The Dublin Hackerspace
For new years we will be having a party at TOG. Come on down and enjoy the music. We will also be doing some hardware hacking on the night. along with the usually good mix of food, drinks and chat.
The social will kick off at 7pm this Saturday until late. Feel free to bring your own beer and food along. It’s a great chance to visit the space and see what we are all about.This event is free and open to the public.
Hey there eager programmers!
Interested in learning a new programming language or in freshening up your rusty skills? Here is your chance! A whole weekend of PHP and MySQL fun is awaiting you.
When is all the coding happening, you ask?
Friday, 2nd of Dec – 7.30pm till 10pm
Saturday, 3rd of Dec – 1pm till 6pm
Sunday, 4th of Dec – 1pm till 6pm
3 days, 10 hours (excl. breaks)
This workshop is for the creative ones among you!The use of scissors, glue and a soldering iron should not scare you, and the eagerness to try new things should be your second nature.
We will be working with paper, glitter pens, LED lights, resistors, wires and plastic spheres.
When is all the fun happening, you ask?
27th of November, 2pm till 7pm
Continue reading “Pretty and Bright – DIY Christmas Ornaments”
We’re running our first electronics bootcamp. This event will take place over
5 weeks on Thursday evenings at TOG, from 19:00 to 21:30. First session
on Thursday 5th May.
This is a practical / hands-on introduction to electronics. Its suitable for
beginners, as no previous knowledge is required. If you’re curious about
electronics and don’t know where to start…. this is for you. No
soldering required, as we do everything on prototyping breadboards.
We’ll be building and testing circuits right from the first night. We’ll
be covering DC, AC, analog and digital electronics.
Over the 5 weeks, you’ll have a chance to play with multimeters,
oscilloscopes, signal generators and other electronic test equipment.
There’ll be lots of circuits to build and test along the way.
Cost is 50 euro for non-members. That’s just 10 euro per night. We have
a special rate of 40 euro for the unwaged.
If you’re interested, you can sign up below and you can pay on the first
night. There are 6 places available.
Course is now full, we will run it again in the future.
Easter is coming up, and so is a really nice Easter workshop in TOG.
As some of you know, I moved to Austria two months ago. Since I’m coming for a visit next week, I decided to bring lots of nice things with me, to show you how we decorate for Easter back in Austria :).
The workshop will start by creating an Easter decoration from scratch, beginning with a raw piece of wood that needs to be grained and branches fresh from the tree that we will turn into a basket.
Once the hard woodwork is done, we’ll create chickens and butterflies out of wool and ribbons for the most colourful spring impression possible. There will also be plenty of flowers, pussy willows and lady bugs to complete our work of art.
To not leave our Easter basket empty, we will color and decorating eggs (that can still be eaten afterwards), as well as fill it with various chocolate goodies – a vital part of this holiday.
In this Paddy’s Day themed workshop participants will be shown the steps involved in etching a PCB, basic surface mount soldering and will have a choice of Shamrock kits to assemble.
40 LED Shamrock – €12 Members, €14 Student/Unwaged, €16 General Public
68 LED Shamrock – €24 Members, €28 Student/Unwaged, €32 General Public
LED Shamrock Badge – €14 Members, €17 Student/Unwaged, €20 General Public
Most of these kits involved only basic surface mount soldering techniques, which even beginners should be able to handle. Additional kits from previous workshops will also be available.