About us
Calling all PDX Hackers and Makers! This is your space.
Frequently Asked Questions:
What is Hacking? What is a Hackerspace?
The essence of hacking is to take something, improve it, then share it with the rest of the world. Our Hackerspace fosters supportive community where individuals teach because they love teaching and learn because they love learning; All geared towards enabling individuals to live the lives they want to live.
Do I need to be a member? Am I a member?
There is meetup.com membership, on this site, that is in no way connected to PDX Hackerspace membership. Don't worry though! All events that we list on meetup.com are open to the public. This means you. Have a project or idea that you'd like to share? Find an interest group on the meetup calendar at the Hackerspace that you'd like to check out in person? You are all welcome and we hope to see you there.
How would I become a PDX Hackerspace member?
Come to an open house or event, get a tour, fill out a membership application and, if approved, schedule an orientation and setup recurring payment. Applications are reviewed every Friday, but we sometimes have a backlog that takes a couple weeks to get through. Membership dues are $40/month and gives each member 24/7 access.
How do you keep dues so low?
PDX Hackerspace exists because we all want it to exist. We're incentivized by the culture that we all create, not profit. We are all volunteers. That said, if members choose to pay more than $40 per month to help support the Hackerspace, its always appreciated!
More Info
We have tons of electronic components and rapid prototyping equipment, 3D printing, laser cutting/engraving and a full woodshop! Come by for our weekly open house or check us out over at pdxhackerspace.org.
Have more questions? You can also email us: info@pdxhs.org
Upcoming events
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Dorkbot: February Edition
CTRLH - PDX Hackerspace, 7608 N Interstate Ave, Portland, OR, USPeople doing strange things with electricity!
Along with the usual freewheeling chaos, the quick talks continue this month with Jim Snow, presenting "Designing and building the Mosaichord, an expressive music keyboard for just intonation.":
The Mosaichord is an expressive MIDI controller/synthesizer designed around a musical scale with 28 notes per octave, where the frequencies of all the notes are related to each other by whole number ratios, to enable better consonances and more varied dissonances than can be achieved in the 12-tone equal tempered scale. Internally, the Mosachord uses force-sensitive resistors under the keys and is controlled by a Teensy 4.0 microcontroller.DorkbotPDX is a relaxed, informal show-and-tell for electronic artists, circuit designers, microcontroller programmers, retro computing enthusiasts, video game designers, digital archaeologists, and mod synth gearheads in Portland, Oregon.
Bring your electronic wonders, monsters, and works-in-progress for others to see, or come see what others have been working on! Whether it's code or circuits, electronic creativity of all sorts is welcome here.
Table space with power will be available for project show-and-tell; we'll have a table for drinks and snacks, feel free to contribute to the communal cache/BYOB. The Free cart is back, take or leave some components (don’t leave TOO much, if you have big stuff, maybe check the Discord/mailing list to see if anyone is interested in taking it first!)
Info and links to our Discord and other social channels are at https://dorkbotpdx.org
/More on the Mosaichord
https://desideratasystems.com/mosaichord.html
firmware source code: https://github.com/jimsnow/microtonal-controller
demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqbWnDhip0A[No registration necessary, we only use this platform to spread the word!]
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