The Dublin Hackerspace
We have just finished up on our November Hackathon 48 hour stint lots going on this weekend.
This was part of this months hackathon, to build a marshmallow shooter .
This weekends Hackathon went very well with us building a high powered marshmallow gun running off an air compressor and running through a 1″ pipe. Check out the video below for how it was built and to see it working.
High Powered Marshmallow Gun
Keep an eye out for more projects that will be using this same tech but with marshmallows
Continue reading “Air Marshmallow Gun”
Mame cabinet is working well, got to put in 6 buttons and make up new face plate for it. But had our first few games today and worked quite well.
Controler board for buttons
Wiring up of buttons and controls.
As you may or may not know there is a Hackaton [1] this weekend starting on Saturday the 16th in Tog
Some projects we will be working on:
If anyone is around this weekend come along and give a hand or bring a project and work on it. Starts on Saturday around 12ish and goes on till when ever people get tired on Sunday.
Some other projects that people are working on, photo development lab, mobile applications, crafts check out website for more projects.
Anyone else have any projects you are working on and want to get involved in.
[1] http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Synchronous_Hackathon/2011-07-16
[3] http://www.tog.ie/2011/07/solar-heater-update/
[4] http://hackaday.com/2010/06/06/how-to-diydtg/
This weekend we worked on a few project
This chair is made from a pallet, some foam & red velvet, check out insctructable for how we made it.
Working on a heat exchange for roof, it works off 350 cans painted black mounted on roof of TOG and then heat is pumped back into space. Will keep you up to date when we get further on with project main need is to fill up frame then take out bottom and top of cans.
Looking for an alternative way to spend St. Patrick’s day.? Let your creative side out and come along to our special Paddy’s Day hackathon. Why not add a little bit of green to your projects, a shamrock, a green LED or even a pint of the black stuff.
The hackathon will take place in our space on Thursday 17th of March, with our space open from about 11:00 to late in the evening. In the evening we’ll be having our regular Open Social Night.
Don’t have a project, why not signup for our Shamrock Soldering Workshop.