The Dublin Hackerspace
Great weekend in Tog got good bit done working on few projects and making others work.
We where able melt glass, copper, aluminum in our little forge within few minutes.
TOG went to Newcastle last weekend for Maker Faire UK. We got to see lots of great projects and met many more Hackerspaces. UK Hackspace Foundation did a great job promoting Hackerpaces in UK and Ireland with this GIANT map.
UK Hackspace Foundation
All our projects got a great response from visitors, including the giant Arduino, flashing LEDs, sewable curcuit projects etc.
To our benefit we met loads of people who where willing to swap Ducks for schwag. First swap was with Knitic.com, for our logo done up with their automated knitting machine.
Update: Made a mistake this was very kindly made by Sally Bitmap Machine Knitting check out website, very nice people and really very good machine www.kentfield.co.uk Over the weekend they used a hand scanner to get children to scan in their designs and print. Our design was from bitmap.
Want to learn how to weld? Come and join TOG on its second workshop
Each class will begin with a class with short lecture, Q&A, and handout.
Week 1: Wednesday 13/02/13 6.3pm to 9pm
The physics of welding
Health and safety
Basic welding theory
Welding Demonstration
Welding practical exercise (lay down some weld on flat plate steel)
Week 2: Saturday 16/02/13 1pm to 3pm break 5pm to 7pm
Re-iterate Safety
Lecture “Lap Joints”
Demonstration weld
Students Weld lap joints
Lecture “Butt Joints”
Demonstration weld
Students Weld butt joints
Week 3: Wednesday 20/02/13 6.30pm to 9pm
Re-iterate Safety
Lecture “Fillet Joint”
Demonstration weld
Students Weld lap joints
Cost:
Non Members €100
Members €80
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Over the Christmas break 8 TOG members took Road trip to 29c3 where we meet several other Hackerspaces. We had the pleasure of doing two Lightning talks one on Hotel Door locks and Fire Projects.
Our members also ran two workshops on Wearables and Hotel locks. We where able to attend lots of workshops across the 3 days and bring back lots more ideas for future projects in TOG.
We also got to visiting local hacker space Attraktor http://blog.attraktor.org/ we got the grand tour of space and got look at all the toys (8 CNC machines, leaths and milling machines well worth the visit very nice people and inviting to the space.
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Today we made a blacksmith forge that worked quite well after looking at a few other designs and working with what we found around the space we where able to build a blacksmith forge.
Fan is from an old oil burner
Running fuel is just normal coal but there are better options.
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