Classes & events

Learn on the real thing.

Small classes, no prerequisites, soldering irons included. If you’ve never opened a computer, start with Teardown Night — that’s what it’s for.

Upcoming — sample schedule

OCT

Teardown night: what is actually inside a PC

Take a dead machine apart down to the board and learn every part by handling it. Nothing to bring, nothing to break.

6:30pm · 12 seats Reserve

OCT

Intro to soldering

Irons, flux, and a small kit you keep. By the end you will have repaired a real joint on a real board.

1:00pm · $35 Reserve

OCT

Read-your-old-disks day

Bring floppies, tapes or a drive from the basement. We image it with you and send you home with the files.

11:00am · free Sign up

OCT

Front panel workshop: programming the SEL 810A

Toggle switches, octal, and a program you enter by hand. The oldest way to use a computer, and still the clearest.

2:00pm · 8 seats Reserve

THU

WEEKLY

Restoration night

Open bench. Work on your own machine or take something off our fault list. Tools, scopes and second opinions provided.

6:00–10:00pm · free Just show up

A 60-minute walkthrough built around one idea: every computer is a box of parts you can understand. Free for local schools.

Cataloguing, cleaning, cable-making, greeting visitors, chasing a fault for three weeks. No experience needed for most of it.

Free, weekly, open bench. Bring your own machine or pick up whatever’s on the fault list. Coffee is on.