The Dublin Hackerspace
TOG is very happy to host the 3rd Brewday by Capital Brewers.
The space will be open from 10am until 4pm this Sunday 12th of May.
For anyone interested in homebrewing this is the event for you.
You don’t have to be an expert just come along with an interest.
The next open-source night will take place on Wednesday, May 15th. This is a hands-on event, please bring a laptop!
6:30 – Doors open
7:00 – Talk: IRC 101, by Cheryl Harding
7:25 – Talk: How to contribute to OpenMandriva, by Guilherme Moro
7:50 – Lightning talks: A chance to introduce the open-source project you’ll be working on during the evening in 5 minutes or less
8:00 – Break into groups and get contributing!
As part of our bi-weekly lockpicking group we regularly test the security of locks. At next weeks meet we will be making our own keys. Emergency keys are handy if you lose, or bend your existing key. They can be made from proper manufactured key blanks, but they can also be made from old plastic bottles, or coke cans
There are various techniques for actually cutting the teeth into the key, for plastic and can keys; a scissors is all that is needed, for proper key blanks a needle file or dremel is best
The usual recommendation is to learn using unused locks as badly made keys can jam or damage locks. The aim of the night will be to learn key cutting using the scissors method, working up to cutting a double sided emergency key for a car. Extra bonus points for those who arrive with a pre-made key for my car made from the photo above! No need to book nor bring anything, just have a look at the 3 videos above and drop by on Tuesday May 7th at 7.30pm.
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!