Friday March 4th at 5:30PM marks the second “Hackers in the Pub” event for Workshop 88. We’ll be meeting up at Curly’s Bar & Grill in Downtown Glen Ellyn, the official bar of Workshop 88.
After some drinks and chatting at the pub we’ll walk down to the Workshop which is only a block away!
Be sure to bring your latest (small) project, or if it’s too big, just your enthusiasm for it. 
This free meetup will be hosted by our Arduino expert Russ, who also teaches our Arduino classes at Workshop 88.
At this casual meetup we’ll hang out and discuss the Arduino. Including but not limited to, what we’d like to learn, our project ideas, tips & tricks, etc…
Hope to see you there!
You can RSVP on our Meetup group here.
Learn the basics of knitting in a couple of hours. This class will cover casting yarn onto needles, the knit stitch, the purl stitch and binding off your project. Most beginning knitting classes start with a scarf. We’re going to start with a dishcloth. Supplies provided will include needles and yarn for the project.
SAVE THE DATE ON YOUR CALENDARS YOU GUYS!! Friday March 4th at 5:30PM marks the second “Hackers in the Pub” event for Workshop 88. We’ll be meeting up at Curly’s Bar & Grill in Downtown Glen Ellyn, the official bar of Workshop 88.
After some drinks and chatting at the pub we’ll walk down to the Workshop which is only a block away!
Be sure to bring your latest (small) project, or if it’s too big, just your enthusiasm for it.
To RSVP goto the event on our meetup page.
Helvetica, Arial, Georgia, Times New Roman, Tahoma, and a few other fonts have long been the standard for typography on the web; to a large extent, they always will be. Recently, though, web developers and typography lovers have been given new options to embed non-web-standard fonts in their websites.
Real typography is finally coming to the web! With technologies like Typekit gaining popularity, @font-face is becoming a more relevant and practical font-embedding technique for typography lovers. Techniques using sIFR, cufon, or other similar approaches are getting tossed to the wayside, but are still justifiably useable in some situations, too.
This class will go over these different methods of implementing non-web-standard fonts on the internet, and will leave you with the ability to determine which method best suits your needs, and the knowledge to implement it.
ƅethan @flickr - My Konica & Me
William is teaching his Practical photography class again! Last time it was offered it was a huge hit! It will cost $15 and you’ll need to bring your own camera. The class will start at Workshop 88 at 6:30pm on Thursday, February 10th.
Workshop 88′s Kevin Roof will be hosting an “Intro to electronics” class. Come out and start learning the basics of resistors, capacitors, transistors, diodes and basic circuits. In this class you will build an LED throwie which conserves battery power by turning off during the day.
This class will consist of five main sections including:
Series of tubes:
Current
Voltage
Resistance
Schematics:
Identifying components
Reading circuit diagrams
Resistors:
Identifying values
Ohm’s Law
Parallel and Series
Transistors:
How they work
Using them as a switch
Building your LED throwie!
Contact: info@workshop88.com
Twitter: @Workshop88
Learn how to make a musical instrument from materials you can get a the hardware store. We will briefly cover some of the basic ideas needed to successfully design and build a tuned musical instrument. Then we’ll get our hands dirty and build something musical which you can take with you.
If you enjoyed our Introduction to Arduino class, come back for the next class!
In Arduino 201, we’ll be using the Processing framework and the Firmata library for the Arduino to interact with the Arduino from a graphical user interface.
This class will build on the Darkness Detector circuit we built in Arduino 101, adding calibration knobs for high and low, and outputting the resulting data to a graph using Processing.
Students should be familiar with the concepts and circuits taught in Arduino 101, specifically reading analog inputs and the voltage divider circuit used in the Darkness Detector.
Knowledge of Processing is not required.
What to Bring
Materials
All classes in the Arduino Track require the Arduino Kit (external link to Adafruit).
Buy it now ($15 off with tuition) and reuse it for the rest of the classes!
This is the follow up class to our Introduction to Electronics class. Did you attend the first class and get the book and the supplies? Then you only need to sign up for the class. Did you not make it to the first class but want to jump into the electronics with the book and the supplies? We’ve got you covered here, too!