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FREE BEER … brewing session 12 May in Tog

Jules — Sat, 11 May 2013 13:11:44 +0000

TOG is very happy to host the 3rd Brewday by Capital Brewers.

The space will be open from 10am until 4pm this Sunday 12th of May.
For anyone interested in homebrewing this is the event for you.
You don’t have to be an expert just come along with an interest.

Open-Source Night – May

jpichon — Thu, 09 May 2013 21:19:51 +0000

The next open-source night will take place on Wednesday, May 15th. This is a hands-on event, please bring a laptop!

6:30 – Doors open
7:00 – Talk: IRC 101, by Cheryl Harding
7:25 – Talk: How to contribute to OpenMandriva, by Guilherme Moro
7:50 – Lightning talks: A chance to introduce the open-source project you’ll be working on during the evening in 5 minutes or less
8:00 – Break into groups and get contributing!

Making Emergency Keys

zg3409 — Thu, 02 May 2013 12:59:28 +0000

As part of our bi-weekly lockpicking group we regularly test the security of locks. At next weeks meet we will be making our own keys. Emergency keys are handy if you lose, or bend your existing key. They can be made from proper manufactured key blanks, but they can also be made from old plastic bottles, or coke cans

There are various techniques for actually cutting the teeth into the key, for plastic and can keys; a scissors is all that is needed, for proper key blanks a needle file or dremel is best

The usual recommendation is to learn using unused locks as badly made keys can jam or damage locks. The aim of the night will be to learn key cutting using the scissors method, working up to cutting a double sided emergency key for a car. Extra bonus points for those who arrive with a pre-made key for my car made from the photo above! No need to book nor bring anything, just have a look at the 3 videos above and drop by on Tuesday May 7th at 7.30pm.

From the Mail Bag – Thanks from Engineers Ireland

tdr — Wed, 01 May 2013 11:58:31 +0000

Back in February, we were delighted to run and take part in three events for engineers week.

We ran a Bridge Building Competition, a Night of Ideas and helped run Science Hack Day Dublin. We have some great snaps of the events over on our gallery.

The letter from Engineers Ireland is below.

Maker Faire Newcastle 2013

namit — Wed, 01 May 2013 10:29:16 +0000

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.

We also got to 3D-scan one of the Ducks using Northumbria University’s scanner.

Maklab were kind enough to vacuum-form some of our ducks.

Bristol hackerspace had pen plotting machines galoor, and put them to good ducky use.

During the weekend though a couple of ducks escaped. Be on the look-out.