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Come and learn how to turn wood on a lathe with Master Turner, Tom Murphy:
My name is Tom Murphy and I am a wood turner in Dublin. I started turning wood about 4 years ago and discovered I have a talent for it!
In Irish wood turning you are allowed to enter novice competitions for your first 3 years. In my first year, and again in my third year, I won the National Championships and in my guild I won Master Turner of the Year in my first year. (The first time a novice has ever won it)
It should also by a bit of fun and I will tell you the stories of drunkenness, intrigue and high speed death machines while we work!
This demonstration is aimed at absolute beginners with zero knowledge and intended to introduce you to the wonderful (and addictive) world of wood-turning. No prior experience is required.
It should also by a bit of fun and I will tell you the stories of drunkenness, intrigue and high speed death machines while we work!
Tom Murphy
*** You must be 18 years of age or older to take part in this workshop. Please do not book places for children ***
Date: Saturday 17-08-2019 from 12:30 to 2pm Cost: Free but booking required with the link below.
Dublin Maker is a free to attend, community-run event, which will be held on Saturday, July 20th, 2019 in Merrion Square, Dublin. Dublin Maker takes the form of a “show and tell” experience where inventors/makers sourced through an open call, will have an opportunity to showcase their creations at individual booths in a carnival atmosphere. It is a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the maker movement. It’s a place where people show what they are making and share what they are learning.
It has an eclectic mix of makers, high tech robots, jellyfish experiments, homemade looms, laser cutters and lots more. At Dublin Maker, we will have a range of new projects and old favourites. Fully addressable full colour LED cube, Polarisation art, DIY Air quality sensors, Handmade boat models and our crowd-pleaser Skull Radio.
Pitch your idea and I-Form, the SFI Research Centre for Advanced Manufacturing, will turn the winning idea for sustainability into 3D printed reality.
Shape the Future is a competition open to all who have an idea to help build a sustainable future. The competition is looking for makers to show how 3D printing can help the planet. Whether it’s an idea for a new product, a new use for an old product, or simply replacing a missing a part to an engine, vintage car or old piece of kit. How can 3D printing help us reduce waste, and find new uses for old materials?
We are hosting the Tech Won’t Build It community for a discussion on current happenings in technology: activism, ethics, unionisation, regulation and the law are all in scope.
The organisers will bring some topics to kick off the conversation, but we hope you bring your own, too.
Aaron Rogan, a journalist with the Sunday Business Post who often covers technology, is going to kick us off with a short talk about tech journalism.
Possible topics include: – Should the EU ban mass surveillance and ‘citizen scoring’? – The Wayfair walkout – Gorgon Stare – Dublin city council tracking devices in parks – Working conditions of social media moderators
Journalists and others are welcome to this event every other month (this is the journalist-friendly edition), but Chatham House rules always apply to discussions – they should not leave the room.
The event kicks off at 7pm on Wednesday 3rd of July, no need to prebook.
We have a very busy workshop in Tog. Lots of activities generate dust but up until now, we have no way to quantify it.
The design is based on the luftdaten project. The difference with this model than the previous sensor on our blog, we went for a 3D printed case. The case was created by Netobrev and is available on Thingiverse. The case is made up of four parts and approximately 5 hours to print.
The new model supports an LCD screen. It displays the current values from the sensors. For more build photos from this project check out our gallery.
All sensor data is stored on the Open Sense Map website.
Come join us for a fun and illuminating workshop of light art with polarisation to celebrate the UN International Day of Light (IDL). IDL is an annual event to educate and promote the area of optics and photonics.
This workshop will kick off with a short presentation on polarisation and why it’s important and afterwards there will be a hands-on demonstration that will combine optics (light) and the use of fabrication techniques. Each participant will assemble a laser cut holder with 3D printed parts and then will design their own polarisation artwork. Each kit can be taken home.
This workshop is kindly supported by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. The workshop content is derived from the phablabs project.
