The Dublin Hackerspace
For a discussion on who’s bringing what treats, check out the craft mailing list . If you subscribe to it you’ll get reminders of future craftnights too, after all, craftnight is for life not just for Christmas. Craftnight will return in the New Year on Tuesday, January 6th.
There might be some Christmassy workshops planned too, but everything’s all hush hush at the moment (it’s still only November!), we’ll let you know as soon as we can though!
A few of TOG’s members got together and put a metal lathe in the workshop. The workshop is the most appropriate place for it, but also the place it’s most likely to gather dust (from other people’s projects, the lathe will get plenty of use). So the first project for the lathe was to build it a cover.
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It’s that time of year again, when we all pile into the common room and enjoy some great science talks. There’s no entry charge, just turn up early to claim the best seats. The space will be open from 6.30pm with talks commencing at 7pm sharp. Each talk will be 10 minutes long with a chance to ask questions. We’ll pause half way through the evening to stretch your legs and get a tour of TOG before the last few talks.
If you want even more Science Week excitement, don’t forget to check out scienceweek.ie.
When: Thursday 13th November from 7pm
How much: Free!
Where: TOG
Talks are described below in the order we received the abstracts 🙂
Continue reading “Short Talks for Science Week”
If you’re at a loose end this Friday evening, drop by! TOG is participating in Culture Night.
The space will be open from 5pm till late on Friday 19th of September. We’ll be showcasing various projects that our members have been involved in, and will run some very short workshops to give you a taste of the sort of thing we get up to.
Our profile on the Culture Night website can be found here: http://www.culturenight.ie/dublin_event/tog/
After a hectic day of making and showing off at Dublin Maker, we like to relax with a burger in one hand and an umbrella in the other. So on Sunday 27th of July, we’re hosting a BBQ for makers to eat, chat and start planning next year’s projects.
It’ll kick off in TOG from 2pm, rain or shine. 
If you’re a maker, bring your Dublin Maker badge with you and we’ll fill you with grub.
If you’re not a maker, but you want to rub shoulders with us, you’re welcome to join us (and make a small donation to the cost of the food). Just let us know by email or in the comments that you’re popping along.
Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments such as MATLAB.
The workshop will cover the basics of Julia (basic operations, Data objects and control statements) , and only basic coding experience is required for it. Then we will be using it to tackle some numerical computation problems (i.e. Project Euler Questions). As it’s an opensource language, all you need to participate is a laptop with Julia studio installed (or the language and your favourite editor).
The course will be run by Kevin O’Brien who is an experienced R instructor and has run classes with us before on R and ggplot2.
The workshop will take place from 4pm to 6pm on Saturday May 24th. The cost will be €10 for non members, with all proceeds going to supporting TOG.
If you would like to sign up, please complete the form below.
Continue reading “Introduction to the Julia Language”