Classes and Workshops

Introduction to Crochet: Make your own Jellyfish

With Cheryl Cambras, Saturday September 11th, 2010 Register here!

Introduction to Millinery: Fascinator Class

With Corina Haywood, Saturday September 12th, 2010 Register here!



Refund policy:

Please note, all class fees include a non-refundable enrollment deposit of $25 that will be deducted from your refund if you sign up for, then drop, a class. So, for example, if you sign up for Machine Sewing 101 and pay the $155 class fee, but then remember that you have trapeze school final exams that conflict with the Sewing class and shouldn’t have signed up after all, we will refund you $130 of your tuition payment.

Gift certificate purchase:

If you have a Machine Project gift certificate you’d like to redeem for a class, please email us at machine@machineproject.com and let us know.

Class Ideas?

Do you have any suggestions of workshops you’d like to see at Machine Project?

Email m@machineproject.com and let us know!


Past classes:

The classes below are over, but if you have interest in any of them, please let us know!

Pinhole Camera Workshop

With j.frede Sunday August 15th, 2010.

Amateur Bicycle Mechanics: Parent and Child Edition, + Intro to Junkyard Salvaging

With Mister Jalopy, Jesse and Randy. Tuesday August 10th, 2010.

Amplified Party + Contact Microphone Workshop

With Casey Anderson and John P. Hastings. Saturday July 31st, 2010.

Information Design: Transforming data into information, information into knowledge, and knowledge into stories

With Djego Padilla. Tuesday July 27th, Wednesday July 28th, Thursday July 29th, Friday July 30th, 2010.

Intro to Processing

With Chandler McWilliams. Sundays July 25th & August 1st, 2010 and Mondays July 26th & August 2nd, 2010.

Visual Effects Workshop: Green Screen for Beginners

With Chad Goei. Saturdays July 17th, 24th, & 31st, 2010.

The Alphametaphorm & the Typescape: Typographic Workshop

With Djego Padilla. Tuesday July 13th, Wednesday July 14th, Thursday July 15th, Friday July 16th, 2010.

Field Recording Workshop

With Clay Chaplin. Saturday June 12th & Saturday June 19th, 2010.

My Open Arduino EEG Class

With Aaron Bocanegra. Mondays June 7th – July 12th, 2010.

Automatic Speech Recognition Class

With Joseph Tepperman. Thursday June 3rd, Sunday June 6th, Thursday June 10th, Sunday June 13th, 2010.

Intermediate Welding for Aesthetes

With Christopher McCormick. Tuesday May 11th, Thursday May 13th, Tuesday May 18th, Thursday May 20th, 2010.

Sound Synthesis Workshop

With Christopher Mckinlay. Saturday May 1st, Thursday May 6th, Saturday May 8th, Thursday May 13th, Saturday May 15th, 2010.

Intro to MIG Welding

With Matt Jones. Sunday April 25th, 2010.

Paleolithic Net-making Workshop

With Mike Metzger. Saturday April 17th, 2010.

Intro to MIG Welding

With Matt Jones. Sunday April 11th, 2010.

Paleolithic Bone Tools Workshop

With Mike Metzger. Saturday April 10th, 2010.

Sensors and Pattern Recognition

With Heather-Marie Knight. Wednesday April 7th, Saturday April 10th, & Wednesday April 14th, 2010.

Intro to Arduino

With Carlyn Maw. Sundays April 4th & 11th, 2010 & Thursdays April 8th & April 15th, 2010.

Intro to MIG Welding

with Matt Jones. Sunday March 28th, 2010.

Intro to Electronics

With Carlyn Maw. Sundays March 21st & 28th & Thursdays March 25th & April 1st, 2010.

Intermediate Sewing 102: Pattern-making and Alterations

With Annie O’Malley. Saturdays March 20th, 27th, and April 3rd 2010.

Intro to MIG Welding

With Matt Jones. Sunday March 7th, 2010.

Machine Sewing 101

With Annie O’Malley. Saturdays Feb 13th, 20th, and 27th, 2010.

Soldering

With Brian Crabtree & Kelli Cain. Saturday, Feb 6th, 2010.

Ableton Live

With Steve Nalepa. Saturday Feb 6th, 2010.

Introduction to Bookbinding

With Kristen St. John. Jan 12th, 14th & 19th, 2010.

Musical Soldering Workshop

With Mark Allen. Jan 7th, 2010.

Introduction to Motors and Mechanisms

With Michael Kontopoulos. Jan 3rd, 6th & 9th, 2010.

Echo Park Medicinal Forage

With Nance Klehm. Wednesday, Dec 7th, 7-8:30pm, 2009.

Basic Soldering: Mignonette Game Kit

With Rolf Widenfelt. Saturday, Nov 21st, 12-3pm, 2009.

Programming the iPhone 101

With Chandler McWilliams. 4 sessions in November, 2009.

Paleolithic Skills & Survival Workshop series

With Mike Metzger. Oct 31, Nov 1, Nov 14, Nov 15th, 2009.

Monster Prop & Costume Workshop

With Hunter Jackson. 6 sessions in October, 2009.

Sensors and Pattern Recognition

With Heather Knight. 4 sessions in September, 2009.

Kraut Fest 2009!

With Mark Frauenfelder, Erik Knutzen, Kelly Coyne, Jean-Paul Monsche, and Oghee “Granny” Choe. September 6th, 2009.

Make Your Own Pizza Dough & Oven-building Workshop

With Michael O’Malley. Sept 12 & 13, 2009.

Beginning + Intermediate Tabla

With Robin Sukhadia. Sunday, August 30th, 2009.

Build Your Own Hydrophone Workshop

With Clay Chaplin. Aug 16th & 23rd, 2009.

Monster Prop and Costume Workshop

With Hunter Jackson. Aug 4, 6, 11, 13, 2009.

Musical Soldering Workshop: CRITTER Edition

With Mark Allen. July 25, 2009.

Programming the iPhone 101

With Chandler McWilliams. July 5, 8, 12, 16.

Introduction to JITTER: Visual Media in Max/MSP

With Perry Hoberman. June 18, 23, 25, 30, 2009.

Machine Sewing 102: Pattern-making and Alteration

With Annie O’Malley, this is an intermediate level sewing class. Sundays May 17th, 24th, and 31st, 2009.

The Command-line Ecosystem… hidden on your Mac

With Gregory Whitescarver. Sunday, May 10th, 2009.

Basic Electronics Class

With Lewis Keller. Saturdays May 2nd, 9th, 16th, and 23rd, 2-5pm.

Max/MSP for monome users

With Brian Crabtree. NOT for beginners! Thursday, April 16th, 2009.

Field Recording Workshop

With Clay Chaplin, two part workshop – Part 1 on Sunday, April 5th, Part 2 on Saturday, April 11th, 2009.

Computer Music Gaming: Intro to SuperCollider

With Ezra Buchla. Saturday March 7th, 2009.

Intro to Soldering/Build Your Own Synth workshop

With Palle Henckel. Saturday February 21st, 2009.

Intro to Processing

With Chandler McWilliams. Two Saturdays Feb 14th & 21st, and two Mondays Feb 16th & 23rd, 2009.

Intro to Max/MSP

With Lewis Keller. Sundays Feb 8th, 15th, 22nd and March 1st, 2009.

Intro to Arduino

With Elisabeth McMullin, Saturdays Jan 24th & 31st, 2009 and Sundays Jan 25th & Feb 1st, 2009.

Machine Sewing 101

With Annie O’Malley. Saturday Jan 31st, Saturday Feb 7th, and Sunday Feb 8th, 2009.

Motors and Mechanisms

With Jason Torchinsky. January 17th & 18th, 2009.

Introduction to Crochet

With Cheryl Cambras. January 17th & 18th, 2009.

Intro to Soldering

With Mark Allen. January 11th, 2009.

Introduction to Arduino

With Jacob Tonski. 4 class meetings, Sundays, November 16th and 23rd; Mondays, November 17th and 24th, 2008.

Intermediate Circuitbending

With Phil Stearns. Two-day workshop, Saturday October 25th and Sunday October 26th, 2008.

Machine Sewing 101

With Annie O’Malley. Sundays Sept 21st, 28th and Oct 5th, 2008.

Introduction to Processing

With Chandler McWilliams. Saturday Sept 6th and 13th and Tuesday Sept 9th and 16th, 2008.

Unix for N00bz: How to Access Your Files From Anywhere

With Ryan O’Toole. Tuesday July 22nd, 2008.

Ghillie Suit Construction Workshop

With Hanna Rose Shell. Saturday July 5th, 2008.

Basic Crochet + Amigurumi Workshop

With Cheryl Cambras. Saturday June 7th, and (optional) Sunday June 8th, 2008.

Machine Sewing 101

With Annie O’Malley, 3 consecutive Saturdays, May 10th, 17th, and 24th, 2008.

Basic Electronics

With Lewis Keller, Sundays May 11th and 18th, Tuesdays May 13th and 20th, 2008.

Max/MSP/Jitter

With Brian Crabtree, April 22, 24, 29, May 1 (four meetings) Tuesdays and Thursdays 2008.

Felt + Circuits Workshop

With Brian Crabtree and Kelli Cain, April 19, 26, May 3 (three meetings), Saturdays, 2008.

Instrument Invention Workshop

With Walter Kitundu, Saturday, April 12, 2008.

Henna Workshop

With Saroj Sukhadia, Sunday, March 23, 2008.

Daal 101: Cooking Workshop

With Saroj Sukhadia, Saturday, March 22, 2008.

Ongoing Tabla classes through mid-April!

With Robin Sukhadia. 2008.

Living Kitchen Workshops

With Nance Klehm; Pickling on Monday Feb 18th, Cheese-making on Monday March 3rd, and Wine-making on Monday March 10th, 2008.

Machine Sewing 101

With Annie O’Malley. Saturdays Feb 9th, 16th, and 23rd, 2008.

Introduction to Microcontrollers with Arduino

With Mark Allen. Two Saturday afternoons January 5th and 12th and two Wednesday evenings January 9th and 16th, 2007.

Intro to Electronics + Circuitbending

With Phil Stearns. Saturday December 8th, 2007.

Tissue culturing workshop

With Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr of SymbioticA. Sunday Dec 2nd, 2007.

Bionic Arduino! Introduction to Microcontrollers with Arduino

With Tod Kurt. Sundays Nov 11 & 18, and 2 Tuesdays Nov 13 & 20, 2007.

Do-It-Yourself Community Wireless Networking AKA How the Internet Works

With Ryan O’Toole. Saturday November 17th, 2007.

Introduction to Robotic Art

With Douglas Repetto. Sunday October 14th and Saturday October 20th, 2007.

Animatronic Ghost Workshop

With Joseph L. Girandola. Sunday October 7th, 2007.

Machine Sewing 101

With Annie O’Malley. Sept 29 & October 6 (Saturdays), 2007.

Introduction to PD

With Lewis Keller. Sept 9th + 16th (Sundays 12-4) and Sept 11th & 18th (Tuesday nights), 2007.

Introduction to Processing: Computer Programming for Artists

With Mark Allen. Thursdays August 2, 9 and Sundays 5, 12, 2007.

Build a blubber bot

With Jed Berk. Saturday June 30th, 2007.

Electronics for Artists

With Mark Allen. Sundays June 10 & 17, and Tuesdays June 12 & 19, 2007.

I CAN HAS VAR?

With Mark Allen. Saturday June 16th, 2007.

Webhosting Bootcamp

With Jason Brown. Sunday May 13th, 2007.

Tubez 4 Noobz

With Jason Brown. Tuesday May 22nd & Tuesday May 29th, 2007.

Max/MSP class

With Jonathan Zalben. Sundays May 13, 20, and 27, 2007.

I need a website now! Basics of building your own webpage

With Jason Brown. 2007.

Machine Sewing 101

With Annie O’Malley. April 21st & 28th, 2007.

Felt+Circuits

With Kelli Cain & Brian Crabtree. Sundays, March 11 – April 1, 2007.

MAX/MSP

With Brian Crabtree. Thursdays, March 8 – March 29, 2007.

Fabrications and Alterations: Used Garment Couture (Intermediate sewing)

With Ellen McCartney and Jessica Hutchins. Sunday Feb 11th and 18th, 2007.

Sewing + Electronics

With Syuzi Pakhchyan. Saturday February 10th, 2007.

Graphic Design for N00bz

With Ben Benjamin. 2 Sundays, January 14th and 21st, 2007.

Introduction to Solar Robotics

With Mark Allen. Sunday Dec 3rd, 2006.

Machine Sewing 101

With Julie Schworm. Saturday, Dec 2nd and Saturday Dec 9th, 2006.

Machine Sewing 101

With Leah Piehl. Saturday, Nov. 18th and Sunday Nov. 19th, 2006.

Square waves for beginners

With Mark Allen. September 30th, 2006.

Spooky Projects – Introduction to Microcontrollers with Arduino

With Tod E. Kurt. October 7, 14, 21, 28, 2006.

Max/Jitter

With B. Dean. June 24, July 1, 8, 15, 2006.

Graphic Design for N00bs

With Ben Benjamin. August 5th, 2006.

Machine Sewing 101

With Annie O’ Malley. July 22nd and 29th, 2006.

Web design for N00bs

With Jason Brown. 2006.

Circuit design and fabrication = sound objects

With Brian Crabtree. Feb 18th, 2006.

Programming Digital Media in OSX with Python

With Andy Kopra. Jan 29th, Feb 5, 12, 19, 26, 2006.

Good walls make good neighbors – an introduction to basic construction

With Ryan Taber. January 8th, 15th, 22nd, 2006.

A build your own noise thing workshop spectacular

With Silent G, The Logic, and Mark Allen. December 11th, 2005.

Machine sewing

With Mercedes Teixido. Nov 5th and 6th, 2005.

Hyperbolic Crochet

With Daina Taimina, Christine Wertheim, and Margaret Wertheim. August 7th.

MAX/MSP/JITTER

With Brian Crabtree. July 31st, August 14th, 21st and 28th, 2005.

Electron Wrangling for Beginners

With Mark Allen. June 12th- July 3rd, 2005.

Introduction to Processing

With Krister Olsson. 2005.

Electron Wrangling for Beginners

With Mark Allen. 2005.

Introduction to Electronics for Artists

With Mark Allen. 2005.

max/msp/jitter

With Brian Crabtree. 2005.