The Dublin Hackerspace
TOG will be at Sandymount Repair Cafe this coming Saturday (27th) 2pm – 5pm in Christchurch Hall, Sandymount.
A repair cafe is where people come together and fix all sorts of things. Experts work along side the object’s owner and take a journey together to repair things. The hope is next time you will be able to fix something yourself .
If you have something that is in need of repair and want to know how to do it, drop by on Saturday.
We were mobbed with visitors on culture night 🙂 . If you made it in to see us, thanks for coming and hopefully you got to look around the space and to see some of our projects. Drop in again anytime we’re open. If you would like to look around again or you missed something, we can give you another tour. You don’t need to be a member to visit and there’s no charge.
You can join our mailing list…. click on the link down the left side. We’ll keep you informed of our activities. This Thursday (25th Sep) we have coding night. Our next brewday is coming up soon also. Check the events tab at the top of this page.
We completed TOG’s photo workshop today. Yesterday, just as everyone got film loaded, the rain threatened to spoil the day. It soon cleared and we all headed for Dublin Castle and environs. Despite a few minor calamities, everyone got a roll of B&W film exposed and developed. The workshop continued today with printing. Everyone got a contact print done and a chance to make some test exposures and prints.
Pics here… https://www.flickr.com/photos/100047873@N08/sets/72157645115217518/
Had a go at making a hot wire cutter to cut plastic and polystyrene. Experimented with 2 types of wire. Tried a thinner wire which worked at about 8 amps, but used a thicker wire in the end, as the thinner one broke. It draws about 16 Amps. Managed to cut the tops from some bottles with it. Will experiment a bit more and fine tune it. Want to try some expanded polystyrene. More pics here….
On June 16 1904 in the novel Ulysses, Leopold Bloom got a bar lemon soap from Swenys chemist in Lincoln Place, Dublin. You can still do that to this day. He never paid for his! On Oct 13th 2013, we made lemon soap at TOG…..or lemon and oatmeal to be precise. It’s our first go at soap making, so we’ll have to see how it turns out. Like a fine wine, it needs time to mature now, so we’ll update the blog in a few weeks time. We might want some testers. If it all goes well, we might even do some more. Contact us, if you’re interested in soap making.
More pics here…….
http://www.flickr.com/photos/100047873@N08/sets/72157636518667775/
On Saturday at the TOG open social, we built our eggbot kit. It went together quite easily, and within about 2 hours we were doing our first plots.
Video and more photos here.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/100047873@N08/sets/72157635116676244/