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Electronics Workshop with Mitch Altman and Jimmie P Rodgers

TOG in association with the Irish Robotics Club will be hosting an Electronics Workshop by Mitch Altman and Jimmie P Rodgers in the Science Galley on the 23rd of March.  Mitch Altman is a San Francisco-based hacker and inventor, best known for inventing TV-B-Gone remote controls, a keychain that turns off TVs in public places. [...]

March Hackerspaces.org Call in

TOG took part in the monthly Hackerspaces.org call-in. A direct link to the audio is here. A link to the call in information on the hackerspaces.org website is here.

Hackerspaces on the rise in Ireland

Ireland now has two active hackerspaces and it has only been a year since the founding of it’s first. There are planed hackerspaces spring up all over the country. Cork, Limerick and Ennis are set to be home for the next wave hackerspaces in Ireland. Also it looks like Northern Ireland might be home its [...]

Engineers Week Roundup

Wow! What a week in TOG. For Engineers Week we ran nine events over seven days. Throughout the week we had sixty nine people attending talks and workshops covering radio , pcb’s, arduino , robots and soldering . It has been a great success for all involved, for many participants it was their first time [...]

And then there was two….

We would like to welcome  Bitbucket to the  hackerspace community. Bitbucket is the latest space to open up in Dublin City Centre. They are located on the top floor, at number 33-34  on  Wicklow Street. You can get in contact with them on there irc channel on irc.bitbucket.ie on #bitbucket .

Happy Birthday TOG

Happy Birthday to TOG…. Happy Birthday to TOG… One year ago on the 29th of January 2009,  17 people came together with a common goal  of setting up a shared work space. We met in the bar area of a hotel in Dublin and started TOG.  It started with very little structure, design and almost [...]

Hackerspaces discussed on Pc Live

TOG and hackerspaces where mentioned on the story of the year show on PC Live. The show can be download below. http://www.pcliveradio.ie/content/podpress_trac/web/311/0/pclive_101209.mp3

Dragons Everywhere

Don’t celebrate Christmas? Hate spending time with the family? Kids annoying you to death with their new toys that will never live up to the Transformers/Barbies of olde? Are you looking for a getaway this Christmas? Well….. There Be Dragons! This year sees the 26C3 Chaos Communication Congress on in Berlin, taking place from December [...]