The Dublin Hackerspace
Dublin Maker is hosting a festive gift exchange for makers of all kinds! Building on the success of the 2023 Maker Secret Santa, we are bringing it back for 2025!
We loved taking part in the last Secret Santa. You can read about it here.
Find all the details here -> https://dublinmaker.ie/Santa/
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.
Friday, November 14th, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Tog Hackerspace, Dublin 8
No experience needed — Ages 18+
Air pollution affects many people’s daily lives, not just those living near industrial centres. In Ireland, most official air quality monitoring is carried out using a limited number of government sensors spread across the country. As a result, we often rely on modelling to estimate current pollution levels. This can miss out on local or seasonal sources such as coal fires during winter or short-term event-based pollution.
In this hands-on Science Week workshop, we’ll explore how to measure local air pollution and take part in a global citizen science movement. You’ll build your own particulate matter (PM2.5) sensor system using a simple kit of off-the-shelf components. The device uses consumer-grade hardware to give a reasonable indication of local air quality — not as precise as professional lab equipment, but accurate enough to spot trends and patterns in your community.
The workshop introduces participants to IoT (Internet of Things) devices, data collection, and environmental monitoring. You’ll learn how to assemble the hardware, connect it to the network, and share your data online through the Sensor.Community platform — an open global network of more than 13,000 citizen-built sensors contributing over 10 million data entries worldwide.
By the end of the evening, you’ll have built your own working air quality sensor and joined a growing international community helping to better understand our environment through open data.
Come along, learn something new, and make a real contribution to citizen science this Science Week!
🎟 Tickets available via Eventbrite – €70 per person
This covers the cost of materials and includes a donation to Tog Hackerspace.
This is one of many events happening during Science Week.
Tog recently received a very kind donation of an 8mm movie Ciné camera, projector and other items. We still have all of our dark room equipment in the space, and several TOG members are still keen on film photography.
In the past, we have ran film photography workshops and processed film in the space. These formats are not dead. They still have a small but dedicated following. If film photography including Ciné and instant photography is something that interests you, why not drop in, see what we have, and have a chat with us.
When we moved into our current space here in Bluebell, one of the very first pictures that we took on the day was an instant photo on an original 1970s vintage Polaroid SX70 camera that’s still working like new!
We are delighted to be hosting TouchDesigner MeetUp Dublin in our space. It’s new monthly meetup for anyone curious about TouchDesigner software, from complete beginners to experienced creators. Whether you want to learn the basics to build interactive 3D and 2D audio-visual applications, share your projects, or connect with others using the software, the meetup provides a welcoming space to do so. The event is free to attend and you can indicate your interest in joining the session here on meetup.com
Each session will run for about two hours in a relaxed, hands-on setting. With multiple rooms available in the space we can run beginner and advanced activities side by side if needed, so everyone gets the most from the evening.
Expect an informal, community-driven environment where the format adapts to participants. You can bring a laptop to follow along, show your work, or simply join the conversation. The event is an opportunity to meet other creative technologists and artists, and to further develop the growing TouchDesigner community in Ireland.
Meet the TouchDesigner Dublin team :-
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. Louise is also a host for Maker night at TOG.
Bring your broken tech and trinkets to get them fixed by the skilled volunteers at Tog Hackerspace!
On October 18, 2025 (International Day of Repair), between 2 and 6 pm, TOG Hackerspace will host a repair cafe!
At this event, the skilled volunteers at TOG will share their expertise and passion for repair, helping you fix your broken items and breathe new life into them. Whether it’s a malfunctioning gadget, a piece of clothing in need of mending, or a household item that’s seen better days, bring it along and let the TOG team work their magic.
What can you bring in?
…. And many other things!
Safety testing (PAT) for electrical devices will be available.
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