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ON HOLD !!! DIY AUDIO Night

Every Tuesday evening we invite you to bring your audio projects to our store in the Hochelaga area. We will listen to old cassettes and try to diagnose the problems your noise devices are having. We’ll provide you with the tools and knowledge necessary to repair things yourself, we can also give you a helping hand as much as we can.

Pay What You Can

3811 Sainte-Catherine Est, Montréal H1W 2G3

18h to 22h no appointment needed

Facebook Event : https://www.facebook.com/events/1420916448509829

Hacky Holidays

Do you love the GREEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHZZZZZZZZZZHHHHHHHHHH noise of the dot-matrix printer? Do you want to make cool lo-fi pixelated greeting cards for your loved ones?

Come to COOP Recyborg on the night of Saturday, December 23rd starting at 6PM and we will show you how to print these cards on a real Apple IIe computer and Apple ImageWriter II printer from the mid-80s!

This is a mask-mandatory event (N95 or better). Masks will be provided at the door.

Held in conjunction with Foulab. Special thanks to @computerbomb, Curator of the Foulab museum, without whom this would not have been possible! He will be co-presenting the workshop with me, Kastora, The Witch of the Wires.

COOP Recyborg is located at Bâtiment 7, rue 1900 le Ber, Suite C, on the 57 and 71 bus lines.

Accessibility information:

• Masking is required (N95 or better), however, unmasked customers will have been in the space earlier in the day during business hours.
• N95 masks in three sizes are available at the door.
• The space is on the ground floor and wheelchair accessible. A shallow-grade ramp leads up from the street near wheelchair-accessible bus stop to a walkway along the side of the building to our south door.
• The 71N and 57E stop a few meters away north of the ramp at stop 53029.
• The 71S and 57O stop one block south of the ramp and across the street at stop 53030.
• The 71S and 57O leave from Charlevoix metro. The 71N leaves from Lasalle metro. The 71S also leaves from Lionel-Groulx metro.
• Not all buses on the route have front ramps. Please check the linked STM schedules linked above the day of the event to see which buses do.
• You can also arrive to the north side of the building by car, where there is a curb, unfortunately with no curb cut. It is accessed through the parking lot at 1830 le Ber. We will try to get a ramp for this side before the event, and this page will be updated if we get one.
• There is a wheelchair-accessible bathroom, but access to all bathrooms requires exiting the space and going back along the walkway to another entry about 70m.

• CO₂ levels are quite low in the space, because it’s a drafty old warehouse. That’s good!
• It’s cold in the space, because it’s a drafty old warehouse. The temperature will be around 16ºC. That’s bad! Expect to keep your coat on.

If time and ink permit, we may even get to make ~BANNERS~

This event is FREE, no registration required

INSTALL LINUX ON YOUR CRAPBOX

Just bring your computer, and we’ll help you take this crucial step.

Why switch to Linux?
-It’s free
-There are no viruses (very very few in any case)
-It’s faster and more stable than Windows, because it installs less unnecessary junk
-This helps extend the life of your device, because it remains efficient for a long time.
-Linux does not spy on you or sell your data

The vast majority of programs that you use on a daily basis are the same or have their equivalent on Linux, for example:

Microsoft office = Libre office or Open office
Outlook = Thunderbird
Firefox = Firefox
Chrome = Chrome
Photoshop = GIMP
Etc

PRICE: Slinding scale price ($10 to $40), proceeds will go to Coop Recyborg

MANDATORY REGISTRATION HERE (1 person per hour):

Reanimate you junk with electronic circuitry !

So you bought some junk! Great! That’s amazing! But maybe it doesn’t work any more. Maybe it does sort of work, but doesn’t quite do what you would like. Maybe you just want to make it blink or beep at you! Cool.

We can help.

Using the magic of Arduino, we can invent, reinvent, or maybe even uninvent things!

What is Arduino? It’s a tiny little computer, about the size of a credit card. It has electronic inputs and outputs that you can talk to by writing your own programs.

This course is broken down into a series of modules. Although they all build progressively on each other, you’re free to take only the particular modules that interest you.

No particular computer programming knowledge is assumed. As you learn about the electronics, you will also learn about the programming techniques needed to control them.

Although the first few modules are fairly tightly structured to get you up to speed on the basics, near the end of the course we will have open days or nights available where you can consult with us about your specific plans and get advice on how to move forward.

BRING YOUR OWN LAPTOP!!! A junk laptop will do fine.

MODULE 1 – September 2023 17th – 12pm to 17pm

• What is Arduino?
• How to install the software on your laptop
• How to power up the Arduino and load a program into it
• Switches, buttons, sliders, dimmers, and blinking lights
• And, how to write programs that react and make decisions about those things!
• When things go wrong, or, even if they don’t, how to get information into and out of the Arduino via the computer. The serial port!

Module 2 date TBA

• Connecting to more sophisticated devices
• Plug in an SD card!
• Talk to other Arduinos!
• Talk to lots of LEDs at once!

Module 3 date TBA

• Add a screen! Add a keyboard! Add a joystick! Play a game!

Module 4 date TBA

• Control other things! A big light! A precise stepper motor! Long strips of colourful LEDs!
• At this point we won’t quite be ready to build a whole robot or a 3D printer, but we can help you get there, or help you pick out a kit!

Module 5 date TBA

“I don’t need a computer for all that!”

How to use some simple electronic circuitry without the computer!