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End of Summer BBQ Pot Luck – September 26th 3:00 @ TechShop

The Days are getting shorter and the infamous Oregon winter looms large just over the horizon. So while there is still time let’s get together and celebrate another summer’s worth of projects done by getting together and eating ourselves silly! Show off your culinary prowess and bring your favorite dish for every one [...]

Make:PDX part deux

May ended up being a busier month than anticipated and ultimately disrupted our plans to hold contiguous monthly meetings. However, everything is back on track for an excellent meeting for the month of June!
We have lined up a speaker from the active and inventive local electronics gurus, DorkbotPDX. They regularly have meetings at various locations [...]

Inventor’s Showcase this Saturday

This Saturday at the World Trade Center in downtown Portland the Micro-Enterprise Inventor’s Program of Oregon will be holding an Inventor’s Showcase with the title  “Innovation Begins at Home”. Stop down and check it out!

First Meeting: Huge Success

Here’s to a great first meeting!  Our turn out was huge, around 75 makers came down to say hi.
As promised Denney Cole and Wm Leler were our speakers.  Every one at the meeting got a tour of Tech Shop and the Open Tech Space.  We got a surprise speaker too;  the First team from Hillsboro [...]

MakePDX Begins 4.5.09!

MAKE STUFF IN PORTLAND!
The goal of MakePDX is to connect, inspire and grow a local community of people who make things.
Builders. Crafters. Artists. Cooks. Geeks. Hackers. Anyone who makes or wants to make anything!
Who are you? What do you make?
We are new.    Teach.     Learn.     Join us.
3pm – 6pm @ TechShop 10100 SW Allen BLVD., Beaverton, [...]

Make:PDX is officially an O’Reilly User Group

Yep, it’s official, Make:PDX members get discounts on O’Reilly publications and conferances.
Your group members receive a 35% discount on O’Reilly, No Starch, PC Publishing, Pragmatic Bookshelf, Rocky Nook, SitePoint, or YoungJin products purchased directly from O’Reilly. The discount code your members should use is DSUG. Orders can be placed online at http://www.oreilly.com/store/ or by calling [...]

Maker Mixer: 3/1/2009

Tool Shed-PDX & The Watershed – Are pleased to announce: A Maker Mixer: Sunday March 1st 2009, from 3-10pm
Portland, Oregon. Tool Shed-PDX presents A Gathering in Honor of the Recession, the first of a series of bi-monthly Maker Mixer conferences where crafters, tradespeople, industrial artists, [...]