Classes and Workshops

Upcoming classes:

Do you have any suggestions of workshops you’d like to see at Machine Project?
Email m@machineproject.com and let us know.

Introduction to JITTER: Visual Media in Max/MSP. Taught by Perry Hoberman. June 18, 23, 25, 30, 2009 from 7-10pm. Class Full!

Programming the iPhone 101. Taught by Chandler McWilliams. July 5, 8, 12, 16. Class full!

Musical Soldering Workshop: CRITTER Edition @ San Francisco. Taught by Mark Allen. July 25. 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.

 


Past classes:

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

Machine Sewing 102: Pattern-making and Alteration. Taught by 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, 2-4pm (new date).

Basic Electronics Class with Lewis Keller. Saturdays May 2nd, 9th, 16th, and 23rd, 2-5pm. Register here!

Max/MSP for monome users with Brian Crabtree. NOT for beginners! Thursday, April 16th, 7pm. Class full!

Field Recording Workshop with Clay Chaplin, two part workshop - Part 1 on Sunday, April 5th, Part 2 on Saturday, April 11th.

Computer Music Gaming: Intro to SuperCollider Workshop. Saturday March 7th, 12pm-3pm with Ezra Buchla. Sold out!

Intro to Soldering/Build Your Own Synth workshop with Palle Henckel. Saturday February 21st, 7pm-9pm. Sold out!

Intro to Processing with Chandler McWilliams. Two Saturdays Feb 14th & 21st, and two Mondays Feb 16th & 23rd.

Intro to Max/MSP with Lewis Keller. Sundays Feb 8th, 15th, 22nd and March 1st, 2009, 2-5pm. Sorry, sold out!

Intro to Arduino with Elisabeth McMullin, Saturdays Jan 24th & 31st, 2009 and Sundays Jan 25th & Feb 1st, 2009. Sold out!

Machine Sewing 101 with Annie O’Malley. Saturday Jan 31st, Saturday Feb 7th, and Sunday Feb 8th, 2009.

Motors and Mechanisms, January 17th + 18th, 2009.

Introduction to Crochet, January 17th + 18th, 2009. Sold out!

Intro to Soldering, January 11th, 2009. Sold out!

Introduction to Arduino with Jacob Tonski. 4 class meetings, Sundays, November 16th and 23rd, 12-3pm; Mondays, November 17th and 24th, 7-10pm. $250 non-members, $225 members. sorry, class sold out

A list of workshops we’ll be having at LACMA on November 15th can be found here. All of them are FREE!

Intermediate Circuitbending with Phil Stearns. Two-day workshop, Saturday October 25th and Sunday October 26th.

Machine Sewing 101 with Annie O’Malley. Sundays Sept 21st, 28th and Oct 5th, noon to 4pm. $155 non-members, $130 members.

Introduction to Processing with Chandler McWilliams. Saturday Sept 6th and 13th (2-6pm) and Tuesday Sept 9th and 16th (7-10pm).

Unix for N00bz: How to Access Your Files From Anywhere with Ryan O’Toole. Tuesday July 22nd, 7:30pm-midnight.

Ghillie Suit Construction Workshop with Hanna Rose Shell. Saturday July 5th, 2pm - 5pm.

Basic Crochet + Amigurumi Workshop with Cheryl Cambras. Saturday June 7th, 11am - 3pm (with a lunch break), and (optional) Sunday June 8th, 12pm - 2pm.

Machine Sewing 101 with Annie O’Malley, 3 consecutive Saturdays, May 10th, 17th, and 24th, noon to 4pm. $155 Non-members, $130 Members.

Basic Electronics with Lewis Keller, Sundays May 11th and 18th, Tuesdays May 13th and 20th. $250 Non-members, $225 Members.

Max/MSP/Jitter with Brian Crabtree, April 22, 24, 29, May 1 (four meetings) Tuesdays and Thursdays 7pm - 10pm. $250 Non-members, $225 Members.

Felt + Circuits Workshop with Brian Crabtree and Kelli Cain, April 19, 26, May 3 (three meetings), Saturdays 2pm - 6pm (with a break). $250 Non-members, $225 Members.

Instrument Invention Workshop w/ Walter Kitundu, Saturday, April 12, 11am-3pm. $85 Non-members, $75 Members. Class full!

Henna Workshop with Saroj Sukhadia, Sunday, March 23, 2008, 11am - 1pm. $20 Non-members, $15 Members.

Daal 101: Cooking Workshop with Saroj Sukhadia, Saturday, March 22, 2008, 11am - 1pm. $65.

Ongoing Tabla classes through mid-April! $5 per class. RSVP requested, please email us at machine@machineproject.com.

Living Kitchen Workshops with Nance Klehm; Pickling on Monday Feb 18th, Cheese-making on Monday March 3rd, and Wine-making on Monday March 10th.

Machine Sewing 101 with Annie O’Malley. $155 for three sessions, Saturdays Feb 9th, 16th, and 23rd.

Introduction to Microcontrollers with Arduino with Mark Allen. Two Saturday afternoons January 5th and 12th and two Wednesday evenings January 9th and 16th.

Intro to Electronics + Circuitbending with Phil Stearns. 12pm - 6pm, Saturday December 8th.

Tissue culturing workshop with Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr of SymbioticA. 11am to 5pm, Sunday Dec 2nd.

Bionic Arduino! Introduction to Microcontrollers with Arduino with Tod Kurt. $285. 2 Sundays Nov 11 & 18, + 2 Tuesdays Nov 13 & 20.

Do-It-Yourself Community Wireless Networking AKA How the Internet Works with Ryan O’Toole. $115. Saturday November 17th.

Introduction to Robotic Art with Douglas Repetto. $185. Sunday October 14th and Saturday October 20th. Class full! We may be scheduling a second session, check back for updates.

Animatronic Ghost Workshop. $150. Sunday October 7th.

Machine Sewing 101 with Annie O’Malley. $120. Sept 29 & October 6 (Saturdays).

Introduction to PD with Lewis Keller. $250. Sept 9th + 16th (Sundays 12-4) and Sept 11th + 18th (Tuesday nights 7-10pm).

Introduction to Processing: Computer Programming for Artists with Mark Allen. $250. Thursdays August 2, 9 (7-10pm) and Sundays 5, 12 (12-4pm).

Build a blubber bot, aka robotic blimps for beginners. With Jed Berk. $185 all materials included. Saturday June 30th 10am - 4pm (w/ a break for lunch).

Electronics for Artists with Mark Allen. $250. Sundays June 10 + 17, and Tuesdays June 12 + 19.

I CAN HAS VAR? w/ Mark Allen. Fee is registration and an offering of beer (bring a minimum 12). Saturday June 16th.

Webhosting Bootcamp with Jason Brown. Sunday May 13th.

Also, Tubez 4 Noobz with Jason Brown. Tuesday May 22nd + Tuesday May 29th.

Max/MSP class with Jonathan Zalben. Sundays May 13, 20, 27th.

I need a website now! Basics of building your own webpage, with Jason Brown. Free lecture.

Machine Sewing 101 with Annie O’Malley. April 21st & 28th.

Felt+Circuits. Combining craft and technology, create your own noisey synthesizer creature from scratch including all the steps for hand-making naturally dyed felt and etching circuit boards. Sundays from 2pm - 5:30pm (with a break) march 11 - april 1 (four meetings).

MAX/MSP Thursdays from 7pm - 10pm March 8 - March 29 (four meetings).

Fabrications and Alterations: Used Garment Couture (Intermediate sewing)
Sunday Feb 11th and 18th. 1-4pm.

Sewing + Electronics with Syuzi Pakhchyan. Saturday February 10th, 11am - 6pm (w/ lunch break).

Graphic Design for N00bz. 2 Sundays, January 14th and 21st, 12pm - 3pm.

Introduction to Solar RoboticsInstructor Mark Allen. Sunday Dec 3rd 2006 11am to 7pm (lunch break 1-2pm).

Machine Sewing 101 Instructor Julie Schworm. Saturday, Dec 2nd and Saturday Dec 9th 2006, noon-4pm.

Machine Sewing 101 Instructor Leah Piehl. Saturday, Nov. 18th and Sunday Nov. 19th, noon-4pm

Square waves for beginners A build your own noise thing workshop spectacular. Instructor Mark Allen. September 30th 1-5pm(Saturday).

Spooky Projects - Introduction to Microcontrollers with Aurdino Instructor Tod E. Kurt. October 7, 14, 21,28 , Noon to 3pm (Saturdays).

Max/Jitter. Instructor B. Dean. June 24, July 1, 8, 15 (Saturdays) 1-4pm.

Graphic Design for N00bs Instructor Ben Benjamin. August 5th (Saturday) 10am to 5pm, lunch break 12-1.

Machine Sewing 101 Instructor Annie O’ Malley. July 22nd and 29th (Saturday) Noon to 4pm.

Web design for N00bs. Introduction to standards-based XHTML+CSS web design. Instructor Jason Brown.

Circuit design and fabrication = sound objects Instructor brian crabtree Feb 18th (Saturday) 11am to 7pm.

Programming Digital Media in OSX with Python Instructor Andy Kopra. Jan 29th, Feb 5, 12, 19, 26 (Sundays).

Good walls make good neighbors - an introduction to basic construction. Instructor Ryan Taber. January 8th, 15th, 22nd.

A build your own noise thing workshop spectacular. Instructors Silent G,The Logic, Mark Allen. December 11th (Sunday) 1-4pm.

Machine sewing. Instructor Mercedes Teixido. Nov 5th and 6th, 12-4pm (Saturday and Sunday).

Hyperbolic Crochet. Instructors Daina Taimina, Christine Wertheim, and Margaret Wertheim. August 7th (Sunday 4-7pm)

MAX/MSP/JITTER. Instructor Brian Crabtree. July 31st, August 14th, 21st and 28th (Sundays 5-8pm)

Electron Wrangling for Beginners, Instructor Mark Allen. June 12th- July 3rd 2005

Introduction to Processing.
Instructor Krister Olsson

Electron Wrangling for Beginners, Intructor Mark Allen

Introduction to Electronics for Artists. Instructor Mark Allen

max/msp/jitter. Instructor Brian Crabtree