The Ethernest holds public workshops for building unique and useful electronics. The workshops are open to everyone, including majors and non-majors; everyone is encouraged to participate. See the IEEE Events page for workshop dates and times.
Past Workshops
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Computer Vision Workshop- Fall 2021
Join us to get an overview on the five topics of visualizing images, filtering, distance mapping, corner detection, and depth detection. Also includes a quick guide to relevant prebuilt Matlab functions, tensorflow, opencv, among other resources and help for understanding how larger projects such as image classification, face tracking, etc. are done. |
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Resume Workshop- Fall 2021 Join us to get some ECE resume tips and have your resume reviewed by an upperclassman! This is a great opportunity to get your resume in shape for next week’s career fair. |
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Deconstruction Workshop- Ethernest Relaunch 2018 Join the Ethernest Relaunch of the 2018-2019 school year! Come to deconstruct various electronics and learn how they work! |
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Keysight Oscilloscope Workshop Interested in electronic signals and their waveforms? Curious about just what is going on inside an oscilloscope? Next Monday, Ethernest will be hosting an oscilloscope triggering lab presented by Keysight Technologies from 6-8pm. We will start with some basic measurements, before introducing oscilloscope triggering and some techniques. |
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Introduction to Arduino Workshop Learn the basics of using Arduino GPIO in preparation for the HackRice hackathon. |
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Introduction to Soldering – TV B Gone! Learn how to solder by building a TV-B-Gone, a keychain-sized universal remote that allows you to turn any TV on or off. |
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Introduction to CAD and 3D Printing Learn the basics of CAD and how a 3D printer works In this workshop, participants learned about Blender, a really easy-to-use CAD software, and how to turn a CAD design into a real, 3D-printed object. Participants who stayed longer and went through additional training gained access to the Ethernest and permission to use the 3D printer for free for the year. |
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Introduction to Electronics Workshop for beginners to make their own TV-Be-Gone This lab was focused on the classic TV-Be-Gone kit by Adafruit and others. Attendees had a blast doing more advanced soldering for the first time and gained confidence in following circuit diagrams. The resulting TV-be-gones were tested and proven effective on TVs in the Abercrombie building and beyond. It’s been said that this workshop engabled some pretty epic pranks later in the year. |
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Wearable Electronics Playing with electroluminescent wire Our first ethernest workshop, the wearable electronics workshop was centered around electroluminescent (EL) wire. People brought clothing to modify, learned about EL wire and the way electronics were beginning to permeate fashion, and then could have a wire to put into their clothing. The results were very Tron, of course. |
Past Projects
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SoundWorm Listen to sounds from all across campus The SoundWorm is an interdisciplinary project created from a collaboration between the Architecture department and the EtherNest. The SoundWorm is the first student-designed architecture piece on campus. The structure has five speakers placed throughout its piping, which relay sounds from microphones placed in various places across campus through Rice’s network. |