The car park outside our space has just been repainted. When visiting you can park in any of the spaces marked Caminio Ways. For more snaps visit our gallery.
Featured on Hackaday : Taming A Variac With A Thermistor
We are delighted to have one of our member’s projects featured on Hackaday,
TAMING A VARIAC WITH A THERMISTOR
The folks at TOG, Dublin Hackerspace, have a large variac. A variac is a useful device for testing some fault conditions with AC mains powered equipment, it allows an operator to dial in any AC output voltage between zero, and in the case of TOG’s variac, 250V.
Their problem was with such a magnificent device capable of handling nearly 3KW, it presented an inductive load with a huge inrush current at power-on that would always take out the circuit breakers. Breakers come with different surge current handling capabilities, evidently their building is fitted with the domestic rather than the industrial variants.
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Read the full story over on their website. http://hackaday.com/2016/05/15/taming-a-variac-with-a-thermistor/
This is not the first time we have been featured, the Twitter Knitter got the Hackaday treatment too. http://hackaday.com/2013/08/20/twitter-knitter-combines-40-year-old-hardware-with-modern-social-media/
Boat Building Competition
This event has been canceled.
We are hosting the first ever Tog Boat Building Competition on June 4th. In the past we have build bridges but it is now time to take to the water or in this case a home made tank.
Participants will create boats and run a time trial in our homemade tank . Each boat will have to be smaller than 10 cm by 10 cm. There will be a fan at one end to provide wind to your sails. Apart from a size restriction, the only other condition is no batteries. A special prize will be up for grabs to the boat with the fastest time.
Book Your Place Below.
Workshop
Before the competition will are opening up our workshop to all you novice or last minute boat builders. We will have all sorts of building materials on hand for you to get creative and build a fine boat. This workshop is optional and is not required for taking part in the competition.
Participants under the age of 18 must have a parent or guardian.
Timetable Saturday 4th of June
- 12:00 – 14:00 Workshop
- 14:00 – 15:00 Break
- 15:00 – 16:30 Competition
This event is made possible with the support of the Young Engineers Society.
This event is apart of European Maker Week, an initiative promoted by European Commission. For all the other great events happening visit http://europeanmakerweek.eu/
Dublin Maker 2016
Dublin Maker is Ireland’s biggest maker community showcase event. It gives a real opportunity for makers to excite and enthuse the general public about
the great making communities and their projects. This year it moves to Merrion Square to allow for even more making madness
The open call for this year’s Dublin Maker is now open to all inventors, makers, hackers and creators. Whether you have taken part before or still tinkering on something crafty, you can apply for a place at our biggest Dublin Maker yet.
Tog is proud to be a supporting organisations again this year. We have been involved in the running of the Dublin Maker since its first year, now almost 5 years ago. We see the event as the highlight of the maker calendar in Ireland.
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Club Mate Back In Stock
We have just received an order of our favorite German drink. Club Mate is a caffeinated, carbonated, mate-extract, beverage. You get used to it. We have both original and cola varities in stock. Drop by the space and try out this classic hacker drink.
