If you are interested in any of these upcoming (awesome) classes, give me a buzz, or just sign up!<\/p>\n
Spring Kinetics classes are starting up at the Crucible<\/a> in Oakland, starting April 9th. Most classes are 1 night a week 6-9pm for 5 weeks. One class is on Saturdays. Space is limited and classes are starting in just 2 weeks! If you’re into it, sign up this week.<\/p>\n * Introduction to Mechanical Sculpture Read full class descriptions<\/a> Each teacher is an expert in their field. I’ll let the teachers tell you about their classes:<\/p>\n ————————————————– Next month a new group of students will be introduced to the wonderful world of mechanical sculpture. I hope you will join us as we learn about gears, cams, levers, and worm drives. If you want to integrate movement into your artwork, or just want to build some crazy contraptions, this is a great way to get started. There is no experience required, but feel free to bring project ideas and sketches for group problem-solving and brainstorm. Classes are Mondays 6-9pm starting April 11th. Check out the description here and sign up! (https:\/\/store.thecrucible.org\/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=415_442_542)<\/p>\n Sincerely, ————————————————– This class gives you the ability to make things move, controlling art using non-computer means. Mechanically or electrically, with cams and gears or motors and relays. ————————————————– Learn how to interface between the software and physical world, have your machine be able to react to inputs from the real world. Make your art smart! If you have art or a gizmo that needs to come alive, start here.<\/p>\n ————————————————– Possibly the best part of this class is that you get to bring home your final project. Yes, you bring home a flame thrower*. Maybe it’s giant, maybe it’s tiny. Both are awesome. Learning how to work with flame effects safely will open up so many possibilities for art and exploration.<\/p>\n * Not technically a “flame thrower” by the rules and laws, but we’ll cover that.<\/p>\n ————————————————– My name is Steve Widmark and I teach a class at The Crucible in Oakland called \u201cElectronics for Artists.\u201d If you\u2019ve ever wanted to know how to design and build electronic circuits to make a gadget or a piece of interactive art, then this is the class for you. You\u2019ll learn electronics by making a small project (a cyber pet or a small kinetic sculpture) that uses a PICAXE microcontroller as its \u201cbrain.\u201d Along the way you\u2019ll be taught basic electronic theory, schematic reading, use of solderless breadboards for prototyping, circuit board fabrication and microcontroller programming. This is a beginning course designed for students with little or no experience with electronics. Class starts Saturday, April 9th. For more details, visit www.thecrucible.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you are interested in any of these upcoming (awesome) classes, give me a buzz, or just sign up! Spring Kinetics classes are starting up at the Crucible in Oakland, starting April 9th. Most classes are 1 night a week 6-9pm for 5 weeks. One class is on Saturdays. Space is limited and classes are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3990,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions\/3990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n* Electromechanics for Everything
\n* Arduino Microcontrollers: Building Smart Art
\n* Flame Effect for Art
\n* Electronics for Artists<\/p>\n
\nSee class schedules<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nIntroduction to Mechanical Sculpture
\ntaught by Ben Cowden (http:\/\/benjamincowden.com)<\/p>\n
\nBen Cowden<\/p>\n
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\nElectromechanics for Everything
\ntaught by Rich Humphrey, obselete and discarded technology expert<\/p>\n
\nThis class is perfect if you have an interesting problem to solve, want to know how modern machines work, you have art to make, or a contraption that needs to see the light of day.<\/p>\n
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\nArduino Microcontrollers: Building Smart Art
\ntaught by Rich Humphrey (http:\/\/richhumphrey.net)<\/p>\n
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\nFlame Effect for Art
\ntaught by Lee Sonko and Liam McNamara <\/p>\n
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\nElectronics for Artists
\ntaught by Steve Widmark (http:\/\/www.paleoneon.com)<\/p>\n