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Arduino and Time Supplies

By rebecca • Nov 22nd, 2010 • Category: Uncategorized

Required supplies for the Arduino and Time workshop:

An Arduino model that can take a standard shield (Duemillenova, etc) – $30
A custom-for-the-workshop “clock shield” – $50



Arduino and Time (Advanced Arduino)

By rebecca • Nov 20th, 2010 • Category: Workshops

[ December 15, 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Make an Arduino clock!  A techy, quirky holiday gift or conversation piece.

Before taking this course, students should either take Intro to Arduino or know how to do these basics:

Compose and download “sketches” (programs) into the Arduino
Solder electronic joints
Use Arduino libraries to control input/output devices

In the first session, students will learn how to:

Construct a real-time [...]



How to Use Your Video Camera

By rebecca • Aug 25th, 2010 • Category: Uncategorized, Workshops

[ September 27, 2010; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. September 29, 2010; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Do you take home videos fanatically and wish to give them a more polished touch?  Or are you working on a video marketing campaign for your business?

Join us for another collaboration with the Film Council of Greater Columbus!   This workshop is designed to enable the average video shooter to get the best [...]



HTML4

By rebecca • Aug 23rd, 2010 • Category: Uncategorized, Workshops

[ September 29, 2010; 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] Join us for a hands-on web design class with a focus on HTML and its role in a contemporary web page.  This class is intended for students with little to no web design experience, but all are welcome.  We will also cover as much CSS as time permits.

Instructor: Paul Dehnbostel

Date: September 29, [...]



JavaScript Primer (FULL)

By rebecca • Aug 23rd, 2010 • Category: Uncategorized, Workshops

[ September 26, 2010; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] This workshop will be a thorough hands on introduction to programming with JavaScript.  Have no fear: it is designed for enthusiastic learners who have no programming experience.

Instructor: Paul Dehnbostel

Date: September 26, 2010

Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm

Cost: $25

Location: The UAEA/Fuse Factory Labs
82 E. 16th Ave
Columbus, OH 43201



Intro to Modeling and Animation in Blender

By rebecca • Aug 9th, 2010 • Category: Uncategorized, Workshops

[ October 27, 2010; 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm. November 3, 2010; 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] Blender is an amazingly versatile 3-D animation program that is absolutely FREE.  (That’s right.  FREE.)

It can be used to create animations for a wide range of media, including its own game engine, interactive applications, technical simulations and, of course, storytelling.  This workshop is an introduction to the Blender interface.  You’ll learn how to model and [...]



Stop Motion Animation (REGISTRATION FULL)

By rebecca • Aug 9th, 2010 • Category: Uncategorized, Workshops

[ September 15, 2010; 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] If you like making movies one frame at a time and love working with your hands, you’re in for some fun.

Participants will work in teams using pre-made, rigged characters to animate a short sequence with.

Join us at the Fuse Factory to learn how to…

Survey works in stop motion
Discuss and utilize basic animation, cinematography and [...]



JavaScript 301

By rebecca • Aug 9th, 2010 • Category: Uncategorized, Workshops

[ December 7, 2010; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] JavaScript 301 will pick up where 201 left off focusing on the more graphics intensive capabilities.  We will use plain JavaScript, jQuery and Raphael to make interactive graphics that you would think were made with Flash. What’s the advantage of making interactive graphics in JavaScript? You will learn about this [...]



JavaScript 201

By rebecca • Aug 9th, 2010 • Category: Uncategorized, Workshops

[ November 23, 2010; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] In this series, we will focus on using JavaScript and two super-helpful JavaScript libraries to make websites interactive and animated.  In the past JavaScript had a bad reputation as being gimmicky and the code was hard to manage.  We will focus on aspects of JavaScript that are useful and help [...]



HTML5 + CSS3 201

By rebecca • Aug 6th, 2010 • Category: Workshops

[ November 10, 2010; 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] This course will pick up where HTML5 + CSS3 101 left off.  We will not review the new web standards or features, but instead dig right in to tricking out our website to make sure it looks every bit as awesome on an Android phone or an iPad as it does [...]