The Dublin Hackerspace
Back in February, we were delighted to run and take part in three events for engineers week.
We ran a Bridge Building Competition, a Night of Ideas and helped run Science Hack Day Dublin. We have some great snaps of the events over on our gallery.
The letter from Engineers Ireland is below.
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.
The next open-source night will take place on Wednesday, April 24th.
6:45 – Doors open
7:00 – Talk: IRC 101, by Cheryl Harding — Postponed! Stay tuned.
7:00 – Talk: The Jerry Project, by Justine Hannequin
7:25 – Lightning talks: Introduce the open-source project you’re working on in less than 5 minutes, and get interested people to join you!
7:45 – Break into groups and contribute.
This is a hands-on event, please bring a laptop. Looking forward to seeing you there!
DojoCon takes place on Saturday 13th of April. A conference for mentors of the now global coder dojo movement. We are delighted to be showcasing hakerspaces along with our friends from lightbox lab.
A 3rd beer homebrewing session is coming to TOG, this Sunday 14th April!
Award-winning brewchamps will be giving attendees detailed instructions, tips ‘n’ tricks, and generally giving the benefit of their expertise.
Beginner, intermediate and experienced brewers attend the brewing session, leading to in-depth, interesting and informative discussions for all.
We’ll start sometime between 10-11am and finish about 3-4pm; brewers tend to go round the corner to the Bull & Castle to socialise after.
Attendance is free and open to all (there may be a whip-around for donations to TOG tho).
If you want to come, why not sign up and say hello to Capital Brewers on their forum here:
http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1364153694
Also follow them on twitter for the latest updates, brewdays, competitions, tasting sessions etc:
Looking forward to seeing you there!
