Last weekend members of TOG headed off to Vienna, Austria for the Robot Challenge competition. This is the world’s biggest competition for self-made, autonomous, and mobile robots. There where over 600 robots from all over the world are registered for the competition. A group of eight left Ireland for the event, three from TOG and [...]
Over the past two weeks member’s of TOG have been giving talks on creating Hackerspaces around Ireland . On the Saturday February 27th , members from TOG gave a talk to Skynet in University of Limerick.The talk was part of day of talks orgained by Skynet and Ubuntu-ie. On Wednesday 10th of March , a [...]
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. [...]
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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.
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Monday, February 22, 2010
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 [...]
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
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 [...]