The Dublin Hackerspace
We were very honoured to find we had been mentioned in the Frog’s blog survey of influential people in Irish science.
Every year we run events for science week and will continue to do so. But as you know science is not just for one week a year. Other times you will find us running talks, helping run Science Hack Days and promoting life long learning.
To check out who else is on the list visit the Frog blog.
On Wednesday the 14th of March from 19:30 – 22:00, we are going to demo Security Shepherd to the public.
Security Shepherd is a 4th year project created by DIT Student Mark Denihan. The purpose of this application is to educate people about Web Application Security. It involves a series of levels that each user works their way through. Each level has information about the type of attack that a user reads before attempting the attack. Previously DIT students have had a chance to work through the levels, I think it would be a great evening to see how many levels we can get through. I have played it myself and it is a good challenge.
Required for this night is :
Your own laptop, Firefox, Java 6 JRE, BurpSuite (free version).
Attendees of all levels should attend. Mark and myself will be on-hand to give extra tip’s and explanations if required.
Unity is a fantastic tool/engine for game development, but what’s not obvious when developing it is the best methods for developing the game code.
Coming from a programming background, Unity can be quiet confusing. The idea of attaching components to objects in order to add functionality is easy to grasp and makes creating small games fast any easy, but what about larger and more complex games?
The Dublin Unity3D Development Workshop is designed to compliment the Dublin Unity3D Development Discussion, which occured in January. Instead of talking about development methods and patterns we’ll be using them to create a game.
I’ll be bring assets and (some) scripts, we’ll use them to build a game. Rather than following a set plan we’ll be “winging it” and each person will be encouraged to make theirs unique, trying different things to see what happens. The goal isn’t to create a full game, it is to understand how you might go about doing that.
Some of the things we’ll be covering are:
Easter is coming up, and so is a really nice Easter workshop in TOG.
Date: Sunday, 4th of March
Time: 2pm – 6pm
Participants: max. 9
The workshop will start by creating an Easter decoration from scratch, beginning with a raw piece of wood that needs to be grained and branches fresh from the tree that we will turn into a basket.
Once the hard woodwork is done, we’ll create chickens and butterflies out of wool and ribbons for the most colourful spring impression possible. There will also be plenty of flowers, pussy willows and lady bugs to complete our work of art.
To not leave our Easter basket empty, we will color and decorate eggs (that can still be eaten afterwards), as well as fill it with various chocolate goodies – a vital part of this holiday.
Fee: 15€ for non-members / 9€ for members (eggs and chocolate included)
Please let us know if you’re interested in attending!
Continue reading “Easter is coming!”
TOG will be hosting a night of short talks as part of engineers week on Thursday 1st of March . Each talk will be twenty minutes long on a range of interesting topics. The space will open from 18.30 with the talks starting at 19.15. The event is free and open to all.
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We are now live on Hackerspaces API. This project is based off a Bifferboard running Debian that checks I/O port 11 on the Bifferboard to see if its connected to knife switch. It then connects to websites and updates every minutes with status if space is open or closed. Great bit of hardware and cheap enough for something with IO. Next step is to connect to IRC to update channel with status. More details on wiki.
^^ Status of space is updated on website here and the to left <<