Joan and Rich at Nerd Nite Comic-Con San Diego!

Joan and Rich  will be talking about "Shop Class 2.0" at Nerd Nite Comic-Con San Diego!  Evening of July 10, at Silo at Maker's Corner, 753 15th St, San Diego, with National Geographic Channel sponsoring and providing all kinds of cool stuff...

More info/sign up here...     http://sandiego.nerdnite.com/

Joan and Rich signing books at Deezmaker in Pasadena Sunday July 5

Rich (aka Whosawhatsis) and I are looking forward to signing our new book, "The New Shop Class: Getting Started with 3D Printing, Arduino, and Wearable Tech"  at Deezmaker's 3D printer shop and hackerspace. Deezmaker will have the book available.

They have an open house Sunday, July 5, from noon-5, and we will be there at least the first two hours.

Deezmaker is located at  290 N. Hill Ave, Pasadena 91106. 

Joan and Rich at the LA (Sylmar area) Discovery Cube Saturday June 27th

We are going to be at the LA  Discovery Cube up near Sylmar next Saturday (the 27th) from 11-4 doing demos, with a talk at 1:00 - come by and see what we've been up to! We will have some projects on display from our friends at Windward School, too.

The LA Cube is located at 11800 Foothill Blvd. Los Angeles CA 91342. More details:
http://www.discoverycube.org/la/exhibits/inventors-week/

Lots of upcoming summer events!

We have a lot of events coming this summer - check them on our   Events Page.

Hope to see you at one of our talks or book signings.

Contact us through our Nonscriptum site  if you want to schedule us to come out and talk to your group.

Joan and Rich on The Space Show, Monday June 8

We will be on David Livingston's "The Space Show" internet radio show talking about our new book, "The New Shop Class: Getting Started with 3D Printing, Arduino and Wearable Tech," on June 8, 2-3:30 Pacific time.  To listen, go to http://www.thespaceshow.com/ and click on the "Listen Live" button. If you miss it, it will be available as a podcast, linked at the bottom of the page.

Maker Tech Hands On Learning for Educators, August 14-15 in West LA

We are helping the Windward School put together a two day conference in West Los Angeles (near the 10/405 intersection)  for educators on Friday, August 14 and Saturday, August 15, 2015.

The first day will be a lot of overview lectures, panels and exhibits. The second day will be hands-on demonstrations and training in 3D printing, Arduino, wearable tech, MaKey Makey, squishy circuits and more. Many of the topics will be presented at a couple of levels so that you can learn at the level that is right for you.

To register and more info: 
http://www.windwardschool.org/design2015

New book - The New Shop Class

Our new book publishes this week from Apress, and will be available as a paperback and ebook. You will be able to get one at Apress, Amazon and many other online stores.

 http://www.apress.com/9781484209059

Who else will be at San Mateo Makerfaire next weekend?  We will be at some of our friends' booths to talk about the book and show off a copy!

UPDATED 5/14 afternoon: 

11:00 Sat and Sunday, May 16-17: CRASH Space booth
In the Expo tent

3:00 Sat and Sunday, May 16-17: Booth #1144
IdeaPrinter booth in Make:Labs