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TOG May Open Social

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Well summer has arrived (sort of), it’s the middle of the month (or thereabouts), it’s Saturday and it’s 7PM. What on earth does all this mean? It means TOG Open Social of course. Drop in and have a natter with us.

Our May Open Social takes place on Saturday 21st May at 7pm. If you fancy a great alternative Saturday evening in town, why not drop in and see us. We’ll show you around our space and update you on the progress. We’ve been very busy lately with events and workshops. We have a number of others in the pipeline. Dublin Maker is coming at us frighteningly fast too.

Our Open Social is a great informal way to visit us. You can talk to members and visitors, see what’s going on, or just hang out for the evening. The space stays open until the last member is left……usually the small hours of Sunday morning. The evening is free to attend for members and visitors alike. Our doors will be open from 7pm. No booking is required…. just turn up. You can drop in for 10 minutes, or stay the whole night. We have parking available. Bring beer, food, gadgets! Hope to see you there.

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Line Following Robots

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We recently ran a Electronic “Build-It” Workshop. We have twelve build a line following robot. The little robot was an all analog device,  not an arduino insight. Check out the photos from the workshop in our gallery and the video below of them inaction.

Join our mailing list to keep upto date with our workshops over the summer.

 

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Painting Lines

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The car park outside our space has just been repainted. When visiting you can park in any of the spaces marked Caminio Ways. For more snaps visit our gallery.

 

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Featured on Hackaday : Taming A Variac With A Thermistor

We are delighted to have one of our member’s projects featured on Hackaday,

 

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TAMING A VARIAC WITH A THERMISTOR

The folks at TOG, Dublin Hackerspace, have a large variac. A variac is a useful device for testing some fault conditions with AC mains powered equipment, it allows an operator to dial in any AC output voltage between zero, and in the case of TOG’s variac, 250V.

Their problem was with such a magnificent device capable of handling nearly 3KW, it presented an inductive load with a huge inrush current at power-on that would always take out the circuit breakers. Breakers come with different surge current handling capabilities, evidently their building is fitted with the domestic rather than the industrial variants.

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Read the full story over on their website. http://hackaday.com/2016/05/15/taming-a-variac-with-a-thermistor/

This is not the first time we have been featured, the Twitter Knitter got the Hackaday treatment too.  http://hackaday.com/2013/08/20/twitter-knitter-combines-40-year-old-hardware-with-modern-social-media/

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Boat Building Competition

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This event has been canceled.

We are hosting the first ever Tog Boat Building Competition on June 4th. In the past we have build bridges but it is now time to take to the water or in this case a home made tank.

IMG_20160318_211944Participants will create boats and run a time trial in our homemade tank . Each boat will have to be smaller than 10 cm by 10 cm. There will be a fan at one end to provide wind to your sails. Apart from a size restriction, the only other condition is no batteries. A special prize will be up for grabs to the boat with the fastest time.

Book Your Place Below.

Workshop

Before the competition will are opening up our workshop to all you novice or last minute boat builders. We will have all sorts of building materials on hand for you to get creative and build a fine boat. This workshop is optional and is not required for taking part in the competition.

Participants under the age of 18 must have a parent or guardian.

Timetable Saturday 4th of June

  • 12:00 – 14:00 Workshop
  • 14:00 – 15:00 Break
  • 15:00 – 16:30 Competition

nj53URn2This event is made possible with the support of the Young Engineers Society.

 

 

 

 

 

This event is apart of European Maker Week, an initiative promoted by European Commission. For all the other great events happening visit http://europeanmakerweek.eu/

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Project – Green Screen in Tog

There is now a green screen on the wall in the back. Please feel free to use it.
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It’s basically some sheets of plastic, painted with matt green paint that was lying around in the space. It has been tested with a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 camera and iPhoto and it blends seamlessly. No shadows or marks blended into the final product.

To get the best results use a good quality digital camera that doesn’t bleed colours. Using an old JVC DV tape camera from 2004 which bled around the edges  left a halo in the final product. A still camera with movie facility with automatic exposure settings  totally messed up the green screen effect.
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