Thursday, November 21, 2013
SOMERVILLE PARTS AND CRAFTS EVENTS - November 2013
This weekend at Parts and Crafts, back-to-back workshops with two sets of our favorite people -- Jeff Delpapa, tinkerer extraordinaire, and the fine folks at the Public Lab for Open Science and Technology on water quality and data collection. Mark your calendar and come out for a weekend of building, playing, hacking, and tinkering with some of the finest nerds in Somerville!
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SPECIAL EVENTS! (this week only)
Build a Rube Goldberg machine!
Saturday 11/23, 1-3 p.m.
$10-20 suggested, all are welcome
Parts and Crafts is pairing up with the New England Rubbish Deconstruction Society to offer a 3-session workshop in making excessively complicated contraptions out of junk! NERDS is notable for being the first U.S. team to compete in Scrapheap Challenge (i.e. Junkyard Wars). We’re psyched to have Jeff Del Papa back as our resident tinkerer extraordinaire to lead this workshop on wacky mechanisms and design.
RVSP
Water Quality Hackathon with the Public Lab!
Sunday 11/24, 12-6 pm (all day)
Cost: FREE, all are welcome
Like a barnraising but different! A day of hacking with the Public Lab for Open Science and Technology and other Boston-area citizen scientists. The general theme for this coming toolshed raising is water quality. While that topic is very large, it may yet exclude some people who might otherwise have something fun to talk about. Free association counts! Water quality is about water which makes up 45-75% of the human body which can be injured by air pollution which bonds lightly to water. So air pollution could, by free association, be worked in. Other topics might include: thermal sensing bits and bobs, water quality monitoring, Alewife wetlands, Plymouth plant monitoring, and more!
** Kids are welcome to join, but it will be materially different from, say, our open shop programs — a venue for sharing ongoing projects, rather than us running stuff. We’ll bring the pizza, you bring the projects. Hope you can make it out!
Eventbrite - Public Lab Toolshed Raising
AWESOME EVENTS THAT WE DO WITH SOME REGULARITY
Board Game Night!
Thursday, 11/21, 6-8 pm
Free / by donation
Fluxx, Magic, Hey that's my Fish, Settlers of Catan, and all manner of other awesome games. Bring your own or play one of ours. If you're planning to eat pizza, bring some dollars to throw into the tin, grab a slice, and meet some fun new people! Parents are welcome to stay or drop off, no experience necessary, all are welcome and invited to join!
Saturday Open Shop
Every Saturday, 12-2 pm
Free / by donation
Every Saturday we open up our shop, from 12:00 p.m. to 2 p.m. to families and other curious folks who want to come in, look around, and make something (or make something happen!) We’ll have a few projects around, and spend the afternoon building and hanging out together. People are encouraged to come to open shop with projects and ideas of their own that they’d like to work on and explore, but we’ll always have something in mind to get you started if you’re suffering from maker’s block.
Kids Street Band
Every Sunday, 3-5 pm
Free / by donation.
Kid's band is fantastic, fun, and FREE, so come join us and make some noise!
For those who aren't familiar, it's a kids style HONK! band that run every Sunday afternoon from 3-5 pm at Parts and Crafts, 577 Somerville Ave. No experience necessary (though if you have an instrument you should bring it along, otherwise you'll be stuck playing drums). Come by and make some music with us!
Questions on any of the above can be directed to contact@partsandcrafts.org.
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR STAR DONORS!
It's been a month of plenty at Parts and Crafts! Extra special thanks to ROBIN and MARK for walking through our door two months ago and saying, "Hey! Uh, could you use a really nice stereo microscope" and then dropping off the nicest microscope I've ever seen in our space the following weekend. Also to SOLAR MIKE, who not only dropped off ALL the solar kits, but who's regularly followed up to see if we need help organizing and setting them up (they were a big hit at open shop last weekend). And lastly to TODD, who dropped off a whole set of speakers not yet unpacked, but sure to lead to some awesome projects.
Having a storefront means that many many people come by over the course of any given month to stop in, introduce themselves, drop off used computers or speakers or various outdated pieces of hardware, and hang out and chat a bit about the space. Donations are great because we not only get to use your stuff, but we get to meet YOU, the weird and wider set of folks who make up the larger Parts and Crafts community.
Thanks for thinking of us, and thanks for being a little part of our world!
All best, with affection,
the parts and crafts crew
--
www.partsandcrafts.org
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SPECIAL EVENTS! (this week only)
Build a Rube Goldberg machine!
Saturday 11/23, 1-3 p.m.
$10-20 suggested, all are welcome
Parts and Crafts is pairing up with the New England Rubbish Deconstruction Society to offer a 3-session workshop in making excessively complicated contraptions out of junk! NERDS is notable for being the first U.S. team to compete in Scrapheap Challenge (i.e. Junkyard Wars). We’re psyched to have Jeff Del Papa back as our resident tinkerer extraordinaire to lead this workshop on wacky mechanisms and design.
RVSP
Water Quality Hackathon with the Public Lab!
Sunday 11/24, 12-6 pm (all day)
Cost: FREE, all are welcome
Like a barnraising but different! A day of hacking with the Public Lab for Open Science and Technology and other Boston-area citizen scientists. The general theme for this coming toolshed raising is water quality. While that topic is very large, it may yet exclude some people who might otherwise have something fun to talk about. Free association counts! Water quality is about water which makes up 45-75% of the human body which can be injured by air pollution which bonds lightly to water. So air pollution could, by free association, be worked in. Other topics might include: thermal sensing bits and bobs, water quality monitoring, Alewife wetlands, Plymouth plant monitoring, and more!
** Kids are welcome to join, but it will be materially different from, say, our open shop programs — a venue for sharing ongoing projects, rather than us running stuff. We’ll bring the pizza, you bring the projects. Hope you can make it out!
Eventbrite - Public Lab Toolshed Raising
AWESOME EVENTS THAT WE DO WITH SOME REGULARITY
Board Game Night!
Thursday, 11/21, 6-8 pm
Free / by donation
Fluxx, Magic, Hey that's my Fish, Settlers of Catan, and all manner of other awesome games. Bring your own or play one of ours. If you're planning to eat pizza, bring some dollars to throw into the tin, grab a slice, and meet some fun new people! Parents are welcome to stay or drop off, no experience necessary, all are welcome and invited to join!
Saturday Open Shop
Every Saturday, 12-2 pm
Free / by donation
Every Saturday we open up our shop, from 12:00 p.m. to 2 p.m. to families and other curious folks who want to come in, look around, and make something (or make something happen!) We’ll have a few projects around, and spend the afternoon building and hanging out together. People are encouraged to come to open shop with projects and ideas of their own that they’d like to work on and explore, but we’ll always have something in mind to get you started if you’re suffering from maker’s block.
Kids Street Band
Every Sunday, 3-5 pm
Free / by donation.
Kid's band is fantastic, fun, and FREE, so come join us and make some noise!
For those who aren't familiar, it's a kids style HONK! band that run every Sunday afternoon from 3-5 pm at Parts and Crafts, 577 Somerville Ave. No experience necessary (though if you have an instrument you should bring it along, otherwise you'll be stuck playing drums). Come by and make some music with us!
Questions on any of the above can be directed to contact@partsandcrafts.org.
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR STAR DONORS!
It's been a month of plenty at Parts and Crafts! Extra special thanks to ROBIN and MARK for walking through our door two months ago and saying, "Hey! Uh, could you use a really nice stereo microscope" and then dropping off the nicest microscope I've ever seen in our space the following weekend. Also to SOLAR MIKE, who not only dropped off ALL the solar kits, but who's regularly followed up to see if we need help organizing and setting them up (they were a big hit at open shop last weekend). And lastly to TODD, who dropped off a whole set of speakers not yet unpacked, but sure to lead to some awesome projects.
Having a storefront means that many many people come by over the course of any given month to stop in, introduce themselves, drop off used computers or speakers or various outdated pieces of hardware, and hang out and chat a bit about the space. Donations are great because we not only get to use your stuff, but we get to meet YOU, the weird and wider set of folks who make up the larger Parts and Crafts community.
Thanks for thinking of us, and thanks for being a little part of our world!
All best, with affection,
the parts and crafts crew
--
www.partsandcrafts.org
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