch. from Univ. of Michigan
Mech. Eng. and Tech. Comm. dual B.S.
Michigan Technological University
<http://twitter.com/MichaelSenkow>Alumni of Mu Beta Psi
General Technics Member
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Michael S <senk...@umich.edu> wrote:
> So do you mean maybe more of a set of entry classes? Rather than, First of
> the month is 3D printer, 3rd is laser etc. Do more of a set of classes? ie:
> ***
> SO YOU WANT TO HACK?....Well we have a set of classes for you! Feel free
> to jump in at any point, each class is both independant and interconnected
> to all the others.
> We will interchange on a weekly (biweekly?) basis, of having a physical
> hacking class and a more intangible hacking class.
> **Design Meetup: *What projects do you have to work on? What do you want
> to make? Lets meet up and discuss. Following classes will help in
> supporting your projects.
> 1. Group Code Academy, http://www.codecademy.com/. Need a refresher on
> your your programming/scripting skills? We'll meet as a group and go over
> this useful resource, and try to push you to finish the entire site. Coffee
> will be provided.
> 2. Laser cutter! Never used one? We'll go over the basics, safety
> precautions, and let you leave with a nice little bookholder.
> 3. Arduino 1.0! If you know basic programming, lets put that to work. Make
> lights blink, make basic noisees, have a switch turn. Think back, how could
> that connect to the previous two classes.
> 4. Wood working. ....(honestly not srue what to do here....safety class?
> make a box for the arduino project?)
> **Design Meetup2: *How are your projects going? What could we focus more
> on to help.
> 5. 3D modeling. Next class we'll tangibly make what you modeled this week.
> 6. 3D printer. Need a box for that arduino project? Want to take that data
> you're charting on your website and turn it into a tangible object? Check
> this out.
> 7. HTML/CSS....never have a website before? Well we have servers at AHA.
> Lets get ya'll set up with a basic website with the space YOU are buying as
> a member.
> 8. Wireless Arduino. Heat print your tweets. Make a LED that blinks
> whenver Apple's stock goes up. Etc.
> **Design Meetup3: *Show and tell. Are you done? Lets see!
> Something like that?
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Alexander Honkala <
> alexander.honk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hallo,
>> I wish for all of you to attack, in the name of improvement or
>> destruction, the following set of ideas/observations.
>> 1) We have a lot of people come down to AHA and look around a bit
>> bug-eyed, agape in wonderment at all the things we do; but a significant
>> proportion of those people don't seem to connect their imaginations to
>> potential outcomes with those tools.
>> 2) The zip-tie ceiling was an attempt to shove actualization into
>> peoples' hands. It kinda worked.
>> 3) I get the impression that AHA unintentionally is a barrier to entry
>> into hacking. Hacking and creating from nothing is a daunting ideological
>> realization, and I suspect that many who visit us have apprehension that
>> they ain't l33t enough to hang with us.
>> 4) Therefore, we need to have a series of courses to introduce layfolk to
>> hackerology.
>> 5) These courses should cover introductory electronics, PCB design, 3D
>> modeling, laser cuttering, 3D printering, CNCering, introductory Linux,
>> introductory programming, and a few follow-up classes to complexify the
>> former.
>> I'd like to see AHA spin up a menu of these courses and offer them thrice
>> yearly: fall, winter, summer.
>> Blast this idea or contribute to it's realization, yes!
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------
> M.S. in Information '13
> Human-Computer Interaction
> Univ. of Michigan School of Information
> Partial M.Arch. from Univ. of Michigan
> Mech. Eng. and Tech. Comm. dual B.S.
> Michigan Technological University
> <http://twitter.com/MichaelSenkow>Alumni of Mu Beta Psi
> General Technics Member
I like Michael's modification plus a pile of documented project ideas, ideally ones that are - Multi-tool and multi-week to bind everything together. - Multi-person to help new people meet each other and play on each other's strengths. - Thought through enough by current makers to ensure that they're reasonably sane, safe and doable. - Have a cool factor beyond "I made this thing for a class".
I think some people come in with project itches or can think of them pretty quickly, but some people come in liking the ambiance and wanting to play with the tools, but without clear projects in mind, and we should try to get them engaged with totally sweet awesomeness.
Mike.
On May 22, 2012, at 11:42 PM, Alexander Honkala wrote:
> That's one form it could take. I had envisioned it more as a series of independent classes, but chaining them into progress meetings could also work.
> -X
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Michael S <senk...@umich.edu> wrote:
> So do you mean maybe more of a set of entry classes? Rather than, First of the month is 3D printer, 3rd is laser etc. Do more of a set of classes? ie: > ***
> SO YOU WANT TO HACK?....Well we have a set of classes for you! Feel free to jump in at any point, each class is both independant and interconnected to all the others.
> We will interchange on a weekly (biweekly?) basis, of having a physical hacking class and a more intangible hacking class.
> *Design Meetup: What projects do you have to work on? What do you want to make? Lets meet up and discuss. Following classes will help in supporting your projects.
> 1. Group Code Academy, http://www.codecademy.com/. Need a refresher on your your programming/scripting skills? We'll meet as a group and go over this useful resource, and try to push you to finish the entire site. Coffee will be provided.
> 2. Laser cutter! Never used one? We'll go over the basics, safety precautions, and let you leave with a nice little bookholder.
> 3. Arduino 1.0! If you know basic programming, lets put that to work. Make lights blink, make basic noisees, have a switch turn. Think back, how could that connect to the previous two classes.
> 4. Wood working. ....(honestly not srue what to do here....safety class? make a box for the arduino project?)
> *Design Meetup2: How are your projects going? What could we focus more on to help.
> 5. 3D modeling. Next class we'll tangibly make what you modeled this week. > 6. 3D printer. Need a box for that arduino project? Want to take that data you're charting on your website and turn it into a tangible object? Check this out. > 7. HTML/CSS....never have a website before? Well we have servers at AHA. Lets get ya'll set up with a basic website with the space YOU are buying as a member.
> 8. Wireless Arduino. Heat print your tweets. Make a LED that blinks whenver Apple's stock goes up. Etc. > *Design Meetup3: Show and tell. Are you done? Lets see!
> Something like that?
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Alexander Honkala <alexander.honk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hallo,
> I wish for all of you to attack, in the name of improvement or destruction, the following set of ideas/observations.
> 1) We have a lot of people come down to AHA and look around a bit bug-eyed, agape in wonderment at all the things we do; but a significant proportion of those people don't seem to connect their imaginations to potential outcomes with those tools.
> 2) The zip-tie ceiling was an attempt to shove actualization into peoples' hands. It kinda worked.
> 3) I get the impression that AHA unintentionally is a barrier to entry into hacking. Hacking and creating from nothing is a daunting ideological realization, and I suspect that many who visit us have apprehension that they ain't l33t enough to hang with us.
> 4) Therefore, we need to have a series of courses to introduce layfolk to hackerology.
> 5) These courses should cover introductory electronics, PCB design, 3D modeling, laser cuttering, 3D printering, CNCering, introductory Linux, introductory programming, and a few follow-up classes to complexify the former.
> I'd like to see AHA spin up a menu of these courses and offer them thrice yearly: fall, winter, summer.
> Blast this idea or contribute to it's realization, yes!
> -- > -----------------------------------------------------
> M.S. in Information '13
> Human-Computer Interaction
> Univ. of Michigan School of Information
> Partial M.Arch. from Univ. of Michigan
> Mech. Eng. and Tech. Comm. dual B.S.
> Michigan Technological University
> Alumni of Mu Beta Psi
> General Technics Member
