The Dublin Hackerspace
We are delighted that two of our members have been accepted to showcase their projects at next months World Maker Faire. Jeffrey and Robert will be bringing along projects they have worked on and a duck or two.
World Maker Faire is very like our own Dublin Mini Maker Faire but on steroids with over 500 makers. It takes place on the 29th & 30th of September in New York. If you in the area drop by and say hello.
All preparations are under way for this weekend’s Dublin Mini Makerfaire. One of our members put it best “@TOG_Dublin getting all their ducks in a row in preparation for MakerFaire!” For the makerfaire we have designed some new TOG t-shirts that will be available on the day. Do drop by our stand.
TOG would like to welcome a new hackerspace to Ireland. Lightbox Lab is a new makerspace basied in Drogheda. Still in planing stages, they have hit the ground runing with a soldering workshop and an upcoming Python class.
If you’re in the area drop by to one of their events.
Robert and Jeffrey will be leading two workshops in RUA RED as part of the Glitch festival. Glitch runs from the 11th May until the 16th June. It hosts artists who utilise both virtual and real spaces to create their work with a a focus on Collective Intelligence , Immersive Technology and Open Source Technology.
This fun and hands on workshop will show you how to get started creating your own electronic creations. The workshop covers the basic techniques of soldering and how to make simple circuits. Participants will finish the workshop with a kit they can bring home.
Dates: Saturday 2nd June – 11am – 12.30pm & 1pm – 2.30pm
Cost: €5
Booking: http://ruared.ie/Soldering.html
Do you want to make things blink? Build interactive art? Construct robots to take over the world? Then Arduino is for you.
You don’t need to be a programmer or an electronics engineer just have an open mind.
You will start off using LED’s and LDR to make light bar graphs.
This workshop will give you the spring into the world of Arduino.
Dates: Saturday 9th June – 12pm – 3pm
Cost: €5
Booking: http://ruared.ie/Arduino.html
Just a quick update to let you all know that we have be accepted to take part in Dublin’s first Mini Maker Faire. We plan to bring our usual mix of interesting projects along with a host of new projects we are working on.
Save the Date – 14th July, 2012 in the Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin
We had blast of a day at this event . We had 100s of people try out our 2 buzzer games with one guy having completed it with no beeps.
Which is a huge feat.
I think it gave us a good idea of what maker faire will be like . Our other craft projects on display were a hit.
We made our submission to the open call during the week .
I have taken a role on the organization team of the faire . I hope to see it ad a great chance to show case what Irish makers are making .
Finally a big thank you to the people who gave up their Sunday to help out today. We had to listen to 6 hours of beeping .
