On Saturday at the TOG open social, we built our eggbot kit. It went together quite easily, and within about 2 hours we were doing our first plots.
Video and more photos here.
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The Open-Social and the Egg-Bot
This coming Saturday 17th August, is TOG’s regular open social. It’s a great opportunity to drop in, hang out and meet some of the members and visitors. The space will be open from afternoon until late. Bring beer, food, gadgets!
We also have a egg-bot kit. An egg-bot draws on eggs and other similarly shaped objects, such as light bulbs and ping pong balls. We’ll be assembling the kit during the evening and trying to get it running. You can read all about the egg-bot here….. http://egg-bot.com/ Come in and give us a hand!
Craft Night quilt at MakerFaire2013
Dublin Mini Maker Faire 2013 has come and gone. We’ve been recapping a few of the projects displayed at the event, like the Bubble Bird House, and the Twitter Knitter. The Craft Nighters* got in on the action as well, and contributed squares towards a patchwork quilt. The type of squares is varied, including crochet, hand knit, machine knit, embroidery, blackwork, patchwork (meta), and decorative uses of beads, buttons, and googly eyes. Rather than losing some of the detail by making them conform to a strict patchwork quilt, we instead chose a looser arrangement to better showcase the talent and variety of our dedicated crafters.
* Craft Night happens every second Tuesday from 7pm. It’s free, and open to all crafts. Simply, people show up and work on their projects. It’s great having others around who can help you out if you get stuck/confused, or just to chat with (and find out the best crafting suppliers). Get in touch and come along!
Bubble Birdhouse
We have been working on projects that all went down really well at Maker Faire this year and will be working on over the coming months to improve as we go along.
One project that I worked on with another member is the Bubble Birdhouse.
It all started with some messing/science trying to make bubbles from washing up liquid and seeing what components are needed for a good bubble. Then trying to replicate what the commercial machines can do but build your own. Once we had this almost cracked we worked to scale up the project as we did for street performers event. We learned that children like to stick fingers into every bubble that comes out of the machine, so we came up with solutions for this.
We put it 6 foot off the ground, this was a really amazing experience to see how children and adults are drawn to bubbles.
Next stage is to take it all apart and redesign it from scratch like every project; rebuild and improve as we go along.
If you want to see the Bubble Birdhouse in action check out the end of this news piece.
Forge melting melting
Great weekend in Tog got good bit done working on few projects and making others work.
We where able melt glass, copper, aluminum in our little forge within few minutes.
The TwitterKnitter
One of TOG’s projects for the Dublin Mini Maker Faire 2013. This 40 year old, entirely mechanical knitting machine was upgraded with servos, electronics and laser cut parts, and spent the day knitting tweets sent by attendees.
