Core Electronics is a maker education and retail company based in Newcastle, NSW. Since 2007 we’ve been helping makers, educators and engineers get over the hurdles with Arduino, Raspberry Pi, 3D printing and, more recently, local AI. Along the way we’ve published close to 900 guides and more than 700 videos, and run hundreds of workshops – they’re the reason a lot of people in Australia got their first project working.

We’re looking for our next Creative Technologist – the person who builds, writes, presents and teaches – to carry that forward.

Casual role, 16–30+ hours a week, shaped around your availability and our production schedule. $45/hour including casual loading, plus super. After 3 to 6 months, once your routine is set, we’d be happy to explore a permanent role. This is a hands-on, onsite role at our Newcastle workshop.

What you'll actually do

You'll be the person who takes a new piece of technology out of the box, figures out what's interesting about it, builds something that works, and then explains it so clearly that someone at home can do it too – whether they're reading a guide, watching a video, or sitting across the bench from you. In a typical fortnight that means some mix of:

- Researching and hands-on testing recent products and technologies, often before anyone else in the country has touched them
- Building working projects and demos – recent examples include a first aluminium cut on a desktop CNC, a human-tracking mmWave radar on an Arduino, and a local AI agent running on an NVIDIA DGX Spark
- Writing the guide – clear structure, working code, wiring, photos, and the gotchas that would otherwise cost a reader an afternoon
- Presenting on camera – our creative team handles filming and editing; you bring the knowledge and the enthusiasm
- Running workshops – hosting hands-on sessions in Makerverse,



our onsite studio, and delivering them virtually for people who can't get to Newcastle
- Feeding the loop – reading what the community asks in the comments, forums and workshops, and folding it into the next guide

To give you a concrete sense of what this role has shipped recently: the Arduino Uno Q series, the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 1 vs 2 comparison, getting started with the Makera Carvera, the xTool P3 and S1 unboxing-to-first-cut guides, Bambu Lab A1 and H2C setup, YOLOE and Moondream computer vision on the Pi 5, UWB spatial tracking, and setting up Ollama, Open WebUI and OpenClaw on the DGX Spark.

Who we're looking for

Essential

- You’ve built things. Real projects with Arduino, Raspberry Pi, ESP32, Pico or similar, and you can show us. This is the one that isn’t negotiable – everything else builds on it.
- Comfortable in Python, with at least one of C/C++ or MicroPython, and at home in a Linux terminal
- You can explain a technical idea in plain English – in writing, out loud, and in front of a room
- You're patient with beginners. In a workshop you'll have someone who's never held a soldering iron next to someone who's shipped a product, and both need to leave having learned something
- Curious, self-directed, and honest about what you don't know yet. You'll be learning something new every fortnight, and the best guides come from remembering what confused you at the start

Nice to have (any of these – nobody has all of them)





- 3D printing and CAD, laser cutting, CNC machining, or PCB design
- Computer vision, running LLMs locally, or robotics
- You've taught before – running workshops, tutoring, classroom teaching, a blog or a YouTube channel
- A tertiary qualification in engineering, computer science, physics, education or similar – or an equivalent trail of finished projects

No video editing skills required. No prior on-camera experience required either; if you can teach a mate how something works across a bench, you'll be fine. AI is part of how we work every day, right across the business, and it’s made this role more valuable, not less. More people than ever are starting projects, and they still need someone who has built it for real to show them how. What AI can’t replace is hands-on experience.

It will give you a confident answer that’s wrong, and you only catch it if you’ve wired the circuit, read the datasheet and chased the fault yourself. That experience is what this role is built on. Bring it, and you’ll have better tools than anyone in this job has had before.

What you get

- A workshop most makers would kill for: SMT production line, laser cutters, CNC mill, 3D printers, bench test gear, and a dedicated studio. Everything you need to get on with making. The full list: https://coreelec.io/factory
- A small team where ideas ship fast and you'll work directly with the people who decide what we build and stock next

How to apply

Applications are only accepted via Seek. Please don't call our customer phone line, email our support team or use other contact points – thanks in advance! In your application, link us to something you've built – a project, a repo, a video, a blog post, a workshop you ran. It matters far more to us than your CV.

📌 Creative Technologist – Maker Educator & Presenter (Cardiff)
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