Workshop com Mitch Altman

Anyone can learn to solder! Even if you have never made anything in your life, you can learn this very useful and enjoyable skill. It really is fun!

Mitch Altman will bring open source electronic kits to make cool, practical, intriguing, hackable things that you can bring home after you make it. Mitch has taught tens of thousands of people how to solder all around the world. He can teach you, too! Of course, you can also bring your own projects to hack. And if you have anything to fix, bring it by! Get help, or give help. Or, just come by and hack.

What

   A place to get together to solder cool stuff! 
   You can easily learn all of the skills you need in a short time. 
   Make a project, and take it home with you! 
   If you have your own project (advanced or simple), 
   bring it by, and if you would like help, you can get it! 

When/Where

   Matehackers, 28/06/2013, 19:30
   Garoa Hacker Club, 30/06/2013, 16:00

Who

   You! All ages, all skill levels 
   Come join us. Everyone is welcome. 

Cost

   Instruction is free! 
   We ask that people pay only for the cost of the parts used -- kit prices range from BRL 10 to BRL 50. 

Plenty of *cool kits* are available to make, including:

 * /*TV-B-Gone*/ (turn off TVs in public places!)
 * /*Brain Machine*/ (Meditate, Hallucinate, and Trip Out!)
 * /*LOL Shield*/ (Lots Of LEDs!)
 * /*Mignonette Game*/ (play fun games!)
 * /*Trippy RGB Waves*/ (interactive blinky lights!)
 * /*LEDcube*/ (animated 3D cube!)
 * /*MiniPOV*/ (more cool blinky lights!)
 * /*MintyBoost*/ (charge your USB enabled gadgets!)
 * /*Hello My Name Is... badge*/ (Geeky, blinky version!)
 * /*microcontroller programmers*/ (program all your AVR family chips!)
 * /*Arduino clones*/ (make just about anything!)
 * And more.

More info on these projects is available at:

 * Cornfield Electronics <http://www.cornfieldelectronics.com/>
 * Adafruit <http://www.adafruit.com/>
 * Applied Platonics <http://www.appliedplatonics.com/>
 * Jimmie Rodgers <http://www.jimmieprodgers.com/>
 * Evil Mad Scientist <http://www.evilmadscientist.com/>
 * Analog Machines <http://analogmachines.com/>

Mitch Altman is a San Francisco-based hacker and inventor, best known for inventing TV-B-Gone remote controls, a keychain that turns off TVs in public places. He was also co-founder of 3ware (a Silicon Valley RAID controller company), did pioneering work in Virtual Reality at VPL Research, and created the Brain Machine, one of MAKE Magazine's most popular DIY projects. For the last many years he has been on the road from hackerspace to hacker-con leading workshops around the world, teaching one and all to make cool things with electronics and teaching everyone to solder with his open source hardware kits. Mitch is one of the co-founders of Noisebridge, a San Francisco hacker space, and President and CEO of Cornfield Electronics.