Spin!
Discover!
Intro to Electronics
with Carlyn Maw
Date & Time
March 21, 2010, 12pm–3pm
March 25, 2010, 7pm–10pm
March 28, 2010, 12pm–3pm
April 1, 2010, 7pm–10pm
Location
Machine Project
Map
Pricing
$225 for members
$250 for non-members

It takes just a few basics to understand most of the electronics around us. Some simple hands-on projects will illustrate how laws and theories get turned into everyday objects.

No previous experience required. Soldering skills will be useful but not necessary.

Class 1
Sunday, March 21, 12pm–3pm
How to Build a Flashlight
with Carlyn Maw

Simple circuit basics to light up your world. Current, voltage, resistance and how they relate. LEDs, batteries, switches, resistors and the different things that can happen when you start hooking them up.

Class 2
Thursday, March 25, 7pm–10pm
Anatomy of an Electric Toothbrush
with Carlyn Maw

Electricity, magnets and motion. Using capacitors and diodes to side step possible problems. The relationship of AC to DC.

Class 3
Sunday, March 28, 12pm–3pm
When a toggle switch will just no longer do
with Carlyn Maw

Part 1: Variable Resistance, because a circuit can be “a little bit on.” Part 2: What one circuit said to the other circuit.

Class 4
Thursday, April 1, 7pm–10pm
Hello Computer.
with Carlyn Maw

How to make circuits that think. Combining logic, electricity and time.

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.