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TOG on RTÉ Radio 1 from the Tullamore Repair Café

Delighted to share that our Tullamore Repair Café was featured on RTÉ Radio 1’s CountryWide. The 5-minute clip captures the buzz on the day with voices from across our fixer crew and visitors.
👉 Listen back on RTÉ Radio 1: “A visit to the repair café in Tullamore”

For context on the event, see our original post:
👉 Tullamore Repair Café – Event Details

And check out the photos from the day:
👉 Tullamore Repair Café – Gallery

Big thanks to everyone who came along and to our partners in Offaly for the support. Onwards with more repair!

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TouchDesigner Dublin back for a 2nd meetup in TOG

Wednesday, November 19th, 7-9pm

We are delighted to be hosting the 2nd Touchdesigner Dublin meetup at TOG on Wednesday, 19th of November 7-9 pm. Each session runs for around two hours in a relaxed, hands-on setting. With multiple rooms available at Tog Hackerspace, we can host beginner and advanced activities simultaneously, ensuring everyone gets the most out of the evening.

Join us in the space for the second in a series of monthly meetups for anyone interested in TouchDesigner, from complete beginners to experienced creators. Whether you’d like to learn the basics, share your projects, or connect with others using the software, this meetup offers a welcoming and supportive space to do so.

Expect an informal, community-driven environment where the format adapts to participants. You’re welcome to bring a laptop to follow along, showcase your work, or simply join the discussion. The event is a great opportunity to meet other creative technologists and artists, and to continue building the growing TouchDesigner community in Ireland.

We’ve also set up a Discord server for ongoing discussion and planning. Join us there to share ideas for future sessions or to express interest in presenting your work: https://discord.gg/UPCh4ywV9p

The meetups are hosted each month by a group of artists and creative technologists:

https://www.tog.ie

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Ciaran Eaton

Ciaran Eaton is a Creative Technologist and Educator based in Dublin. With a background in audio and visual arts production, Ciaran integrates visual programming environments such as TouchDesigner with open-source software and aims to foster an active community around creative workflows.

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Serdar Buhan

Serdar is a software engineer based in Dublin with a curiosity for creative technology and building interactive experiences. In his spare time, he explores tools such as TouchDesigner, Processing, Blender, AR, photogrammetry, pen plotters, and generative AI.
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Cailean Finn

Cailean Finn is an Irish media artist, researcher, and creative technologist from Waterford, Ireland. His practice investigates the idiosyncratic nature of human–machine relationships, drawing from computational histories and engaging with technologies and practices such as creative coding, artificial intelligence/life, game development, and physical computing.

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Pauric Freeman

Pauric Freeman is a multidisciplinary artist based in Dublin, working across audiovisual performance, sound, and installation. His practice explores translation, using data collected from live instruments as the basis for real-time audiovisual compositions.

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Louise Nolan

Louise Nolan is a multidisciplinary artist and designer working in glass, print and digital media. Her work is transmedia integrating digital techniques with physical installations to create an interactive multi-sensory experience for the viewer. She is a visiting lecturer at NCAD and TU Dublin in physical computing, creative coding and emerging media practice. 

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Fix All The Things

socks

If you follow Tog, you’ll know that we’re no stranger to Repair Café. It’s become a bit of an institution around here. We never know whats going to come in our door on the day. We’re probably well into 4 figures in terms of the number of items that we have fixed over the years. Repair Café also embeds a culture of repair in all those who get involved with them.

When is the last time you darned a pair of socks however? This is an easy fix, and probably one that most of us will have the means to do at home. Sadly however, we’re too inclined to just throw our old clothes away. This morning, we read that Ireland consumes more than double the European average of textiles.

These socks, bought on the Aran Island of Inisheer in 2024, were a bit too young and too nice to throw away. So out with the needle and thread, and in no time they’re good to go for another while. Now just need to keep those toenails trimmed!

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High-voltage Vector Display ⚡️🧪

At last night’s Electronics Night in Tog Hackerspace, one of our members brought in a brilliant build: an old oscilloscope CRT tube running at ~750 V (stepped up from 12 V) with a custom deflection circuit.
An ESP32 drives the X/Y plates with ~200 V deflection signals, running a tweaked open-source vector clock. They even used AI to analyse photos of the circuit and suggest fixes—super handy for fast iterations.

What’s next?

  • Build a wooden/perspex case
  • Add a weather display mode 🌦️
  • More vector art experiments

Huge thanks to everyone who dropped by to brainstorm and test. If you’ve a half-finished idea, odd component, or smoky breadboard—bring it along!

📍 Electronics Night: every second Monday, 7pm at Tog Hackerspace
📸 Photos in the comments.

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Postcards

Every week we send a postcard to some hacker or maker space somewhere in the world.

We’ve interacted with many spaces over the years, and it’s a right of passage for our members to visit the local hacker space whenever they visit somewhere new.

Sure you can email, and there’s all manner of instant social media and messaging apps, but where is the fun in that! 

If you’d like a postcard from Dublin, let us know and we’ll add you to our list. Send us a postcard yourself!

TOG, Unit 1B Motor City, Kylemore Road, Dublin 12, D12 CF6V, Ireland.