You can make it: our shop opens next week

Hello Tam Makers,

Come make your own gadget, robot or wearable art at Tam Makers!

Starting next week, we will open our new makerspace on Wednesday evenings, to help you create your own maker project with our community.

We invite you to sign up now for our summer workshops. Our first series is on three Wednesdays in a row: June 29th, July 6th and 13th, between 6 and 9pm.

Here are examples of projects you can make: LED Goggles, Magical Mushroom Lights, NeoPixel Jewelry, Your First Robot and more. See our course page for more ideas.

On the first night, we can help you pick a project, order your materials and learn a new skill, like soldering. You will build your project the following weeks, with guidance from instructors and other participants.

No experience is necessary. You will join a community of makers who like to make things together and learn from each other.

Learn more here — and sign up here. The cost is only $72 for all three nights.

Take our fall classes

If you can’t join us this summer, we will offer three more series of ‘You Can Make It’ workshops in the fall. Each series includes four weekly workshops of three hours each, on the dates below:

This fall, we are offering many other maker classes for adults and youth. To learn more and sign up, visit our Classes page.

Take our survey

What do you think of Tam Makers?

Please take our short survey, if you haven’t already.

We’d love to hear from you, so we can better support your needs.

Thanks to everyone who already filled the survey!

Join our meetups

Come to our next meetups, to learn more about Tam Makers and discuss our next steps:

Our free meetups start at 6pm, with demos by community members and tours of our makerspace. At 7pm, we will talk about our makerspace and classes — and discuss your ideas for growing our community.

All classes and meetups take place in our new makerspace at Tamalpais High School: 700 Miller Ave, Mill Valley, CA 94941. See map.

We invite you to share this post with friends and neighbors, who are all welcome to join us. They can learn more on our site at TamMakers.org .

We hope to see you soon!

 

Geo Monley

Fabrice Florin

Author: Fabrice Florin

Fabrice Florin is a multimedia innovator who creates unique experiences to inform and engage communities through digital media. He has led the development of many pioneering products and services in news, education and entertainment, working with innovators such as Apple, Macromedia and Wikipedia. He now consults on worthy projects, with a focus on content strategy, community engagement and product development. Fabrice is now working on an interactive art project called the ‘Pataphysical Slot Machine, a community-created poetic oracle created by a collective of artists, engineers, teachers and students based in Mill Valley. He previously worked as movement communications manager at the Wikimedia Foundation, where he managed and edited the Wikimedia blog -- and helped nurture a 'culture of kindness' across online communities.​ Prior to that, he was product manager, leading the development of many new tools for Wikipedia, such as Notifications, Media Viewer and Thanks. His previous ventures include: • NewsTrust.net, a nonprofit social news network, helping folks tell apart fact from fiction • Handtap / GoComics, a wireless content provider for mobile devices • Shockwave.com, a web entertainment site we started at Macromedia • Zenda Studio, award-winning multiplayer game developer • Apple Computer’s Multimedia Lab, a research and development group • Videowest, a producer of rock journalism and entertainment for young adults Read more: http://fabriceflorin.com/about/