Happy new year everyone!
Make:PDX will be kicking off 2010 with a meeting focused on Robots. Specifically the Portland Area Robotics Society (PARTS – http://portlandrobotics.org)
PARTS will be describing their group and some members will have the robots they have built on display.
Also, the Oregon Robotics Tournament championships are coming up in February and are always looking [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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!
The Oregon Potters Association is having a free event at the Oregon Convention Center next week. This is the largest show of pottery and ceramics of its kind with over 150 booths and artists!
April 24th, 25th, and 26th – Doors open 10-9 Friday [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Not the Grand Opening quite yet, but the doors are open and the tools are running!
From the TechShop website: http://www.portlandtechshop.com/
Portland TechShop is open as of Feb 21st, 2009!
Come on down and take a look at what we have. The open hours are still being worked on so give us a call before you head down [...]
