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Beginners’ Crochet Classes

Want to learn how to crochet?

Giant Granny Square
A granny square in progress

There will be two beginners’ classes run during May, one from 7pm on Thursday 24th and the other on Saturday 26th from 2pm.  Both classes will be identical and will run for two hours, so feel free to pick whichever date suits you better.

During the class you will learn the basics, how to hold the hook and yarn, how to do chain stitch, how to do double and treble stitches.  By the end of the class you should be well on your way to starting your first granny square. Continue reading “Beginners’ Crochet Classes”

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Stop motion Build Blacksmith forge

Today we made a blacksmith forge that worked quite well after looking at a few other designs and working with what we found around the space we where able to build a blacksmith forge.

Fan is from an old oil burner
Running fuel is just normal coal but there are better options.

Check out video and photos for more details or leave a comment down below.

 

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Security Series: Wireless Security Workshop (again)

IT Security
Next Saturday I am going to re-run my Wireless Security Workshop. Last time I had 16 attendees all busy hacking away at the different wireless access points I set up.

This is a hands on workshop. It is aimed at beginners and you will be following along with what I do on my screen on the projector.

I will cover:
* What wireless is
* Different security settings
* The insecurities of each
* Live demo’s of Open Wireless, WEP, WPA.
* Discussion of WPS

The duration of the class will be 4 hours with a small break in the middle. For the class you will be required to bring your own laptop with either airtools installed, a virtual machine with Backtrack running, or booting into Backtrack via USB/DVD.

This will be the final security course that I run free of charge. In future I will charge a fee that will go towards the running of TOG.

Date: 28th April 2012
Time: 1pm – 5pm
Seats are limited to 16

SOLD OUT – Please add yourself to the waiting list and I will let you know this evening if a place becomes free

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Plasma cutter

New toy in Tog arrived yesterday (Sip P184 HF TIG/ARC/Plasma) we have cracked it open and started to use it check out the video and drop and and take a look.

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International Space Apps Challenge

On the 21st to 22nd of April, TOG will host the Dublin base for the International Space Apps Challenge.

The International Space Apps Challenge is a two day event that will be taking place all over the world and off world (on the International Space Station). The event is aimed at solving global problems through collaboration both at the local and international level.

There are four main categories of challenges: software, open hardware, citizen science, and data visualisation. You can collaborate on one of the listed challenges or you can propose your own challenge for people to collaborate on.

You can register to take part in the event at http://spaceappschallenge.org/location/tog. TOG will be open for the duration of the event, and if you have any questions, please post a comment.

Note: This a free two day (or overnight) event. Please only register if you can attend both days as the number of places are limited. You can also register if you can only make one day or part of the day.

The plan is to start at 12:00 (noon) on Saturday. We are collecting useful information about our activities here