DavidCary: /* Portland area electronics groups */ "Hardware Happy Hour Portland"

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Portland area electronics groups: "Hardware Happy Hour Portland"

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== Portland area electronics groups ==

* [http://www.portlandrobotics.org/ PARTS:] [https://colab.portlandrobotics.org/ the Portland Area Robotics Society] (usually first Saturday of each month at 10:30 am at CTRL-H).
* [https://dorkbotpdx.org/ DorkbotPDX: people doing strange things with electricity in Portland]. ([https://groups.google.com/g/dorkbotpdx-blabber/about dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list]). ([https://github.com/dorkbotpdx/dorkbotpdx.org DorkbotPDX github]). (Usually the second Monday of every month 6:30PM to 9:30-ish PM at CTRL-H)
* [https://pdxhackerspace.org/ PDX Hackerspace] (a.k.a. Ctrl-H or ^H) ([https://www.wweek.com/culture/2025/02/11/because-we-dont-have-to-hack-online-alone/ "Because We Don’t Have to Hack Online Alone: PDX Hackerspace"] by Tim Tran 2025). ([https://wiki.pdxhackerspace.org/en/about "About PDX Hackerspace Wiki"]). (Saturdays noon to 5PM, open to the public)
* [https://ctrl-h.github.io/ "Welcome to CTRL-H"] (also PDX Hackerspace) ([https://github.com/ctrlh "ctrlh github"]).
* [https://hhacker.space/ Hedron Hackerspace]
* [https://pdxhf.org/ Portland Hacker Foundation]

== Portland local robot and electronics suppliers ==

* [https://www.ursele.com/ URS Electronics] in NE Portland

* [https://rosecityrobotics.com/about Rose City Robotics]: "As an open-startup, we publish our revenue, expenses and contributions on our website ... We are not funded by venture capital or private equity. ... Therefore, we are able to be driven by metrics related to our impact on our students, our employees and the planet over profit."

* [https://www.pjrc.com/ PJRC Electronic Projects] in nearby Sherwood OR designs the popular [https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/ Teensy USB Development Boards] and runs the related [https://forum.pjrc.com/ Teensy Forum]. (In 2025, SparkFun Electronics partnered with PJRC to manufacture [https://www.sparkfun.com/teensy Teensy boards manufactured by SparkFun] in Colorado).

* [https://www.surplusgizmos.com/ SurplusGizmos] in nearby Hillsboro OR

* [https://portlandrobotics.org/links_electronics.php?link_id=20 Portland-area electronics components stores] via PARTS

* [https://www.freegeek.org/ Free Geek]

* [https://oregonrecycles.com/ Oregon Recycles] computers and electronics

* ... Surely there's others I've overlooked? (Perhaps sync with [https://dorkbotpdx.org/wiki/portland_resources_for_dorks/ "Portland Resources for Dorks"] ?)

== Portland area people working with electronics, microcontrollers, etc. ==

* [[User:DavidCary]] moved to Portland in 2024 and is trying to (re-)connect with people doing electronics here. (Years before David met with the [[Tulsa electronics club]], David used to hang out with the Portland PARTS group.).

* I hear that [https://www.hackster.io/news/rumbledethumps-picomputer-6502-graduates-from-the-breadboard-to-become-a-true-single-board-computer-72da0ada83d9 Rumbledethumps' Picomputer 6502] ([https://magazine.raspberrypi.com/articles/picocomputer-6502 "Raspberry Pi Magazine: Picocomputer 6502"]) ([https://github.com/picocomputer github: Picocomputer]) was developed somewhere near Portland.
* I hear that Linus Torvalds now lives near Portland OR
* Many, many other people doing wierd and wonderful electronic things.
* ... who else should I mention here?

== Portland area tech and repair groups ==

* [https://calagator.org/ "Calagator is a unified calendar for the technology community of Portland, Oregon."]
* [https://www.travelportland.com/culture/makers/ "Portland Makerspaces"]

* [https://www.repairpdx.org/ Repair PDX: Spreading Repair Culture] repairs electronics as well as many, many other things. (Open Circuits is a big fan of [[Ideas#Repairability]]

* [https://www.portland.gov/bps/sustainability/resourcefulpdx/home-improvement/tool-libraries Portland Tool libraries], [https://multco.us/info/tool-lending-libraries Portland Tool Lending Libraries], [https://portlandlivingonthecheap.com/tool-library/ "Portland’s Tool Libraries"]: one in each quadrant of Portland ([https://www.neptl.org/ NEPTL], [https://eastportlandtoollibrary.org/ EPTL], and N Portland) and two in SW Portland ([https://swptl.org/ SWPTL] and [https://www.greenlents.org/tools.html Green Lents]) and two in SE Portland ([https://www.septl.org/ SEPTL] and [https://tools.rockwoodcommon.org/ Rockwood])

[FIXME: make both the above list and [https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Portland,_OR "Hackerspaces in Portland, OR"] include all active hackerspaces]
[FIXME: make both the above list and [https://www.thecoworkingspaces.com/all/united-states/portland "Coworking Spaces in Portland, US"] include all active hacker-friendly coworking spaces]

== other robot groups ==

See [[Tulsa electronics club#other robot groups]].

== Other electronics people ==

See [[Got A Blog, Wiki or Website?]]

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 * [https://hhacker.space/ Hedron Hackerspace]
 * [https://pdxhf.org/ Portland Hacker Foundation]
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