The AGM has come and gone, and good news non-members, the Starving Hacker Rate has been reduced to €20 a month! The same price as a tshirt! (For sale in TOG…) It’s never been more affordable to become a TOG key-carrying member! Interested? Come talk to us about it!
One Small Step: Open-Source Night
Starting in February, Tog will be hosting a monthly open-source evening on the 3rd Wednesday of the month. These hands-on sessions aim to bring together experienced open-source contributors with people who would like to get started but aren’t sure where to start or would generally benefit from having someone to ask questions to. All types of contributions welcome: documentation, code, testing, artwork, translations…
For the first event, we have confirmed participants with varied levels of experience in Gnome, OpenStack, Django, OpenLDAP, OpenWonderland, the P2P django project, AppInventor*. If you’re an experienced contributor interested in attending, feel free to get in touch and get your project(s) added to the list. If you’re an aspiring contributor interested in attending, you can drop me a note too with the projects you’re planning on looking at during the evening.
If the project you’re interested in isn’t mentioned, please come anyway. We can figure out how a project works together. Likewise, people are welcome to come and work on their usual open-source stuff – just be open to the occasional question 🙂 The more people, the merrier!
The first event will be held on Wednesday, February 20th, with Tog opening at 6:30pm and the first talk starting at 7pm.
Every month we will start with a couple of people speaking for 5-10 minutes, to introduce the project they are working on, what is the usual path for contributing and where they are currently looking for help. Then we will form groups and work on making a contribution for the rest of the evening.
* (We have lost a few projects due to the flu – although it’s unfortunate, if you’re interested you can still get in touch with the person who was willing to help)
January Brewday
All are welcome to come along to this first free brewday of 2013, on Sun 27 Jan from 10am till 4pm. We will demonstrate extract and all grain brewing, and welcome any questions and discussions on the day. This is also a nice social day out for the more experienced brewers. Please sign up so that we have an idea of numbers!
See you there!
http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1357132614
Testwall Equipment Donation
Last week we collected some used electronics test equipment which was donated to TOG by Testwall. Testwall have an office and laboratory in Sandyford Industrial Estate in Dublin, where they sell and rent new and used test equipment, and provide repair and calibration services.
From the photo you can see the large selection of test equipment we received. It will take us some time to figure out the functionality and capabilities of such a wide range of devices.
Our initial research into identifying the test equipment has given us the following list:
- Tektronix 11402 1GHz Digitizing Oscilloscope with Two 11A71 Amplifier plugins
- Hewlett Packard 83480A Digital Communications Analyzer with Two 83485A plugins
- Tektronix 2465B 400MHz Four Channel Oscilloscope
- Tektronix 492P Spectrum Analyzer (50kHz to 21GHz)
- Tektronix TDS 2014 Four Channel DSO 100MHz, 1GSa/s
- Hewlett Packard 54610B Oscilloscope Two Channel DSO 500MHz, 1MSa/s
- Two Keithley Model 7001 Switch Systems
- Two Wandel Goltermann PA-41 Frame/Signalling Analyzers
- Two Hewlett Packard 3488A Switch Control Units
- Sage 930A Communications Test Set
- Mettler Toledo PB8001 Precision Balance
- Tektronix TM501 Power Module with AM503 Current Amplifier
- Wandel Goltermann PF-30 Bit Error Analyzer
- Seaward PAT 2000i Portable Appliance Tester
Our previous list of test equipment which was provided by members includes:
- Tektronix 2445 400MHz Four Channel Oscilloscope
- Tektronix 2710 Spectrum Analyzer (10kHz to 1.8GHz)
- Hitachi V-212 Oscilloscope 20MHz
- Hitachi VC-6041 DSO
- Other smaller test devices and GSM test equipment
Other photos of the equipment is available in the gallery.
All this test equipment is available for use by members in the space anytime and free to visitors during our regular Electronics and Micro controller Group Night and the many other public events we run.
If you have interesting equipment, machinery, tools or materials that needs a new home, please use the contact page to let us know about it.
And thanks again to Testwall for there generous donation.
January Talks; Computer Games Development Night
Ever wonder what goes into making a computer game? Well, we have a night of talks to suit you! Computer Games Development Night will feature a variety of talks from professionals in the computer games industry, covering topics like development processes and behing-the-scenes tools that make your games enjoyable.
And for some variety we’ll have a few short talks about projects people are working on, a sort of show-and-tell.
Date: Thursday, 10th of January
Time: Open from 18.30, Talks begin 19.15
Location: TOG
Cost: Free
No Signup required.
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Review of The Arduino Starter Kit
During Maker Faire New York, Jeffrey and Robert were offered the opportunity to review the new official Arduino Starter Kit. We’ve had the kit now for over a month now and finally got a chance to properly review it.
