The Dublin Hackerspace
Some of our members helped out the first Sandymount Repair Cafe. A fun day helping people repair lots of different items and parting knowledge along the way. Culture File from RTE Lyric FM captured the feeling on the day with a lovely podcast.
Give it a listen here and check out some of our photos from the day in our gallery.
We have been accepted to Maker Faire UK in April. We have a host of new projects in the works for the largest Maker Faire in the UK. We always look forward to meeting new makers and the public at the event but most of all catching up with our friends from hackerspaces across the UK.
A great video by Gerry Kelly summing up HACK/CHANGE. A week long show in the Exchange Dublin showcasing our members work.
HACK/CHANGE 2014 – Dublin, Temple Bar from Gerry Kelly on Vimeo.
Big thanks for everyone who came to the birthday party last Saturday. We had a blast. Thanks to our own TriploidTree for making an *awesome* and delicious rainbow cake!
(Thanks to chebe for the photos)
OHM 2013 “Observe, Hack, Make”
This is a five day outdoor international camping conference, hosted every four years, for hackers, makers and those with an inquisitive mind. On 31st July 2013, 3000 of those minds will descend upon on an unassuming patch of land, at the Geestmerambacht festival grounds, 30km north of Amsterdam.
The Irish hacker & maker communities travelling to OHM invites you all to join us in forming an “Irish Embassy” This will be our village presence at the camp. We’ll be show casing any participant projects and coming up with new collaborative initiatives as the camp progresses. Become one of the Irish inhabitants or at least drop by and say Conas ata tú? We look forward to seeing all our friends and making new ones.
TOG went to Newcastle last weekend for Maker Faire UK. We got to see lots of great projects and met many more Hackerspaces. UK Hackspace Foundation did a great job promoting Hackerpaces in UK and Ireland with this GIANT map.
UK Hackspace Foundation
All our projects got a great response from visitors, including the giant Arduino, flashing LEDs, sewable curcuit projects etc.
To our benefit we met loads of people who where willing to swap Ducks for schwag. First swap was with Knitic.com, for our logo done up with their automated knitting machine.
Update: Made a mistake this was very kindly made by Sally Bitmap Machine Knitting check out website, very nice people and really very good machine www.kentfield.co.uk Over the weekend they used a hand scanner to get children to scan in their designs and print. Our design was from bitmap.