Category Archives: Workshops/Events

Open Social NEXT Weekend 5th November

Next Saturday 5th November, we’re holding our regular open social from about 7pm till late. All welcome. If you haven’t been in to see the space, this is a great opportunity to visit, meet the TOG gang and other visitors. We’ll have music and the rubens tube going, and maybe the bbq too. Plus whatever [...]

Christmas Origami Workshops

As Christmas approaches, why not be original and create your own decorations? Join this workshop and learn to make Christmas decorations using origami, and get introduced to modular origami techniques. Beginners are welcome, but they should (re-)familiarise themselves first with the waterbomb base. This workshop will run twice, choose the date that suits you best: [...]

Electro-Sewing Workshop; update

Hello again! The Electro-Sewing Workshop was last night in tog, and again, I think we all had a good time! Personally I had a great evening and was delighted at how quickly everyone picked it up. Even with having to listening to me waffle aimlessly to a slide-deck for a while, by the end of [...]

Electronic “Build-It” Workshop

*** just 2 places left *** Join us at TOG for an afternoon electronic “build-it” workshop. This is a quick introduction to electronics. Participants get to build and take home a small electronic kit, which we’ve chosen as a good basic introductory kit. The workshop is suitable for beginners to electronics. If you’ve never built [...]

Hand-Sewing Workshop; update

Hey all, I’m not long home from the Basic Hand-Sewing Workshop, and just wanted to say how much fun I had, how great it was to meet such good students, and to throw up a picture of their handiwork (that I’m very proud of)! They came in unable to sew (mostly) and left with finished [...]

Workshop: Electro-sewing

We would like to invite you to Tog’s first ever electronic sewing workshop! As a simple first project, we will be making nice looking flowers with a LED centre. We’ll be working with silver conductive thread (instead of wire), and creating a small circuit to power the LED (small light) from a coin-cell battery. The [...]

Yet Another Perl Class @ TOG

I am offering a 5 week class in Perl programming at Tog on Wednesday nights between Oct 19th and Nov 16th. No previous programming experience is required. Please bring your own laptop. When: Wednesdays Oct 19th – Nov 16th 2011. Time – 7:00 – 9:30pm (with 30 min break) 5 sessions. Where: Tog Classroom. Price [...]

Darklight Festival

We will be hosting a unique 2 day hardware hacking area at the upcoming darklight festival. We will be showcasing a wide range of projects created by our members . LED displays, Rubens Tube, e-clothing and pin hole photography. Over the weekend drop by and learn how to capture images with our homemade pin hole [...]