The Electron Club is a voluntary run space where people interested in things like Free Open Source Software, DIY culture, circuit bending, hardware hacking, computer recycling, streaming, audio and video editing, green technologies, and amateur radio can meet, use equipment, and share and disseminate their skills and ideas.

We encourage an attitude towards technology, media and DIY production that recognises the relation of these to society and the environment. The Electron Club welcomes debate and the development of practices that question and explore existing and new ways of working and understanding these.

The space also provides a location that not-for-profit community and discussion groups can use at no charge for meetings and to develop projects.

All are welcome.

If you any questions about the space, want to book it for your own use, or join one of our workshops, you can contact us here.

We are a friendly group with and interested in building open source hardware centred round arduino board. ( An arduino is an easily programmable hardware interface capable of being the electronic brain for lots of things, robots, lightboxs, flight machines). What can be done is only limited by your imagination (well almost)..

At the moment the our main project is to build a reprap, we have just started the build.

This is a picture of the reprap.

If you want to build something else that would be cool too.

We also have our own web site Glasgow open source hardware group

This is our new mailing list were we discuss current projects. http://www.electronclub.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/goshg

We meet up regularly on thursday between 7 and 10pm. We put our meetings under goshg in the electron club calendar, feel free to come along.

http://www.electronclub.org/webcalendar/month.php

Tues 19th April 2011, 7.30pm

We are holding an informal meetup for makers, to chat, show stuff, discuss projects, open design, fabbing. Come along, bring some refreshments and meet other makers. We are hoping this can become a regular event and help to better establish a maker community and Glasgow Fablab.

http://www.electronclub.org/webcalendar/view_entry.php?id=99&date=20110419

Pure Data Scots User meet ups for the next six months.

March 25th: http://www.electronclub.org/webcalendar/view_entry.php?id=87&date=20110325

April 29th: http://www.electronclub.org/webcalendar/view_entry.php?id=88&date=20110429

May 27th: http://www.electronclub.org/webcalendar/view_entry.php?id=89&date=20110527

June 17th: http://www.electronclub.org/webcalendar/view_entry.php?id=91&date=20110617

July 29th: http://www.electronclub.org/webcalendar/view_entry.php?id=92&date=20110729

August 26th: http://www.electronclub.org/webcalendar/view_entry.php?id=93&date=20110826

Please note that the June date is the second last Friday of that month.

A reminder will be sent out to those on the mailing list at the beginning of each month.

The meetings kick off at 14.00 at the Electron room, CCA, Glasgow.

Meeting is free, public and open to all practitioners, beginners, artists, programmers, musicians, passionates of digital arts and simply anybody who might be interested in spending a few hours patching, talking, sharing ideas, making some noise, teaching and learning.

We encourage you to actively take part in our newborn community and propose presentations or talks for next meetings. Simply come over and show something you have been doing with Pd. The user group is a great chance to collect feedback about your patches and ideas.

If you want to keep up to date with our activities, please subscribe to the Pd Scots User list at:

http://lists.electronclub.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pdusers

Hope to see you soon!

State of the Map - Scotland 'unconference'

Fri-Sat August 26/27 2011 10-4pm

Join the Scottish OpenStreetMap community to talk, workshop and hack for this two day event. We are being kindly hosted by the Electron Club at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow. This will be an 'unconference' event, where all delegates can make suggestions for presentations or workshops and give lightening talks throughout the day(s).

We hope to attract mappers, hackers, artists, journalists, cyclists, cartographers and any organisations interested in participating in the OpenStreetMap project.

The facilities include the Electron Club room with 16 spaces for laptops and a 70 seat cinema for presentations. There are also two open bar/cafe areas within the building and free wifi throughout.

More information: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_Scotland_2011

FREE tickets available http://sotmscotland.eventbrite.com/

The Electron Club is based in the Centre for Contemporary Arts on Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. See the CCA website for opening hours or find out where we are.

Lots of different people are involved in the Electron Club. You can get involved as an individual or as part of a group. One of our main features over the years is in providing a free space for not-for-profit and voluntary groups involved in areas related to DIY technology, community media and environmental activities to meet and develop work.

There are a number of groups who meet on a regular basis and others who meet on a more occasional basis or for specific projects. See the groups section for more information.

Individuals are also welcome to join and use the facilities for their own projects, and many of our current members are just such people pursuing their own projects and hobbies.

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All events take place at the Electron Club space at the http://www.cca-glasgow.com/ CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow and, unless otherwise stated, are free for everyone, including members of all abilities and anyone else who would like to come along or try things out.

Events are listed in the calendar. Please click on any events you're interested in for a further description. Hope to see you there!

For information on workshops, projects, joining the Electron Club, Electron Club IRC channel and various other things, go to our info pages and groups section.

OpenStreetMap Mapping Party

Saturday May 22nd, 10:30am - 4pm

Mapping parties are events where anyone can come and participate in the OpenStreetMap project. OpenStreetMap is a free, open source map that can be contributed, edited and used by anyone anywhere. Mapping parties are social events where experienced and new mappers can meet to share and learn more about the project. The events are generally held in a public place, and allow time for discussion, mapping and editing. The event is open to all.

It's fun. It's free. You can help.

More info ...

RSVP: please let us know that you will join us by registering on here.

Now in our fourth year, the Electron Club Open Days are an opportunity to see and try out a range of things that people do, as well as having the opportunity to meet others with similar interests, make, chat, discuss and enjoy.

For images and sound from previous Open Days, see the gallery.

To learn more about that these things are have a look at some of the articles in our online library or come along to an event or project and see for yourself.

You can also listen to this audio interview made by Electron Club member Bob speaking to Simon and Ben:

http://www.archive.org/details/Electronclub