Workshops

This hands-on training session will introduce members to the woodshop tools available in the InterAccess studio.

Build community-controlled AI tools! Learn local language models, collaborate on creative applications, and design alternatives to Big Tech data extraction.

Create an immersive, location-responsive sound walk using online platform Echoes.xyz.

Explore powerful tools for real-time collaboration across distance. Through hands-on networking experiments, learn how to connect your device and creative software directly to other artists.

This hands-on training session will introduce members to the milling machine and lathe available in the InterAccess studio.

An exploration of new biodegradable materials that transform everyday discards into 3D printable pastes.

Create visuals that respond to audio in real time, for interactive art and live performance, in hydra—a free browser-based video synth and live coding environment.

This hands-on training session will introduce members to the electronics available in the InterAccess studio.

Learn the basics of face tracking, feedback loops, and mechanical actuation using MediaPipe and Arduino to build a mini sculpture that turns to follow you.

In the Arduino Quick Class, we'll introduce students to the most common tool used today to create physical, interactive projects. If you've seen a piece of interactive, robotic, or electronic art recently that made you say "How'd they do that?" there's a pretty good chance that the answer is: "Arduino."

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to build a game with movement, physics, graphics, and interactivity, and also learn core coding and logic flow concepts that are applicable to almost all programming languages and frameworks.

In just a few lessons, you will pick up the basics of writing and compiling your code in Apple’s development environment, XCode, language basics in Objective-C, and navigating the Cocoa framework.

In this, the second of two workshops based on different types of motors, we'll work with stepper motors.

In the first of two motor workshops, we'll deal with simple motors that don't require complicated circuits to control them: DC motors and AC motors. Then we'll get our hands dirty, trying out some different motors and mechanical components like gears, cams and couplings.

In the first afternoon, we'll introduce you to a powerful, open-source visual programming environment called Pure Data. To learn the ropes, you'll make an interactive, sound-responsive video in a single afternoon. In the Sunday session, we'll turn our attention from video to real-world physical projects.

In this workshop, we'll learn how sensors and work, examine different kinds of information they output, and make some simple Arduino-based applications that use that sensor data.

In this workshop series, you will learn basic approaches and techniques used to create interactive and generative sonic experiences. We'll be using the powerful visual programming software Max, and the industry-leading music software Ableton Live.

Over three sessions, we'll introduce you to Processing, and get you creating your own program sketches. We'll touch topics that deal with images, interactivity, and manipulating data.

Learn how to build more complex digital circuits, and how to use CMOS chips as "glue" between microcontrollers and the external world, or to make circuits with more complex behaviour without using microcontrollers at all.

In this workshop, we’ll cover the basics of electricity, starting with Ohm’s Law, work our way up to building simple digital circuits with CMOS chips, transistors and LEDs and discuss how to interface these circuits with the ‘real world’ of motors, sensors, and other devices.

In this 3-part series, we'll learn tools and techniques in the rapidly expanding field of wearable technology.

Learn how to use Max 6 to create an interactive video piece!

Starting with an in-depth foundation of the client-side technologies HTML, CSS and Javascript, we’ll go on to teach you how to employ Javascript server-side using Node.js. The Node.js server will act as the hub between your Arduino (connected via Serial port) and your Web Interface.

Over three sessions, we'll introduce you to Processing, and get you creating your own program sketches. We'll touch topics that deal with images, interactivity, and manipulating data.

Finally, we'll try to pull it all together by building an internet-connected application. The specific project will be chosen based on class interest, but could include a script that reads twitter and produces a motorized notification when certain terms come up, or an electronic mail flag that tells you when you have e-mail.

The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer. We want to learn how to take advantage of all the features, conveniences, and special tricks the board can do. So we’ll learn a little bit about Linux, Python, Networking, and electronics to open up a whole world of project possibilities.

The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer. We want to learn how to take advantage of all the features, conveniences, and special tricks the board can do. So we’ll learn a little bit about Linux, Python, Networking, and electronics to open up a whole world of project possibilities.

The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer. We want to learn how to take advantage of all the features, conveniences, and special tricks the board can do. So we’ll learn a little bit about Linux, Python, Networking, and electronics to open up a whole world of project possibilities.

In this 3-part workshop, we'll learn the basics: Connecting input sensors, connecting outputs, and using serial data to communicate between the Arduino and a computer.