Irish Hackerspaces Week

This hands on workshop will cover various aspects of soldering; from the basic techniques of soldering, to soldering electronic components to make simple circuits.

Cost:

€15 General public

€12 Students/Unwaged.

€10 TOG members

No electronics skills required. Participants must be at least 18 years old. Workshop open to ALL. Limited to 10 participants per Workshop. Prepayment at time of booking is required for this workshop,

Morning 10:30 to 14:00

EDIT Morning Workshop  cancelled.

Afternoon 14:30 to 18:00

Harvard Course screening: “Introduction to C” – programming afterwards

We’ll be showing the Harvard Course at 2pm, which will take about 1 hour. Afterwards we’ll try to solve the provided programming tasks.

Should be fun :).

The course will start from the very beginning, so no programming
skills required.
Needed software and internet connection will be provided.

Overview of topics covered:
*  Source code and object code
*  Compilers
*  Standard input and output
*  Functions
*  Libraries

More info to the original course: http://cs50.tv/2009/fall/
– Presented by Meg

The Joys of 3D Printing

We will be talking about everything 3d printing, 3d scanners molding, design and general things 3d. Will be demoing the makerbot and what we have built with it so far. Showing off designs for some improvements and upcoming projects.
Update The talk will also include a section on CNC Routers/Milling machines.

E-textiles & Conductive Thread

A brief beginners look at conductive thread, conductive fabric, soft switches, and an introduction to sensors and wearable micro controllers for making your soft circuits that bit smarter. We’ll take a look at some existing applications, and then there’s a hands-on session where you’ll make your own soft circuit.
– Presented by Cheryl (http://chebe.dreamwidth.org/)

Arduino

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A short talk on the Arduino platform.Demoing some simple projects.
– Presented by Jeffrey

Processing

Oh, sweet! The Sugar learning environment

Come and learn about Sugar, the learning platform for children. Sugar offers an innovative desktop environment designed to encourage collaboration and critical thinking through Activities. Initially developed as part of the One Laptop Per Child project, Sugar is now community led and can run on any machine thanks to Sugar on a Stick.
– Presented by Julie

Lockpicking: The Myths and Truths

An Evening of Amateur Radio

Amateur Radio is a hobby of constructing, experimenting and communicating. A licensed radio experimenter can operate two-way radio equipment from  almost anywhere, and can talk across town or around the world. Ireland is a hive for Amateur Radio enthusiasts , with over 35 clubs around the country. The scope and possibilities are endless with Radio, for example, experiments with home-built equipment or antennas, sending TV pictures, operating through satellites, or just having a quiet chat with friends at home or abroad. This evening is a chance for the public to get an introduction to Amateur Radio and to see how it all works.

Fun with Pattern Matching – Or how to build a database using flat files

Flat-file databases have many uses in applications which use small amounts of data and/or no RDBMS is available. For example, a small program on a system for user logins or access control where less than, say, 100 data entries will be in use over the lifetime of the system. The best known
example is the /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/group files on a unix system.

We will also cover the use of pattern matching for converting http://…. queries to useful command line parameters.This presentation will introduce the user to the Black Arts of manipulating formatted text files using unix command-line utilities such as cut, paste, grep, sed and awk. No previous Unix experience is required and any commands used will be explained before use.
– Presented by Justin Kelly

Open Social Night with a Film.

An open night were you don’t have to worry about anything. Just turn up grab some popcorn and watch the film.

Synchronous Hacker Quiz

Its a quiz to test you 1337 hacker skills. Get you friends and make teams of 3 to battle it out. Rounds will include hacker history , know your ports . The quiz will be happening synchronous with our friends in 091labs . Ticket price/ donation to be confirmed.

10th Global Synchronous Hackathon

Warm up your soldering irons, thread your needles and fill the fridge with your beverage of choice. The 10th Synchronous Hackathon takes
place. The hackatohns are a great chance for people to do larger projects. The space is alive with a buzz for the hackathons.

Standford Course screening: “Introduction to Machine Learning” – programming afterwards

*  Motivation & Applications of Machine Learning
*  Definition of Machine Learning
*  Supervised Learning
*  Learning Theory
*  Unsupervised Learning
*  Reinforcement Learning

The duration of the screening is 1 hour, afterwards we will work on
the included tasks.
Needed software and internet connection will be provided.
(http://see.stanford.edu/see/courseinfo.aspx?coll=348ca38a-3a6d-4052-937d-cb017338d7b1)
– Presented by Meg