The Dublin Hackerspace
Do you want to make things blink? Build interactive art? Construct robots to take over the world? The Arduino is for you. It’s intended for artists, designers, and hobbyists not engineers. It is an easy to use device made for real people.
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The beginning of June represents the one year anniversary of TOG moving into Chancery Lane or TOG 2.0. To celebrate we’ll be having a dinner party during the June 4th social night.
So what do you want from a TOG dinner party? Ordinary three course meal; formal four course meal; party food; experimental cooking; BBQ; bring-your-own?
We’ve a reasonably equipped kitchen and BBQ. We expect to meet up in TOG about 2pm for the clean up, shopping, preparation, cooking/baking, with dinner starting about 6-7pm. If you like to attend, cook or bring something comment below. We’ll probably have a small contribution to cover the food costs. BYOB.
Following on from the March event we’ll also be having Projects Night on Saturday. Participants will have a short opportunity to present projects they have worked since the last meeting and any new projects they hope to work on over the next three months. We expect this meeting to run from about 8pm to 9pm.
Somewhat related to the Projects Night we are announcing our Summer Fund. Over the three summer months this fund will provide approximately €120 per month for a group project(s). The exact criteria hasn’t been set yet. But it will likely involves a lump sum being give to a project to buy parts/materials for a project which involves/stimulates group activity in the space. Project suggestions and participation from non-members is welcomed.
Tog will be hosting a Squishy Circuits workshop on Saturday 2nd of July, taught by Tríona O’Connell.
Squishy circuits are a great way to demonstrate electrical circuits to kids (and adults!). It consists of a conductive dough and an insulating dough that are used in the building of circuits, along with batteries and more usual electrical components like motors and LEDs.
During the workshop, we will make some batches of both types of dough, and afterwards we’ll see some useful demos you can use to teach with it, and also have some hands-on fun building circuits.
Making the dough will involve lots of flour, so don’t wear your favourite black outfit, but apart from that there shouldn’t be too much of a mess. There’ll be demonstrations of how you can use the dough to investigate resistance in a circuit.
And the fun part, building sculptures that incorporate electrics, or building giant squishy circuit boards. You can bring your imagination and build whatever you fancy. Tríona will be on hand to offer help or suggestions as needed.
This workshop is free to attend although registration is required, as space is limited. It will last about 2 hours, starting at 2:00pm. You can use the form below to register.
— The workshop is full! You can still sign up to be added to the waiting list, we’ll notify you if a space frees up (this also lets us know if there is interest in organising another similar event) —
What to bring? Bring a 9V battery. Optionally, if you’re already familiar with Arduinos you can bring your own (this is optional and there’ll be plenty to do without one!).
This weekend we worked on a few project
This chair is made from a pallet, some foam & red velvet, check out insctructable for how we made it.
Working on a heat exchange for roof, it works off 350 cans painted black mounted on roof of TOG and then heat is pumped back into space. Will keep you up to date when we get further on with project main need is to fill up frame then take out bottom and top of cans.
Thanks to our local loco Ubuntu-ie we now have lots of new Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal cds. Desktop Kubuntu and even Server. So if you around town drop in and pick one up.
Also this weekend (Saturday 21st) members of Ubuntu-ie will be meeting in TOG to work on there team re-approval during the hackathon. More details can be found here -> http://t9.ie/y
Unfortunately not everyone in TOG thinks Ubuntu rocks. Check out the video after the break.
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Its 9 feet hight with 150 hold 2mm wide drilled ever 1.5mm in staleness steel.
This is the 3rd attempt Making a rubens Tube at TOG, Dublin. Credit: Namit & Liam
Rubens tube dancing to electro
Lessons learned:
One very important thing I learned when building this and drilling such small holes cool your bit as much as possible otherwise you will end up spending a lot on bits that you do not want to.
Updated video from social night: